Only when the heart is cleansed of filth can one begin to read books and study antiquity. Otherwise, after learning about one good deed, you will want to benefit from it yourself, and after hearing one wise word, you will want to justify your faults with it. Studying with such thoughts in mind is like "giving weapons to the enemy and sending supplies to robbers".

Only when the heart is cleansed of filth can one begin to read books and study antiquity. Otherwise, after learning about one good deed, you will want to benefit from it yourself, and after hearing one wise word, you will want to justify your faults with it. Studying with such thoughts in mind is like "giving weapons to the enemy and sending supplies to robbers".

~ Hong Zichen