Today I contemplated
the principle of being at peace,
whatever circumstances are encountered.
The sense of rest is still with me.
This purpose does not admit any slackening.
How could I get sick and tired of things due to old age?

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.