Follow the substitution by cultivating the mind and promoting it in learning.

 Follow the substitution by cultivating the mind and promoting it in learning.



the student asked.


"Everyone is the same, so why are some great and some minor?"




“If you follow the big things, you become a great person, and if you follow the small things, you become a small person. The organs such as the ears and eyes are obscured by things because they cannot think. But the mind thinks. is what heaven has bestowed upon us."


- Mencius


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The 'big thing' Mencius said is the heart. And the eyes and ears are exemplified as 'small things in the body'.


It is said that the difference between big and small depends on the ability to think. Because we can think, we can restrain our desires and go on the right path according to our good nature. Therefore, a person who follows what the heart leads can become a great person. However, sensory organs such as eyes and ears do not have the ability to think, so we have no choice but to accept what we see and hear. In the end, they can't control external objects or the desires that arise from them, so they are led away and become insignificant people.


The mind has the function and role of coordinating and controlling all the sensory organs of the body.


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How to clear your mind


What should I do to straighten my mind?


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“If we eat our stomachs, dress warmly, live our lives without worries, and on the day we die our bones rot together and we have nothing to say, life is like nothing. no bar."


 <<Dasan Poems>​


The most frivolous people in the world say that controlling the mind and cultivating one's character is useless work, and reading books and searching for reason is called old-fashioned tales.


Dasan said that cultivating the mind and advancing learning is following substitution, and keeping away from old things is following the body. He said that the way to follow the substitution was to achieve virtue through the study of the humanities.


Through the process of finding questions and answers, we repeat our thoughts, and through those thoughts, we gain insight into people and the world.


Realize the meaning of one's life and establish the right values.


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The deep meaning of text usually lies not in the lines of text, but between lines and between lines.


Line-by-line communication should not be a donkey trapped in information.


In order to become a true adult, one must refrain from accumulating knowledge without reflection.


Adults don't know much. He is a person who is not easily swayed by small desires and the temptations of the world by thinking deeply about what he has learned.


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"If you only read a book and don't think, it's like a donkey carrying a bunch of books on its back." - Talmud

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