Masculine Beauty in Strength (Internal Reference)¶
This version compiles Guide Xuefeng's original texts without alteration, for deep study.
I. Definition: Strength as Beauty¶
Source: New Era Human 800 Concepts, 4th Edition, Concept 178
Males find beauty in strength, females find beauty in softness. A male who is overly soft is ugly; a female who is overly rigid is ugly.
Source: Second Home Core Life Concepts, Concept 39
Males find beauty in strength, females find beauty in softness. A male who is overly soft is ugly; a female who is overly rigid is ugly.
II. Lifechanyuan's Principle¶
Source: Other Articles · 2022 · Brothers, Come Fight Alongside Tongxin
The Lifechanyuan principle is: females find beauty in softness, males find beauty in strength.
III. The Eight Characteristics of a Masculine Man¶
Source: Xuefeng Corpus · Essays · The Eight Characteristics of a Masculine Man
"The movement of Heaven is full of power; thus the superior man makes himself strong and untiring." This describes the masculine man.
"The road ahead is long and stretches far; I shall seek high and low." This is the masculine man's inner declaration.
"My hair bristles with rage beneath my helmet, standing at the balustrade as the rain clears... Thirty years of fame are but dust and soil; eight thousand miles of road are cloud and moon. Do not wait until your hair turns white in idleness, then grieve in vain." This is the masculine man's rallying cry.
"Faced with wine and song, how long is human life? The mountain never tires of height; the sea never tires of depth. Only by taking all the talents of the world into one's service can the realm be united." This is both the masculine man's grief and his ambition.
The masculine man takes feminine softness as his foundation. Only by holding softness in his heart can he fully express the beauty of strength.
What, then, are the characteristics of the masculine man?
Characteristic One: Extraordinary Courage, Boldness, and Bravery
The masculine man is an arrow released from a bow — whistling, flying straight to its mark. He is thunder and lightning, shaking the sky and reaching everything. He is a surging river — torrential, rushing day and night without rest. He is a raging fire that can reduce a desert to cinders.
Characteristic Two: Steady as a Mountain, Serene in Spirit
"In the midst of swirling clouds, he remains composed." "Ten thousand mountains and rivers are a trifle." "Regardless of wind and waves, he strolls as if in a leisurely courtyard." "A thousand blows and grindings still leave him unbending; whatever wind blows from east, west, south, or north."
Characteristic Three: Spirit of Adventure
He is Amundsen, who with boundless energy conquered mountains, deep valleys, and crevasses in the ice, reaching the South Pole. He is Marco Polo, unafraid of sea waves or pirates, undeterred by mountain ranges and the hardships of a long road, journeying toward the mysterious East. He is Xu Xiake, with lofty ideals, daring to travel across great mountains and rivers to appreciate the customs and landscapes of the land. He is Columbus, bold enough to set sail across the vast ocean in search of truth.
Characteristic Four: Unrestrained yet Attentive to Detail
The masculine man possesses great wisdom that appears simple, yet observes even the smallest details. His emotions are unrestrained; he is uninhibited, magnanimous, decisive, and daring. His voice is resonant. Yet his planning is meticulous and thorough.
Characteristic Five: The Manner of a Gentleman
He never bullies women, the elderly, the weak, or the infirm. He never shouts at women or children. He always yields to women. Before a gentle and soft woman, he is humble and respectful. When danger arrives, he leads the way and protects the vulnerable.
Characteristic Six: A Romantic Spirit
He never retreats before difficulty. He is never craven or timid. In adversity, he sees the dawn. He has an intense pursuit of an ideal world. When faced with hardship, he uses passionate language, vivid imagination, and bold exaggeration to create joy and a spiritual realm of ideal beauty.
Characteristic Seven: A Sense of Humor
Wherever the masculine man goes, he brings happiness. He fills the environment with laughter and vitality. He never makes others despondent or listless. He never vents his grievances, never poisons others' hearts and minds with negativity or pessimism, and never treats others as his emotional waste bins.
Characteristic Eight: Neat Appearance, Graceful Bearing
Masculine beauty is a kind of beauty — so the masculine man must have rich inner substance, otherwise he is just a hollow shell. Crude speech and coarse behavior are not the style of the masculine man. Slovenly appearance and careless grooming are not the image of the masculine man. Being too timid to speak, too afraid to step onto a stage, shuffling and clinging to others — these are not the characteristics of the masculine man. The masculine man is neatly dressed, clean of face, generous in manner, free of wasted words and unnecessary movements, crisp and orderly in all things.
Masculine strength is the quality a man must cultivate. Males find beauty in strength and ugliness in softness. Masculine strength can be developed through upbringing and culture, in addition to what is innate. If a man grows up surrounded by fierce-tempered grandmothers, mothers, and wives, his masculine spirit will be suppressed and diminished. If most of his teachers were women, his masculinity will be worn away invisibly. Working for a long time under an "iron woman" superior will gradually extinguish his masculine spirit. An overly feminine cultural atmosphere will also erode it.
In short: men, find your beauty in strength! May every man in the world possess the beauty of masculine strength!
2011/4/25
IV. Masculine Strength Is a Man's Most Sacred Power¶
Source: Other Articles · 2024 · My Heartfelt Declaration on Men and Women
I dislike soft and timid men, men who dare not take responsibility, men who are wishy-washy, men who are petty and self-serving, and men who use violence or humiliate women.
Masculine strength is a man's most sacred power. A man who is always meek and cannot be roused is not a competent man. A man should stand against wind and cold, should have the courage and boldness to take risks, to create, and to build a beautiful living environment and a beautiful future for women and children.
So my ideal is that in our Second Home, every woman is gentle, every man is strong. The community has no place for aggressive women or timid men. I have a responsibility and an obligation to contend with aggressive women and timid men, until the seasons flow in harmony, yin and yang are in order, the four seasons are clear, and all under heaven is at peace.
2024-02-15
V. Cultivation Means Men Cultivating Masculine Strength¶
Source: Other Articles · 2018 · The Strong-Willed Woman — Rebuttal to Tongxin (IV)
The way for men and women to get along is for the man to be strong and the woman to be soft — one strong and one soft complement each other perfectly.
One yin and one yang — that is the Tao. In the same way, one strong and one soft is also the Tao. Two yins, two yangs, two strong wills, or two soft temperaments dwelling together constantly all constitute departure from the Tao. Can those who depart from the Tao endure? Can they achieve harmony? Can they nurture the ten thousand living things? They cannot.
Therefore, cultivation, in this sense, means men cultivating masculine strength and women cultivating feminine softness — not the reverse.
2018-03-23
VI. The Way of Heaven: Men as Yang, Women as Yin¶
Source: Other Articles · 2024 · Feminine Softness Is the Way of Heaven
Human beings, though higher than animals, still carry the characteristics of biological creatures. Men have generally held a position of leadership; women have generally held a position of support. Most of those sent to battlefields have been men, not women. Women have generally served in relation to men. This is why men need masculine strength and women need feminine softness — this is a biological arrangement, the way of Heaven.
Gender equality refers to equality in personal dignity. It does not mean that women must do everything men do in order to be equal. A man's ability to lift 100 jin does not require a woman to lift 100 jin to achieve equality.
Compiled by: Lingzhou Cao
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