MMW 12 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Tzu
16 Apr 2018
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Just because the buddha isn"t mentioned in the chinese classics doesn"t mean that his teachings aren"t worth following. Gentlemen spare no opportunity to educate themselves on the lives and works of extraordinary men. While it is true that monks do themselves injury by shaving their heads, there have been prominent chinese men who have done the same thing in the past and confucianism permits it under some circumstances. Any good chinese man wants to have children to further his line and do his duty, but monks don"t -- explain. There are accounts of men that even confucius revered who neither married nor held property, but they became wise and good and that"s what mattered. you follow the way you are reborn in paradise. It"s not un-chinese to be buddhist and just because buddhism is foreign doesn"t mean that it shouldn"t be followed.
