# Analects of Confucius

By [奥特曼](https://paragraph.com/@0x76bc1458da85c2cd53051d9502943320be041f71) · 2022-03-28

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There is a good book called the Analects of Confucius, and a cause called "governing the world", so it has the reputation of "governing the world with half the Analects of Confucius". I used to read the Analects of Confucius in the hope that I wouldn't lose points in the Chinese exam. Now I read Confucius in the hope of living wiser. Confucius lived in the troubled times of the spring and Autumn period. His background of growth was ordinary and poor. Under the attack of all unfavorable factors, Confucius stimulated the potential of life and even became a "Saint". Confucius' speech and behavior are not mysterious. Everyone can follow suit. As long as we persevere, it will also produce satisfactory results. The students taught by Confucius himself naturally became the first generation beneficiaries of the Analects of Confucius. The students realized from the teacher that the transformation and improvement of personality can reach such a high level. They were convinced and willing to travel around the world with Confucius. Even after the death of Confucius, many disciples still built houses beside his tomb and stayed in mourning for three years. They recalled and told the teacher's teaching, so there was the handed down Analects of Confucius. Confucius made different progress every ten years. If life is just a plane process, from birth to death, that kind of life is very boring and meaningless, because everything obtained in this process will disappear in the end. The only thing you won't lose in life is the potential from within and the requirements of realizing yourself. Confucius started from the potential of "knowledge", expanded his mind and vision, fully developed his knowledge, emotion and meaning, evolved from an ordinary person to understand the truth and mission of the universe and life, understood his unique significance in the times, and then achieved "follow his heart and don't exceed the moment", so that he can enjoy himself in any case. People like Confucius are not myths, but concrete manifestations that can be achieved. The focus of the meaning of life is not that people are happy or painful, but whether individuals can make good use of the challenges brought by opportunities to grow. People are the spirit of all things because they can grow their personality. When everyone is born, the situation is similar, but at the end of life, no two people are exactly the same, because everyone is constantly making choices according to their own values. The Analects of Confucius has many practical things, such as teaching people how to make friends. In one's life, many times we gather because of fate, and the fate ends. Gathering and scattering, I can't help myself. Therefore, it is a pity that making friends is often passive and has no choice. Life cannot choose parents, birth date, race, country, cultural tradition, or growth experience. If you can't even choose your friends, the rest of your life is really limited. People's value lies in breaking through restrictions in some way. The higher the degree of breakthrough, the stronger the autonomy. There are many helplessness in life, but all helplessness is far from harmonious survival. ([www.lz13](http://www.lz13). CN) when making friends, we should turn passivity into initiative, and don't have too many illusions about friends. Don't be eager. We must make friends who are highly in line with our ideals and have complete connection with our hearts. It doesn't matter if you have fewer friends. It doesn't matter if you can't find perfect friends. What matters is to know each other and get along harmoniously. After reading the Analects of Confucius, I can't help asking myself, what is the goal of one's life? I think it's an explanation to myself. What do you say? That is, once I realize that I am a person and can make limited choices, I will identify where my choices should develop. Self choice comes from understanding and knowing oneself. We must consider the common pursuit of human beings - truth, goodness, beauty, and personal special ways - aspirations and interests. I think we should combine the two and strive to meet our aspirations and interests and approach the common value orientation of mankind in our life. Specifically, it is to strive for the full realization of the harmonious relationship between people, rather than making their relationship more complex and chaotic because of their own existence. Therefore, as long as people live, they have an internal mission, which makes them feel aggrieved, poor and frustrated anywhere in the world. In fact, the fame, wealth, power and position judged by the external world and all kinds of so-called proud or frustrated value judgments have no inevitability for the realization of the internal self. People live in two worlds. One is in the social sense, which is almost predestined, inevitable and difficult to choose. In life, there is a very important world - the inner world. The so-called goodness is certainly not abstract and nihilistic, but should be measured in the specific social relationship between people. Therefore, Confucianism still enters the WTO, cares about the world, and considers people as the center. Reading the Analects of Confucius and critically understanding Confucianism will also produce a sense of mission, consciously have a responsibility, and strive to make their own existence benefit the people around them. In this sense alone, the Analects of Confucius is a good book. It makes me introspect and self-discipline, and makes me better go to the society, integrate into the society and base myself on the society.

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