By Park Sung-ik
Confucius was a scholar from the Spring and Autumn Interval in historic China, round 550 B.C. At present, he’s thought-about the founding father of Confucianism.
The next phrases seem in Chapter 27 of the Shu Er part of the “Analects of Confucius” angled however didn’t use a web. He shot, however not at birds perching.”
Which means that Confucius caught fish by fishing, however didn’t use a web and though he did shoot arrows with a string connected to them, he didn’t shoot sleeping birds.
When Confucius was younger, his household was poor, and he labored on a farm. To help his mother and father, he generally caught fish by fishing and caught birds by taking pictures arrows. Though he caught fish by fishing, he didn’t block the flowing water and catch even younger fish with a web. Even when he had no selection however to catch birds, he didn’t kill sleeping birds. Since he handled animals equally, we are able to see how he handled folks. Doing this at a younger age reveals that Confucius’ innate character was noble and that he had the character of a saint. Confucius was not the one one who has this type of mindset. Even when we don’t converse of Mencius’ idea of nature and goodness, it’s human nature to cherish life and abhor killing. Who likes to kill residing creatures? As a result of life is troublesome and competitors is fierce, their hearts change into hardened and merciless, they usually find yourself harming not solely animals but in addition folks.
So this facet of Confucius is an instance of the spirit of respect for all times. The act of cruelly abusing animals doesn’t finish with merely abusing them. The development of disregarding human life that’s prevalent in our society shouldn’t be a phenomenon that occurred in a single day. Unlawful looking practices corresponding to utilizing pesticides to catch fish and migratory birds or setting snares to brutally catch wild animals not solely destroy nature but in addition implicitly unfold a merciless mindset that takes killing calmly. These merciless emotions develop to committing atrocious crimes corresponding to kidnapping youngsters and kidnapping and murdering girls. The rationale vicious and merciless crimes are growing day-to-day is that individuals are dropping their empathy and incapacity to hurt others. We’d like an training that fosters a love for all times in youngsters. When fishing, you solely catch a number of fish, however whenever you fish, you catch all of the fish inside that vary. When this occurs, the infant fish disappear. Due to this fact, nets shouldn’t be used. That is an angle of caring for nature.
Confucius valued human morality and acknowledged that each one residing issues are interconnected. His teachings, due to this fact, emphasize the significance of respect for all times and peaceable coexistence. It conveys that residing in concord with out harming nature is a very ethical life. This perception nonetheless has many implications for the significance of environmental safety and sustainable residing. These teachings of Confucius play a giant function in encouraging folks to be thoughtful of one another and to not neglect respect for all residing issues. Confucius’ philosophy of respect for all times emphasizes the harmonious relationship between people and nature. The expression “don’t kill the sleeping chook” signifies that pure life needs to be revered and never harmed.
Park Sung-ik (parksi48@naver.com) is a retired English instructor from Pungmoon Ladies’ Excessive Faculty.