That bad things happen to good people was as true in early China as it is today. Franklin Perkins uses this observation as the thread by which to trace the effort by Chinese thinkers of the Warring States Period (c.475-221 BCE), a time of great conflict and division, to seek reconciliation between humankind and the world. Perkins provides rich new readings of classical Chinese texts and reflects on their significance for Western philosophical discourse.

There is One God, the Creator of the Universe. Unity provides clarity and foundational order.Order is the accurate arrangement of all things. Nothing occurs by chance, but for a reason by the intention of the Lord. Unity is the central point of focus and the connection to the Oneness of the Divine. All of Creation occurs, is maintained, and flows into and out of that relationship to unity. The integrated system is formed by each relationship to the mathematical signature of Phi to Unity. Everything in Creation exists in continuous point of connection by Phi to the singular foundation of Unity. This is a relationship with no variableness; it is the same yesterday, today, and forever. This is a good and perfect gift.The outer circle of 360 degrees is divided into (24) 15 degree divisions from the creator's voice "Let There Be Light". There are 24 hours in the Day;12 hours (lower elements) of daylight and 12 hours (upper elements) of darkness. Just as the two realms are night and day in unity with a Day, there is the spiritual and the worldly in unity with the One Creator. The inner circle is the angular convergence of the sum of prime numbers in harmony. It is the musical note intervals of the Platonic solids and the sphere. Prime numbers are divisible only by itself and one. The triangle is the first form created from number. The triangle harmonizes the division of the two. The Dynamic Symmetry and Harmony of the Triangle forms the Magen David - Star of David. One Triangle is the Spiritual and the Other is the Physical. Each are centered at the point of unity. Layered below in creation is the Square, Pentagon, Hexagon and OctagonThe Points where they touch the inner circle are the points of mathematical and musical points of harmonic convergence by illumination. These are the points where the mathematics of light, sound, color and frequency come together in geometrically ordered harmonic form. Each is from a unique perspective of the reflection of light. All of them have profound spiritual significance upon contemplation.The 23-degree angle from horizontal is the tilt of the Earth, without which we would have no seasons.It is the seasons that keep life on the planet; orthogonally forms magnetic North.28 is from the digital root sum of squaring the circle of earth and moon which coincides with a prime number sum. It is beyond chance that it occurs at the 23-degree angle.The converging points of the cover graphic form patterns of energy from the patterns of heaven.Each number is interlaced and forms a mathematical braid of ordered harmony and standing waves of convergence which are the musical notes in the octaves of the creation from light which gives mass to matter. To be clear, each number is a continuation of the unity of oneness. 2 is two 1's, 3 is three 1's. Each number is a continuation of unity without separation. Each is unique and needed.Discover your place in creation and how all things work together for you.

Truthfully and accurately, this book attempts to elucidate the nature and forms of China’s ancient wisdom and reinterpret its ideological significance, thereby activating its inherent vitality and promoting the construction of contemporary Chinese thought. The wisdom of China, with its own discourse system, gives unique stipulations to existence, thought and language. Confucianism, Taoism and Chan Buddhism, as the historical manifestations of Chinese wisdom, respectively express the thoughts between man and man, between man and nature, and between man and mind. In fact, these three aspects exactly constitute the whole of man’s life world. The thoughts of Confucianism, Taoism and Chan Buddhism are mainly and respectively represented in The Four Books and Five Classics, Lao-Zi and Zhuang-Zi, and Tan-Jing (The Sutra of Hui Neng). The wisdom of China, different from the non-natural wisdom of the West, is fundamentally a natural wisdom, according to which nature is the basis of human existence, thought and language. However, in early modern times, the natural history of China was confronted with an unprecedented crisis. Ever since then, China has entered the post natural era. The coexistence of Heaven and man, as the new wisdom of China, can be created in the age of globalization through preserving the living elements and eliminating the dead parts in the traditional Chinese wisdom.

Drawing on the core values of western civilization, the author refines the counterparts in Chinese civilization, summarized as four core principles: duty before freedom, obedience before rights, community before individual, and harmony before conflict. Focusing on guoxue or Sinology as the basis of his approach, the author provides detailed explanations of traditional Chinese values. Recent scholars have addressed the concept of guoxue since the modern age, sorting through it and piecing it together, which has produced an extremely abundant range of information. However, given that the concepts and theories involved have been left largely unanalyzed, this book develops a theoretical treatment of them in several important respects. First, it analyzes the mindset of guoxue, examining the dominant ideas and values of the era from which the term “guoxue” arose, focusing on its connection to early changes and trends in society and culture, and distinguishing three key phases of development. Past scholars mainly had in mind the range of objects studied in guoxue when defining it, and what this book underscores is the meaning of guoxue as a modern body of research. Secondly, it assesses several phases in the modern evolution of the body of guoxue research from the beginning to the end of the 20th century, i.e., ending with the later phase of the National Heritage movement. Third and lastly, the book explores the various main modes of modern guoxue, which correspond step by step with the evolutionary phases of guoxue research.