If you see the bright side, you must save yourself. If you see the bad side, you must reflect on yourself. Hello, be good to yourself; If you are not good at it, you are evil to yourself. So, either my people or my teachers; It's me, my friend; Those who flatter me are thieves.

Therefore, a gentleman takes his teacher as his friend, so that he hates his thief. If you are good but not satisfied, you can quit if you are admonished. Although you want not to advance, how can you get it? On the contrary, villains are chaotic and wicked people are not themselves, and they are corrupt and want to be virtuous. They are like tigers and wolves, acting like animals, and the thief of the wicked is themselves.

Flatterers kiss, remonstrate and argue, correct them as laughter, and be loyal as thieves. Although you want to live, how can you get it? "Poetry" said: "It's a pity. If you ask for it, you will violate it; If you don't care about it, you will rely on it. " This is also called.

The level of goodness is the rule of qi and health after Peng Zu, and the self-cultivation after Yao and Yu is equally famous. We should keep pace with the times, help the poor and be polite and trustworthy. Where blood, will and care are used, it will be cured with ceremony, and it will be chaotic if it is not used;

Eating, drinking, wearing, living and moving, from ceremony to festival, you will get sick if you don't obey the ceremony; Appearance, attitude, advance and retreat, tendency, courtesy is elegant, rudeness is conservative, unconventional and mediocre.

If an old friend is rude, there will be no life, if something is rude, there will be nothing, and if the country is rude, it will be uneasy. "Poetry" says: "Courtesy is measured, and laughter pays off." This is also called.

Good ancestors call it teaching, and good people call it obedience; Bad ancestors are called flattery, and bad others are called flattery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hurting a good man is called slander, and hurting a good man is called a thief.

Right, right, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, stealing goods is called stealing, hiding is called cheating, easy to say is called birthday, fun is uncertain, and abandoning righteousness is called thief. Listen more and learn more, listen less and learn more. It is more common to say idle things, but it is less common to say ugly things. It's hard to get in, but easy to forget. Less is the rule, more is chaos.

The art of treating qi and nourishing the heart: strong blood will soften and reconcile; The deeper you know, the better; Courage is supplemented by smooth roads; Give convenience, then stop; Narrow and small, broad outline;

Humility, procrastination and greed, and then resist it with wisdom; When the masses disperse, they are teachers and friends; If you ignore and abandon it, it will be a disaster; Foolish wealth ends in embarrassment, then it is combined with rites and music and used for it. Any technique of treating qi and nourishing the heart needs no teacher, and it is not good to get god. Husband refers to the art of treating qi and nourishing the heart.

If you are determined to practice, you will be arrogant and rich, and your morality will be noble, and your princes will be light; Introspection is light. Chuan said, "A gentleman's thing is a villain's thing." This is called Yi. Work hard and feel at ease; Less and more righteousness, for it; Trouble is better than no trouble.

Therefore, a good farmer is not drought, a good farmer is not poverty, and a gentleman is not poverty. Respectful and faithful, humble and loving, they are all over the world. Although trapped in four countries, people are expensive.

Hard work comes first, while pleasure can make people honest, cautious and meticulous, and run wild all over the world. Although trapped among four foreigners, people have an obligation to do it. The body is guilty, the technique is smooth and fine, and it is rampant all over the world. Although extending in all directions, people are not cheap.

Hard work is stealing Confucianism, while Raole is not bending, but breaking the rules and not recording, running rampant all over the world. Although it extends in all directions, people will not give up.

Lines are wings, not waterlogging; It is not a crime to do things while leaning down; I bow my head first, I'm not afraid. However, if a gentleman wants to cultivate his body alone, he must not offend vulgar people.

A husband travels thousands of miles a day, and he also has ten horses. Will it be endless, endless? Its broken bones and tendons cannot be matched for life; Will stop, and then thousands of miles away, sooner or later, sooner or later, why not be together? People who don't know the trace will pursue infinity with infinity. Has the meaning stopped?

