Confucius Essential 7,8,11: A Person That Finds Good In Every Place And Time

The Master is a person that always looks for good in bad situations. It is hard to get good and knowledge out of bad things but the Master has the ability to find these. A person that can do this has to be a very optimistic person. The Master said “When walking with two other people, I will always find a teacher among them. I focus on those who are good and seek to emulate them, and focus on those who are bad in order to be reminded of what needs to be changed in myself,” 7,23 I really liked this quotation because I did find it commonly in my life. When I am at a big dinner with my parents and their friends I try to copy persons that eat well to look more educated and avoid doing things that people do wrong at the table. A big teaching that I got from the Master is that money is not everything. Through out the analects he constantly repeats that money is not all “Without a thought given to official salary.” 8, 12 I know that money is not all very well, but money is necessary to live because with money is the only way you will be able to buy food. I really do not think that a person can go for a month without thinking about money unless he is a very spiritual person. The master in one moment of analect eleven says that the “heaven has bereft me.” 11, 9 I really see a similarity with what happened with Job when he lost faith or with Elie when he stopped believing in God’s good justice.