Religions in China and Japan

of man is good. It is through faulty education and

bad example that man deteriorates. He must by his own effort develop a stable good character and to achieve this he must have a strong will and a true ideal. The object of Confucius was to produce the “Superior man,” the man who knew the right thing and did it, a man of faultless virtues.

the teaching of Confucius.

in China and there are temples in every city, which

are dedicated to him.

kindness.

over- government and so he said that the best government

was that which governed the least. He regarded war as a great calamity and was opposed to capital punishment. He was for a return to the state of nature, in which the way of salvation of the state as well as the individual according to him.

attain perfect blessedness. When universal law is the law of

one’s being, he is one with the universe.

get rid of it. 
  

and by meditating. Meditation means training the mind to empty

it all of thoughts. When this happens what is important comes clear.

the deification of dead ancestors.