It is worth notice that Confucius build a set of system standards, no one had ever done as he did before. As Confucius and his ideas carry strong maneuverability, they were widely promoted by the ruling classes for 2000 years in China history.
Confucianism is like the structure of the mind building, with all kinds of frames that developed, one can get contact with Confucianism in daily life nowadays. However, Confucius held an optimistic attitude towards human nature, it is easy for one to follow the structure and yet now knowing WHY. Despite Confucianism is highly advanced in ancient time, it created a gap between being a real person and being a Junzi.
Although Confucius himself never wanted binary opposition of his thoughts, the later generation was more likely to interpret those into right or wrong. Thus, many of the behavior is labeled as Good or Bad. It appears as a strong superego and deep shame within personality clinically, especially among OCD patients or Anxiety sufferers. I would suggest we take our attention to another important philosopher, whose ideas might become the ‘solution’ for personal suffering.
Chuang Tzu and Wu Wei
From the fifth to the third century BC was considered as the warring state period, different philosophers were extremely active during this period of time, they each had several independent ideas about truth of the world, after generation would call this special period Bai Jia Zheng Ming (contention of a hundred school of thoughts).
Chuang Tzu’s proposes was like a breath of fresh air in this chaotic time. Both Chuang Tzu and Lao Tseu suggest Wu Wei. Wu Wei might mean non-action, do nothingness, but the application is far more than not doing anything. Most Chinese concepts can only be perceived but cannot be described with words. I would like to refer to an allusion called Ou Lu Wang Ji?Egrets sense the purpose), futurity had made this allusion into a Gu Chin (Chinese Zither) score.
Once upon a time, there is a man who loves egret. Each time, when he sails the boat, the egrets would stay on his boat, sometimes there are over one hundred egrets. His father said: ‘Why don’t you catch some egrets while they are sailing with you so that I can play egrets’. The next day, the man sailed the boat as usual, with an idea of catching an egret on his mind, but this time, none of the egrets would stay with him, they fly up high circling in the sky, not come down to his boat anymore.
