SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

Confucian spirituality

  • The Analects – Chapter 14.35

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    The Master sighed, “No one truly understands me!”Zigong asked, “Why is it that no one understands you?”The Master replied, “I do not blame Heaven, nor do I resent others. I study what is below and thereby penetrate what is above. Perhaps only Heaven truly understands me!”

  • Doctrine of the Mean Chapter 11. Unseen yet unshaken: The Sage’s commitment to the Mean

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    The Master said:“Some deliberately hide in obscurity and act eccentrically, hoping to be celebrated by later generations – I will never do such things.A gentleman who follows the Way but abandons it halfway – I could not bring myself to stop like that.Only the sage can steadfastly adhere to the Doctrine of the Mean,…