Chapter 34: The Roots

The university also mentioned: "Things have a beginning and an end, and if you know what to do, you will be the shortest!"

When everything happens, there will be its root, and if it is a bad thing, find its root and get rid of it, then the whole thing will disintegrate, and the evil will dissipate like rootless water!

When a situation changes uncontrollably, finding its root cause, it will change its form in order to turn things around!

But the funny thing is that almost all the people in the world graduated from so-called university schools, but few people have studied in classical and traditional universities, so this sentence is very unfamiliar! There is no way to talk about the application and enlightenment of this sentence in life or management!

Everything in life seems to be prosperous and changeable, chaotic, but in the final analysis, in human management and life, it is just the cart before the horse, the reversal, the transformation of yin and yang, and the difference caused by the end, so everything finds its root, finds its root, and starts from the root, then everything will be easily solved!

In the governance of the population and society, the implementation strategy used in the world is to focus on the Fa and take the Tao as the subordinate, so that the cart is turned upside down, just as a person does not use his head to think, but only uses his body to do things, he is completely unable to do things well!

All human actions are instructed by the soul before they begin to act, so if we want to manage and restrain human beings from making mistakes, the root lies in the soul, in the mind, and in how to change their thoughts, so that people will do things in one direction and carry out good deeds, so that people can all be good and prevent the breeding of evil from the root of thought.

The so-called avenue has the same origin, which is also similar to Wang Yangming's psychology! As long as the mind does not move, then it will not be done, even if it is not intentionally done, it can be redeemed and made up!

Therefore, if you want to manage the human group well, every sect starts from the root, Buddhism takes the heart as the root, Confucianism takes the soul as the root, and Taoism takes desire as the root. There is only one Legalist who only grasps the minutiae, mainly punishes the body, and governs the crowd based on fear. But fear has proven over the years that it can be overcome, it can be overcome, it is the power that has been crushed by desire again and again, so starting from here is like blocking the river of trouble, and the more it is blocked, the more it is blocked. But starting from the soul and the mind, just as the snow on the Tianshan Mountains and the ice in the Himalayas are cut off, the mighty Yellow River will also dry up.

And the use of Legalism to govern the world upside down, not only will not make the social group stable, but will make the treacherous people use the law to become their own tool, so as to oppress the disadvantaged groups, derive resentment, and shake the foundation, at this time people's hearts are resentful, and the root cause begins to be chaotic, although it is not manifested on the surface, it seems that everything is stable, but it is just the tranquility before the wind and rain, and the root has burned a raging fire.

The root is like a big tree, there is only one main trunk, find the main trunk, a little effort, will make the hundred-year-old tree collapse, and the rest of the branches and leaves even if not cut down, the root will gradually wither.

But if the main trunk is not removed, and only the small leaves or branches are cut down, then even if the tree dies of exhaustion, it will not cause the tree to fall.

The heart and mind are alive and empty, so for a long time they should be managed by living methods, not by a dead piece of law, and should be bound by nihilistic moral thoughts, not by real laws and regulations, so that treacherous people will only have an opportunity to take advantage of it, like rats to drill around and steal fruits, and then give rise to more and more lawyers, who have no moral concepts in their hearts, who have no gentleman's character, and are not ashamed of omitting the law, but are proud of it, and respect the treacherous way. The goal of pursuing the goal of life and the criterion of judging good or bad is to make the victory of all extremes, this kind of criterion of sacrificing the basics and seeking the last, not for the sake of stability and fairness, but only for the sake of profit, the result will inevitably be the opposite, so in the end, instead of making the people simple and simple, it will make the government decrees more and more numerous, the interpersonal life will become more and more complicated, and the wit and treachery will become more and more frequent, and after going to the extreme, it will inevitably face destruction, and then return to Wuji!

Therefore, if you find the root cause and solve it from the very beginning, there will be no future.

As the saying goes: there are gods in the head three feet, not afraid of people and afraid of themselves, the essence of traditional culture has been embodied since then, what is said here is that if you want to make individuals do not do evil things, do not destroy social stability, do not delve into the mechanism of cunning, you must start from a person himself, not from the outside, this is the essence of Confucianism, the gentleman seeks the inside, the villain seeks the meaning of the outside!

If a thing is done just for fear of others knowing, just for fear of being discovered by others, then these people will definitely try their best to avoid the crowd, and then go against morality and destroy the group will still do, he will still have this thought in his heart, the root is not lifted, it will always exist, so whether it is a person or a person, you must trace its roots, start from the source, so that it is close to the avenue!

To solve the problem, we need to find the root cause, and we must also find the root cause for long-term prosperity. We have always wanted to know where the end of the earth is, and finally found out that the end of the earth is under our feet after tens of millions of years, the beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning, so what we need to protect is the original intention we started. This guard is to protect the roots.

The root of wealth is money, so no matter how business is surging, protect your cash, it will always stand, the root of money is metal, gold, silver, so if you want not to be abandoned by the times, then you have to exchange it for real money, as long as you don't leave the planet, or the metal is not overflowing, then the root will not change.

And the root of people is wisdom, the so-called gold and jade full of halls, Mo Zhi can keep, thousands of family wealth, but three generations! Money is a trivial thing outside the body for people, so what needs to be guarded is the wisdom that is passed on, not the things outside the body!

Guarding the root in the good side will be like a spring that will continue to burst out sweet spring water to nourish future generations, but in the bad side, we must recognize the root cause in order to uproot it!

Confucius said: "The initiator has no aftermath"

This sentence was originally Confucius to express a dissatisfaction with the Confucian funeral system at that time, and later generations mostly expressed it as the first person to do bad things, or the root of bad things, and cursed him to cut off his children and grandchildren!

It can be seen how much the saints hate people who do bad things, or those who break the rules!

Therefore, when dealing with some contradictions, or hidden dangers, we must find out their starting point, starting point, and punish from the source in order to eradicate the problem!

If you want it to perish, you must remove its roots. If you want to make it prosperous, you must know its origin, the fire is fierce, the root cannot be burned, the water is soft, the same as its rivers, and its mountains and stones. Palm its roots, clear its roots, a slight force can shake the mountain.

The truth seems simple, but in the actual life and operation will be found, how stupid the user is, and even the whole world is stupid to go with the flow, no one will be willing to come out to correct, even if someone comes out to correct, it will also touch the desire of some people, be excluded by everyone, snubbed, only wait until this era has passed, when everything looks back, you will find out how wise those who have the courage to find and solve the root cause are, and then begin to praise, praise, but justice came too late, Some people say that justice may be late, but it will never be absent, but when late justice arrives, it cannot be regarded as justice, it is just a nonsense, the same as not coming!

So it's easy to understand the roots, but it's hard to be practical!