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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4. “If he take the initiative, he goes astray:'-he misses, that is, his proper course. 'If he follow," he is docile, and gets into his regular (course). 'In the south-west he will get friends :-he will be walking with those of his own class. In the north-east he will lose friends :'-—but in the end there will be ground for congratulation.
5. "The good fortune arising from resting in firmness' corresponds to the unlimited capacity of the earth.
III. 1. In Kun we have the strong (Khien) and the weak (Khwăn) commencing their intercourse, and difficulties arising.
2. Movement in the midst of peril gives rise to 'great progress and success, (through) firm correctness.
3. By the action of the thunder and rain, (which
II. As the writer in expounding the Thwan of hexagram I starts from the word 'heaven,' so here he does so from the symbolic meaning attached to 'earth.' What I have said on the Text about the difference with which the same attributes are ascribed to Khien and Khwăn, appears clearly in paragraph 1. It is the difference expressed by the words that I have supplied, -power' and capacity.' Khien originates; Khwăn produces, or gives birth to what has been originated.
The 'penetrating,' or developing ability of Khwăn, as displayed in the processes of growth, is the subject of paragraph 2. The brightness' refers to the beauty that shines forth in the vegetable and animal worlds.
Paragraph 3 treats of the symbol of the 'mare,' to lead the mind to the course of the superior man,' the good and faithful minister and servant.
See the note, corresponding to paragraph 4, on the Text. Resting in firmness' is the normal course of Khwăn. Where it is pursued, the good effect will be great, great as the unlimited capacity of the earth.
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