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__**Sacred Texts **__

The sacred text is called the Confucian Canon which consists of the Five Classics and the Four Books. The most famous of these works is from the Four Books, [|The Analects]. The Analect was written by some of Confucius's students after his death, it presereved both oral and written transmissions of their master.


 * The Five Classics:**
 * 1) //Shu Ching//; Classic of History
 * 2) //Shih Ching//; Classic of Odes
 * 3) //I Ching//; Classic of Changes
 * 4) //Ch'un Ching//; Spring and Autumn Annals
 * 5) //Li Ching//; Classic of Rites
 * The Four Books:**
 * 1) //Lun Yu// of Confucius; Analects
 * 2) //Chung Yung//; Doctrine of the Mean
 * 3) //Ta Hsueh//; Great Learning
 * 4) //Meng Tzu//; Mencius

In The Analects, is a summary Confucius gave of his life (2:4). "At 15 I set my heart on learning; at 30 I firmly took my stand; at 40 I had no delusions; at 50 I knew the Mandate of Heaven; at 60 my ear was attuned; at 70 I followed my heart's desire without overstepping the boundaries of right."