{"id":1643,"date":"2020-09-27T01:20:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T01:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/?page_id=1643"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:25:47","slug":"llc3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/live-like-a-confucian-week\/llc3\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5 – Diagnosing Microaggressions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Mengzi said, \u201cThat which people are capable of without learning is their genuine capability. That which they know without pondering is their genuine knowledge. Among babes in arms there are none that do not know to love their parents. When they grow older, there are none that do not know to revere their elder brothers. Treating one\u2019s parents as parents is benevolence. Revering one\u2019s elders is righteousness. There is nothing else to do but extend these to the world.\u201d (Mengzi<\/em> 7A15)<\/p>

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Mengzi said, \u201cHow unbenevolent is King Hui of Liang! Those who are benevolent extend from what they love to what they do not yet love. Those who are unbenevolent extend from what they do not love to what they do love.\u201d<\/p>

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Mengzi\u2019s disciple Gongsun Chou asked, \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>

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Mengzi replied, \u201cKing Hui of Liang led his people to war and slaughtered them for the sake of land. When he was defeated, he did it again. Fearing that he would be unable to win, he urged his beloved son to his death in battle. This is what I mean by extending from what he does not love to what he does love.\u201d (Mengzi<\/em> 7B:1)<\/p><\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mengzi argues that we all have basic, emotional starting points that we can cultivate into full-blown virtues. In the first part of the \u201cNurturing a Sprout\u201d exercise, you sought to pay attention to the presence of one of these starting points. Today, your goal is to try to develop this emotional disposition. Of course, there is only so much that you can do in one day! Nonetheless, today\u2019s goal is to see how accessible you find Mengzi\u2019s teaching that we can \u201cextend\u201d our sprouts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Working with the same sprout you chose for Nurturing a Sprout (I), do two things. First thing in the morning, reflect on what types of situations tend to appropriately<\/u> bring out this feeling in you. What are paradigmatic situations in which you experience that emotion? Second, over the course of the day, look to put yourself in relevantly similar situations (at least three times, if possible). It may help to think about the respects in which the situation is similar to paradigm cases, or perhaps you\u2019ll find that too artificial and distracting. See what works!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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After completing the assigned exercise for today, click here<\/a> to access the prompt for tonight’s reflection<\/strong> and to submit your 1-2 paragraph journal entry.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Day 3:Nuturing a Sprout (II) Live Like a Confucian Background Mengzi said, \u201cThat which people are capable of without learning is their genuine capability. That which they know without pondering is their genuine knowledge. Among babes in arms there are none that do not know to love their parents. When […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1546,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1643","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7548,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1643\/revisions\/7548"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingagoodlife.com\/fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}