1, which is the heart of heaven and earth: it is to make people born with the heart of caring and helping others, and the heart of a saint as a grand duke. In fact, compassion is the heart that can't bear others, which is what Confucius said, "Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you", which is the starting point of benevolence.
In this way, Mr. Ma Yifu concluded: "Scholars do not know benevolence and seek benevolence, and benevolent people have different opinions, and wise people have different opinions. If they can do this, they should pay attention to heaven and earth.
2. Making a life for the people: directly derived from Mencius' thought of "making a life". There is a saying in Mencius: "He who does his best knows his nature. If you know its nature, you will know its nature. Keep your heart and cultivate your nature, then things will be natural.
Die young, cultivate one's morality, so make a living. "Through self-cultivation, if we can finally reach the state that no matter whether a person's life is long or short, we can maintain our sexual integrity, then this individual can be said to be settled down.
The "life for the people" marked by Zhang Zai is actually "life for the people, the life of my compatriots", and its life lies in teaching, and "cultivation is called teaching", which is the so-called.
3. In order to go to the sanctuary: Therefore, the people who "go to the sanctuary" are first of all Confucianism represented by Confucius and Mencius; Juexue is Taoism advocated by Confucius and Mencius. As far as Confucianism is concerned, Confucius is certainly a master, and the Song Dynasty masters such as Lian, Luo, Guan and Min pushed the development of Confucianism to a brand-new stage. Only Confucianism in Song Dynasty can truly carry forward Confucius and Mencius.
4. The world is peaceful: it expresses the eternal political ideal of Confucianism in the pre-Qin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.
The expectation of "openness" is called. Only by "making peace for the world" and realizing the cultural ideal described in Zhang Zai's Mingxi can ignorant modern people return to the honest spiritual home of mankind.
Extended data:
The famous saying "Make a heart for heaven and earth, make a life for the people, carry forward the past and create peace for the world" comes from Zhang Zai's Four Sentences of Crossing the Canal (1020- 1077).
Zhang Zai (1020- 1077), a native of Hengqu Town, Yanxian County, Fengxiang County (now Meixian County, Shaanxi Province), was a thinker, educator and one of the founders of Neo-Confucianism in the Northern Song Dynasty. Known as Mr. Hengqu in the world, Zhang Zi is honored as a saint, and he is thirty-eight in the west of Confucius Temple.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia _ Zhang Zai (founder of Guan Xue School in Northern Song Dynasty)