In ancient times, if you want to carry forward the aboveboard morality in the world, you must first manage your own country; To govern the country well, we must first govern the family and clan; If you want to manage your family and family well, you must first cultivate your own character; If you want to cultivate your character, you must first correct your mentality; If you want to correct your heart, you must first make your heart sincere; If you want to make your ideas sincere, you must first acquire knowledge; The way to acquire knowledge is to know and study everything.
Everyone knows everything, everyone knows it and is sincere, sincere and upright, upright and upright, well-trained and well-groomed, well-groomed and well-governed, well-groomed and well-governed.
Knowledge can only be acquired after understanding and studying everything; Only after acquiring knowledge can the mind be sincere; Sincere heart, square heart; With a correct mind, we can cultivate our own character; Only through the cultivation of character can we manage the family and family well; Only when the family and clan are well managed can the country be well managed; Only when the country is well governed can the world be peaceful.
Rich, virtuous, broad-minded and obese, so a gentleman must be sincere.
In Shu Tai, wealth can decorate houses, but virtue can cultivate body and mind, make people open-minded and healthy. Therefore, people with high moral character must make their ideas sincere.
The so-called self-cultivation is in the right heart: anger is not right; If you are afraid, you may be wrong; What is fun can't be right; If you are worried, you may be wrong. Absent-minded, blind, listening but not smelling, eating without knowing its taste, this is called cultivating one's morality with the right heart.
It is said that to cultivate one's morality and cultivate one's nature, one must first correct one's heart, because one can't correct one's heart with anger; With fear, it is impossible to be right; With preference, it is impossible to be correct; You can't be right if you have concerns. ? A bad heart is like a heart that is not on you: although you are looking, you don't seem to see it; Although listening, I don't seem to hear it; Although I am eating, I don't know what it tastes like. Therefore, to cultivate self-cultivation, we must first correct our mentality.
Therefore, a gentleman has himself and then asks for others; Nobody, and then nobody. Hidden things are unforgivable, but they can be used to describe people, but nothing is left.
Therefore, sages always do it first. Then ask others to do it; Don't do it yourself first and then ask others not to do it. It is impossible not to let others do whatever they want without this forgiveness.
Because a gentleman has a polite way. If you are evil, don't let it fall; What is evil is not in this matter; Evil is ahead, not behind; What is the evil of the future, not the evil of the past; Right evil, not left; If you are left evil, don't give it to right evil. This is called the way to slap the moment.
Therefore, people with high moral character always set an example and push others to "be flexible." ? If you hate a certain behavior of your boss, don't treat your subordinates with this behavior; If you hate a certain behavior of subordinates, don't treat your boss with this behavior; If you hate a certain behavior of the person in front, don't treat the person behind with this behavior; If you hate a certain behavior of the person behind, don't treat the person in front with this behavior; If you hate some behavior of the person on your right, don't treat the person on your left with this behavior; If you hate some behavior of the person on your left, don't treat the person on your right with this behavior. This is called "the way of tilting".
This means that only the benevolent can love and be wicked. Seeing the sages and not lifting them, lifting them without first, life is also; If you see something bad, you can't back down. If you back down, you can't go far. What a good man hates and what a bad man likes is his arrogance, and disaster will catch his husband.
This shows that the sage has a clear love and hate, and can't select talents, and they can't be reused after being selected. This is contempt: it is wrong to find evil people without driving them away. It's against human nature to like things that everyone hates and dislike things that everyone likes. Disaster is bound to befall you.