On the psychological level, the work of self-cultivation is cultivating tranquility and impartiality; on the metaphysical level, one purifies qi so as to more perfectly express li.
An unselfish self-cultivation Is the ideal.
They practiced self-cultivation and seriousness & owned to a bewildering complexity of attitudes & rites.
They reject confinement in a private garden of self-cultivation and the frustration of political action.
The place, which exemplified voluntary simplicity and self-cultivation, was also "wildly social," Mr. Stiles recalled.
And so if elites have a culture today, it is a culture of individual self-cultivation.
In this spare courtyard complex, Abottess Yin and her nuns live a life of prayer, work and self-cultivation.
"My passion was for self-cultivation that involves discipline" as opposed to "letting it all hang out," he says.
True to the Confucian and, for that matter, Mencian spirit, Xunzi underscored the centrality of self-cultivation.
China's patrician culture, unlike its avatars on TV, had an ethos of supreme refinement based on xiushen, the Confucian notion of self-cultivation.
This involved our American Negro faith in education, of course, and the idea of self-cultivation — although I couldn't have put it that way.
