Text of Confucianism Part 01

SR No.: 007675
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 2829
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 50 MB

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BK. XXXVIII.
ZŮ HSING.
v 405
dignity to be interrupted; he does not dread to practise (beforehand) the counsels (which he gives):such are the things in which he stands out and apart from other men.
8. ĽWith the scholar friendly relations may be cultivated, but no attempt must be made to constrain him ; near association with him can be sought, but cannot be forced on him; he may be killed, but he cannot be disgraced ;/in his dwelling he will not be extravagant; in his eating and drinking he will not be luxurious; he may be gently admonished of his errors and failings, but he should not have them enumerated to him to his face :-such is his boldness and determination.
9. The scholar considers leal-heartedness and v good faith to be his coat-of-mail and helmet; propriety and righteousness to be his shield and buckler; he walks along, bearing aloft over his head benevolence; he dwells, holding righteousness in his arms before him; the government may be violently oppressive, but he does not change his course :such is the way in which he maintains himself.
10. “The scholar may have a house in (only) a mâu of ground,-a (poor) dwelling each of whose (surrounding) walls is (only) ten paces long, with an outer door of thorns and bamboos, and openings in the wall, long and pointed; within, the inner door stopped up by brushwood, and little round windows like the mouth of a jarl; the inmates may have to
1 This is a picture of squalid poverty, in which it is not easy to understand all the details without a discussion of the force of the Chinese characters, on which it is impossible to enter here. With all the discussion which they have received from the critics, there are still difficulties in interpreting the paragraph.
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