Confucius | The Art of Becoming Better (Self-Cultivation)

A disclaimer: the intention of this video is not to support certain governments

or indoctrination of any kind. It simply intends to highlight the effects that

ritual can have, and how we can harness this power to improve ourselves.

I'm aware that this idea goes against the usual undercurrent of this channel

with common themes like acceptance and non-conformity. I'm pretty sure the idea of

self-cultivation as presented here will be regarded as 'too simplistic' by mental health professionals.

Nevertheless, I think this idea is interesting and I want to keep an open mind

(which is what this channel does: exploring ideas).

Also, this video is not against counselors and personality tests (au contraire):

it reflects on how some people tend to cling to their 'personality types'.

Thank you.

This is brilliant. This is so savvy. Very impressive. Although ritual is much more a personal thinv, not collective. The rituals you speak of can be destructive. I don't need to tell you who used ritual destructively, do I?

Does this channel have a podcast ,someone please tell me

I am really enjoying this channel. Thank you.

Your videos are brilliant and refreshing

The video preview image is a cartoon of Confucius. The cartoon is quite well done. Who is the artist? I would be willing to pay money for print (copy) of the Confucius cartoon or portrait.

PLO

your question was wrong! we all live in ritualized communities, those rituals just don,t make us better in a oersonal, intellectual or moralistic way( whatever this means ) but simply to function as national ants! so thereby it works to be better citicens in a way the governments want,,,,not in a general universal way…🤷‍♀️so your starting point and question kinda overlooked that , hmm? besides that , thanks for the explanation, it,s simoly training.l.everyone can train something….even behaviour🤷‍♀️it.s called behavioural therapy…🤷‍♀️welcome to the real world and accept that we all are conditioned in some way,,,,🤷‍♀️

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Go for a 20 minute run most days. It makes all the difference

Полезные для жизни фразы

Resetting your mental state, effectively gives you a sane starting place, in that time of day, every day

It’s crazy i was watching the natural flow video and i was understanding but i wasn’t really feeling it and something told me to look up Confucius and i found exactly what i needed ✅

I didn't have my glasses on. I thought it said becoming bitter

"These three great Masters remained individuals. Once in a while somebody was impressed by their writings, but it remained intellectual, so there is no hope in the near future of Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu or Lao Tzu being born again in China, or their influence in any way changing the course of China’s history, because in fact they have never been of any great importance in China’s mind. Confucius and Lao Tzu were contemporaries. Confucius had even gone to meet Lao Tzu, because Lao Tzu was certainly a man of tremendous qualities. Confucius was a great thinker, but only a thinker. He had nothing as far as his own inner consciousness is concerned, no experience, no idea who he is, but he had planned for the society perfectly well, a very mannered, cultured society.

Hearing that Lao Tzu was nearby, living in a cave beyond the lake, he went to see him. A few of his disciples also went, but he told them, “You wait outside the cave.” They said, “Why? It will be good, we can listen.” He said, “You don’t understand. I will tell you the reason later on. Let me go first. If I feel it right I will call you in.”

They stayed outside, Confucius went in. Lao Tzu was sitting silently. He did not say to Confucius even to sit down, and Confucius was man of manners, etiquette. He had not expected that a great sage, Lao Tzu, would not even ask. He did not say hello or even hi — even that short form, “hi.” He simply sat down, looking at Confucius, and Confucius said, “Sir, don’t you believe in manners?”

Lao Tzu laughed. He said, ‘I thought you knew all the manners — what is the need for me to tell you? If you feel like sitting, you will sit down! You are not a man who does not know manners. If you like to stand up, it is my etiquette not to disturb you. You can stand up!” Confucius said, “But you… you did not even say hello.” Lao Tzu said, “I said it. You could not hear it. It was a test: I said it silently. I wanted to know whether the famous philosopher Confucius understands silence or not. So you understand only words — that much is decided! And you have expectations. You cannot sit down on your own, you have to be told. This cave does not belong to me. When I came here, nobody said ‘sit down,’ because nobody was here. Why should I say it? It is not my cave, nothing belongs to me. Just the way I am sitting, you can sit down. You are not a child to be told.”

Confucius had never met such a man. And on each point he was rebuffed badly. Then Lao Tzu said, “If you really want to learn anything, first go and renounce all the idiots you have collected as your disciples. You don’t know anything and you have thousands of disciples. It is hilarious! You just go and tell them the truth, that you don’t know anything, and then come, because I teach only if somebody does not know. If he knows it already, why should he bother me? An old man… Leave me alone!”

Confucius came out, and he had not the courage to say to his disciples that he did not know. He had thousands of disciples, he was the most famous man at that time. Very few people knew about Lao Tzu. Confucius has remained a shadow over the whole of Chinese history. It is only somewhere in the footnotes you can find the name of Lao Tzu.

Confucius was not courageous enough to say “I do not know.” The disciples said “You didn’t ask us to come in. He said, “It was good that I didn’t ask you to come in. And please don’t ask the reason. That man is not a man; he is a dragon. He is dangerous, avoid him as far as possible. This is my first and last meeting with that old guy!”

And he was perspiring. It was a cold morning and the cave was very cool, but he was perspiring. The disciples said, “But why are you perspiring?” He said, “I am alive — that’s enough! Just take me away from here.”"

I love being entertainned 😌

You kinda threw me off when u said rituals lol but other than that good video

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I’m doing pretty good, I’m 20 I don’t know much but I feel like I have a grasp on the reality we live in and myself, that I do know.

Summarization: self reflection

"Be the change that you want to be."

A dead master is a good master. (Me)

Been sharing for a bit. Well done

This video changed my life for the better I will become the first millionaire in my family and build my empire will doing it.