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Strength of Chinese culture lies in understanding of human heart (2)

By Wan Lixin   (Shanghai Daily)

09:40, November 20, 2012

Chinese wisdom

He said that Hegelian understanding of Oriental philosophy was deeply flawed because he did not understand the glorious past of the Oriental people.

If we study human beings from a historical perspective, we would find that the species has changed very little. We Chinese have a saying that it is easier to change the rivers and mountains than the human heart.

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The Chinese answer to counter this innate human greed is to extol the virtues of thriftiness and simplicity, by suggesting the contentment afforded by, first, the honoring of our responsibility and obligations, second, nature, and third, art.

The other day, I had a casual chat with a colleague of mine, and he ridiculed my vision of the good life as "porcine."

I quipped that one of the biggest differences between Man and Pig is that pigs know what they want, while human beings do not.

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