What is Chinese Life Philosophies?????
It is about Confucianisme that tell about ethics and moral, Taoisme which emphasized adjustment with nature to get benefit from it. Chinese Clasic Philosophies tell about how to adjust your self with life rhythm, find way to get life balances,calm and quiet, creativity, strategic, and how to grow maximality.
To get success, it need more than hard work. We must to realize that there are many factor about success: divine decree, destiny, momentum (the right time and place), support by people around us, and etc.
Why we must know about Chinese Life Philosophies?
Because it tells to us many things about life. We can take many lesson too from it: moral, ethics, balances, strategic, and etc that can be done in our daily life. So, with knowing about this, we can make our life better and enjoy day by days in our lives.
Differences between Western and Chinese Philosophies
There are any differences between Western Philosophies that talk about ambition, individualist, rationalist, power, and freedom with Chinese Philosophies that talk about good deeds, wisdom, harmony and sociality. In daily life, Chinese Philosophies talk about harmony (Yin Yang) then Western Philosophies that talk us about how to win and win. So, sometimes it makes our life full of stress.
Life is about balances. We study, work, get money to support our life, not to seize life from us, example: work or study hard until don’t know time limit.
Life is not only about final purpose, but life is a journey. It means: when you try to reach your dreams, your purpose, or your ideas, you may not forget the other part of life. You must feel this life, there and now. Don’t delayed and wait until you can reach success then enjoy it. When you over focus, you will lost chance to enjoy happiness or life experiences that can give you happiness. The last, you may not out from the real you are. this one story..
The Very Busy Father
There a father who is very busy of his job. Every day he always go work before his children woke up and back home at night when they are sleeping.
One night, his son who aged is 5th waited for his father until night. When he saw his father, the son asked, “Dad, can I ask some question?” The father answered “Yes, what’s wrong?”
“How much your income earnings for a hour?”
“Why you asked something that isn’t related with you?”
The son didn’t answer, but he tried to urge his father with the same question. After it took several minutes, father answered that his income is Rp 100000 per hour.
“Can I get Rp 50000 from Dad?” asked the son.
Then father gave 50000 to his son. His son very glad and said thank you. After that he went to take his savings and took out the money. He counted and summed it. It was 100000 that he had.
“Can I buy your time although it only one hour dad?”
“Can tomorrow Dad go home earlier and dinner with me?” his son asked with sad intonation that touched his father’s heart.
Value:
Life demands us (pupils) to study hard. It needs focus and seriousness to be the best. But, sometimes we are too closed to see and don’t know the important of “managing time”. Although in school there are too many assignment (individual or group) from teacher, soo tired, extracuricullar lesson (perbaikan-pengayaan), have many problem, until go home at noon or night, and etc.. Don’t forget to share our time with people around us. If your sociality is good, it can give you extra power to solve and pass everything because they can give you more spirit and support. That is your obligation to study, but remember: togetherness is necessary too.
Time and love can’t be changed or bought by money or every thing. So, let us spend our time for our families, friends, or people around us because they need care, warmth, love and our time too. “Managing time” is one’s that very important because it’s one’s part of life.
