confucius the open heart meaning

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Key Takeaway: The Open Heart.

The Open Heart. The noble person is broad and at ease. Confucius is associated with a practical ethics of ren (仁, humane conduct), li (礼, appropriate form), yi (义, rightness), shu (恕, reciprocity), learning, and the cultivation of the junzi (君子). The Analects preserves sayings and dialogues associated with him alongside other voices; it is a received compilation, not simply a book he personally authored.

As Confucius taught in the Analects and as the Confucian tradition of virtue and self-cultivation holds, The Open Heart.

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