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All That Heaven has produced an earth nourishes the greatest is mad Evans purpose is contained in our nature Confucius he was China's most revered Sage Millions honored his Bridges Confucius is road to wisdom with a bit of Trail of Tears in the time of blood should be was born to an unwed teenage mother raised in poverty struggle to survive never forgot his people suffering and he vowed to destroy the repressions made it very clear that the rules of the game when I accepted it didn't simply submit himself to the political order you want me to transfer it to fight for China Street challenging the rich and Powerful to change their evil ways Define ruthless enemies he boldly Champion peace and Justice throughout the land he died believing he had failed yet today millions of Asians rise to stunning Prosperity by following his teachings one cannot talk Chinese nuts even today 2500 years later without reference to this particular man Confucius this is the story of Confucius the man adrift spurned his family to save his a tormented man who never knew how much wisdom he had given to the world China 550 years before the birth of Christ ancient and highly accomplished civilization Chinese genius that invented writing create a calendar established codes of law boards to fisticated iron tools and cast Exquisite bronzer. 550 years before Christ China's brilliant World plunged 6th Century BC China whiskey the major transition which means that the feudal society that maintain certain political order and social stability begin to disintegrate the government this week and play non-existent a great number of feudal Lords competed with each other to dominate China the result was constant Warfare constant chaos throughout Society end of these violent chaotic time Confucius was born ironically the philosopher who would one date each piece was this son of shoe youngboy one of China's most fearsome Warriors Yeung ho was a gigantic man exceedingly ugly but immensely strong the end of his violent life is grateful Commander rewarded him for his years of loyal service appointing him governor of The Quiet Village of Chucky 350 miles from present-day Beijing in the old Warrior settle down to a comfortable retirement but shoot with loneliness his life's dream done fulfill over the years his two wives had borne him nine daughters and one crippled boy along for a healthy son is Obsession drove shuyang how to take a girl named chingchai as his concubine she was sixteen he was 70 trench I gave shuyang hope his lifelong dream a healthy son almost certainly born out of wedlock Legend will transform this extraordinary birth into a miracle according to the story and is a dream she saw I think it's called the black Emperor it appear to have being a goth bigger and in the dream that they had Union and after that she woke up and found herself pregnant worship alleged the newborn baby look more grotesque than Divine he was huge and ugly his nose was crooked and has fart his given name was Joe which means a mound or a hillock well according to Legends when Confucius was born his head was shaved in such a way that the the top of his crown Halo and the sides of his head went up into kind of of of a of a hillock something that kind of resembled a crown the only infant chew also received his father's ancestral name of coup years later when he had become China's most famous teacher he would be called cold foods which means Mastercool Twenty-One centuries after his death Christian missionaries translated is name of the Latin Kung Fu became Confucius name which became renowned throughout the world are named mastercook never heard translate Confucius would never know his father died three years after he was born is Confucius and his mother grieved they suffered another painful blow too young post family cruelly rejected them they were forbidden to attend his funeral Confucius father had a large family but he was not a rich man and providing many diaries for the daughters was already something that might have string that finances and then to provide for the future of a crippled son was another consideration so I presume that although the father of Confucius was happy to have a young boy who was healthy and Able Body maybe is is older wives and his daughters did not share the same Joy disowned by their relatives Confucius and his mother was tripping with starvation they left the remote Village for the city of Khufu 10 miles away in truth they would seek a new life but that Grim ordeal had just begun Ocean Spring by his father's family Confucius arrived in the prosper city of chufuku what Young impoverished Confucius life into food was hard food was scarce father struggled to grow green vegetables on a meager patch of ground if they were to survive Confucius had to help his mother and earn his own way he probably should in all kinds of mundane works not switching the floor cleaning houses what is picking up the food from the market at least an old country manual work he's quite in touch with the livelihood of the people around him and yet one thing very distinctive about him was his incredible curiosity to learn it is insatiable Drive foreknowledge set him apart from the other poor children of chuku it was a drive is devoted mother recognized and nurtured she was very conscientious in creating an environment in which he will be able to flourish not simply as a student but hopefully eventually I will be able to become prominent in the government and so far so the mother had a tremendous expiration for the child ugly awkward by Confucius has few Playmates while other boys learn the Arts of War he invented his own games acting out ancient rituals with toys Josie fashion from clay the young Prodigy abandoned the rough-and-tumble world of Boyhood for the Serene realm of his own imagination by his teenage years has his appetite for knowledge was voracious