The original Chinese texts of Wang Yangming's School of Mind (xinxue): Chuanxi lu, Lu Xiangshan's sayings, Records of Ming Scholars, every passage sourced. https://www.xinxue.ai/en/feed.xml 2026-11-05T21:37:20Z Bing Wei · 心学 AIhttps://www.xinxue.ai/ https://www.xinxue.ai/apple-touch-icon.png Translated by the XINXUE.AI editors (本站编辑翻译). Classical passages are quoted in the original Chinese; the renderings beside them are our own working translations, for orientation only — always check the original. https://www.xinxue.ai/en/2026-11-05T21:22:46Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

The original Chinese texts of Wang Yangming's School of Mind (xinxue): Chuanxi lu, Lu Xiangshan's sayings, Records of Ming Scholars, every passage sourced.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/how-to-read/2026-11-05T21:37:20Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

A practical guide to the Chinese pages of XINXUE.AI: where to start, what the labels mean, how to check sources, and key terms of Wang Yangming's thought.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/2026-11-05T21:32:07Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

What is liangzhi? What does “knowing and acting are one” mean? 13 key concepts of the School of Mind, each with the Chinese term, pinyin and a short gloss.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/library/2026-11-05T14:49:39Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

All 37 texts on XINXUE.AI, described in English: Wang Yangming's Chuanxi lu and shorter writings, Lu Xiangshan's sayings, the Records of Ming Scholars.

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About XINXUE.AI: why original texts come first, how editorial notes and AI explanations are labelled, what is translated, sources and privacy.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#bai-xing-ri-yong2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Wang Gen of the Taizhou school taught that the sages' Way is no different from what ordinary people do every day; the sage and the ordinary person differ only in being aware of it or not.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#cheng-yi-shen-du2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Liu Zongzhou made sincere intention the heart of learning; watchfulness when alone means working on the thought that only you know of — Wang Yangming himself equated it with extending innate knowing.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#ge-wu2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Wang Yangming read ge as “to correct”: wherever one's intention is directed, remove what is not right in the mind and so restore its original rightness.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#gui-ji2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

A debate in the Wang school: Nie Bao and Luo Hongxian held that innate knowing must be nurtured in stillness to govern one's responses; Wang Ji held that it is already present and needs no gathering in.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#shi-shang-mo-lian2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Practice belongs in real affairs, not only in quiet sitting: someone who only likes stillness is thrown into confusion as soon as something happens.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#si-ju-jiao2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Wang Yangming's four sentences on mind, intention, knowing and things: Qian Dehong took them as fixed doctrine, Wang Ji pushed them further, and Wang Yangming said the two readings suit learners of different capacities.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#xian-li-qi-da2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Lu Jiuyuan's core teaching: first stand firm in your own original mind, which lacks nothing and need not be sought elsewhere; when critics said this was his only skill, he agreed.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#xin-ji-li2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Principle is not to be sought outside the mind: a mind unclouded by selfish desire is itself heavenly principle — a claim about moral practice, not about the mind deciding outward facts.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#xing-cha2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Watching each thought as it arises and removing selfish desire without letting up, “like a cat catching a mouse”; our notes suggest recording concrete facts rather than blaming yourself.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#yi-jian-gong-fu2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Lu Jiuyuan's position at the Goose Lake meeting: return to the original mind instead of scattering effort over fragments — simple, but not careless: “a thousand empty things are not worth one solid one.”

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#yi-li-zhi-bian2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Asked what Lu Jiuyuan taught first, a disciple answered: discern your resolve — between rightness and profit; Lu lectured at White Deer Grotto on “the gentleman understands rightness, the petty man understands profit.”

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#zhi-liang-zhi2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Innate knowing (liangzhi) does not come from seeing and hearing, yet all seeing and hearing are its working; to extend it is to carry it into each concrete affair.

https://www.xinxue.ai/en/concepts/#zhi-xing-he-yi2026-11-05T07:54:11Z2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Knowing that is not acted on is not yet knowing; knowing at its most genuine and solid already is acting, so the two cannot be split into separate stages.