Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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CHAPTER LXXXVIII, 8–14.
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account of the merit due to the continuous ceremonial of the sacred beings it is more authorisedly ordered of those who solemnize all the religious rites twice? 11. But as to him who would undertake all the religious rites twice for 350 dirhams, but is not able to conduct them unless he puts to it some of his own wealth, so that the progress may be acceptable to him as they conduct them through repetition, he should not undertake them owing to the reasons written in another chapter of ours ?, since it tends much more to neediness.
12. And more like unto the ancient sceptics (vimâ nako) have become the disciples, among whom disagreement and enmity are produced, as is written in the same writing (khadd-gûn nâmako) 8; and, owing to admonishing words, these become enviousness and maliciousness unto the disciples, and trouble and disagreement less becoming among you and more contentious about you. 13. And at the time in which a great stipend existed, they contended with him through whose greatness and abundance of stipend their conflict was caused, one with the other, through envy; and now, too, they aways squabble about his deficient stipend, by which they will tempt them, on account of its inadequacy, for the sake of a way for preserying life, as was shown by my metaphor in the other chapter 4 14. When those who, through need of employment in the rites of religion, or the recitations'
1 This is also stated in Chap. LXVI, 32. * See Chap. LXVI, 24-26.
. Ibid. • See Chap. LXVI, 28, 29.
* It is uncertain whether these are the correct technical meanings of kesh and dôr.
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