The Great Learning, Commentary of the Philosopher Tsang, Chapter 7. The above seventh chapter of commentary explains rectifying the mind and cultivating the person.

1. What is meant by, "The cultivation of the person depends on rectifying the mind," may be thus illustrated: If a man be under the influence of passion, he will be incorrect in his conduct. He will be the same, if he is under the influence of terror, or under the influence of fond regard, or under that of sorrow and distress.

2. When the mind is not present, we look and do not see; we hear and do not understand; we eat and do not know the taste of what we eat.

3. This is what is meant by saying that the cultivation of the person depends on the rectifying of the mind.

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Text source: The Great Learning. Translated by James Legge.

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