"Mencius said, 'Humanity is man's mind and righteousness is man's path. Pity the man who abandons the path and does not follow it, and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and fowls are lost, they go look for them, and yet, when they have lost their hearts, they do not go to look for them. The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind." (Mencius, from: "A Source Book In Chinese Philosophy. Translated and Compiled by Wing-Tsit Chan. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1973)
While I cannot agree with his view on the nature of man- I do find it interesting that he thinks that a lack of self-examination is absurd. I couldn't agree more. I know that my own priorities may have a way to go- but I just do not understand how people can not look into so many important things. Let me know what you think.
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Man's 'Nature' has been tainted from the fall. The 'Nature' of man is now inherently evil and not good as most feel-good New-Agers attest to. Consider this, do you have to teach a young child to disobey or to do something wrong? No you find that it is quite the opposite, you have to teach children how to behave and teach them to do things that are good now evil. People would like to think that it is society or government or religion that causes people to do bad things to each other. A lot of people have a hard time stomaching that their sweet 'innocent' newborn baby is a fallen creature that without the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is bound to an eternity apart and separate from God.
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