The True Direction of Cultivation: Confucius on Why We Serve the Way, Not the Other Way Around

By / / cultivation, Dao (the Way), man, practice, subjectivity, The Analects, Wei Ling Gong XV
Confucius declared: “Man can broaden and exalt the Dao; the Dao cannot be used to exalt the man.”

A man can enlarge the principles which he follows; those principles do not enlarge the man.

人能弘道，非道弘人。

Source: The Analects, Wei Ling Gong XV, Chapter 29

Author: Confucius

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