Wang even interprets the key metaphor of the Great Learning in a very different way from Zhu Xi.  For Zhu Xi, hating evil “like hating a hateful odor,” and loving good “like loving a lovely sight” are goals that we must aspire to, but can only achieve after an arduous process of ethical cultivation.  For Wang Yangming, these phrases describe what our attitudes toward good and evil can and should be at the very inception of ethical cultivation: