When he was a teenager, Wang Shouren asked, "What's the first thing?" By the Ming dynasty, he was deeply educated in his official career, and all the scholars were ignorant, only reading was his first ear.
However, Wang Shouren retorted: I'm afraid going to the first place is not the first thing, or learning from sages.
He was one of the few people in the Ming Dynasty who didn't regard being an official as the first priority in life, and he was also a rare saint since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
He studied in order to learn from sages and understand the situation, indicating that he was in his prime when he was young, not a worldly thing. His father, Wang Hua, is also the son of an ordinary student. He wants to study like his son and gain fame. But Wang Shouren is not a conformist, he is more keen on marching and fighting.
When his father scolded his generation of scholarly children for learning from soldiers, he showed disdain for family fame. In a sense, it is actually deeply influenced by Zhu.
It's just that Zhu personally talked about the moral right and wrong of the whole world, not being pragmatic.
Exploring the mystery of natural justice with Zhu's theory of "learning from others" yielded nothing, so he questioned whether he could become a saint in ancient and modern times.
Since then, Wang Shouren has joined the literature retro movement, Taoist health cultivation, and became interested in military science.
Although he disdained the imperial examination, it made him make great contributions to the Ming Dynasty.
It was the chaotic political situation at that time that made Wang Shouren realize the way of mind learning. In the twelfth year of Hongzhi, he was promoted to Jinshi. The following year, he was appointed as the director of the Yunnan Qing official department of the Ministry of Punishment, and later changed to the director of the Ministry of War. In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi (1505), Wang Yangming became a devoted believer and became friends with Zhan Ganquan. Zheng Deyuannian (1506) was pushed out by Liu Jin, a powerful official, and was promoted to Longchang Post Office in Guizhou. Three years, to the Dragon Field. In five years (15 10), Zheng De was promoted to the order of Luling County, Ji 'an Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. Contact Longchang's geographical location here. Longchang is a remote place, and it is impossible to display one's political ambitions. In this case, Wang Shouren felt helpless and lonely.
The following year, an official from Middle-earth died with a son and a servant. Wang Shouren saw this, and he was in the same boat. He wrote a eulogy for it, for the dead and for himself, because he knew that he was in a foreign land, death was inevitable, and he must be lonely after death. He comforted the dead and comforted himself at the same time.
Later, this eulogy was included in China's View of Ancient Literature. We can feel deep sympathy between his lines, but it is not general sympathy, but a deep understanding of life circumstances. Wang Shouren's understanding, which is often associated with religious feelings, did not make him deviate from the Confucian tradition of joining the WTO, and he had his own way.
Military strategists say, die before you die. Wang Shouren can deeply understand the meaning of this sentence. Only when he is completely lonely, such "death" is giving him an opportunity to learn about the "sage". So, one night, Wang Shouren suddenly realized, "I am self-sufficient and I don't want to be outside."
That is, "mind is reason." This is the "Dragon Field Enlightenment". Since then, Wang Yangming has established his own theory "Yangming's Mind Theory" (the idea comes from Lu Jiuyuan's theory that the universe is my heart and my heart is the universe in the Southern Song Dynasty. )
Psychologists also admire the courage of politicians: Tao must be Confucius and Mencius, and merit must be beneficial. Psychology is a method of spiritual victory and subjective initiative when no one can count on it.
Wang Shouren called it "the unity of knowledge and action".
When judging the war, Wang Shouren never forgot to give a lecture. He saw that it was easy to break a thief on the mountain, but it was difficult to break a thief in his heart. The thief in the mountain has been broken. What about the thief in my heart?
In June of the fourteenth year of Germany, he led the troops to suppress the local rebellion in Fujian. On the way to Fengcheng, he learned that Wang Ning rebelled, that is, he returned to Anji rebels, attacked Nanchang by land and water, joined Jiujiang and Nankang, and took 35 days to counter-insurgency and capture Chen Hao. In September, I went to Hangzhou to offer prisoners. Because of the slander of eunuch Tae-hwa Seo Zhong Zhang, he was not only in vain, but also a false accusation. Eunuch Zhang Yong managed to avoid disaster, that is, he claimed that he was ill in Jingci Temple and Jiuhuashan of the West Lake. I'm just going to talk about the origin of his theory, because the number of words is required, so it's difficult to give you a pertinent answer. However, the following information can make some good supplements.
Wang Shouren, my earliest impression of him was to quell the rebellion in Wang Ning (which was also his most successful one). Probably, heroes are born in troubled times. It is really rare for a scholar like him to become a sage and a hero.