Yan Yuan asked Confucius about benevolence.
Confucius said: "Benevolence is to restrain one's own selfish desires and restore one's behavior to the etiquette requirements stipulated by the former king.".
This sentence comes from the twelfth chapter of The Analects of Confucius. Students only know that benevolence is important, but they don't know that benevolence refers to the right way of life, which is related to the stubborn choice of good.
1. Confucius' answer is to teach individual students how to choose good, so there is no standard answer.
3. Confucius said, "It is benevolence to be self disciplined and return to ceremony.
4. One day of self discipline and courtesy, the world returns to benevolence.
5. For the sake of being kind to yourself, but for others? "Yan Yuan said," Please ask his eyes.
6. "Confucius said:" If you are not polite, do not look, do not listen, do not speak, and do not move.
7. "Yan Yuan said," Although Hui is not sensitive, please speak in this way.
8. Yan Yuan asked how to practice benevolence (benevolence, the right way of life). Confucius said, "It is benevolence to overcome one's own selfish desires and return one's behavior to the requirements of propriety.
9. No matter at any time, as long as they can make their own decisions to practice the requirements of etiquette, people in the world will return to the requirements of etiquette.
10. Do benevolent and righteous things entirely on your own, can you rely on others? "Yan Yuan said," I hope to point out some specific practices.
11. "Confucius said," Those who are not polite do not look, those who are not polite do not listen, those who are not polite do not speak, and those who are not polite do not do.
12. "Yan Yuan said," Although I am not smart enough, I will try my best to do these things.
