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Wang Defeng on Philosophy: Wang Yangming’s Learning of the Mind and Contemporary Life
How can we put in order the life that is hardest to arrange?
Completed · 69 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
1. Beginnings of the Learning of the Mind: Confucius and Mencius I 2. Beginnings of the Learning of the Mind: Confucius and Mencius II 3. The Learning of the Mind in Buddhism: Tang Chan I 4. The Learning of the Mind in Buddhism: Tang Chan II 5. Formation of Wang Yangming’s Thought: Neo-Confucianism Versus the Learning of the Mind I 6. Formation of Wang Yangming’s Thought: Neo-Confucianism Versus the Learning of the Mind II 7. The Human Condition in an Age of Capital and Technology 8. The Whole of Wang Yangming’s Thought: Questions on the Great Learning 9. Explaining the Three Guidelines in Questions on the Great Learning I 10. Explaining the Three Guidelines in Questions on the Great Learning II 11. Explaining the Three Guidelines in Questions on the Great Learning III 12. Explaining the Three Guidelines in Questions on the Great Learning IV 13. Explaining Concentration, Tranquility, Calm, and Deliberation 14. Explaining the Eight Steps I 15. Explaining the Eight Steps II 16. Explaining the Eight Steps III 17. Wang Yangming’s Four-Sentence Teaching 18. The Learning of the Mind Is Not Theory but an Ordered System of Practice 19. I. Principle as the Work of the Mind 1 20. I. Principle as the Work of the Mind 2 21. I. Principle as the Work of the Mind 3 22. II. The Practice of Life Is the Work of Genuine Knowledge 23. III. A Road Is Made by Walking 1 24. III. A Road Is Made by Walking 2 25. IV. The Practice of Holding to One 26. V. Resolve Means Preserving Heavenly Principle in Every Thought 1 27. V. Resolve Means Preserving Heavenly Principle in Every Thought 2 28. VI. First Do the Work of “Cultivating the Roots” 29. VII. Prescribing Medicine According to the Illness 30. VIII. When the Mind Is Clear, Changes in Affairs Need Not Trouble Us 31. IX. Life’s Feelings Are Naturally So; Add No Private Intention (with Q&A) 32. X. Destruction Cannot Extinguish Human Nature 33. XI. Fulfill Yourself According to Your Gifts; That Is What You Can Do 34. XII. Life Is Like Walking: Each Stretch Is Known Only After It Is Walked 35. XIII. Wang Yangming on the Work of Educating Children 1 36. XIII. Wang Yangming on the Work of Educating Children 2 37. XIII. Wang Yangming on the Work of Educating Children 3 38. XIV. Sincerity of Intention Is Attained Only Through Investigating Things (with Q&A) 39. XV. Stillness Is Never Without Movement, nor Movement Without Stillness (with Q&A) 40. XVI. Practice Never Departs from What Is Heard and Seen 41. XVII. Temper the Mind in Affairs; the Mind Has No Inside or Outside 1 42. XVII. Temper the Mind in Affairs; the Mind Has No Inside or Outside 2 43. XVIII. Innate Knowing Is the True Mechanism of Investigating Things; Seek No Principle Apart from the Mind 44. XIX. Innate Knowing Cannot Be Extinguished and, Being Within, Cannot Be Lost 45. XX. Right and Wrong, Sincerity and Falsehood Become Clear When They Arrive 46. XXI. The Key to Innate Knowing: Do Not Follow Thoughts or Cling to Circumstances 47. XXII. At the Top of the Hundred-Foot Pole, Take One Step Further 48. XXIII. Listening Is Easy; Truly Savoring Is Hard 49. XXIV. Rectifying Disordered Things Is the Way to Constant Joy 50. XXV. Everyday Conduct Is the Genuine Learning of Innate Knowing 51. XXVI. Let Likes and Dislikes Follow Innate Knowing Alone 52. XXVII. Broad Learning That Does Not Nourish the Original Mind Becomes an Illness That Obscures It 53. XXVIII. The Mind in Its Original Substance Is One with Heaven, Earth, Mountains, and Rivers 54. XXIX. Sages and Worthies Are Not Made by Achievement or Moral Heroics 55. XXX. The Work of Extending Knowledge Begins with Affairs Close at Hand 56. XXXI. Self-Reflection Is Itself Part of the Practice of Life 57. XXXII. Sages Seek Knowledge Only to Fulfill Heavenly Principle, So They Ask When They Do Not Know 58. XXXIII. Do Not Labor Over Appearance or Treat Affairs Carelessly 59. XXXIV. Rhetoric Establishes Sincerity, Not Verbal Beauty 60. XXXV. Genuine Feeling Is Not Mere Form 61. XXXVI. Do Not Strive to Seek Good; Simply Remove Evil 62. XXXVII. Extending Innate Knowing Through Investigating Things Is Learning with Roots 63. XXXVIII. When Innate Knowing Is Genuine, Examination Study Is No Burden 64. XXXIX. Practice for Yourself and Do Not Dwell on Praise or Blame 65. XL. See Your Own Faults, Not Others’ Rights, Wrongs, Likes, or Dislikes (with Q&A) 66. XLI. Do Not Despise Those Who Are Ill 67. XLII. Divination Is an Inquiry into Heavenly Principle 68. XLIII. Innate Knowing Is the Creative Power of Transformation 69. XLIV. Human Nature Is Not Separate from the Myriad Things (Main Series Finale)