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Ritual is not about stale traditionalism
Our default understanding of the word ritual is misleading.
Ritual is not about meticulously obeying stale old rules. Instead, Confucius taught life as a ritual, transforming everyday actions into sacred activities. Ritual governs our greetings and conversations. If you submit to ritual and practise it, then it can change your life for the better.
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Ritual is about reverence
Treat all contexts as sacred spaces with their own rhythms and patterns. For example, driving a car is not a time to check your phone. Hiking is not the time to scroll on your phone.
When you start treating your contexts with the reverence they deserve and submit to their r...
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Everything is ritual
Habits (good and bad) are effortless and cultivated through repetition. But habits are hard to change.
A ritual is more like improvising music or an athletic performance. It means adjusting to different conditions. Confucian ritual is similarly flexible. It depends on the a...
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Ritual differs from habit
- Habits leave no room for asking questions.
- Ritual governs all behaviour in all contexts. The right ritual in a situation is only possible when you learn to ask questions. You won't be able to live harmoniously if you do not understa...
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You can’t fake it until you make it
"Fake it until you make it’ suggests that performing the right action will eventually lead to the right mindset or intentions. The underlying assumption is that the rightness of an action is separate from the character of the person doing it.
How
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