Looking back at my vast country, there are countless great men and heroes, but none of them is so close to our generation. Only Emperor Zeng gave birth to this man. Reading this book has given me a lot of wisdom. I think the sages all grew up from young heroes and experienced hardships before they realized life and took their lives! It's really a perennial worry. However, it is not a blessing for his descendants that his thoughts are spread around the world in his works.
Zeng Guofan has two turning points that deserve my deep thought. One is the change after his successful career; The second is the transition to death. It can also be said that the first is the change of human behavior, with the help of Laozi and Zhuangzi, and the second is the change of spirit and thought. With the help of the emperor's hegemony, it can be called the law of saving the world. The former is that it moves from success to maturity, and the latter is that it moves from maturity to regret. Zeng Guofan's self-discipline has finally achieved great success, and his career has reached the peak of his life. He should have been called a saint by the world, but he was criticized by other court officials, which changed his life and plunged him into a thrilling situation. He had to reduce his wings and live in seclusion. Although he catered to the old saying that "fortunes depend on each other", he also clarified the meaning of how to live. After all, the Confucian theory of statecraft was replaced by Laozi and Zhuangzi, which is a life. Good as water, wise as a fool, but hard to say! There is no better way to look at the current era. When doing common things like career, life, friends and ideals, it is a great warning to us to make contributions by means of talents and to survive by means of kindness. Every year, people whose fate has increased, looking back on the past, or success, or failure, or pain, or joy, often regret that life can not restore the ancients and blurt out heartfelt words. Everyone can't avoid customs, but it varies from person to person and from environmental position to position. A generation of great scholars are still like this, let alone waiting for ordinary people to shout! This is a shocking thing in life, and it is also one of the joys that God brings to people because of the growth of age. If you can understand the drums in the morning, you will have jumped out of the world of mortals.
It's hard to climb that realm in the whole life of reading, but we learned the realm of thinking about things, the realm of being surprised and unchanging, and the method of writing day by day. Oh! Happy! This is really a good meditation method!