Wang Yangming (1472-1528 AD), known as Shouren and Bo’an, was mostly revered as Wang Yangming in later times because of his self-name Yangmingzi. He was the most famous Confucian, a famous scholar and a capable minister in the Ming Dynasty, and had many amazing stories, one of which is introduced to you today.
In 1486, Mr. Wang Yangming was fifteen years old and in the prime of youth. One day he met Ma Yuan, a general of Fubo in the Eastern Han Dynasty, in a dream and wrote a poem to praise Ma Yuan’s military achievements.
In his dream, he wrote a poem to praise Ma Yuan’s military achievements: “When he returned from his armor, Ma Fubo, his hair on his temples was increased in his early military days.
The clouds were buried in the copper pillar, but the six inscriptions were not yet worn.
When the young Wang Yangming woke up, he recorded this dream. Forty-two years later, in October of the seventh year of Jiajing (1528), after being ordered to eliminate bandits and quell civil unrest, Wang Yangming submitted a petition for resignation and returned home. Once he entered the temple, he was amazed to find that the temple was exactly the same as the dream he had when he was fifteen years old.
Wang Yangming thus sighed that there was indeed a providence, and that people’s life experiences were arranged in the underworld.
Forty years ago in a dream poem, this trip is not man-made?
Feedback dare to lean on the wind and cloud formation, the passage as at the same time rain division.
I am still happy that people from afar know what to expect, but I am ashamed that I have no skill to save the devastation.
The victory is never returned to the corridor and temple, shame to say that the war is fixed four barbarians.
Wang Yangming was already a famous Confucian at that time, and he had made outstanding contributions to the society and the court, no matter what aspect of governance, pacifying rebellions, educating the people, or teaching students. However, in the end, he lamented that “this action is not man-made”, and that one should not be proud and arrogant because of one’s contribution, and that everything is arranged by God, and one should not be greedy for heavenly merits.
Wang Yangming spent his life to prove to us that fate is ordained by heaven, and we can only be humble in the face of heaven. This is also the truth that our sages have repeatedly told us over the past 5,000 years in China.
Source: The Complete Works of Wang Yangming
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