The Analects

Confucius is wisdom transmitted with words. The problem often arises: how can words, no matter how powerfully sacred and pure, avoid changing meaning when they are in contact with the unsacred and impure world?

Perhaps people need to listen to silence-to observe what is unspoken.

The historian Annping Chin writes in The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics (2007): "Confucius did not want his words to end up as rulesHe loved the entire

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