Kung Fu Tsu, better known as Confucius, was born in 551 B.C. in China. Even as a young man, he had an ardent thirst for knowledge. When still in his youth, he met and talked with Lao-tse who was then a famous figure. Struggling through poverty, Confucius first became a minor civil servant and later rose to be the magistrate of a state. His brilliant administration evoked the Jealousy of others, who conspired to bring about his dismissal in 496 B.C. Thereafter he wandered about penny-less and home less, until in 478 B.C. he died, aged seventy-three. After his death, his sayings were collected in the analects and he was honoured throughout China, as a deity ranking with the deities of Heaven and Earth. Confucious was a moralist rather… Click here to read more