心、眼｜mIND, eYE
打開心眼，你想看到的是什麼視野？
Open your eYE of mIND, what vISION do you want to sEE?
《禮記》中《大學》—— 第七章：
“Great Learning”*2 in “Book of Rites”*1 – Chapter 7:
所謂修身在正其心者：
身有所忿懥，則不得其正；
有所恐懼，則不得其正；
有所好樂，則不得其正；
有所憂患，則不得其正。
心不在焉，視而不見，聽而不聞，食而不知其味。
此謂修身在正其心。
The so-called “sEIF- cULTIVATION consists in cORRECTING own mIND” person:
If there’s aNGER in mind – then the mind is not right;
If there’s fEAR in mind – then the mind is not right;
If there’s pLEASURE in mind – then the mind is not right;
If there’s sUFFERING in mind – then the mind is not right.
Just to be aBSENT-mINDED, turn a bLIND eye, turn a dEAF ear, eat wiTHOUT kNOWING its taste.
This is called “self-cultivation consists in correcting own mind”.
nOTES:
*1: “Book of Rites” is one of the “Five Classics” and has been the authoritative book of Confucianism since Warring States period (ca. 475–221 BC).
This book is not only a record of ancient social forms, administration, system and ceremonial rites, but also attached importance to the moral cultivation of good person and ideals of governing the world.
*2: The “Great Learning” is one of the “Four Books” in Confucianism which was selected by the neo-Confucian Zhuxi during Song dynasty, also a chapter of the “Book of Rites”.