Learn from Wang Yangming

This book is divided into nineteen chapters. Each section begins with a quote or a classic statement by Wang Yangming, and the text elaborates on the refinement and wisdom of his thoughts. Starting from the needs of modern people to deal with the world, this book explains Wang Yangming's wisdom in cultivating the world in terms of determination, mind cultivation, benevolence, and sincerity from nineteen aspects such as tolerance, sincerity, enterprising spirit, morality, filial piety, purity, and joy. Wang Yangming's theory of mind can be roughly divided into three parts: the theory of life that the heart is the principle, the theory of knowledge that unites knowledge and action, and the theory of cultivation of conscience. The heart is the master of all things in the world. There is no reason and nothing outside the heart. This is the basic point of the theory of heart.