From Zi Han in the Spring and Autumn Period of The Analects of Confucius. Express is:
When others ask questions, they do not show an omniscient and omnipotent attitude to explain them rashly, but grasp the pros and cons, make a comprehensive analysis of the pros and cons of the problems, and finally draw a moderate (fair and reasonable) conclusion. This is Confucius' principle of acquiring knowledge and being a man.
Only without preconceptions, prejudices and nothing can we draw a truly valuable conclusion. Bai Juyi said that "bamboo is my teacher to solve my guilty conscience", and the spirit of bamboo is actually an ethereal spirit. This kind of emptiness is not nothing, but getting rid of all prejudices and accepting new things with all one's strength.
For example, in modern society, the mutual affection between a man and a woman is caused by meeting, knowing each other and falling in love. When love is strong, the four seasons are colorful and jubilant, and what appears in the eyes of lovers is a comforting sense of existence.
After meeting for a long time, there are often contradictions, complaints, quarrels and breakups, which are also real heartache and helplessness. However, with the passage of time, the mutual influence between the two sides gradually weakened until the clouds cleared away and suddenly remembered, leaving no trace and nothing.
Idiom story:
During the Spring and Autumn Period, some people worshipped Confucius and praised him for his profound knowledge. Confucius is a modest and pragmatic person. He denied that he was knowledgeable. He said that when he went to the countryside to see farmers skillfully doing farm work, he admired it. When the farmer asked him questions, he knew nothing, and he felt "empty". He didn't understand until he studied them again and again, and then tried to tell them the exact meaning. ? [3]?
In this regard, he once said to his disciples, "am I wise?" Ignorance is also. My husband asked me, and it was empty. I knocked at both ends and I was exhausted. " This is the truth of Confucius. He wants to tell his disciples and the world that some people say that I am knowledgeable, and the university asks, am I really like this? In fact, frankly, I am really ignorant! When some workers come to ask me some knowledge they want to know, my heart is empty and I really know nothing about their problems. I can only seek the answer from the positive and negative aspects of my husband's question (so-called "knocking at both ends"), and I can't tell the truth.
Confucius is absolutely right. Only when he feels "empty" in front of the vast ocean of knowledge will he have endless learning and enterprising spirit. In ancient Chinese, "emptiness" was originally an expression of a state of fear, and later it was associated with nothing in the heart in the process of idiom.