To apply what you have learned is to be an official, and being an official is to learn. If your conscience is bright, you will certainly achieve something under its guidance. If you do well in all walks of life, it is because you have a bright conscience and that is because you live in the Tao.

To be an official, you must learn, and if you learn, you must be an official. From The Analects of Confucius Zhang Zi: Xia Zi said: To be an official is to learn, and learning is to be an official. Learning is not what we usually think of as knowledge, but refers to the knowledge and bright conscience of saints. The original intention of learning is enlightenment, consciousness and bright conscience. History is what we call politics. Now we can extend it. If you are a businessman, you are an official.

The Analects of Confucius

The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations compiled by disciples and re-disciples of Confucius, a thinker and educator in the Spring and Autumn Period. Written in the early Warring States period. Published by Zhonghua Book Company Press in February 2006. The Analects of Confucius is a masterpiece of Confucianism, which has been listed as one of the "four books" since the Song Dynasty and has had a far-reaching impact on later generations.

This book consists of 20 chapters and 492 sections, which mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, and embodies the political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles of Confucius and Confucianism.

Confucius led some disciples to travel around the world for fourteen years, and revised the Six Classics (Poetry, Books, Rites, Music, I Ching, Spring and Autumn) in his later years. According to legend, he has three thousand disciples and seventy-two German disciples. After the death of Confucius, his disciples and their re-transmitted disciples recorded the words and deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples and compiled the Confucian classic The Analects.