…the capital and the beginning of a disintegration of the culture. And that disintegration reaches a high point at about the time of Confucius, Confucius days of 552 to 478 b c. Something similar was happening in India at this time, just at the time of…

…capital and the beginning of a disintegration of the culture. And that disintegration reaches a high point at about the time of Confucius, Confucius days of 552 to 478 b c. Something similar was happening in India at this time, just at the time of the…

…India is in this condition of great disintegration now the buddha's dates are 563 to 483 b c. He's an exact contemporary of Confucius. Both of them are facing the same problem, namely a culture world that has gone into chaos, and each is seeking the…

…nirvanic balance, so that anything can happen and it's perfectly okay there is a mood of pulling out here whereas Confucius was concerned to reconstruct. Just to make my geographical connections complete now think of the classical world and about the…

…and the cities of the classic period in contention with each other and you can take Aeschylus as the contemporary of the buddha and Confucius in a world of contentions as well with Persia smashing in and so forth and so on. And his dates I seem to…

…a heritage that comes from the bronze age it's going to be transformed into local modes in these two realms. And comparing Confucius with the buddha, or comparing the quality and spirit of Shang with the quality and spirit of the vedic age, one gets…

…date from many different centuries. There is one order from perhaps pre Confucian times. There's another set of elucidations attributed to Confucius, who probably had nothing to do with the book actually, and then there are still other ones from later times…

…a book that is said to date from the Zhou Dynasty but it's also a book that says the Zhou Dynasty disintegrates, and by Confucius time there are over 500 contending states, and Confucius aim is to put it all back together again. He is supposed to have…

…Dynasty but it's also a book that says the Zhou Dynasty disintegrates, and by Confucius time there are over 500 contending states, and Confucius aim is to put it all back together again. He is supposed to have edited the I Ching. Whether he did or not…

…together again. He is supposed to have edited the I Ching. Whether he did or not this is highly questionable. What was Confucius view? Confucianism is china. This is the main philosophy of traditional china. There is a sign in Chinese, just like well I…

…just the rapport between two people. It's important to know, however what the social relationships of these two people are, and Confucius Development of this is in terms of what he calls the five relationships, the subject of husband to wife, of father…

…in traditional terms. In order to render things traditionally, one must know exactly what they are and what the tradition is. Confucius felt, or said, is to said to have felt that things were going wrong because people were not naming things correctly.…

…vehicles of the sentiment of human intercourse. He was not interested in the cosmos, he was interested in the intercourse human. Immediately following Confucius I gave you his dates comes moti or Mozart M o t I or t z u either one. Moti resisted or…

…their masters, undersecretaries reporting to oversecretaries and so on and the whole affair. Really, you know, we know what this is. Confucius in the contemporary china has been pushed back and Mozart has been brought forward. Mozart went, you might say into…

…or the technique for winning. It is utterly ruthless and was the philosophy that finally United China after the time of Confucius Poor Confucius, with his mystical, sentimental notion that where there is a good man there will be a good family. Where…

…the technique for winning. It is utterly ruthless and was the philosophy that finally United China after the time of Confucius Poor Confucius, with his mystical, sentimental notion that where there is a good man there will be a good family. Where there is…

…a period known as the six dynasties of confusion, and it's in that period of confusion that Buddhism sank into china. Confucius aim had been to reconstruct society. It was not reconstructed in his sense. Confucianism was revived in the han period simply…

…establish bureaucrats. Confucianism is the basis for the old traditional bureaucracy. Every young man has to study the books attributed to Confucius and pass an examination, and with this you get a rise of young men from lower orders to higher orders and…

…the bodhi principle within oneself, not in chanting, not in performing rites. The Taiwanese were greatly concerned with rites following Confucius Advice and let it be within you. Well, a Confucian Scholar came to consult with Bodhidharma and stood beside him…

…china there is only a recombination of older ideas, and the ideas that become differently recombined in different periods are those of Confucius and the jin Lao Tzu and the putting yourself in touch with the Dao, with the round, with the pace, with the…

…did say about Taoism. Lao Tzu is apparently surely a mythological character. It used to be thought that he was older than Confucius and there are legends of the conversations between the old sage Lao Tzu and the younger sage Confucius. Actually the Taoist…

…was older than Confucius and there are legends of the conversations between the old sage Lao Tzu and the younger sage Confucius. Actually the Taoist Development followed the Confucian Period and belongs to the centuries, the fourth and third centuries b c…

…traditions of the world except Islam which immediately follows this come from this period. Here the buddha's dates 563 to 483 BC. Confucius dates 551 to 478 BC. Aeschylus dates 525 to 456 BC these are all contemporaries. And then in Persia, in the near…

…contemporaries and I'm going to say that they are the signals for the spirit of those four mythological domains ever since Confucius the sage, the man of political wisdom and spiritual virtue and dignity confronting the world, giving advice to the world the…

…contrasted with a mythology of war? Well a mythology of peace comes along in such doctrines as those of Christ or Laozi or Confucius or the buddha and so forth but those are not what dominate the culture. Spengler has a statement in the decline of the…

…your present earthly character and needs and so forth. There's another view of this temple: 500 BC the buddha, 500 BC, Confucius. This is an important date I wanted to make this line: the buddha, nirvana, the still point, Confucius, Social participation…

…500 BC, Confucius. This is an important date I wanted to make this line: the buddha, nirvana, the still point, Confucius, Social participation through social participation. The tao, the way the life order is recognized and participated in and brought into…

…right on the line of the buddha's dates 563 to 483. This is the key man for the far East Confucianism. Now behind Confucius is another figure who's known as Lao Tzu. These aren't actually portraits of these men. Nobody knows what they look like. But Lao…

…there's this marvelous rounding participation. This is a picture. Lao Tzu is supposed to have been the older sage and this is Confucius talking with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu represents the tao in nature, Confucius adapts it to the tao in society. 500 the buddha…

…Tzu is supposed to have been the older sage and this is Confucius talking with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu represents the tao in nature, Confucius adapts it to the tao in society. 500 the buddha in India, Confucius in china. So now we come to the near east, and…

…It's in bronze from china, the period of the contending states. Now this puts it around 5th century BC, about the time of Confucius and this is earlier than any indication of the kundalini in the symbolism of India. Here we go to Rome this is the…

…It's in bronze from china, the period of the contending states. Now this puts it around 5th century BC, about the time of Confucius and this is earlier than any indication of the kundalini in the symbolism of India. Here we go to Rome. This is the…

…Each was susceptible to the influence of outside forces and each influence surrounding cultures. 500 BC the buddha 500 BC Confucius. This is an important date I wanted to make this line: the buddha, nirvana, the still point, Confucius, Social participation…

…500 BC Confucius. This is an important date I wanted to make this line: the buddha, nirvana, the still point, Confucius, Social participation through social participation. The tao, the way the life order is recognized and participated in and brought into…

…on the line of the Buddhist dates of 563 to 483. This is the key man for the far East Confucianism. Now behind Confucius is another figure who is known as Lao Tzu. These aren't actually portraits of these men. Nobody knows what they look like. But…

…of it but in china there's this marvelous rounding participation. Lao Tzu is supposed to have been the older sage and this is Confucius talking with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu represents the tao in nature, Confucius adapts it to the tao in society. 500 the buddha…

…Tzu is supposed to have been the older sage and this is Confucius talking with Lao Tzu. Lao Tzu represents the tao in nature, Confucius adapts it to the tao in society. 500 the buddha in India, Confucius. In china. So now we come to the near east, and…