Zixia offers four practical ways to attain benevolence: learn broadly, hold firm aspirations, ask targeted questions, and reflect on immediate practical matters. Consistent practice of these grounded steps lets benevolence grow naturally within oneself.
6.27The Master said, “A gentleman who is widely versed in letters and at the same time knows how to submit his learning to the restraints of ritual is not likely, I think, to go far wrong.”