Lesson 22 Mencius, Chapter 2

Lesson 22  Mencius, Chapter 2

Wealth and wealth cannot be lustful

Jingchun said, "Are not Gongsun Yan and Zhang Yi sincere and great men? A single anger and the lords are all together, and a peaceful residence and the world is extinguished."

Mencius said, "How can you be a great man? Has the son not learned the rites? When a husband is crowned, his father orders him; when a woman is married, her mother orders her, and she goes to the door, and prescribes: 'Go to the woman's house, respect and admonish her, and do not violate the husband's son! The way of the concubine is also the way of the righteous. To live in the wide world, to take the right place in the world, and to practice the way of the world. If you have the will, you will be with the people; if you do not have the will, you will walk alone in your way. The rich and the poor cannot be lusted after, the poor and the poor cannot be moved, the mighty cannot be bent, and this is called a great man."

Born in sorrow and dying in peace and happiness

Shun was born in the field, Fu said between the plates and buildings, Jiao Li was raised in the fish and salt, Guan Yiwu was raised in the scholar, Sun Shu Ao was raised in the sea, and Bai Li Xi was raised in the city. Therefore, the sky will descend on a large task is also a person, must first suffer its mind, labor its muscles and bones, hunger its body, empty its body, line whisking its for, so move the heart to endure the nature, had benefit of its can not.

People are always over, and then can change; trapped in the heart, weighing in the consideration, and then made; signs in the color, hair in the sound, and then metaphor. If you enter the country, there is no law, and if you leave the country, there is no enemy or foreign patient, and the country will always die. Then know born in worry, but also die in peace and happiness.