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Confucius said: “When I was fifteen, I was determined to learn; 10. Follow your heart's desires and do not exceed the rules."

From "The Analects of Confucius: Weizheng" includes 24 chapters. The main content of this article involves Confucius' thought of "governing with virtue", how to seek official positions and the basic principles of becoming an official in politics.

The relationship between learning and thinking, the process of Confucius's own learning and cultivation, the learning method of reviewing the past and learning the new, and further elaboration of moral categories such as filial piety and brotherhood.

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Confucius said: "When I was fifteen, I was determined to learn; when I was thirty, I was able to stand on my own; when I was forty, I was not deceived by external things; when I was fifty, I understood Destiny; at the age of sixty, you can treat all kinds of opinions correctly without feeling uncomfortable; at the age of seventy, you can do whatever you want without going beyond the rules."

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Standing at thirty means establishing one’s own attitudes and principles in dealing with people and life on the basis of previous stages of study and enrichment of self-cultivation. Not having doubts at forty is the next stage of standing at thirty. Not having doubts at forty means using your own principles to experience many people and events and not being confused about your own principles. It does not mean that you have no doubts about anything. If you have no doubts at all, Then you will become a god-man.

Knowing destiny at fifty is not the so-called fatalism, but understanding the so-called destiny. Everything now is created by oneself, so one should not blame God or others. At sixty, one's ears are smooth, which means that at this time, one can understand right and wrong, and can distinguish between good and bad. Doing what you want at seventy and not breaking the rules means that by the time you reach seventy, you will have matured in all aspects of how you deal with others.

You will basically not make mistakes when doing things, instead of just doing whatever you want and doing whatever you want. In this chapter, Confucius recounts his learning and cultivation process. This process is a process in which one’s ideological realm gradually improves with age. As far as the ideological realm is concerned, the whole process is divided into three stages: the age of fifteen to forty is the stage of learning and understanding.

The age of fifty or sixty is the stage where one can settle down and settle down, that is, the stage where one is not influenced by the environment. Seventy years old is the stage when subjective consciousness and rules of life merge into one. In this stage, moral cultivation reaches its highest level. There are reasonable factors in Confucius's moral cultivation process: First, he saw that human moral cultivation is not something that happens overnight. It cannot be completed all at once or in a sudden attack.

It requires a long period of study and exercise, and a step-by-step process. Second, the highest state of morality is the integration of thoughts, words and deeds, and consciously abide by moral norms rather than doing it reluctantly. These two points apply to everyone. Professor Zeng Shiqiang once said in Baijia Lecture Forum, The Mystery of the Book of Changes, that these words have another meaning: "The direction of learning is decided when a person is fifteen years old.

Thirty-year-olds It’s time to determine the principles of life. When you are forty, you will no longer waver in your life goals. When you are fifty, you will understand that your destiny is your own. If you do what you want, you will never do anything that goes against the rules.