How difficult is it for Wang Yangming to combine knowledge with practice?

Wang Yangming's unity of knowing and doing is easy to say and very difficult to do. Many people know but can't do it. For example, we know that some habits are bad, such as staying up late, chasing plays and watching some articles or videos that hurt the soul and kidney, but we will still do it, and some of them are still crazy as usual. This is a serious disagreement between knowing and doing.

The unity of knowledge and practice is a personal cultivation method proposed by Wang Yangming, which can not change the business environment dominated by modern social capital, and can not be naively applied to the complex and changeable measurement of human nature. The problem of human nature is almost eternal. As long as there are people, as long as people are alive, there will be disputes between good and evil, truth and falsehood, beauty and ugliness of human nature. Five thousand years of human civilization have passed, and this problem still exists at home and abroad. Time cannot be eliminated. Doesn't that prove anything?

According to normal logic, scientists, experts, professors and scholars should know more. It can be said that they know astronomy above and geography below, but can they all do it? The answer is definitely no, scientists have no problem. For some experts, professors and scholars now, they have not only failed to integrate knowledge with practice, but even a basic person can't do it.

Generally speaking, knowing is theory and doing is practice. Knowing is ideal, and action is reality. Theory needs to be verified by practice, and there will always be a gap between ideal and reality. This is the reason why it is difficult to realize the unity of knowledge and action. If we know that we can do it, then the world will be flat and we don't need to work hard. Everyone can lie under the covers and make their dreams come true.

Besides, the more you know, the better. In modern society, many people know a lot, but they are all rubbish and negative, which is of no help to the upward development of human nature. It seems that knowing more is actually a burden and harm to life. Therefore, the author thinks that knowledge can be divided into good knowledge and bad knowledge. The more you know, the better, and the less you know, the better. Only by staying away from those bad knowledge can our life be improved and our life become pure and happy.

Some people didn't know it, but they did it. Such people seem stupid, but in fact they are what Lao Tzu said. You know, when you don't know anything, you have done something that people who know a lot but can't do can't do. Isn't that great wisdom and courage? In reality, there are many such examples. To sum up, an illiterate farmer may not make less contribution to society than a graduate student who has read a lot of books and has a lot of knowledge. Although graduate students have a lot of knowledge and smart brains, if they have a bad outlook on life and have bad intentions, they will not bring benefits to society, but will harm society. What's the point of such a person knowing a lot?

In addition to the unity of knowing and doing, Wang Yangming has several other practice points. Let's review them with you.

First, the mind is rational, and there is nothing outside the heart, that is, attention is paid to cultivating the heart. The mind is a mirror. If it is clean and pure, the world will be a better place. Second, to conscience, through inner awareness, to achieve spiritual and moral heights, that is, to understand what to do and what not to do, so as to achieve inner peace and do things according to conscience. Third, grinding things, that is, tempering one's patience and will in the actual environment, improving one's mind through different ways of doing things, and improving one's understanding of life and inner life. I got through it. Everything is as I wish. Grasping these points is of great help to your understanding of Wang Yangming's Mind Society.

The unity of knowing and doing is a practical focus put forward by Wang Shouren in Ming Dynasty, which requires us not only to know the inner conscience and moral constraints of being a man, but also to do it. I hope we can all be the kind of people who know what they know, but still feel that they know nothing. Only in this way can we make continuous progress, improve and explore the unknown forever.