The husband is strong and white, there are differences, and there are thick and thick observations, but not observations. However, the gentleman stopped without arguing; It's not difficult to travel by the chief, but not by the gentleman. Stop here. Therefore, the scholar said, "If you wait for me, I will be late or soon, or early or late. Why not think it can't be the same? "

Therefore, without stopping, the turtle is thousands of miles away; Tired of soil and ceaseless, Qiushan Chengchong; Tired of its source, open its blasphemy, rivers can be exhausted; One advance and one retreat, one left and one right, six horses don't come. The talent of the other party is similar to that of the princess. So what if six horses are lame?

However, for no other reason, a lame turtle can cause it, but six horses can't, either for it or not. Although the Tao is close, it cannot be done; Small as it is, nothing is impossible. He is also an idle person, and he is not far away.

Good law, too; Dedication and body, the gentleman also; Qi Ming is inexhaustible, and saints are also. If people can't, they are dumbfounded; If there is law without ambition, the canal will be natural; Deep according to law, then warm.

Rites, so the body also; Teacher, so courtesy also. Why is rudeness right? Without a teacher, I am polite, right? However, politeness is also a sense of security; If a teacher is a cloud, he knows whether he is a teacher or not.

Love with courtesy, knowledge with teacher is holy. Therefore, you must not be indecent; Without a teacher, there would be no teacher. It is better to use it for your own use than to learn the law. For example, we are still arguing with the blind, arguing with the deaf, and not doing anything.

Therefore, those who learn also have manners; Teacher, as a tool of justice, you are safe. "Poetry" said: "I don't know, I don't know, I follow the son of heaven." This is also called.

If you are obedient to your younger brother, it can be said that it is good; Study hard and be sensitive, and you will be supreme and be a gentleman. Stealing Confucianism and fearing things, indulging in food unscrupulously, can be described as a villain; If you are tough and tactless, if you are a thief but not a brother, you can be said to be ignorant, although you can be punished.

The old and the strong return, and those who are not poor and pass the product; What to do is invisible, what to do is not reported, and what to do is not filial. People have these three lines, although there are some big mistakes, life is still not enough. The gentleman's pursuit of profit is also slight, and its far-reaching harm is also early. He avoided humiliation and fear, and his actions inspired him to be brave.

The gentleman is poor and ambitious, rich and respectful, Yan' an is not lazy, poor and tired, but his appearance is not withered. He was angry, but he couldn't take it away. The gentleman is not poor in ambition, and the benevolent is also; Rich and respectful, killing potential also; Yan' an is not lazy, and Cambodia is reasonable;

Tired but not withered, easy to make friends; Anger can't be taken away, joy can't be given, and law wins over private interests. "Book" said: "Do everything, shun Wang Zhidao; Do no evil, follow the way of the monarch. " It is said that a gentleman can overcome selfish desires with justice.

The translation is as follows:

When you see a good deed, you must humbly check whether you have this good deed; When you see bad behavior, you must be vigilant and reflect on whether you are not good. We must stick to our inner goodness; If you are bad, you must be afraid that it is a disaster.

Therefore, the person who criticizes me and speaks appropriately is my teacher; Those who praise me properly are my friends; Those who flatter me are thieves who hurt me. Therefore, a gentleman respects teachers and keeps close to friends, but hates slanders.

Love kindness and never be satisfied, but you can quit admonition when you hear the rules, even if you don't want to make progress! On the contrary, the villain is extremely rebellious and hates being criticized by others. He is insatiable, but he wants others to think that he is noble, like a tiger and a wolf, and acts like an animal, but he hates being regarded as a thief.

Get close to flatterers, alienate outspoken admonishers, regard the actions of those who correct them as ridicule, and regard those who are loyal to them as flatterers. Such a person can't die without thinking!

The Book of Songs says: "It's sad to hit it off with flatterers and hate those who slander and admonish!" ! I don't listen to all good opinions, I listen to all bad opinions. "I said is this kind of person.

A gentleman's way is to do nothing but bad. If he uses it to treat qi and preserve health, his life can be the same as that of Peng Zu. Use it to cultivate morality, and your reputation can be compared with Yao and Yu. It is suitable for both visiting and embarrassing times, only for courtesy and faithfulness.

Generally speaking, blood, will and thoughts are harmonious and smooth according to etiquette, and they are lazy if they violate it; Eat, drink, talk and behave appropriately according to the ceremony, and everything will go wrong if you don't keep the ceremony. Appearance,

Etiquette, advance and retreat, scurry and walk slowly. Politeness means elegance, and rudeness means arrogance, vulgarity and rudeness. Therefore, people can't be rude, things can't be rude, and countries can't be rude.

