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非礼勿视，非礼勿听，非礼勿言，非礼勿动。——孔子(fēi lǐ wù shì, fēi lǐ wù tīng, fēi lǐ wù yán, fēi lǐ wù dòng — Kǒngzǐ) Translation: “What’s unritual—don’t see, hear, speak, or act.” Explanation: Confucius’ sensory-ethical framework “非礼勿视(fēi lǐ wù shì), 非礼勿听(fēi lǐ wù tīng), 非礼勿言(fēi lǐ wù yán), 非礼勿动(fēi lǐ wù dòng)” (What’s unritual—don’t see, hear, speak, or act) establishes humanity’s earliest behavioral firewall. The quadripartite negation system predates Buddhist 正语/正业(zhèng yǔ/zhèng yè) (Right Speech/Action) by three centuries, creating Confucian mindfulness through sensory gatekeeping. The term 礼(lǐ) (ritual propriety) here transcends ceremony—it encodes real-time ethical triage across perceptual channels. Tang Dynasty 御史台(yù shǐ tái) (Censorate) officials embodied this by refusing to process petitions containing 非礼(fēi lǐ) (improper) accusations. Modern tech adaptations include iOS Screen Distance alerts...

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君子坦荡荡，小人长戚戚。——孔子(jūn zǐ tǎn dàng dàng, xiǎo rén cháng qī qī — Kǒngzǐ) Translation: “The noble are serene as plains; the petty fret like trapped birds.” Explanation: Confucius’ aphorism “The noble are serene as plains; the petty fret like trapped birds” articulates an ancient theory of psychosomatic ethics. The reduplicated term 荡荡(dàng dàng) mirrors the 《易经》(Yì Jīng)‘s cosmic principle “天行健(tiān xíng jiàn)” (heaven’s dynamic equilibrium), evoking the noble person’s alignment with natural rhythms. Conversely, 戚戚(qī qī) phonetically mimics avian distress cries, symbolizing the petty mind’s fragmented energy—a prescient link between moral decay and physiological dysregulation observed in modern psychoneuroimmunology. This linguistic duality encodes Confucian cosmology. Just as 荡荡(dàng dàng) reflects the expansive yang energy of ethical consistency, 戚戚(qī qī) embodies yin-phase...

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