——Quoted in "Zhijiang New Language: Be a Man and Do Things to Guard Against Impetuousness" and other articles

■Interpretation

The famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore famously said that if a bird ties its wings to gold, it can no longer fly. This sentence has profound enlightenment for being a person and an official. If a person's desire is too strong, he will lose his mind in the face of all kinds of temptations; A person who is anxious for quick success is bound to lack long-term vision and perseverance. Lao Tzu said: "The five colors make people blind, the five tones make people deaf, and the five flavors make people feel refreshed", "Heavy is the light root, and quiet is the restless king", which is the truth. Especially for leading cadres, it is the mentality that determines the state. Without an indifferent and quiet mentality, in the face of consumerism brought about by the market wave and the material temptation brought about by economic prosperity, it is inevitable that there will be an impulse to use public power for private purposes. Only by cultivating a clear spring from the heart can we be invincible in the face of temptation and invincible in the face of desire. To guard against impetuousness, we must adhere to the ethics of being a human being and the morality of politics, establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values, establish a correct outlook on power, status, and interests, correctly treat fame and fortune, correctly view the flow of advance and retreat, be indifferent, think quietly, temper the will, temper our aspirations, endure loneliness, and keep poverty.

■Original text

The dwelling of the lord of man is also like the light of the sun and the moon, and the place in the world looks at the same side, listens with the ear, and stretches the neck and raises the heel and looks at it. Therefore, there is no virtue without thinness, no far-reaching without tranquility, no tolerance without both, no kindness without embracing the public, and no justice without judgment.

——(Western Han Dynasty) Liu An, "Huainanzi Main Technique Training"

■Definition

"If you are not indifferent, you will not have a clear ambition, and if you are not quiet, you will not be far-reaching", many people in the world think that it comes from Zhuge Liang. In fact, as early as the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, this sentence was recorded in the "Huainanzi" compiled by Liu An, the king of Huainan. The original sentence is: "If you are not thin, you will not be virtuous, and if you are not quiet, you will not be far-reaching." ”

This sentence is simple but profound, full of philosophy, using the "double negation" method in logic, emphasizing the importance of "indifference" and "tranquility". It means that if you don't take the fame and fortune in front of you lightly, you won't have a clear ambition, and if you can't calm down and concentrate on studying, you won't be able to achieve lofty goals. The current "indifference" and "tranquility" are precisely for the "far-reaching" in the future. By learning Mingzhi, cultivating quietly, and accumulating strength, once the time is ripe, you can do a great career vigorously.

More than 300 years later, Zhuge Liang used this sentence in the "Book of Commandments" written to his son Zhuge Zhan before his death: "The journey of a husband and a gentleman is to cultivate oneself quietly and to cultivate virtue through frugality." Non-澹 (the same as 'light') has no clear ambition, and non-tranquility has no far-reaching. In the thirty-seventh chapter of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Luo Guanzhong, Liu, Guan, and Zhang Ergu looked at the thatched house and saw a big book on the door of Zhuge Caolu: "Indifferent to Mingzhi, quiet and far-reaching." Here, the negative sentence form of negation is replaced by an affirmative sentence, so that the concept of "indifferent and clear-minded, quiet and far-reaching" is widely spread.