Confucius poured tirelessly over the great Classics of Chinese civilization brooding the Grimm lessons of History sorry the eloquence of poets I don't have a choice there's no time to stop learning only after you close the lid on the coughing can you say you stop learning what is confucius's intellectual life dealt him a crushing blow his beloved mother died douches grieve Bishop for the only human being who has ever loved him Lenny face the painful humiliation he wanted to assume the responsibility of burying his mother and according to Oakcrest and it would be nice if its mother to be buried with her husband and his father talked to his mother never told him where he very touching at least some of the neighbors took pity on him and told him exactly where his father was buried so he's done he buried his mother, his father is great mission accomplished Confucius bad farewell to his mother spirit she wept you grew wiser he had suffered blows that might have broken sensitive young man Terrors of desperate poverty the heartache callus rejection but Confucius would transform life's bitter assault into powerful Unforgettable lessons years later he would Proclaim. Noble Deeds not Noble birth family's love is a greater gift than gold with his mother gone Confucius was alone in the world facing the seemingly hopeless feature he was an illegitimate impoverished orphan lacking the family connection well switch your shoe at the futures of less, did you he looked at himself he saw an ugly giant according to tradition Confucius say 96 in tall is actualized was probably closer to 6:50 but an ancient China even a 6-foot Confucius would have towered above most of the men Confucius had only one advantage in life is extraordinary Brilliance what good was genius with Brute Force rule the land China was reeling chaos and bloodshed War were seized power in the slave the common people confucius's future looked Bleak indeed but then think smile most surprisingly in the sixth Century BC city the city of do Footwear Confucius live in the capital of the duchy of Lou one of many small Chinese states that fought fiercely with one another officially Lou was ruled by his heretic but in reality the Duke was it for years the real rules of Lou the notoriously three-family a trio of Warlord one of these families noticed of a young giant Confucius had extraordinary talent and gave him a job overseeing granaries Confucius first job was more important than a scene in ancient China grain was used as money what have a result of its employers he must have been grateful for that patronage after his years of poverty and for another reason the age of 19 Confucius married the identity of his wife remains a mystery even her name is unknown we only know did they have a son, but other children and let them marinate may have been a troubled one we know that confuses hat the size of Sun at least one because we have mention we we find mention of his daughter marrying one of those disciples some people would even think he had a second daughter but very little is said about his wife in fact there is one tradition which I'm not sure is reliable that says that Confucius and his wife were divorced so far all that we know maybe confuses and his wife did not get along very well for his family by toiling The Granary my age 30 is growing bored with his life dreamt of becoming a Greek minister of State ending corruption and bloodshed and restoring peace to the land many people wanted to drop out to become reclusive to become Hermits and to try to find your own in a spirituality nothing to do with the word large computer said I cannot hurt Burton Beast I am a human being amount of the human being so he made a choice to be committed to the world here now and that kind of Engagement made him an activist hunting the libraries of chew food Confucius devoured history of classical poetry looking for the key to Chinese View finally he proclaimed the shocking radical idea if people are educated in between classes disappear Confucius for Confucius education was not something that you did up to a certain point education with the meaning of life Confucius believed that people become better by being educated Confucius wasn't interested in in class he wasn't interested in the difference between between somebody who had no money and somebody who was very wealthy if the sons of interest and princes or without quality they should be reduced the ranks of the common people in the sons of the common people have quality they should be elevated to the ranks of the rulers Confucius daughter to school which accepted disciples from every social class including those who were not of the nobility that was a very Innovative measure nobody before him had done so well that reason he has been considered the greatest China's videos but that the whole of East Asia expertise Confucius is remarkable School poor but Bridget young peasant and the sons of China's wealthiest families net is equals the class differences they Forge New bonds from a shared yearning for justice and Truth burning conviction forged in his own hard you Confucius urged the students to become what he called Superior men and aristocracy of noble character not Noble verse anybody can be a superior man it is only necessary to decide to be one but the decision was not easy Confucius demanded absolute honesty rigorous self-control and unyielding virtue from all the way the superior man thinks of what is Right a small man thinks of what is profitable as a. Man demands much of himself small man to man but your father's a superior man except is lot of calmly it's full of complaints as the years passed confucius's Fame group cycle slots from throughout the land he became a man obsessed with his mission growing farther apart from his family and more devoted to his students his dream scene within his grasp only one challenge remained to truly change China he must capture the