Source "Book of Rites University": "If you want to be right, you must be sincere first." And "put your mind right and practice again."

Original: the so-called self-cultivation is in the right heart, and anger is not correct; If you are afraid, you may be wrong; What is fun can't be right; If you are worried, you may be wrong. Selected from "University, Cultivation and Righteousness"

Absent-minded, blind, deaf, eat without knowing its taste. This is called cultivating one's mind.

Translation: It is said that to cultivate one's self-cultivation, one must first correct one's mentality, because anger cannot correct one's mentality; 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.

Reading comprehension: righteousness is a ladder for further learning after sincerity.

Sincerity is the sincerity of the mind, not self-deception. However, sincerity alone is not enough. Because sincerity may be dominated by anger, sadness, joy, fear and other emotions, making you a slave to emotions and out of control.

Therefore, after "sincerity", we should also "correct our mind", that is, we should control our feelings and adjust them with the right mind (reason) in order to maintain a just and peaceful mind and concentrate on practice.

What needs to be noted here is that burial and affection, honesty and sincerity are not absolutely opposite and incompatible with each other. Jia Zhu said: Emotions, sorrows and fears are both indispensable in people's minds, but once we can't examine ourselves and let them control our actions, our minds will lose their correctness. Therefore, mindfulness is not to completely abandon the passions such as emotions and sorrows, nor is it absolute abstinence, but only to let reason restrain and control the passions, so that the mind is not affected by the passions, and thus cultivate oneself rationally and harmoniously.

In other words, Xiu De just wants to have a correct mind, don't be half-hearted and don't be led by feelings. "Absent-minded, turn a blind eye, listen but don't smell, eat but don't know its taste." These words later became related idioms and famous sayings, which were used to vividly describe the absent-minded and absent-minded state. They are commonly used by teachers to criticize students in class. )

In this way, there is no mystery in cultivating one's integrity.

2. the heart of justice.

Originally, it was a cultivation method advocated by Confucianism, but now it also means being correct and sincere.

The eight items put forward in "Great Learning", namely, respecting things, knowing knowledge, honesty, integrity, self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and calming the world, became a part of the basic program of Neo-Confucianism after the Southern Song Dynasty.

Meaning: Integrate your knowledge, feelings and intentions with the outside world, and naturally integrate with the things in front of you, so you can't "be absent-minded, turn a blind eye and turn a deaf ear". A cultivation method proposed by Confucianism. This kind of mood is also consistent with the induction of "noble spirit" in Mencius.