Ten useless original texts of Lin Zexu

The original text of Lin Zexu's Ten Useless Books is as follows:

First, bad intentions, feng shui is useless.

Kindness is the most basic whether it is a person or a family. If we abandon the right path of "goodness" and blindly pursue the art of geomantic omen, it is to seek fish from the wood. Being unkind and doing more injustice will not only shame our ancestors, but also harm our descendants.

Second, unfilial parents are useless to serve God.

Filial piety comes first. No matter how great the achievement is, if you are unfilial to your parents, all your honors will be lost. It's no use serving God. If you are unfilial to your parents, then no matter how pious and admirable you are to God, everything is false.

Third, it's useless to make friends if brothers don't get along.

In a family, parents are the foundation and brothers are the branches and leaves. Only when brothers and sisters support each other can the family business flourish. If brothers and sisters can't get along well, why make friends?

Fourth, misconduct, reading is useless.

Confucius said, "Disciples are filial when they enter, but they are happy when they leave. They are sincere and believe that they love the masses and treat others well. If they have spare capacity, they will study literature. " Learn to be a man first, establish virtue, and spare no effort to learn cultural knowledge later. The purpose of reading is to improve the spiritual and moral realm. If you misbehave, reading is naturally useless.

Five, the heart is arrogant, learning is useless.

"full of losses, modest benefits." Modesty and courtesy have always been appreciated by the world. The more knowledgeable people are, the more modest they are. If you are arrogant and aggressive on the basis of erudition, you can only say that you have not yet grasped the highest realm of ancient learning.

Six, do things perversely, smart and useless.

If a person is smart and talented, but with ulterior motives, doing things in the opposite direction, this kind of intelligence is a danger. "Doing things the wrong way" refers to people who are unreasonable, paranoid, willing to grandstanding, and have bad intentions. Their intelligence and wisdom are often used and go astray.

Don't hesitate to take medicine.

Chinese medicine believes that people get sick because their vitality is damaged. If you don't cherish your vitality, the disease will naturally come. Even the best medicine can't help if the vitality is badly damaged. People who spare no effort think that their strength is infinite, but they are often destroyed by various external forces.

Eight, luck is unreasonable and welcome.

Fortune exists objectively and is beyond personal control. What we can do is to accumulate strength when we are unlucky and wait for the opportunity to take off. The opposite of accumulating strength is "recklessly seeking" and striving for an opportunity that does not belong to you. Even if you get an opportunity at this time, you will lose it soon.

Nine, it is useless to take other people's money for nothing.

A gentleman makes money in a proper way. It's unfair to take money from others. Giving is giving others happiness and benefits with compassion. Taking other people's money is a sin, and paying is a merit. If you take other people's money for nothing and give it hypocritically at the same time, you won't be happy.

Ten, lewd and lewd, evil is useless.

Yin heron refers to a kind of merit that you only know and don't let others know. The ancients believed that accumulating more yin potential can change fate, and blessing will also benefit future generations. However, there are conditions. If one indulges in extravagance and waste, it is futile to do good deeds and accumulate more virtues.