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PT. 11. sect. IV. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-BZE.
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3ăng and Shih are not the whizzing arrows of Kieh and Kih?? Therefore it is said, 'Abolish sageness and cast away knowledge, and the world will be brought to a state of great order ? '
4. Hwang-Tî had been on the throne for nineteen years, and his ordinances were in operation all through the kingdom, when he heard that Kwang Khăng-zze 4 was living on the summit of Khungthung 5, and went to see him. 'I have heard,' he said, 'that you, Sir, are well acquainted with the perfect Tâo. I venture to ask you what is the essential thing in it. I wish to take the subtlest influences of heaven and earth, and assist with them the (growth of the) five cereals for the better) nourishment of the people. I also wish to direct the operation of the) Yin and Yang, so as to secure the comfort of all living beings. How shall I proceed to accomplish those objects ?' Kwang Khăng-zze replied, 'What you wish to ask about is the original substance of all things 6 ; what you
1 Compare this picture of the times after Yâo and Shun with that given by Mencius in III, ii, ch. 9 et al. But the conclusions arrived at as to the causes and cure of their evils by him and our author are very different.
? A quotation, with the regular formula, from the Tâo Teh King, ch. 19, with some variation of the text.
8? in B. C. 2678.
• Another imaginary personage; apparently, a personification of the Tâo. Some say he was Lâo-gze, -in one of his early states of existence; others that he was a True Man,' the teacher of Hwang-Tî. See Ko Hung's Immortals,' I, i.
5 Equally imaginary is the mountain Khung-thung. Some critics find a place for it in the province of Ho-nan; the majority say it is the highest point in the constellation of the Great Bear.
6 The original ether, undivided, out of which all things were formed.
| SR No. | 007675 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 01 |
| 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 |