Explain the mean for me, my understanding of The Mean .

Think of it this way, "middle" is the middle, and "mediocre" is ordinary. Then the connection is the ordinary person in the middle, which means "middle and lower".

The meanness represents a realm, with neutrality as the body, with the mediocrity as the use, and the position of the same.

Part 2 is mainly about sincerity - the sincere, the way of heaven, the sincerity, and the way of man.

3 is about the nature of sincerity - self-evident and self-evident, sincere and sincere, sincere as God.

The last two parts are relatively easy to understand, on the way of the saint and the path to virtue.

Zisi summed it up very well, and I always feel that "The Mean" is missing some of the content.

Erudite, interrogative, thoughtful, discerning, and diligent. Let's learn together.

I am very unhappy when I see Zhu Xi's old puppet now, and it is not easy to forcibly make a mediocrity.

To understand ontology and corporatism, if you understand it, it is not so difficult to understand.

Zisi's "The Mean" discusses wisdom, benevolence, courage and benevolence as the virtues of tools to get started, which is enough to show that "The Mean" is very demanding.

I wondered, why didn't the Ministry of Education point out that it should remain ambiguous like this?

The core of "The Mean" is the first three sentences, but these three sentences have been biased.

So everyone doesn't know what to say, and there is another reason, these three sentences are not easy to understand. The first three sentences of "The Mean" talk about a core principle, people are thoughtful, educated, and educated, and they can change the bad side.

"The Mean" is inferred to be derived from the Book of Shang, and was praised by Confucius to win. Song scholars extracted the thirty-one articles of the Book of Rites written by Zisi as the "Zhongyong", and then the "Zhongyong" was combined with the "University", "Analects" and "Mencius" into the "Four Books". After the Song and Yuan dynasties, it became the official textbook of schools and the compulsory reading of the imperial examination, which had a great impact on ancient Chinese education and society.

In the impression, there are always people who use the word "moderation" to criticize the Chinese for not being assertive and innovative. Until I heard the sixth and twenty-ninth chapters of the Yongye chapter, Zi said: "The golden mean is virtue, and it is the best!"

The golden mean was praised by Confucius as the highest moral standard, and even he felt that he had not yet reached the state of the mean. Then the "golden mean" is obviously not the "wall grass", "mud" and "not enterprising" that those people understand.

What is moderation?

Confucius thought that the mean was "polite and polite", "again, sloppy", "too much", ......What is particular about the "degree" is "no fault". I am afraid that the reason is that things must be reversed.

The interpretation of "neutralization" in "The Mean" is just the opposite of the misunderstood "lack of opinion". "Joy, anger, sorrow and joy have not yet occurred, and they are in the middle; "It means not to act intuitively, but to make judgments after thinking and analyzing." That is, instead of using System 1 to make intuitive judgments at the beginning, System 2 is used for active analysis.

In life, "following the crowd" and "long live passing", these views and behaviors that can be passed by with the brain, are obviously not the "golden mean".

Doing things as a person", "relaxation" is the "golden mean". Do things and abide by responsibilities, do not shirk or cross the line. Doing things can be work, it can be educating children, it can be honoring elders, it can be helping friends.

Be a person, stick to principles, neither humble nor arrogant. A person can be a subordinate, a parent, a child, a relative and a friend.

Some time ago, a friend said in a WeChat group that "moderation" is the most harmful point of Confucianism, and "moderation" has caused China's "hypocrite culture", which has done too much harm to our nation. I think this must be the reason why "moderation" is not really understood.

In real life, when I see someone expressing some real opinions, my relatives and friends often advise, "Don't go too far, be modest". These manifestations are also a misunderstanding of the "mean".

"Moderation" does not simply mean impartiality, as if there is no position. True moderation means that an individual should maintain the most appropriate position in any given situation, and this position is not necessarily neutral between two opposites. "Moderation" is not about teaching those involved in an incident not to take a stand or to take a compromise.

On the contrary, once the right means are established, individuals should be encouraged to persevere.

For example, the balance of yin and yang shown in the Taiji diagram does not mean that all times are fifty to fifty is balance, but a dynamic balance.

The Art of War. In the chapter of military struggle, it is said that "its speed is like the wind, its speed is like a forest, aggression is like fire, and it is not emotional like a mountain" It is also said that different responses should be shown in different situations.

It's the same with coaching, it's not about neutrality or being never impatient, always calm and emotionless. According to the personality and state of the coachee, it should be varied, not only to tell the story of spring breeze and rain, but also to drink the head of the storm.