If you place your body in the realm
Of equanimity and non-contention,
And let your mind roam in the
Territory of evenness and non-disturbance,
And water them every day with
Fair words and fine deeds of sage worthies,
Then you are sure to progress.

Wu Yubi (1391 CE-1469 CE), Wu Yubi was a Ming dynasty Neo-Confucian philosopher and author of ‘ The Journal of the Path to Sagehood’. He helped to define Confucian education for those who studied the Classics not simply in preparation for examinations but as learning of the “body and mind.” They cleared the way for Wang Yangming (1472–1529), the most-influential Ming Dynasty Confucian thinker.