attention of the men who ruled in must have political power year after year pictures of government appointments from the Great Men of Lu year after year they keep honors upon him but no one offered him a position the face of fit Confucius was forced to his own philosophy into practice because only persevere through years of disappointment to filling the ideal of the superior man my 501 DC he was 50 years old it seemed that he would never have the power he craved but if that momentous year everything changed to help our Lou Vikings TV show you think the young ruler of the received this opportunity to regain his family's lost Authority he begged Confucius to abandon teaching and become his advice Confucius was elated could this be his chance to make a better world and perhaps transform young to bring into China save you Confucius governor of New long last Confucius had the power to put his ideas into action today is some of Confucius is reformed such as his decree that women and men must walk on opposite sides of the streets but others seem remarkably farsighted such as his order that poor young children and the elderly because add State expense in his own sayings Confucius gave proof that is a public official he was centuries ahead of his time another can judge criminal case as well as I what I would like to do is to correct the conditions that bring such cases about he somehow developed a vision of learning to be human at the TV concentric circles you stop with the person then to the family then to the neighborhood to the society to the nation to the country to the world and Beyond from the living example of what family love radiates through the state is kindness becomes the kindness of society if we don't know if she going to do all that he make you do not sit in time he lived with the idea of humanity and kind-hearted do unto others as you would have them do unto you also said you should give education and knowledge the common people change instead of ignoring or subjugating them it was a theory of society based upon the people the people responded to Confucius is enlightened rule ancient Chronicles say that while he governed Loop the streets were safe crime virtually disappeared Merchants no longer cheetah their customers send it. Uses his face Shone with joy his dream of saving China was becoming a reality what is success and his radical ideas for making him dangerous enemies Siri is power The Three Families United against Confucius Theory I thought he was a bingo was reformer who had to be stopped spiritus put their heads together and Patch the seductive least simple plot they searched the domains for the most beautiful girls and all the land and sent them as a gift not to Confucius with the Young Ruler thing just as the conspirators have helped you think you spend his days and nights with the entrancing gift his enemies had given him Confucius and his reforms were forgotten stunned and humiliated Confucius let his disciples away from Lou the Legends say that is he left his home Confucius sing a mournful song women's songs have spoiled me and women miles to spoil to me OVO wandering until life stand stream shattered Confucius took to the roads of China search a prince with the worthy of his quest to end suffering to bring peace to the world in 497 BC confucius's enemies forced him into exile he was 54 years old needs when most men like you are reluctant to embark on a life of wandering Confucius was no ordinary man over the next 13 years he walked the length and breadth of Eastern China searching for a ruler would listen to him he passed through find Confucius and his disciples witness the terrible suffering of the peasants crushed by taxes neglected by the rulers slaughtered by invading armies whatever Confucius went he's on Grimm proof of China's plight one famous occasion he met a woman weeping for her son and her husband both have been eaten by tiger so Confucius and his disciples asked the woman this is such a fierce tiger around why do you still live here why don't you move move away somewhere and the woman said if I move I may find a more oppressive government that's why I'm staying here and that's been confused with disciples and said this is so true and oppressive government is much worse than a man-eating tiger his heart went out to the people but it's head kept in the company of rulers Confucius knew that only the nobility have the power to end the people suffering if only he could convince them Chief ministers would Implement confucius's for loss within their own lives and they in turn would serve as models for the common people and so it was a kind of influenza theory of virtue that Confucius believed in first to get the ruler to your your ideals then the chief ministers and then the ordinary people it's Kat you instead of catch virtual like catching a cold Fortune play for Confucius virtue was an infection and Nobles had no desire to catch Confucius was a man with a vision the rudeness of his time we're not individuals with vision they were trying to enjoy themselves as much as they could in their private lives and they were trying to expand their territory or they have power as much as they could ruler after rule listen to Confucius and dismissed it undaunted he let his disciples onward hoping that the next Lord he visited would be the leader who would save China instead he found resentment and hostility was he himself partly to blame Chinese Chronicles tell of a Confucius very different from the benign sagemodern people imagine Confucius didn't pull his punches is one instance where an older gentleman is laid for the sprawled on the mats with his robes I'm done in an unseemly way Jesus walks up to him and Strikes him with his Cane and says you know as a young man you did nothing as a middle-aged man you fail to to nurture your family and as an old man you don't know when time to die you sir are a disgrace and whacked him