Our ideas about human nature influence our living arrangements. At one extreme, we have the single-family suburban home. It maximizes for autonomy and privacy, but does so at the expense […]
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The Courage To Do Right
The Meng family appointed Yang Fu as a magistrate, and he asked Zengzi for advice. Zengzi said, “Those who rule have departed from the Way and left the common people […]
The Right Demeanor
Actions speak louder than words, but facial expressions speak louder than actions. I learned this lesson in the fourth grade when I got in trouble for rolling my eyes at […]
The Story of the Real Confucius
If you’d like an introduction to the life and ideas of Confucius, you could do much worse than The Story of the Real Confucius, a 90-minute docudrama produced by the […]
New Translation of the Xin Jing (Heart Scripture)
Today, we are very pleased to share a new translation of the Xinjing or Heart Scripture of Zhen Dexiu by RAA member Ryan Chiang McCarthy. The Xinjing is an anthology […]
