Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Love everything you do

One thing I noticed was about Confucius was that he always says very wise things but all his preachings have to do with love. I think that everything that Confucius did, he did it with love and gave the best of his energy.

"Set your heart upon the way, rely upon Virtue, lean upon Goodness, and explore widely in your cultivation of the arts." This quote is really inspiring. I have really enjoyed reading these analects. There are many lessons to be learned from them.  This quote really made me think.

 You can understand this quote by dividing it up.

The first part: " Set your heart upon the way… ". Confucius is saying that the "way" is the path of life, so you must love your life and love everything you do in life.

The second part: "…rely upon Virtue…” Here you must always believe that everything you do have a positive outcome and you always have to have faith in that goodness is always on your side.

The last part: "…and explore widely in your cultivation of the arts." Here he is asking all of us to cultivate the arts to help and give new input to the society we are in.

He is asking to be positive and to love and live our lives and love what we do and find the goodness in everything at all times.

Confucius is very wise and I love whom he writes. The beauty of his writing really touches 

love for learning

Reading Analects 4 through 6 a quote from the Analects really caught my attention. "In any village of ten households there are surely those who are as dutiful or trustworthy as I am, but there is no one who matches my love for learning," (5.28) I began to analyze this quote and I realized what Confucius meant. If you don’t love what you are learning you wont enjoy it so you want really learn. Confucius teaches about finding a love for learning. We can see that he wants his students to love what they do in order to find goodness in their selves and to learn more you should love what your doing.
Many people I know, who are a lot older than me, have always told me that the essence in learning is not the same anymore. Our parents or grandparents use to go to school because they enjoyed learning. Everyday was more exciting because they would learn knew things. I’m sure that these would all be perfect examples of people who do have a true love for learning new things, people who are thrilled with the thought of learning knew things, and this isn’t only in their childhoods, this is all there life’s. I could perfectly use my parents as an example they are in their forties and they still love learning new things. They really enjoy it.
Today, the majority of students attend class because it is am obligation. We are forced and we can’t seem to find a joy in learning and this makes me go back to Confucius’s quote. Maybe he is right, we must find a joy and an entertainment in learning if we really want to succeed and learn more.

Spelling Exercise

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Thursday, November 6, 2008

Incredible Speaking Ability

After watching President Barack Obama speak, I noticed many things that the new American president does. Aside from being one of the best speakers I have ever seen and heard he maintains the audience's attention throughout the whole speech. He demonstrates eye contact and limits his hand gestures and uses them to make emphasis o n certain parts of his speech. He also changes his tone and volume to master emphasis on important points of his speech. One of the things that stood out the most to me was his clear and confident tone. It really leaves you admiring and analyzing what President Obama is saying. He really hooks you into what he is trying to say.