Zhu Xi · Philosophy
Zhu Xi’s program of learning: <em>gewu zhizhi</em>, the investigation of things and the extension of knowledge - exhaustively studying the principle in affairs, books, and conduct until, after long effort, the mind breaks through to a ‘wide and far-reaching penetration’ of the pattern of all things.
You learned that Zhu Xi read gewu zhizhi from the Great Learning as the exhaustive investigation of the principle in things and affairs, pursued item by item until a sudden ‘wide and far-reaching penetration’ dawns - which is why he made learning and reading the heart of self-cultivation. Explain the metho…
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