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Features of the Chinese mythology

Drevnekitayskoy mythology But there are other significant features. First (and this is the most important), the mythological thinking China has not been subjected to rationalize, such as Greco-Roman. Taoism and Buddhism generally appreciated «management» is quite low, preferring an intuitive way of discovering the world. Philosophy for philosophy as a kind of self-mind, was always alien to East. In accordance with the real world knowledge can not be made the words, because it is impossible to comprehend the mind of God. The vast majority daosskih and Buddhist texts is nothing more than a record of students about their conversations and communication with the teacher (for example, «Lun yu» – a book on the views of Confucius and conversations, recorded his students). It was a kind of «notes», which allowed more time to return to what he said or did the teacher in order to gain the extra opportunity to reflect on the saw or heard. This parable, or in the broader sense – the texts, nothing has been taught. They are only allowed to, metaphorically speaking, walk to where stupala leg of teachers to facilitate learning. That is why these texts – a great many, like an infinite number of ways, according to the Chinese, leading to perfection.
The main actors of Buddhism and Daoism a monk, hermit, evangelist – in a word, people away from society for the purpose of attaining peace of mind for the comprehension of and direct experience of divine essence of peace. Accordingly, the society has remained as it were outside the scope of religious interests, which led eventually to a breach of the relationship between the sacred and the knowledge society, which is always done through the ritual. Ritual, as noted above, serves as a tool to develop social stereotypes from the uninitiated, that is, the bulk of the people. Taoists and Buddhists neglected ritual, believing that it selects a disproportionate amount of time and effort in the process of learning. As a result, these systems will inevitably lose its universality and turned into a «religion for dealing». In the end, the establishment of public deprived of higher meaning, ritual, losing its ground, inevitably in decline, plunged into the life of the society more and more disorder and chaos.
In this regard, it is logical position of Confucianism, which, however, limit their interests only of society, making their main object of «social rights». Having largely a response to the decline of «traditional virtues», Confucianism served, in fact, one goal – «conservation» ritual in the form in which it is in their best examples of reach of those times. Confucius genius (if you talk about him as a real character, who lived according to sources, he was 551-479. BC. E.), In fact, was that he managed to bring the teachings of ethical system from decay, while making it was self-sufficient. Interesting to see how he does it.
If summarized as the idea of social life that existed at the time of the emergence of Confucianism, it would seem so. The central theme was the relationship ruler of Heaven and Lebanon as a source of grace (magical forces «de»), through which the van (ie «Son of Heaven») organize «Podnebesnuyu» (ie, society).
As we can see, this understanding is quite different from the «shaman». Dae, although there is in the system no longer serves as a bridge, connecting worlds, but only as a sort of justification monarshego law. The heavens are only accessible monarch, with the heavens, understood as the source of a supreme will, without explaining its nature.

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