"Investigating Confucius"

1. "Investigating Confucius"

2. Confucius say, “You have heart as big as Texas.”

3. Confucius say, “You have heart as big as Texas.” • You will receive a fortune cookie today.

4. Confucius say, “You have heart as big as Texas.” • You will receive a fortune cookie today. • Help! I’m being held prisoner in a Chinese cookie factory!

5. Confucius say, “You have heart as big as Texas.” • You will receive a fortune cookie today. • Help! I’m being held prisoner in a Chinese cookie factory! • THAT WASN’T CHICKEN!

6. Confucius taught “Tao” The Way of Man “The Way in which life is best lived.”

7. There is no spoon. (It’s All Blue)

8. Confucius’ Glasses Buddhism/Hinduism Identity and God

9. Reason Revelation Experience Experience Reason Revelation

10. 1 Corinthians 6:6-7 Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. New King James Version

11. Neo and Agent Smith:Good and Evil Exist in Spirit

12. Jen: “Love for Humanity” • Responsibility, Tolerance, Trust, Diligence, & Generosity "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself." ~ Confucius

13. THE BIBLE The more I learn about Neo (good) the more I'm tempted to be like Agent Smith (evil).

14. Romans 7:5 At one time I lived without understanding the law. But when I learned the command not to covet, for instance, the power of sin came to life. The law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death. I would never have known that coveting is wrong if the law had not said, “You must not covet.”

15. Red Cravings Cause Suffering Produce Need for Shame

16. DUHKHA Buddha's teachings on suffering Suffering is the central fact of life. Being born is pain, growing old is pain, sickness is pain, death is pain. Union with what we dislike is pain. Separation from what we like is pain, not obtaining what we desire is pain.

17. Duhkha:The cause of suffering is the desire (iccha), craving (tanha) or thirst (tishna) for sensual pleasures, for existence and experience, for worldly possessions and power. This craving binds one to the wheel of rebirth. Suffering can be brought to an end only by the complete cessation of desires, the detaching of oneself from desire and craving.

18. NEED FOR SHAME “If the people are governed by laws and punishment to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well.” ~ Confucius

19. NEED FOR SHAME To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. ~ Confucius

20. Blanket of Shame Feel Bad About Myself

21. Never Feel Shame Feel Good About Myself Blanket of Shame Feel Bad About Myself

22. Feeling Appropriate Guilt Never Feel Shame Feel Good About Myself Blanket of Shame Feel Bad About Myself

23. 2 Corinthians 7:9-11 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance… For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner. New King James Version

24. Escape the Red Matrix Through Education/Enlightenment

25. Escape the Red Matrix The goal of Hinduism and Buddhism is to distinguish every aspect of personhood because it leads to desires, feelings, wants and actions. Heaven or Nirvana is to reach nothingness.

26. Path of Education Problem: Need Shame Solution: Education

27. Path of Education Problem: Need Shame Solution: Education • Perfectionism: Stop doing shameful things. • Controlling: Stop cravings and appetites. • Overachieving: Try harder. • Humiliation: Feel bad about shameful acts.

28. Shame: An emotion caused by a sense of disgrace and requiring one to try harder to be acceptable.

29. Shame: An emotion caused by a sense of disgrace and requiring one to try harder to be acceptable. Guilt: Feeling sorrow and taking responsibility for a specific wrong doing, then seeking forgiveness and making restitution.

30. Shame vs. Guilt Cultures • The ship “Cole” was attacked because it “defiled” the holy land. Americans say, “But we did not do anything wrong.” • A raped daughter may be killed to cleanse the family’s shame. We say, “She is innocent.” • 3. A woman who commits adultery will wash her hair to remove the defilement. She will not confess her guilt and seek forgiveness. • 4. Muslims extremists will stand by Kadafi and Saddam even though they are “guilty” of many crimes.

31. Jesus' Glasses Red and Blue were created for good. We are intended to be pleasing to God, but we are guilty of using our freedom to do wrong. Jesus provided a solution to guilt and shame.

32. Romans 10:9 If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame."