Chapter 19: Confucianism

Confucianism, a name that resounded all over the world.

The founder of Confucianism, Confucius! Known as the Master of All Ages, a saint! Later generations may call him a saint because of his merits, or because of his founder, and so on.

But the saints I am referring to are not these, but those who can copy the great road for their own use, and they are saints.

What is Tracing Avenue? That is to cling to one for what has been used.

Confucius is one. Derivation successively, copying the way of people!

Confucianism is known as the classic of WTO accession! It is about the way to join the WTO.

Confucius did not have his own books of sacred learning, and his works such as "Ten Wings" also made wings for the Book of Changes. Therefore, to observe whether Confucius is one, one can only look for clues from the Analects recorded by his disciples, but fortunately, people in the holy realm will leave only a few words in their speech. So after a thousand years, I can perceive his realm cultivation.

For example, Zigong redeems people, Zilu receives cattle, these two examples of Confucius's judgment is already the truth of the transformation of yin and yang.

For example, Zi said: My way is consistent. This one is one of the holy realms. And Yan Hui didn't understand the deep meaning, and mistakenly thought it was benevolence, but it was indeed a mistake for many children!

In terms of self-cultivation, Confucius advocated the cultivation of benevolence and virtue, but in terms of practical copying of the Great Dao, he did not violate the Great Dao in terms of the way of man.

Such as: Or say: repay grievances with virtue, what is it? Zi said: Repay grievances with virtue, how to repay virtue? Complain straightly!

These words fully show the rules of the fair avenue, how do you treat me, how do I treat you, you treat me badly, I want to be good to you, these are feudal pedantic thoughts, they are all unfair things, unfair, is out of the avenue, so later generations complain with virtue are stupid acts, and named Confucianism, it is really harmful to future generations, and it pits Confucius!

Some people are broad-minded and forgive the wrong choices that others put on them, and they can move others so that everyone can do good deeds, which is a good thing, but when dealing with a barbaric person, a person who is extremely vicious, we must also persuade people to be generous and repay grievances with virtue, which is simply conniving at the wicked, and it is no different from an accomplice! Therefore, when using benevolence, many people use the wrong method, do the wrong thing, and pass the wrong black pot to Confucius.

The Confucianism of Confucianism is another peak of Confucianism, and he can be regarded as a person in the holy realm, but because he does not copy the avenue of heaven and earth and create his own way, he can only be called a pseudo-saint and a sub-saint. But its height is no less than that of Confucius.

If Confucius is the flesh and blood of Confucianism, tolerance, generosity, and self-cultivation, then Mencius is the white bones of Confucianism, tenacity, bravery, strength, and self-improvement of meritorious service!

The teacher recorded by the disciples of Confucius is a teacher with a high limit of tolerance. And what Mencius left in history is the persistence of the bottom line, how much of a scholar is offline!

Mencius said: Where the Tao is, although tens of millions of people go to it! As soon as this remark came out, it suddenly made people arrogant, heroic and upright, and it was admirable to listen to it!

The way of the two revolves around the core Confucian idea of 'moderation', and at once, the two Confucian peaks are dazzling.

In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, so that the Han Dynasty because of these two intertwined avenues more glorious and dazzling, such as Mencius under the pride of the iron bones, although the momentum of tens of millions of people is reflected in Huo Quai, Su Wu, Zhang Qian, Chen Tang·· and so on.

However, from the fall of the Han Dynasty to modern times, Confucianism was mixed with the integration of various foreign cultures, coupled with the change and use of emperors, the evolution and transformation in the direction of self-reliance, and then deliberately taken out of context to practice, resulting in Confucianism gradually becoming a feudal ideology in later generations.

For example, repaying grievances with virtue was originally a problem denied by Confucius, but it was actually advocated by later generations.

For example, the monarch makes the ministers courteous, and the ministers serve the monarch with loyalty. There is nothing wrong with this kind of thinking at any time. Even in the era when the mind is so open-minded to the point of presumptuousness, the immediate boss should treat the subordinate employees, or the superior leader should treat the subordinate employees with courtesy, and then ask the employees and subordinates to treat each other with sincerity. The so-called knowing the order is the shortest, and this is the order, and the chaos in today's era is all because of blindly asking subordinates to 'selfless' dedication, what is the difference with the feudal ideology, it is better to be bright on the surface!

The change of the emperor's art, removed the first position, only the words behind it, the spirit of the king wanting the minister to die, the minister had to die was widely spread, and crowned with the coat of Confucianism, this kind of hanging sheep's head to sell dog meat abounded, and gradually detached from the avenue, so Confucianism in later generations was sick, controversial, and non-discussing! It's just that the scholars of later generations have created sins, and the saints of the previous life have taken the blame!