The Book of Songs says: "If the ceremony is completely in line with the statutes, it is appropriate to talk and laugh." That's what I'm saying.

It is teaching to guide people with kindness, and it is harmony to respond to people with kindness; It is not good for flattery to guide people, but it is not good for flattery to echo people. Being able to distinguish right from wrong is wisdom, recognizing right as wrong and admitting wrong as right is ignorance.

Hurting good people is called framing, and framing good people is called traitors. Sticking to the right is right, and mistakes are mistakes and integrity. It is the thief who steals, the liar who conceals his behavior, and the birthday party who speaks rashly. Those who have no clear choice are called impermanence, and those who give up morality for profit are called thieves.

. Those who listen more are broad, while those who listen less are shallow; See more is refined, see less is ignorance. What is difficult to improve is called slowness, and what is easy to forget is called omission. Being able to give priority to things in an orderly way is called governance, and too much chaos is called governance.

The way to adjust one's temperament and cultivate one's body and mind is: a person with strong blood will be calm and harmonious; If you think too deeply and too complicated, reconcile him with gentleness. If you are brave and irritable, enlighten him and make him docile;

People who act quickly and quickly will be restrained in an appropriate way; Narrow-minded people, expand him with an open mind; Those who are humble, slow-thinking and greedy for small profits will be promoted with ambition;

People with low self-esteem and mediocrity will help him with mentors and friends; Lazy, frivolous and self-destructive, warn him with good and bad things; People who are too simple will be polished with rites and music.

Generally speaking, the most direct way to adjust your temperament and cultivate your body and mind is to follow the etiquette. The most important thing is to find a good teacher, and the most magical thing is to concentrate. This is the way to regulate temperament and cultivate body and mind.

If you practice with your will, you will be proud of wealth, advocate morality, despise princes and princes, have no regrets, and will not be moved by foreign things. The ancient book says, "a gentleman is a foreign object, not dominated by it."

That's what I'm saying. Although the body is hard, but feel at ease, do it; If less interest and more interest are moral, then do it; It is better to serve the tyrant of this country than the king of a small country who is embarrassed by the way.

Therefore, good farmers will not stop farming because of floods and droughts, good businessmen will not stop doing business because of losses, and gentlemen will not slack off because of poverty.

He is respectful in appearance, loyal in heart and kind in heart, so if he travels all over the world, people will not disrespect him even if he is trapped in the land of four barbarians and is not reused. Hard work in advance, comfortable and enjoyable things to others.

An honest man, honest and trustworthy, law-abiding, reasonable, then travel all over the world, even if he is poor and goes to the land of four barbarians, no one will hire him. Proud in appearance, cunning in heart and dirty in heart, following the theories of Shen Dao and Mozi.

Then people will not despise him all over the world, even if it is available everywhere. The hard work is lazy to shirk, the pleasure is agile but not humble, the eccentricity is dishonest, and the pursuit of one's own selfish desires without caution, then people will travel all over the world, even if they can get it everywhere, they will not despise him.

Walk respectfully and carefully, not afraid of getting stuck in the mud; Walk with your head down, not because you are afraid of hitting something; When they look at each other, they all bow their heads first and are not afraid of each other. This is because a gentleman should cultivate his own moral character, and he doesn't want to offend secular people because of this.

A good horse can walk a thousand miles a day, and a bad horse can walk for ten days. Want endless roads, endless places to chase? In this case, even if you break a bone, you will never reach it;

If there is an end point and a purpose, then even if it is thousands of miles away, it is only a matter of slow and fast, before and after. You don't say! People who don't know the way are going to take endless roads and pursue endless places?

Still have an end? The argument of "firm and white", "same and different" and "thick and not thick" cannot be said without careful observation. However, gentlemen do not dispute, because they have their own goals. It is not difficult to do grotesque and vulgar behavior, and a gentleman does not do it, because a gentleman has his own goals.

Therefore, according to the old saying, learning is like walking. The person who got the road was waiting for me in front, so I wanted to catch up. So, sooner or later, before or after, how can I not arrive at the same place?

