In analects 3:24, the border guard
of Wei implies the wrongness of Confucius’ state as a chun tzu (gentleman) out
of office. The situation is not supposed to be this way because a chun tzu of
Confucius’ qualities is meant to be in office and as Confucius remains to be a
chun tzu, he’s rightful place is in office. And the situation tells that things
are not the way it should be. It tells that something is wrong either in the
system, the government or the world. In analects 18:6 there is a different
scenario where two farmers say that a chun tzu out of office is less of a
problem than the greater problems of the world like loss and claim of authority
of those undeserving, wars and instability of the state. Both are different
instances that show the same unjust system that is called disharmony. It is
when the Way is at disarray and the proper order of things is disregarded. This
is a main problem because people as thinking beings and are capable of doing
something are acting impassive and unresponsive. People are taking things as it
is and not the way it should be. The
proper order of things is not followed and things that should be done are not
happening hence, there is disharmony.
People are the ones in command in this world.
The change lies in the hands of people. The absence of the Way is the product
of what the people refuses to straighten out. The acceptance of what things are
degrades the value of what things should be. When the Way is absent, the
natural order of things is upside down. The accepted truth becomes more
powerful than that of the real truth. The absence of the Way refers to the
things and situations that are not in their rightful places.
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