Wang Shouren was born with a special temperament. His mother was pregnant for more than ten months before giving birth. Before he was born, his grandmother dreamed that God was dressed in jade clothes, and the cloud preached that he was holding a child and fell from the sky. His grandfather named him "Yun" and named his place "Ruiyun Building".
At the age of fifteen, he wrote to the emperor many times, suggesting to suppress the peasant uprising, but all failed. In the same year, I visited Juyongguan and Shanhaiguan for one month. Looking at the Great Wall, he already has the ambition to run around.
Wang Yangming's academic thoughts spread all over China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia, and his achievements resounded throughout the Ming Dynasty. He also has many disciples, and people call him Yaojiang School.
Extended information Wang Yangming: Determined to become a reading saint
When Wang Yangming was young, he set up the ambition of "learning to be an official" and took it as his lifelong pursuit, which not only achieved his status as a scholar, but also set an example for future generations to study. Today, when quality education is advocated, Wang Yangming's practice may be worth learning from.
How to realize "reading sages"? The method given by Wang Yangming is: make up your mind first. Wang Yangming put forward in his book "Showing Brother's Determination" to his younger brother Wang Shouwen: "Learning a husband is not a prerequisite." "The study of a gentleman is everywhere all the time, and it is not based on determination."
Throughout Wang Yangming's works, the study of gentlemen, also known as sage, sage's study, sage's study or orthodox study, is for saints or gentlemen. Wang Yangming believes that ordinary people are saints or gentlemen as long as they understand that they have a conscience, gain their own conscience through reading and learning, and act according to their conscience.
In Wang Yangming's view, if you master the secret of the study of saints, you can achieve your goal as long as you make up your mind to seek it. "Building lifelong learning is just a successful study." The first article of "Heaven shows the people in the Dragon Field" is about "determination": "Therefore, if you are determined to be holy, you will be holy, and if you are determined to be virtuous." In As a Mirror, he also advocated: "Generally speaking, we have great learning minds, but we are determined."
Wang Yangming attaches great importance to learning first. He tirelessly preached his determination to his relatives and friends. In the letter "Send Zhang Shiwen", he wrote: "Learning without determination is like planting trees without roots ... Throughout the ages, where there is a will, there is a way."
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