Wang Mingyang’s classic famous sayings and annotations are as follows:

1. When there is movement and stillness, the essence of the heart has nothing to do with movement and stillness.

Explanation: The so-called movement and stillness means that when encountered, the essence of the heart is not divided into movement and stillness.

2. The heart of right and wrong, knowing without worrying, and being able without learning, is the so-called conscience.

Explanation: The heart of right and wrong can be known without thinking and possessed without learning. This is the true conscience.

3. Those who have made mistakes are inevitable for great sages, but it does not prevent their soldiers from becoming great sages because they can correct them. Therefore, it is not more valuable than having no faults, but more valuable than being able to correct them.

Explanation: Even a great sage will inevitably make mistakes, but this does not prevent him from becoming a great sage because he can correct his mistakes. So don’t value the absence of faults but the ability to correct them.

4. The knowledge and ability of a couple is also what the sage knows and can do. What the sage does not know and cannot do is also what the couple does not know and cannot do.

Explanation: The conscience and talents possessed by ordinary men and women are also the conscience and talents possessed by saints. The conscience and talents that saints do not possess are also the conscience and talents that ordinary men and women do not possess.

5. We work hard only to decrease, not to increase. To lose one point of human desires is to regain one point of heavenly principles; how light and free! How simple!

Explanation: When we do Kung Fu, we only seek to reduce it every day, not to increase it every day. Subtract one point of material desires and understand one point of heaven's principles; how easy and free this is! What a simple and easy method!

6. If a person knows the secret of conscience, no matter how many evil thoughts he has, they will all melt away as soon as he wakes up here. It's really a magic pill that turns iron into gold.

Explanation: If people know the magical power of conscience, no matter how many evil thoughts they have, as long as they are enlightened by conscience, they will naturally dissolve into nothingness. It is really like a magic pill that can turn iron into gold.

7. Just thinking about keeping the heavenly principles is determination. If you don't forget this, your mind will naturally condense over time.

Explanation: As long as you never forget to understand the essential laws of the universe, this process is determination. If you can never forget this goal, as time goes by, your mind will naturally focus on this matter.

8. What the ancient Confucians said is sincerity. However, seeking it urgently is selfish, so we must be aware of it.

Explanation: The former great Confucians said that people who are aspiring to the Tao are very sincere in their pursuit of the Tao. This is certainly a kind of sincerity; but it should also be noted that if the pursuit of the Tao is too eager, it will lead to many problems. Distractions, everyone must understand this truth.

9. The conscience of no one in heaven and earth cannot be heaven and earth. All things in heaven and earth are one with human beings, and the most exquisite point of their enlightenment is a little bit of wisdom in the human heart.

Explanation: Heaven and earth cannot become heaven and earth without human conscience. All the existences of heaven and earth and all human beings are one and the same, and the spiritual place where they originate is the conscience of the human heart.

10. For example, gold is being smelted, passed through blazing flames, and subjected to hammers. At this time, the person who is gold suffers very much. However, when others see it, they are happy that gold is getting more refined, but they are afraid of being hammered by fire. It won't come. Now that it has been smelted, metal also rejoices in the success of its setbacks and forging.

Explanation: After setting up ambitions, the process of going through hardships is like the process of smelting metal. The metal is calcined by the flames and hit thousands of times by the hammer. At this time, according to the psychology of ordinary people, From a blacksmith's point of view, it is naturally very painful to be a metal; however, from a blacksmith's point of view, he is only happy when the metal can be tempered more and more finely, lest the firepower is insufficient and the hammering is insufficient.

When the metal is smelted and turned into a beautiful object, the metal will secretly be glad that it has passed many tests and is finally smelted.