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This paper treats Jing, Shen, and Jingshen in the philosophy of Xunzi. Through Laozi, Zhuangzi, Hwainanzi, The analects, Mencius, The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean, I research the meaning of spirituality of Xunzi. While Taoists emphasized spirituality, Confucians did not. The reason why Confucians do not stress on spirituality is that they regard the unity and relationship of society as important when Taoists take an individual area of life seriously. How about Xunzi? We have to talk about Xunzi lastly after introducing Confucian point of view on spirituality. Jing and Shen in the Book of Xunzi appear several times, and Jingshen also appears twice. It shows Xunzi as a chief of Jixia school tried to combine Confucianism and Taoism and integrate them into his thought. Then his spirituality had been humanized. The spirituality of Sage precedes one of heaven and earth. Further more, Xunzi advocates Shenming(almighty) than Jingshen(spirituality). Getting Shenming, Sages would control the world. The collections or outcomes of Shenming are Li(ritual) which is the one of the most important concept of Xunzi’s thinking. Shenming originally has the meaning of a deity or divinity, but Xunzi transforms it to human and universal volition for this world. After getting universal volition, human being could participate in shaping the world. The cumulative good deeds make you communicate with universal volition. Universal volition is a great and strong spirituality for the civilization of this world. My mind/heart(xin) is the lord of universal volition.