Analysis: This sentence means to strictly control your own desires and consciously control your own desires without the supervision of others. The most important thing is "cautious independence", which is a realm of cultivation.
This sentence is mainly to let people set up lofty ideals and ambitions, and constantly improve their self-cultivation, so that when they are alone and nobody is paying attention, they should act cautiously. This is a kind of accomplishment, a realm.
2, the way of self-cultivation, it is difficult to raise the heart, know the good and evil, but can not use its strength, think that good and evil, it is called self-deception. -Zeng Guofan
Explanation: The most difficult way to improve self-cultivation is to cultivate the mind. Although you know there are good and evil in your heart, you can't do your best to do good and eliminate evil. This is self-deception.
Only prudent and independent people can achieve inner peace, then everything is naturally safe.
What height a person's life can reach depends entirely on his state when he is alone.
Celebrity stories about "cautious independence"
1, poaching and stealing light
Kuang Heng, the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty in the Han Dynasty, liked reading since childhood. But the family is so poor that they can't even eat enough. How can they afford to go to school? He had to work during the day and study by himself at night. What should I do if I have no money to buy lamp oil at home?
Kuang Heng didn't give in to the difficulties, so he came up with an idea: he cut a small hole in the wall and studied by the dim light of his neighbor's house. He worked hard and learned a lot, and later became prime minister.
2. Ignorance at dusk
Yang Zhen passed through Changyi when he was appointed as the magistrate of Donglai. He recommended Changyi county magistrate Wang Mi to visit Yequan, and wanted to give him ten Jin of gold, but Yang Zhen refused. Wang Mi said, "Ignorance at dusk."
Yang Zhen said confidently: "God knows, God knows, I know, you know, how can I say that no one knows!" Wang Mi came back in shame. When there is no one at dusk, Yang Zhen also faces ten pounds of gold. He was cautious and self-disciplined, and was not moved by money, thus leaving a beautiful talk for generations.