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PT. III. SECT. V.
THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-BZE.
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5. The penumbrae (once) asked the shadow 1, saying, 'Formerly you were looking down, and now you are looking up; formerly you had your hair tied up, and now it is dishevelled; formerly you were sitting, and now you have risen up; formerly you were walking, and now you have stopped :how is all this?' The shadow said, “Venerable Sirs, how do you ask me about such small matters ? These things all belong to me, but I do not know how they do so. I am (like) the shell of a cicada or the cast-off skin of a snake?;—like them, and yet not like them. With light and the sun I make my appearance; with darkness and the night I fade away. Am not I dependent on the substance from which I am thrown? And that substance is itself dependent on something else! When it comes, I come with it; when it goes, I go with it. When it comes under the influence of the strong Yang, I come under the same. Since we are both produced by that strong Yang, what occasion is there for you to question me?'
6. Yang Zze-kü : had gone South to Phei“, while Lão Tan was travelling in the west in Khin 6. (He thereupon) asked (Lâo-zze) to come to the border (of Phei), and went himself to Liang, where he met him. Lâo-zze stood in the middle of the way, and, looking up to heaven, said with a sigh, 'At first I thought that you might be taught, but now I see that you cannot be.' Yang 3ze-kü made no reply;
i Compare Bk. II, par. II.
Such is the reading of Ziâo Hung. 3 No doubt the Yang Kd of Lieh-xze and Mencius. • See in XIV, 26 b. • In the borders of Phei; can hardly be the great State.
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| 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 |