Originally Posted by
r.(shaolin)
You may will be right that Buddhist concepts of morality and 'meritorious deeds' may have influenced popular Confucian and Taoist thought, never-the-less, morality books during the mid- seventeenth century, books with such titles as, "Meritorious Deeds at No Cost" and "A Record of the Practice of Good Deeds and Establishing One's Own Destiny," taught that good deeds would be rewarded by worldly success, etc. in this present world, reflected very un-Buddhist ideas of success.
r.