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FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING.
V, 26.
* Anger and hate destroy the true law; and they destroy dignity and beauty of body; as when one dies we lose our name for beauty, so the fire of anger itself burns up the heart. 2049
'Anger is foe to all religious merit, he who loves virtue let him not be passionate ; the layman who is angry when oppressed by many sorrows is not wondered at, 2050
But he who has “left his home?" indulging anger, this is indeed opposed to principle, as if in frozen water there were found the heat of fire. 2051
'If indolence (an indolent mind) arises in your heart, then with your own hand smooth down your head, shave off your hair, and clad in sombre (dyed or stained) garments, in your hand holding the begging-pot, go ask for food; 2052
On every side the living perish, what room for indolence ? the worldly man, relying on his substance or his family, indulging in indolence, is wrong; 2053
How much more the religious man, whose purpose is to seek the way of rescue, who encourages within an indolent mind; this surely is impossible! 2054
Crookedness and truth (straightness) are in their nature opposite and cannot dwell together more than frost and fire; for one who has become religious, and practises the way of straight behaviour, a false and crooked way of speech is not becoming. 2055
'False and flattering speech is like the magician's
1 That is, the hermit, or professed disciple.
: Does this refer to smoothing the hair previous to shaving it off? But the sense in any case is obscure, for how could a person admit himself to the order?'
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| 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 |