The main ideas of the Philosophical Counseling in the Analects can be summed up as follows: 1.A philosophical counselor has to be a wise, kind and courageous "gentleperson." 2.The goal of the philosophical counseling is to let the counselee not feel worried, fearful, and puzzled. 3.The method of the philosophical counseling is based on intellectual counseling. 4.The philosophical counseling is based on brief counseling.