Liangzhi, the good knowing, comes from Mencius and became the centre of Wang Yangming’s teaching: an innate moral knowing in every heart, which is principle itself. To extend it into action is the whole of self-cultivation. It joins knowing and doing.
Liangzhi
Innate knowing: Wang Yangming’s teaching that everyone has an innate knowledge of the good.
Also: liang-chih, innate knowledge