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May 9, 2020
The way this book interpretes Confusianism and the origin/forming of Chinese traditions is enlightening.
It looks into how Western and Easteren minds diverged when their respective ancient tribes growed into civilization, how they took rationality and emotion differently, to split the world into two or keep them as one.
It also explains the seemingly self-contradictory in Chinese tradition, how on one hand human has a high position, in parallel with heaven and earth, how on the other hand, there is no indiviudal but only groups (collectivism).
The weatern world has realized their limit and mistakes for splitting the world into clear-cut reason and feeling. The Chinese mind never has this issue but suffers from the ambiguity, with too much pragmatism leaving not much space for wondering/dreaming.
The book stresses that the Chinese idea is focused on this world, this life, the biggest/highest aim is to better this world/this life, instead of looking for the afterlife or another (imaginery) world. Maybe that's why the leaders in China would remind people to never forget walking on the earth while Hawking or Einstein would be content just staring into the sky.
I would also prefer looking into the sky, not for seeking another world, but just how boring life would be if everything has to have a practical end. Jung is an earthly person, often been mistaken as a peasant, while he is also the one with highest spiritual aspirations. There is something bigger/higher than human.
The book talks about how Chinese doesn't stress "being" but always "how". In the Cultures and Organizations: Software of the MindCultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind there is an anecdote that a visiting scholar grown up in Asia was perplexed that his western hosts always asked him what he belives. For him what he believes is far less important than what he is supposed to do.
For these Asian minds, God is in the ritual, in the activity, you cannot separate a God out of the environments. It doesn't matter what you believe or waht is it that you believe, but how you behave, how you hold yourself in the web of human relationships and the relation with the surroundings.
A flaw could be an advantage. If you know both sides, there is hope for infusion. Jung thinks Western and Eastern need not be mutually exclusive. I agree.
It looks into how Western and Easteren minds diverged when their respective ancient tribes growed into civilization, how they took rationality and emotion differently, to split the world into two or keep them as one.
It also explains the seemingly self-contradictory in Chinese tradition, how on one hand human has a high position, in parallel with heaven and earth, how on the other hand, there is no indiviudal but only groups (collectivism).
The weatern world has realized their limit and mistakes for splitting the world into clear-cut reason and feeling. The Chinese mind never has this issue but suffers from the ambiguity, with too much pragmatism leaving not much space for wondering/dreaming.
The book stresses that the Chinese idea is focused on this world, this life, the biggest/highest aim is to better this world/this life, instead of looking for the afterlife or another (imaginery) world. Maybe that's why the leaders in China would remind people to never forget walking on the earth while Hawking or Einstein would be content just staring into the sky.
I would also prefer looking into the sky, not for seeking another world, but just how boring life would be if everything has to have a practical end. Jung is an earthly person, often been mistaken as a peasant, while he is also the one with highest spiritual aspirations. There is something bigger/higher than human.
The book talks about how Chinese doesn't stress "being" but always "how". In the Cultures and Organizations: Software of the MindCultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind there is an anecdote that a visiting scholar grown up in Asia was perplexed that his western hosts always asked him what he belives. For him what he believes is far less important than what he is supposed to do.
For these Asian minds, God is in the ritual, in the activity, you cannot separate a God out of the environments. It doesn't matter what you believe or waht is it that you believe, but how you behave, how you hold yourself in the web of human relationships and the relation with the surroundings.
A flaw could be an advantage. If you know both sides, there is hope for infusion. Jung thinks Western and Eastern need not be mutually exclusive. I agree.
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