Chapter 88장
Daxue (The Great Learning) A piece of fewer than two thousand characters, and one of the most committed to memory in all East Asia. It opens with "making bright virtue bright, being close to the people, and coming to rest in the utmost good," and threads eight steps on a single line, from measuring things and extending knowing to the full all the way to bringing all under heaven to a level — the investigation of things, the extension of knowing, making the intent true, making the mind upright, cultivating the person, setting the household in order, governing the state, and bringing peace to all under heaven.
About the middle, "being careful when alone" comes twice, and the last chapter is given over wholly to wealth and to men. The saying that when wealth is gathered the people scatter and when wealth is scattered the people gather, and Meng Xianzi's word that one would sooner have a minister who steals than a minister who gathers in, are both here.
所謂脩身在正其心者，身有所忿懥，則不得其正；有所恐懼，則不得其正；有所好樂，則不得其正；有所憂患，則不得其正。心不在焉，視而不見，聽而不聞，食而不知其味。此謂脩身在正其心。
What is meant by saying that cultivating the person lies in making the mind upright is this. If the person harbors anger, it does not attain its uprightness. If it harbors fear, it does not attain its uprightness. If it harbors fondness and pleasure, it does not attain its uprightness. If it harbors worry and care, it does not attain its uprightness.
When the mind is not there, one looks but does not see, listens but does not hear, eats but does not know the taste. This is what is meant by saying that cultivating the person lies in making the mind upright.