So keep walking step by step, even a lame turtle can walk thousands of miles; Layer by layer, the flat land will eventually become a hill. Block the source, ditch and the river will dry up.

Forward for a while, back for a while, left for a while, right for a while, and six horses can't reach the distance. The talent difference between people, where there will be a lame turtle and six horses as big as the difference?

! However, the lame tortoise can reach it, but six horses can't. There is no other reason, just because some do and some don't! Although the road is near, it is impossible to get there without going; No matter how small it is, it will not succeed if you don't do it. Those who loaf around all day, his achievements will not be far beyond ordinary people.

Those who love etiquette and can act according to it are scholars; It is a gentleman who has firm aspirations and can practice; A man with quick and inexhaustible thinking is a saint. People who have no manners are at a loss;

If there is a law, you don't know its meaning, and you will follow it at a loss; According to etiquette, you can know its classification deeply, and then you can travel easily.

Rites are used to correct body and mind; Teachers are used to correcting manners. Without manners, what can you do to correct your behavior? Without a teacher, how do I know the ceremony is like this? It is the nature of being content with ceremony to do what is stipulated in the ceremony;

A teacher keeps his word, that is, he is as wise as a teacher. He who can be content with propriety and wisdom as a teacher is a saint. Therefore, breaking the ceremony means not taking the statutes as statutes; Violating the teacher means not treating the teacher as a teacher.

If you don't follow the teaching and regulations of the Teacher's Law and like to do it yourself, it's like letting the blind distinguish colors and the deaf distinguish sounds, and they can do nothing but arrogance.

. Therefore, the essence of learning lies in etiquette. As for teachers, they set an example for people with their words and deeds, and the most valuable thing is to teach people to feel at ease. The Book of Songs says, "I don't know why I did this, but it conforms to God's natural laws.". That's what I'm saying.

Honest and simple, respect for the elderly, can be said to be a good youth; If he is modest and diligent, only those who are equal to him, and no one who can surpass him, can become a gentleman.

Lazy, timid, shameless, lazy, can be said to be bad youth; In addition, bohemians, fierce disobedience, insidious harm and disrespect for the elderly are unlucky people, even if they are punished and killed.

Respect the elders, and mature people will join him; If you don't despise those who persecute the victims, you will have a lot of talents; Dont Ask For Help knows what he has done, and he doesn't ask for anything in return for others' kindness, so smart and unscrupulous people will come here to kiss him.

People have the above three qualities, even if they encounter catastrophe, God will not let them fall into disaster. Gentlemen don't care much about self-interest, stay away from evil as soon as possible, avoid shame, and are extremely brave in taking moral responsibility.

A gentleman is poor and ambitious, but rich and courteous. He was covered in blood when he was at leisure, and his face was not contemptuous and casual when he was tired. He was not excessively punished when he was angry, and he was not excessively rewarded when he was happy.

Being poor and ambitious is because of respecting kindness; Rich, respectful and courteous, not arrogant and impetuous; At leisure, the blood is not slack, which is what etiquette should do; When you are tired, you don't just bow your head, but pay attention to etiquette;

Don't punish too much when you are angry, and don't reward too much when you are happy. It is possible to restrain self-interest with courtesy. Shangshu said: "Don't do things according to personal preferences, but follow the right path of the former king.

Don't act according to personal hatred, but according to the etiquette of the former king. "This means that a gentleman can overcome self-interest with justice.

Extended data:

This is an article about self-cultivation, that is, how to carry out moral cultivation and finally reach the realm. Firstly, the article points out that self-cultivation is a major event related to personal safety and national survival.

Then, it is pointed out that a gentleman has a so-called "degree of goodness", that is, the way of doing nothing and doing everything, treating qi and nourishing the heart, cultivating self-cultivation, and his merits are great. This "degree of goodness" is a gift.

When talking about the specific methods of self-cultivation, this paper points out the skills of self-cultivation and heart-cultivation, and emphasizes the important role of teachers' courtesy and integrity in self-cultivation and the importance of perseverance and single-mindedness.

Finally, it is pointed out that people with moral cultivation can be proud and rich, value morality and despise ministers, travel around the world and be respected and blessed by God.

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