Taoist practice of psychic self-regulation has essentially solved the same task of ordering the mind as the Confucian culture. Confucianism and Taoism are quite closely related, although this is a relationship of antipodes and the unity of opposites.
Similarities in Taoism and Confucianism
Mental functions of a person must be trained and “educated” in a certain way, changing them in a particular direction. Before proceeding to any business, especially such an important and responsible as management of other people, first of all you must “learn to control yourself”, i.e. your psyche. “The root” of successes and failures should be primarily searched in yourself. The ...
