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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HEX. 54.
APPENDIX I.
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LIII. 1. The advance indicated by Kien is (like) the marrying of a young lady which is attended by good fortune.
2. (The lines) as they advance get into their correct places :—this indicates the achievements of a successful progress.
The advance is made according to correctness :(the subject of the hexagram) might rectify his country.
3. Among the places (of the hexagram) we see the strong undivided line in the centre.
4. 'In (the attributes of) restfulness and flexible penetration we have (the assurance of) an (onward) movement that is inexhaustible.
LIV. 1. By Kwei Mei (the marrying away of a younger sister) the great and righteous relation between heaven and earth (is suggested to us). If heaven and earth were to have no intercommunication, things would not grow and flourish as they do. The marriage of a younger sister is the end of her maidenhood) and the beginning (of her motherhood).
2. We have in the hexagram the desire of)
however, that this furnishes any ground for the entire obliviousness of self, which the Thwan makes out to be in the figure.
LIII. The first sentence of paragraph 2 describes the lines from 2 to 5 all getting into their proper places, as has been pointed out on the Text, and that sentence is symbolical of what is said in the second. The rectification of the country' is the reality of the successful progress.'
The strong undivided line' in paragraph 3 is the fifth of the figure.
Out of rest comes movement to go on for an indefinite time, and be succeeded by rest again ;-as says paragraph 4.
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