again with his Cane during his trap is Confucius met another renowned the Mystic Cloud founder of taoism laucher warned him about speaking his mind louder said to Confucius the problem with you sir is that your intelligence enables you to evaluate people critically and when you evaluate people critically you bring danger upon yourself lounges warning with grimly prophetic Confucius is blunt speaking made in enemies throughout China is radical message placed his life in peril it was one sports to disguise himself while traveling through the domain of one Lord Bounty Killer he narrowly escaped his assassin it would not be his only brush with Danger on another occasion he was invited to a Lourdes court but as a journey to its host officials of arrival lured into ceftin the officials sent some troops who surrounded Confucius and Entourage and kept them without food or water for a. Of time Confucius his disciples grew despondent about the Confucius saying he lectured he Joe he was in good spirits Confucius and his disciples was finally rescued by friendly troops most of China's ruling Elite did not threaten Confucius they did something far more devastating they ignored by 484 BC 13 years have passed since Confucius left Lou he was still wondering and search up Chinese savior he was 67 years old like his father before him he was facing life's end with his great goal unfulfilled but in 480 for an electrifying message reached a former disciple now an official in louth had persuaded its rulers to invite Confucius home is wondering that an end Confucius return to chew Foo hoping for one last chance to fulfill his vision of a just and peaceful China after 13 years of wondering if you just arrived home and chew food eagerly hoping for a high government post this Friday is disappointment he still believed he would find a prince who would heed his teachings it was immediately summoned by the ruling warlord's one of them asked him how to find honest officials ducesses reply was painfully blunt be honest yourself the rulers of blue Confucius the position and they got his hopes dashed Confucius retired to his Library editing the poems in history so loved taking comfort in his books what is honest man could not deny the truth is Greg dream of saving China would never be fulfilled from his study watch the Great and Powerful plunger country even bloodier Wars the last two centuries to come watch the Chinese people India or even greater misery note family consoled him long been separated from his wife his daughter was married son was lazy and despised learning when he died young Confucius buried him with a proper ritual and cuties is old age of students who his true family and his heart's Delight the Chronicles claimed he had three thousand disciples but only 72 what is truly devoted followers over the years one student in particular had become his favorite a poor but brilliant man named Ian go to set up his favorite disciple that Yen weight was always happy even though he was so poor that he had very little to eat and he lived in a house in a very narrow alley but he was always content so contentment in poverty and the love of learning where the two things that he singled out in Uruguay perhaps Confucius Love Again quick because the young Prodigy reminded him of his youthful poverty passion for truth deface the end of his life he took comfort in knowing that he and we would carry on his work Ninja foodi then we suddenly fell ill and died Confucius try to maintain the composure of a sage but yet who is death was one for a lifetime of impeccable self-discipline China's greatest philosopher broke down and wept when you anyway. Confucius said Heaven has turned against me heaven has turned against me when Yen play was stolen from Confucius at this this disciple in-home confused have invested so much DD their Horizons were wiped away for Confucius after you can we use death Confucius sank deep depression in his younger days he had scoring those who retreated from the world to find Salvation in heaven in his old age he was resigned to the Limit human power now I Know that heaven has a will of his own in 479 BC at the age of 73 the greatest thinker in Chinese history guide last words discipline with no ruler come forward and take me as his master mrs. Perceive himself to be a failure and so he died believing himself to to have not really had much influence on China which is paradoxical does Confucianism has become the dominant hold of thought in the dominant philosophy of China and the surrounding regions for so many centuries like many great thinkers just wrote down little of his philosophy but his teachings did not die with him they lived on in the hearts of the disciples he had inspired 2500 years after his death douches influences more people than you have ever dreamed possible today's booming Asia his teachings and brought unparalleled Prosperity the millions who believe as he did in hard work education of the capacity of every human being to succeed and to this day the spirit of Confucius still inspires courageous reformers who fight for an end to Bloodshed and tyranny in China after the tournament, too many Chinese in lectures begin to realize the position position cannot to be at which resource for their own intellectual South identification for their own Spirit of protest even as possible resources for them to understand Great Western values such as human rights Liberty quality due process Lauren sofa I think his legacy is importance of the human being as a human being that the human being is important because the human being can improve himself or herself we can make ourselves we can create ourselves our future when I was fifteen I set my heart on learning S40 I knew exactly where I was going S60 I could borrow to immovable truth that's 70 I could follow my heart's desire and never to transgress what he's doing

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