…ripe carp only a few years and another one took over because everyone in turn became destructive decadent or dissipated so Confucius pointed out that wherever problems arise the leader must be held responsible and if he cannot do something about it Then…

…has not been able to accomplish. So the great ceremony. Of the new year. Was the constant acceptance. Of the way of heaven. So in Confucius. The whole thing sums up. In the one great thing. The ways of men. And these ways may or may not be good. But…

…they lose their harmonious relationship with life the moment we break our trust with life we come into infirmity and this was what old Confucius taught and I don't think right now at least we're going to be able to get the answer to this out of a…

…system of their time. They had very little time or consideration for the power of wealth, family traditions, hereditary authority. Like Confucius, they held the individual to be the important equation. Not where he came from, not where he went, not what he…

…earlier or contemporary thought. This must also be said of the Bible, or of the teachings of Buddha, or of the writings of Confucius. Thus we may say that the vision not only gives us a firm insight into the hermetic theory, but also explains clearly…

…first exploration of comparative religion. For the description of this dragon is almost identical with the description given by Confucius of the mind of Laozi. It was this strange, incredible power monster. Something like the Chinese dragon, particularly the…

…fulfillment of themselves in conduct. This is the great burden of Neoplatonism, and it is certainly the burden of Confucianism. For Confucius said the superior man is one who is incapable of an inferior action. isn't one who doesn't perform it because he…

…with Taoism and Buddhism the spiritual leadership of the Chinese people. What was the result? The great ethical code of Confucius, a very severe code, depending for its validity upon the conscientious conduct of the individual, began to drift into oblivion.…

…depending for its validity upon the conscientious conduct of the individual, began to drift into oblivion. Men paid great homage to Confucius. His name became venerated above all other names. but they forgot to keep his rules. To merely affirm them, to…

…images, worshipped in part by writing a prayer upon a piece of thin paper, chewing it up, and spinning it onto an image. Either Confucius or Lao Tzu would have turned in that grave under such a procedure, yet it represented a change but was to show why…

…It was always a country in which the strong pillaged the weak. First in the name of heaven, second in the name of Confucius, and finally in the name of the Mandarin himself. About this time, we move to India. What was happening to Buddhism? In precisely…

…the growing, intensifying recognition, the essential fact of duty. Duty was the great virtue. He then says that the emphasis by Confucius was order. That the purpose of the Confucian Code was primarily to preserve absolute order in all relationships, and in…

…time, some facts are a little difficult to historically date. But we can say this. Within 100 years, there are flurries. Confucius and Laozi in China. Buddha in India. The last of the Zoroasters in Persia. Pythagoras in Greece. And several lesser…

…no proof that these men met, although they have certain possibilities. We have reason to believe from the ancient Chinese annals that Confucius, as a young man, did meet Laozi as the older teacher. The tradition, I would say, has reached a degree of being…

…600 BC, Persian culture was old. At the time of Buddha, we can say that Hinduism was decadent. At the time of Confucius and Laozi in China, we know that Chinese history was comparatively young, and the culture comparatively strong. Therefore, we cannot say…

…was a strong flavor of the later world. Leltsin was completely disillusioned with the mental and spiritual life of China. Confucius was seeking a restoration of just government for his people. And the establishment of a higher level of cultural education…

…Crotona was the first formal educational institution in the Mediterranean area. There is much to indicate that the School of Confucius was the first broad, comprehensive curriculum of education introduced in China. And we know definitely that it was from…

…because Jesus gave us the dream of a universal brotherhood we should remember the wisdom of Socrates the deep understanding of Confucius when he said the strength of the Empire depends upon the strength of the home civilization is a gradual expansion of…

…world as a family was governed by a hierarchy as a family this point is very clearly indicated in the writings of Confucius the great Chinese sage he explained that the human family the parents and children was the primary unit of human society everything…

…the material world the individual family was the basis of the entire study of world populations nations races and countries after that Confucius explained first duty of mankind is to put the family in order if the family is not in order civilization will…

…was no inequality in the family. Each had their particular function. Each was entitled to equal respect, honor, and recognition. Confucius then pointed out that when the family is completely integrated, when the family has found complete loyalty, a loyalty,…

…being is not capable in all cases of fully appreciating this or accepting it or understanding it. But it still remains, as Confucius pointed out, the supreme law, the supreme plan, the supreme symbol. And the ordered universe is the symbol of the divine…

…as we know it. It has to experience principles and it experiences them by living in the midst of them. This is why Confucius was so anxious to perfect the family because with the family perfected the generations go on one after another until the end of…

…who was Adolf Hitler, and they'd never heard of him. He's gone. But no one says they had never heard of Buddha or Confucius or Jesus in the countries where these things occur. There is a great wisdom, a wisdom of compassion, a wisdom of idealism that…

…not something that comes as a reward for a specialized training. It is a reward simply for the life of virtue, what Confucius calls the life of the superior person, the person who is so integrated in himself that he is incapable of being over-influenced…

…condition for the future. Buddha renounced an empire, or a kingdom at least, and went out as a beggar into the world. Confucius left all in order to teach. Lao Tzu's disillusion went out into the Gobi Desert, leaving behind a world that never understood…

…serve, to give and to forgive. These are the qualities of the superior person. This simple truth was made clear in China by Confucius 600 B.C. We have to all make this journey, this mystical experience journey in search of the one source of every good…

…also has a tremendous influence upon health and happiness and security. Mencius, the great Chinese sage, talked of the child heart and Confucius was of the same mind namely that in the reality the great reality of things the child heart dominates the body…

…rolling up our sleeves and doing great heroic deeds. But the scriptures tell us, and Lao Tzu told us, Buddha told us, and Confucius told us, Zoroaster told us, Moses told us, and Jesus told us, that the actual problem is the accomplishment of quietude. a…

…so firm a hold in Chinese consciousness that already their instruction largely completed the older patterns set forth by Confucius and Laozi. Thus, Buddhism the northern school of Buddhism, having established itself firmly in China, and having spread throughout…

…mystery. A mystery of a China that existed in a golden age, a China that was remembered faintly in the stories preserved by Confucius and Mencius, and in the annals of the kings, the Xu kings of China, the great historical and political writings. So we…

…diagrams, which represent the sons and their wives. These eight diagrams, by multiplication, become 64. Eight times eight. And these, as Confucius said, are the roots of all knowledge upon the earth. And out of this darkness, out of the great tragedy, rose…

…who is complaining. This attitude carries with it also a continual diminishing sense of responsibility for family as such. The Chinese philosopher Confucius pointed out that the strength of a nation lies in the unity of its homes. We used to feel that this…

…feel that this simply meant that the broken home was a contemporary disaster in the generation in which it occurred. I think Confucius meant much more than this. It is from the insecurity of the home the children must come without the adequate foundations…

…might be bestowed upon another by his own action. So all the way along you'll find little fragments in the teachings of Confucius, in the teachings of Lazi, of Buddha, of Muhammad, of all these teachers. There have been moralists among them, mystics in…

…two other deities corresponding to the sun and moon. You will remember that at the time of the Annunciation of the birth of Confucius, five old men entered in a vision, carrying or leading among them the kirin, or qilin, a magical animal, a kind of…

…to meet them than we have ever known. It is therefore part of culture, particularly pointed out by Laozi and Confucius, that the intellectual, the practical man, the scientist, the philosopher, the warrior, all these should write poetry, not only because…

…took very quickly upon the three great systems in their own, within its own country, and created a triad of Confucius, Blavsky, and Buddha. Now, these were the three famous mega-testers of the old Chinese families. These three represented the school…