Day 3 1 day: learning Zeng Guofan (5)

The success of Zeng Guofan's golden sentence proves the strong vitality of traditional culture and can partially offset the accusation that Confucianism is "empty and useless". Zeng Guofan's achievements in his life were all completed under the support of traditional culture. The strong sense of mission of taking the world as one's own responsibility, the grand ambition of self-cultivation, governing the country and leveling the world, and the broad mind for the people are the spiritual motivation to support Zeng Guofan's struggle in difficulties and hardships. The cognitive tradition of seeking truth from facts, being practical and self-reflective and sincere enables him to learn wisdom and experience from his predecessors, from others and from himself, and has great margin for dealing with complex things. The moral principles of sincerity to heaven and loyalty and forgiveness to people enable him to be upright, not entangled in low tastes, accept people's fine dirt, become a great virtue, subdue people with his own personality, absorb people, make heroes work for us, and finally achieve great things. P378

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This is a summary of Zeng Guofan's life. He regards traditional culture and Confucianism as the foundation to support his life achievements. With a strong sense of mission. The great ambition of becoming a saint is his spiritual strength to forge ahead in difficulties. However, he constantly summed up experiences and lessons and reflected on the past, which enabled him to cope with complex world affairs. A clumsy man, armed with the moral system of traditional culture, is different from ordinary bureaucrats, and he has mastered the true spirit of Confucianism. And dealing with officialdom can also be effortless. This is also reflected in his uncompromising action on his ambition, which can be said to be the most concrete embodiment of Zeng Guofan. He can be an official and cultivate one's morality. Zeng Guofan concentrated many advantages of the sages. However, in this declining Qing empire, he spent his whole life saving it. He exhausted the last glimmer of life for the decadent regime, which can only prove that the people's willpower is lofty and infinite. As the last great scholar, Zeng Guofan made great contributions, left us letters and quotations, and benefited us modern people a lot.

Inspire feelings

1. I can't see through my life, but I want to be myself in front of me.

Whether you succeed in life depends on what strength you get from your grand ambitions. The motivation I lack is actually not given to you by others. It's that I didn't go all out myself. Be yourself in front of you and run towards your ambition step by step. In fact, nothing can stop me at all, but the waves inside me slow me down.

Calm down, go forward and struggle.

I am as strong as my willpower.

Being strong is not talking, but fighting. I don't fight with others. As long as I stand still, others will overtake me. Don't look at other people's distant backs and sigh. I will take a deep breath, point to the back and say, "Wait, I'll catch up with you right away."

You will get what you want, so act now.

Without good health, I can exercise, without a good job, I can fight for it; I can struggle without a good life. What is good? What I try to get is good. Don't laugh at people who hate them. If I have time, I will do it myself.

No one can sit still and succeed. I should always be ready to face sudden pressure. Always ready to hit head-on.

Only when you are in pain will you think of change, and only when you act immediately will you get results.