Shadowing Practice: EASTERN PHILOSOPHY - Confucius - Learn English Speaking with Video
Creando lección...
1
We know very little for certain about the life of the Chinese philosopher Confucius.
2
He is said to have been born in 551 BC in China.
3
He may have been a student of the Taoist master Lao Tzu.
4
According to tradition, he began government service and served many roles, including Minister of Crime under Duke Ding in the state of Lu.
5
However, Confucius and the Duke fell out after the Duke received a present from a neighboring ruler, beautiful women and 124 horses.
6
The Duke spent all his time riding horses and being entertained by the women, which Confucius found deeply improper for a ruler.
7
So he left the court and wandered for years.
8
Around between the 3rd and 5th century BC, Confucius's works were collected into the Analects, a collection of sayings written down by his followers.
9
Some of the morals Confucius taught are easily recognizable, most notably his version of the Golden Rule, do not do unto others what you don't want done to yourself.
10
But some of them also sound very strange or old-fashioned to modern ears, especially to Western ones.
11
But we need his advice all the more for this.
12
It serves as an antidote to the troubles we currently face.
13
Here are a few examples of what Confucius helps us to remember.
14
1. Ceremony is important The Analects are filled with strange conversations between Confucius and his disciples, like this one.
15
Tsé-Kung wished to do away with the offering of a sheep.
16
Confucius said, Tsé, you love the sheep, I love the ceremony.
17
At first this is baffling, if not also humorous.
18
Why not save the sheep?
19
But Confucius is reminding Tze and us about the importance of ceremony.
20
In the modern world we tend to shun ceremony and see this as a good thing, a sign of intimacy or a lack of pretension.
21
But Confucius believed in the value of ceremonies over sheep because he valued what he called ritual propriety.
22
This might seem a very outdated and conservative idea, but in fact many of us long for particular rituals that meal mum cooked for us whenever we were sick,
23
or the yearly birthday outing, or our wedding vows.
24
We understand that certain premeditated, deliberate and precise gestures stir our emotions deeply.
25
Rituals make our intentions clear and they help us to understand how to behave.
26
Two, we should treat our parents with reverence.
27
In particular, Confucius had a very strict idea about how we should behave towards our parents.
28
He believed that we should obey them when we're young, care for them when they're old, mourn at length when they die and make huge sacrifices in their memory thereafter.
29
He even said that we shouldn't travel far away
30
while our parents are alive and should cover for them if they steal a sheep.
31
This attitude is known as filial piety.
32
This sounds strange now, when many of us leave our parents home as teenagers and rarely return to visit.
33
We may even see them as strangers, arbitrarily thrust upon us by fate.
34
After all, our parents are so out of touch, so pitifully human in their shortcomings, so difficult, so judgmental, and they have such bad taste in music.
35
Yet Confucius recognize that in many ways moral life begins in the family.
36
We cannot truly be caring, wise, grateful and conscientious unless we remember mum's birthday and meet dad for lunch.
37
3. We should be obedient to honourable people Modern society is very egalitarian.
38
We believe that we're all born equal and should ultimately be able to say and do whatever we like.
39
We reject many rigid hierarchical roles.
40
Yet Confucius told his followers Let the ruler be a ruler, the subject a subject, a father a father, and a son a son.
41
This might sound jarring, but it is in fact important to realise that there are people worthy of our deep veneration, even our simple and humble obedience.
42
We need to be modest enough to recognise the people whose experience or accomplishments outweigh our own.
43
We should also practise peaceably doing what these people need, ask or command.
44
Confucius explained, The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass.
45
The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
46
Bending gracefully is in fact not a sign of weakness but a gesture of humility and respect.
47
Four.
48
Cultivated knowledge can be more important than creativity.
49
Modern culture places a lot of emphasis on creativity, unique insights that come to us suddenly.
50
But Confucius was adamant about the importance of the universal wisdom that comes comes from years of hard work and reflection.
51
He listed benevolence, ritual propriety, righteousness, wisdom, integrity, as the five constant virtues.
