Tag: study
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Online Class – foundation course completed – 网上课程 – 基础课程完成
Dear readers, After 26 months of discussion and exploration, we have finally completed our online discussion on the core teachings of the three great classics in Chinese Civilization. With the focus on personal and spiritual cultivation, we first learnt about the transcendental reality and the way towards it from Laozi’s Daodejing. After understanding our…
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Confucius Analects – balance learning of 6 virtues – 孔子论语 – 平衡的学习
17.3 Importance in learning the 6 virtues (benevolence, wisdom, sincerity, straightforwardness, courage, firmness) 好仁不好學、其蔽也愚、好智不好學、其蔽也蕩、好信不好學、其蔽也賊、好直不好學、其蔽也絞、好勇不好學、其蔽也亂、好 剛不好學、其蔽也狂。 ‘There is the love of being benevolent without the love of learning;– the beclouding here leads to a foolish simplicity. There is the love of knowing without the love of learning;– the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. There…
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Confucius Analects – Balance Work and Study – 孔子论语 – 平衡工作与学习
19.3 Serving vs. learning 子夏曰、仕而優則學、學而優則仕。 Zixia said, ‘The officer, having discharged all his duties, should devote his leisure to learning. The student, having completed his learning, should apply himself to be an officer.’ * * * Zixia, a prominent student of Confucius, talked about the importance of balancing work and study. When we are in…
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Confucius Analects – There are teachers everywhere – 孔子论语 – 三人行、必有我師焉
7.4 There are teachers everywhere 子曰、三人行、必有我師焉、擇其善者而從之、其不善者而改之。 The Master said, ‘When I walk along with two others, they may serve me as my teachers. I will select their good qualities and follow them, their bad qualities and avoid them.’ * * * Discussion: Last week there was a question about where or whom to learn from.…
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Confucius Analects – Study: ask, learn, and think – 孔子论语 – 学: 不恥下問,学与思
Last week we finished the discussion on the general image of a proper Confucius/Superior Man. This week we start the discussion on the topic of study. Study leads to knowledge. The world “knowledge” in Chinese, consists of two components: Learn (学）and Ask （问）. Learn implies acquiring, while ask includes thinking and inquiring. These 2 components…
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Autobiography of Confucius – Confucius Analects – 孔子论语 – 孔子一生
This is an autobiography of Confucius. There were three stages in Confucius life, first stage begins on learning (age 15) and establishing oneself (age 30) in the world. Second stages consolidates and refine one’s life until there is no internal doubt (age 40) and one knows one’s role in the world (age 50). The results…
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Dao De Jing 48 – Study gains vs. cultivate surrenders
Study and one accumulates, cultivate (Dao) and one surrenders. -> When we study in school, at home, in society, typically we acquire and accumulate information. When we cultivate the Dao, on the other hand, we surrender our attachments and aversions. Keep surrendering and one will arrive at non-doing. -> In the beginning, the strong attachments…