sagehood

The human ideal of sagehood, more sought after than perhaps ever actually realized, was recognized as one that all could, with sufficient effort, achieve.

Japanese Confucian Philosophy Tucker, John 2008

To a large degree, Confucius and later Confucians were teachers who emphasized the importance of learning as both a source of pleasure and as a means for self-cultivation and even perfection in the form of sagehood.

Japanese Confucian Philosophy Tucker, John 2008

The sagehood of the early kings was a function of their having established the way of social and political organization, a way that could never be surpassed, only followed.

Japanese Confucian Philosophy Tucker, John 2008

Many critics have charged that Xunzi cannot account for the possibility of sagehood, given his insistence (uncontroversial in the early Confucian tradition) that the sages share the same nature as the rest of us.

Xunzi Robins, Dan 2007

” Influenced by Buddhist practice, he stressed meditation as the nurturing praxis for the mind to come to moral judgment, the “unity of knowledge and action, ” and the innate capacity of every man to attain sagehood.

2. China, 1522-1796 2001

As a mere ascetic, you see, the Stoic would have surmounted little, and his journey to sagehood and moral and intellectual perfection would be one of less value.

1. MajorityRights.com (main blog) 2009

And the emperors of the last dynasty of all, the Ch'ing (1644 “ 1911), [2] while publicly espousing enlightened Confucian virtues of sagehood, practiced a particularly death-obsessed form of Tibetan Buddhism within the privacy of the imperial household. [

That Old Chinese Black Magic Wakeman, Frederic 1991