CAS RN 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Consecration, Immortal Souls, Magical Thinking
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Started by confucius (his real name con qiu) Every religion must have a founder, used the name of the person for the whole entire tradition. School of ru, learning of ru, religion is ru. People say it is not a religion because it is too this-worldly; bring harmony to the family and this world. Ruism teaches that there is no afterlife, no judgment, no paradise or hell, and no reincarnation. When people are born, this is only a contractive form of movement of the cosmic matter- energy. Wang yang-ming no regrets, died peacefully: was a general and politician, built harmony in the society, he was also a scholar, wrote good books and then did good deeds. Dao original meaning is the way and truth: dao of heaven: the way of the entire cosmos; cosmology, dao of human beings: sociology. Tian heaven is always changing and being created, dynamic harmony, spontaneous emergence, everything happens naturally.