The Heart of Confucius: Insights from Yu Dan on the Analects

Author: Yu Dan
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
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The Analects,2500,，，。The Analects ， how to live a happy life that our hearts truly need. Professor Yu Dan of Beijing Normal University, with her deep classical cultivation and the unique delicate emotions of a woman, closely ties the spiritual dilemmas faced by humanity in the 21st century. From the perspectives of the Chinese cosmic view, spiritual outlook, ways of handling life, friendship, self-cultivation, ideals, and philosophy of life, she interprets the Analects from a distinctive individual perspective.
The gray Confucius must connect with the colorful world. This world is full of vitality, vibrant and diverse, with all creatures competing for freedom in the frosty sky. It is precisely because of life's colorful richness that the gray theory does not seem lifeless; and it is precisely because of the noble and pure thoughts that the complex world does not become vulgar. Gray elevates taste, while color ensures vitality. This is harmony. Yu Dan tells us about such a Confucius—a gray Confucius connected to the colorful world. The connection is broad, spanning east, west, north, south, past and present, and all over the world. The theme, however, is simple—simple to the point of being colorless, genderless, timeless, and spaceless—only temperature remains.
The entire book explains the classics in plain language, interprets wisdom through the classics, interprets life through wisdom, interprets human nature through life, and finds a place for the human heart in human nature, thereby experiencing the universal wisdom of the classics.