52
While Confucius believed that people were inherently good, he also saw that virtues like these must be constantly cultivated, just like plants in a garden.
53
He spoke about moral character and wisdom as the work of a lifetime.
54
We can see now why he had such reverence for his elders.
55
Of course, a burst of inspiration may well be what we need to start our business
56
or redo our rough draft or reinvent our life.
57
But if we're being very honest with ourselves, we'll have to admit that we also need to devote more energy to slowly changing our habits.
58
This, more than anything else, is what prevents us from becoming truly intelligent, accomplished and wise.
59
Confucius died without reforming the decadent Duke and his officials.
60
But after his death, his followers created schools and temples in his honour across East Asia, passing his teachings along for over 2,000 years.
61
Today, millions of people still follow Confucius' teachings as a spiritual or religious discipline, and his thought has been a huge influence on Eastern political ideas about morality,
62
obedience and good leadership.
63
We might find Confucian virtues a bit strange or old-fashioned, but this is what ultimately makes them all the more important.
64
We need them as a corrective to our own excesses.
65
The modern world is almost surprisingly totally un-Confucian, informal, egalitarian and full of innovation.
66
So we're conversely at risk of becoming impulsive, irreverent and thoughtless without a little advice from Confucius about good behaviour and cheap.
67
Thank you.
📺 Mismo canal
C2479
The Purpose and Benefit of Emotional Education
British AccentBusiness EnglishUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B22
The Childish Behavior That Ruins Adult Relationships
Daily ConversationWorking Adults
B24
Why Religious Beliefs Aren't Just Silly
British AccentIELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C17
What Years of Heartbreak Actually Teach Us
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B22
How to Love without fear
British AccentBusiness EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
C2384
What's Education For?
British AccentBusiness EnglishUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B246
What is The School of Life?
British AccentBusiness EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
C11
How to Get Over Someone
British AccentUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C148
Don't Despair
British AccentUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B26
Why Heartbroken People Make the Best Lovers
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B22
Why Some Breakups Hurt So Much More Than Others
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C13
How to Spot the Loveliest People in the World
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B21
Are You Neurotic or Psychotic? How to Tell the Difference
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C16
Why We Should Refuse to Get Into Arguments
British AccentBusiness EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
C111
When Love Isn't Easy
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C13
PHILOSOPHY - Plato
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B26
Who Dreams of the Greatest Love? (it's not who you expect)
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B2How to Find Out What's Really on Your Mind
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B24
What to think of the Rice Theory of the Japanese Character
British AccentBusiness EnglishUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B21
LITERATURE - Charles Darwin
British AccentIELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
✨ Recomendar Video
B214
97 oraciones
Ancient Chinese Wisdom to Calm Your Modern Mind
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C137
29 oraciones
Shakespeare: Hamlet
British AccentIELTS PrepTOEFL PrepCambridge Exam Prep
C12
817 oraciones
Love is a skill, not a feeling | Alain de Botton: Full Interview
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C15
93 oraciones
Some brains are built for philosophy. Is yours?
British AccentDaily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C1116
21 oraciones
Impulse Control: The No You Never Practice (Epictetus)
Business EnglishUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
![[ SHAOLIN MASTER ] The Four Noble Truths | Shi Heng Yi 2023](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Q40NFK6MQSU/mqdefault.jpg)
C12
143 oraciones
[ SHAOLIN MASTER ] The Four Noble Truths | Shi Heng Yi 2023
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B21
301 oraciones
10 Traditional Chinese Health Habits My Mom Taught Me (What Science Says)
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
C12
97 oraciones
Jordan Peterson - You Need a Routine!
Business EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
C1174
24 oraciones
The uncomfortable truth | Yuval Noah Harari
IELTS PrepTOEFL PrepUniversity Students
C15
4 oraciones
Loneliness and the Illusion of Connection | Thich Nhat Hanh, 2012.12.13
Daily ConversationUniversity StudentsWorking Adults
B21,042
16 oraciones
Steve Jobs: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Business EnglishDaily ConversationUniversity Students
Sobre esta lección
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.