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Illustrious Virtue on Our Path
Submitted by mike0921 on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 19:32
The Investigation of Things:
The Ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom first ordered well their own states.
Wishing to order their own states, they first regulated their own families.
Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated their persons.
Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts.
Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts.
Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge.
Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
Passage from The Great Learning
Confucius
This is an introduction I have used on several blog posts, just because it is so close to the core of my being.
I have more to add to this thought original to here and now, not from previous posts, but it must wait until next time, for it is late here in the hills and my pallet is calling...
Mike Fielder
In the hills of West Virginia
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