A collection of Wang Yangming's famous sayings

1. The heart is the Tao, the Tao is the heaven. If you know your heart, you will know and know the heaven - Wang Yangming

2. When you are friends, you will gain by doing things well. , if you look at it, it will be a loss. ——Wang Yangming

3. Realize in a quiet place and practice in work. ——Wang Yangming

4. When Wang Yangming was visiting Nanzhen, a friend pointed to the flower trees in the rocks and asked: "There is nothing in the world outside of my heart. If flowers and trees bloom and fall by themselves in the deep mountains, what does it mean to me?" "Relevant?" The teacher said: "When you don't look at this flower, this flower and your heart are silent; when you look at this flower, the color of this flower becomes clear for a while; you know that this flower is not outside your heart." - Wang Yangming

5. In the land of China, wherever there are people, there will be struggles. Showing one's talents and showing off one's talents has always aroused hatred. ——Wang Yangming

6. There is no unified standard in the profession of saints. The only thing that has reached consensus is that this is a profession that is not very practical and thankless. Except for a handful of people throughout the ages Apart from saints, there are only a few lunatics who claim to have realized this ideal. ——Wang Yangming

7. Indeed, the value of life lies in its ability to reject vulgarity and to be brilliant and unrestrained, but it can also lose any meaning in drifting with the crowd and become a zombie. ——Wang Yangming

8. If the things in the world are easy to obtain, then they will be easy to lose; if they are not accumulated for a long time, then they will not be ambitious. ——Wang Yangming

9. Looking at the twin peaks on the cliff, where is the vastness? I pray to the northwest wind to sweep away the mist for me. ——Wang Yangming

10. Looking up at the sky and the earth, you can see how vast it is. There is more joy in the basket and ladle, this is a good intention but a false one. You can forget about my old age in the secluded Yangminglu. ——Wang Yangming

11. The unity of knowledge and action: where knowledge is true and sincere, it is action, and where action is clear, aware and careful, it is knowledge. ——Wang Yangming

12. A serious illness in life is just the word "arrogance". ——Wang Yangming

13. "The heart of a saint is like a mirror. The heart of a saint is like a bright mirror. The heart of an ordinary person is like a dim mirror. The modern theory of studying things is like using a mirror to shine on an object and working hard on it. I don’t know that the mirror is still dim. How can we illuminate it? Master's examination of things is like polishing a mirror to make it clear. ——Wang Yangming

14. Civil servants leading troops are afraid of talking about war on paper. They understand the art of war but do not understand actual combat, leading to a Yuan Chonghuan-style tragedy. In fact, among the many officials at the Ministry of War, the one thing that has long been in short supply is those who talk high. ——Wang Yangming

15. Today, people divide knowledge and action into two things, thinking that they must know it in advance and then be able to do it. Now let me teach you how to do it, and only when you know it is true can you do it. Therefore, I will never be able to do it for the rest of my life, and I will never know it for the rest of my life. This is not a minor illness, it has not happened in a day. What I said today about the unity of knowledge and action is exactly the medicine for the disease, and it is not something I just made up. The essence of knowing and doing is this. Now if you know the purpose, it doesn't matter if you say two, it's just one. If you don’t know the purpose, just tell it one, what will it do? Just gossiping. ——Wang Yangming

16. Everyone can tell the truth, and all schools of thought have their own uses, but if you don’t use your heart to cultivate a strong mind that is unbiased and able to gain power, even if you do the same thing If you say the same thing, your actions will be out of shape. After all, love comes from the heart, and love changes with events. ——Wang Yangming

17. Although the world is huge, if you have a good intention and a conscience in your heart, even ordinary people can become sages. ——Wang Yangming

18. Those grand values ??and conclusive secrets of success in books may not necessarily meet everyone’s real needs. ——Wang Yangming

19. Thousands of saints have passed away, but conscience is my teacher. ——Wang Yangming

20. The first is to focus on one heavenly principle——Wang Yangming

21. There is no disaster greater than the merits of heaven, no crime greater than concealing the good of others, and no evil deeper than The ability to attack, the humiliation should not be greater than the shame of forgetting oneself, the four preparations will bring disaster. ——Wang Yangming

22. The heart is reason.

There is no reason outside the heart, there is nothing outside the heart, and there is nothing outside the heart. ——Wang Yangming

23. Xian said: "This is just for rest, without self-denial. In this way, you will fall when things happen. People need to grind on things before they can stand firm and be strong. Stillness is also calm, and movement is also calm. ”——Wang Yangming

24. Anyone who is not diligent in learning must not be determined. ——Wang Yangming

25. In fact, Zeng Guofan is slightly inferior to his idol Wang Yangming in terms of ideological influence and achievement. ——Wang Yangming

26. The heart is the ontology of the universe, the master of all things, the basis for settling down and establishing a life, and the standard for measuring right and wrong. Everything in the world, including ethics, words and deeds, success or failure, honor or disgrace, all do not come from my heart. ——Wang Yangming