Instructions for Practical Living
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Knowledge is the beginning of action; action is the completion of knowledge. To know and not to act is not yet to know.
Wang Yangming's Instructions
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Wang Yangming · 1518
Knowledge and action are one.
Instructions for Practical Living, beloved in Japan and Korea.
Instructions for Practical Living, beloved in Japan and Korea.
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