-Wang Yongbin's "Night Talk Around the Furnace"
teaches the younger generation to cultivate their spirit of integrity, generosity and nothing to hide from childhood; In daily life, we should always reflect on our own behavior and thoughts, and we can't do without self-supervision and self-cultivation.
he is upright and does not order; His body is not straight, although he is ordered to do it.
-The Analects? Zi Lu
Sages teach what they don't say when they do nothing.
-Tao Te Ching
Therefore, people who are completely in line with the Tao do things naturally, without deliberately doing them. Lead by example is to educate.
There is a Taoist sage (not a Confucian sage, but a Taoist sage, and a sage is a perfect personality). In chapter 43, he repeated this meaning: "Teaching without words is the benefit of inaction, and the world hopes for it." According to Laozi's dialectical wisdom of "saying the opposite" (for example, "if you are straightforward, if you are clumsy, if you argue"), it is the highest behavior to be inaction and inaction, and if you don't teach, if you don't teach, teach without words is the highest teaching. Only a knowledgeable person can teach without words, and teaching without words can only be used for the best and enlightened students. With a high degree of wisdom, there is a high degree of tacit understanding between master and apprentice in silence, and a synchronous vibration effect occurs. It goes without saying that told even more in silence than they had told in sound. "Sages teach without words" requires people, especially those engaged in education, to set an example, teaching by example is better than words, and practice is better than eloquence. At the same time, they should learn to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, or to say or not to say, depending on students' endowments.