{"id":4291,"date":"2023-09-26T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T06:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/alan-watts-on-the-confucian-concept-of-jen-and-the-dangers-of-self-righteousness-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T06:20:09","slug":"alan-watts-on-the-confucian-concept-of-jen-and-the-dangers-of-self-righteousness-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/alan-watts-on-the-confucian-concept-of-jen-and-the-dangers-of-self-righteousness-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A great tragedy of our time, this epoch of self-righteousness, is the zeal with which people would rather feel right than understand \u2014 the situation, the context, the motives and vulnerabilities behind the actions, the basic fact of the other. <\/p>\n

Growling beneath it all is an aversion to our own imperfections \u2014 we would rather look away and toward the faults of others than fully step into our own shadow and embrace it with light. In so segregating our own nature, we abdicate our wholeness and cease being fully human.<\/p>\n

How to rehumanize ourselves by owning our shadow is what Alan Watts<\/strong> (January 6, 1915\u2013November 16, 1973) examines in some wonderful passages from Tao: The Watercourse Way<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 his final book, which he never fully finished before death took him one late-autumn day; it was posthumously published with the help of his friend Al Chung-liang Huang.<\/p>\n