Confucius once said: There is no class in teaching.

This epoch-making definition already shows the egalitarian heart in his heart. From this sentence alone, I already know that deep down in his heart, he treats all students equally. But even in today's era, there are few teachers who treat students equally, but they are all superficial articles, and behind the scenes, they are still treated differently.

Through in-depth research, we will find that Confucius's sacred learning, the way of man, is indeed the avenue that can be called the holy realm.

It's just that people in this time period are either blind or extreme. A large part of them only know that they follow others and scold Kong zombies, and on the other hand, they have not read a sentence of the Analects. The answer to the question of replying to such people with the Analects is: All evils must be investigated, and all good must be investigated!

And the extremists think that as long as there is a little bit of badness, he is not good in all aspects. The Analects are used to solve the problem of replying to such people: if you are a threesome, you must have my teacher, choose those who are good and follow them, and change those who are not good!

The fact that these problems, which had been solved by Confucianism thousands of years ago, could still exist in society thousands of years later shows that the ignorance of the people in the world is already a big surprise.

Very few people can calm down and think, a person who has been dead for thousands of years, and who has left behind not many writings, even the Analects are written in the language of his disciples, compiled into books. Why has it been used by the ruling class for thousands of years, and why has it been stubbornly preserved even in the unprecedented turmoil of breaking down feudal superstitions? There must be some reason for this that we haven't found.

If a person's mind is thousands of years after death, as long as someone hears his words and worships him to the extreme, and respects him as a teacher, even if he is a god, I am afraid that he will not have such great power.

But Confucius has this ability, and many of the people who read his Analects will respect him and regard him as a teacher, so what kind of force is it that influences these people to respect a person who has been dead for a thousand years?

In fact, there is a very simple reason for this, that is, Confucianism is the embodiment of the Great Dao, the embodiment of the Great Dao in getting along with each other, and can solve the problems between people that everyone encounters. Therefore, as long as people get along with each other in the future, and when the society gets along with each other and the conflicts and disputes arise and the war continues, and the world is declining, the academic thought of Confucianism will become important, because only in this way can we solve the problems and solve the contradictions between people, and be good for everyone.

However, because of the constraints of its times, it expounded the resolution of the fixed relationship of various statuses, and its purpose was to resolve the contradictions in the era at that time, coupled with the change of the feudal emperor, so it was regarded as an undesirable idea, and there would be such a big controversy in the modern society.

Therefore, no matter which discipline you study, you can't enter it, and you must see the pros and cons, right and wrong. The system of ritual music of a thousand years ago is no longer suitable for this era, so it should be abandoned! If you insist on accepting all of them, you will lose the original meaning of Confucianism, and you will choose those who are not good and change it!

Because of these, the four saints recorded in history, Likongchu, can be regarded as the one who received the most insults.

The idea of Confucianism was born when the pre-Qin period of etiquette collapsed, and its own scholarship was to solve the chaotic era and formulate a perfect system to solve it, so the more chaotic the world and the more unfair the world, the more Confucius's Confucianism was wanted to be implemented.

The ideological use of Confucianism is to solve the problems between people, and it is the way of man who copies the rules of heaven and earth! It is conducive to stabilizing the group of people, and after these ideas are implemented, all people will learn and change in this direction. The unification of his ideas is by far the best kind of thought, which has allowed the Chinese civilization to continue. His Confucian students pay attention to self-cultivation, family harmony, governing the country, and leveling the world. Take the interests of the group as the highest interest, and have the good spirit of sacrificing the small self and becoming the big self! The golden mean, the highest realm, is also a good way to enter the holy from Confucianism!

However, Confucianism in later generations, like all academics, had a drawback, that is, those who entered Confucianism, or Buddhism, or Taoism, were only willing to stay in their own academics, resting on their laurels, denying other sects, and unwilling to correct their own sects, and unable to treat academics objectively, which became an obstacle to the progress of mankind.

The advantage of Confucianism lies in the inner spirit of unification, with the interests of the group as the first goal, and people who can take the initiative to sacrifice personal interests to preserve the interests of the group as the highest spiritual inheritors. Wait a minute! After the implementation of such rules, the group can be preserved and continued without interruption.

To be precise, the rules of governing personnel, managers, and stabilizing society are Confucian thoughts, which can also be called traditional Chinese thought, or the way of man!

The bad point is that all people's new life is developing in the same direction, which restricts the idea of outward development, which is conservative and destroys innovation, so when we study in later generations, we must see the problem clearly, understand the root cause, choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones, and take Confucianism as the foundation, and then learn and integrate new ideas!

Instead of abandoning everything and throwing away the good and the bad, this kind of extreme thinking is even more harmful!

You have to learn it, understand it, use it, and don't enter it!