Time to keep your heart firmly, dawn.

Time to keep your heart firmly, dawn.

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'The gentleman nurtures his body with a hired mind and cultivates virtue through frugality.'


- Zhuge Liang <Gyeja Book>


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The first virtues to be taken care of in life are receiving and virtue. You need to control your mind to become an adult, and frugality can only become a habit when you become accustomed to it.



The insight, which is the symbol of Zhuge Liang, came from this equanimity, not from an unusual chisel or flashy writing.


Insight refers to 'the ability to see the truth beneath the surface'. Because Zhuge Liang was able to control his mind, he was able to gain insight, and even in chaotic battlefields, he was able to produce surprising results without being swayed.


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What Zhuge Liang delivered next was learning.


He said, "You can't unleash your talents without learning, and you can't achieve academics without a will."


It is difficult to achieve big dreams without a solid foundation of knowledge. Zhuge Liang was also a scholar who was well versed in the Confucianism, Law, and Taoism at the time, before being an outstanding administrator or strategist. The various studies he honed since childhood became the basis for his becoming a soldier.


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If he is lazy, he cannot study precisely, and if he is rough and impatient, he cannot rule his character. Age runs with time, meaning goes with the sun, and when it finally dries up and withers, there is no turning back for lamentations in poor places.”


Zhuge Liang teaches that in order to study properly, one must be free from indolence and impatience.


It is difficult for a person with a lazy personality to study deeply, and for a person who is impatient, it is difficult to achieve good character.


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The first thing to do to control your mind is to acknowledge the weakness of your own mind.


There are many diseases in the heart, and the heart does not listen to me well. When you face and acknowledge your own limitations, you can not neglect to recover your heart.


Mencius spoke of the spirit of peace, which is the clear and cool energy of dawn.


The dawn, when life is revived, is a good time to look back on the lost heart during the day and night.


If you wake up at dawn like that every day and set aside time to reflect on yourself, your heart will become stronger little by little.


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Adults need a cave to protect themselves from the poison of the years that accumulates every day.


The dawn, waking up alone and looking back at the beginning and end of the day, becomes one's own cave.

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