The beginning of Chapter 1 recommends self-cultivation through broad learning.

He emphasized sage learning and self-cultivation as the base of proper administration.

He taught practical skills, but regarded moral self-cultivation as his most important subject.

An Entwicklungsroman ("development novel") is a story of general growth rather than self-cultivation.

And it became a vehicle for spiritual self-cultivation, in China and beyond.

He believed this to be analogous to the Confucian practice of self-cultivation.

Government, self-cultivation and investigation of things are linked.

It also became a vehicle for spiritual self-cultivation.

Now she is here to bring his ancient path of balanced self-cultivation to our materialistic shores.

Transcendental whistling is presented as a powerful method of self-cultivation through breath control.

This is achieved by self-study and self-cultivation without the aid of Buddhist teachers or guides.

They were generally bluebloods with a talent for self-cultivation and a belief in a natural aristocracy.

They reject confinement in a private garden of self-cultivation and the frustration of political action.

In premodern China, playing games like weiqi was an integral part of a gentleman's self-cultivation.

Each and every man is capable of learning and self-cultivation regardless of social, economic or political status.

More specifically, culture is conceptualized as self-cultivation in an educational sense - a life-long process which "cannot begin too early" (142).

Buddhism through a Western lens can appear rosy for its messages of compassion, inner peace, and self-cultivation.

Xiaist practices include the "heart method" of self-cultivation, which is still widely practised in Xinghua today.

Contents of lessons included Chinese, arithmetic, Self-cultivation, painting, singing, exercise and so on.

Roughly since the Tang Dynasty, drinking tea has been an essential part of self-cultivation.

Confucius did not believe that ethical self-cultivation meant unquestioned loyalty to an evil ruler.

This is the real self-cultivation.

He points out the crucial role of self-cultivation for achieving such 'oneness of body-mind'.

This guideline requires self-education, self-questioning and self-discipline during the process of self-cultivation.

The practice of self-cultivation knits together the individual and the social in an orientation of discourse and action.