rule your own country

rule your own country


The saying 'to make world peace is to rule one's own country' has the following meanings. In other words, if the leadership honours the elderly, the people arouse filial piety, if the leadership raises the elders, the people arouse respect. Therefore, a gentleman has a 'tao of procrastination and counting with one's own mind'.



When you are in the position of a subordinate, do not treat subordinates with disliked appearances from superiors, and do not serve superiors with disliked appearances from subordinates. And when you are in the position of the person behind you, do not make the person behind you do it first with the dislike you saw from the person in front of you. Also, when you are on the left, don't date the left with the dislike you see on the right, and don't date the right with the dislike you see on the left when you're on the right. This is the meaning of 'the way of procrastination and counting with one's mind'.



In <<Sikyung>>, 'Before the kingdom of Eun lost the hearts of the people, it was possible to mate with Sangje. Use the Nara as a mirror! It is not easy to preserve the heavenly mandate once granted.' It is a song about winning the people's hearts and winning the country, and losing the public's heart will lose the country.


Therefore, a gentleman must first be careful about his virtue. If there is a virtue, there will be those who follow him, and if there are those who follow him, there will be territory. When there is a territory, there is wealth, and when there is wealth, there is used.


Virtue is the root, wealth is the end.


If we ignore the fundamentals and pursue the end as the primary, it will result in Baek Seo-oh competing for interests and teaching them to fight for interests. Therefore, when wealth is gathered, the people are scattered; when wealth is scattered, the people are gathered. Therefore, just as words come in wrongly, they also come in wrongly, so if riches come in wrongly, they also go out wrong.


<<Jin Seo>> has the following words: 'If there is a servant who is only sincere and has no special talents, his heart is beautiful and he accepts many talented people. When he sees a talented person, he sees it as if he has it. If we can truly accept them and not just speak with our mouths, we can preserve our descendants and people, and even benefit from it. But if you envy a talented man and hate him, and do not allow him to go against the opinions of a good and wise man, he is unacceptable to others. If we had such a servant, he would not be able to preserve our descendants and people, and he also says, 'It is in peril.'


Only benevolent people drive out such people, send them into exile, and banish them to barbarians everywhere so that they do not live together in the civilized world. This is the meaning of the saying, 'Only a kind person can love others and hate others.'


If you can't hire a wise person, and you can't do it quickly even if you did, it's because you're lazy. If you can't get rid of a bad person and you can't get rid of them even if you kick them out, then this is wrong.



A gentleman has an unchanging iron rule. In other words, if you have faithfulness and faith, you will gain the status of a gentleman, and if you are arrogant, you will lose the status of a gentleman.


There are also rules for earning wealth. In other words, if there are many producers and few consumers, and if production is fast and consumption is slow, wealth will always be abundant.


A merciful person reveals himself by using his wealth well, and a person who is not merciful overuses himself and reveals his wealth.


There is never a case where a superior likes benevolence, but a subordinate does not like righteousness. He likes righteousness, but there is never a case where the work does not go well, and there is never a case where the riches in the warehouse are not just riches.


Leading the country and striving for the economy always comes from small people. If you let a small man rule the country, disaster and dissolution will come together. Even if there is a kind person, nothing can be done. This means that 'the state should not make a profit by pursuing only profit, but by pursuing righteousness.'

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