Column Chronicles: Son of Confucius, part two

Son of Confucius, part two

Frank Cotolo
July 14, 2016

The man who demanded to be known publicly as Confucius, Jr., claimed a number of different connections to his namesake, the perennitally quoted Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period in China. In 477 BC, two years after the recorded death of the orginal Confucius, the self-named Confucius, Jr. began to publish hundreds of works that were lost in a wave of public disinterest. The works were found only recently in an archeologic dig that discovered the burial site of Kong Li, the first child of Confucius.

Over the course of a soon-to-be-determined period, we are publishing the works of Confucious, Jr. and let the readers judge the potency of his works as compared to his so-called father.

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Man with full beard has to comb face.

It matters not how slowly you go but to come too fast is of serious concern.

Choose to work at what you love but remember it is healthy to eat now and again.

He who speaks without modesty should not wear baggy pants.

The pangs of ill fortune are not earned nor inherited, for all pangs are not just, nor are they just pangs.

Death and life are different; no one dead, after all, pays much attention to music.

Ability does not catch up with the demand for it, because ability does not have legs.

He who exercises government without virtue is he who needs more exercise, perhaps daily, maybe just an hour each day.

To learn is to absorb, to absorb is to obtain, to obtain is to maintain. Beyond that, there nothing else to know about learning, absorbing, obtaining or maintaining.

Be not concerned about what other men think of you, unless those thoughts involve barnyard animals, a cropping stick and a blindfold.

In this age of mankind, all soverign nations are lost without soverignty that possesses the strength to conceal its almighty influence on the head of a needle that will never be used to sew a place rug.

Conflict comes to those in battle.

Heaven means to be one with God; but no shirt, no shoes, no service.

...to be continued.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.