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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APPENDIX I.
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LXI. 1. In Kung Fa we have the (two) weak lines in the innermost part of the figure), and strong lines occupying the central places in the trigrams). (We have the attributes) of pleased satisfaction and flexible penetration. Sincerity (thus symbolled) will transform a country.
2. Pigs and fish (are moved), and there will be good fortune :'-sincerity reaches to (and affects even) pigs and fishes.
*There will be advantage in crossing the great stream :'-(we see in the figure) one riding on (the emblem of) wood, which forms an empty boat.
3. In the exercise of the virtue denoted by) Kung Fu, (it is said that) there will be advantage in being firm and correct:'-in that virtue indeed we have the response (of man) to Heaven.
Its course will come to an end' is the opposite of the intimation in Kieh of progress and attainment.
In paragraph 3 the writer retums to this intimation of the figure :-by the attributes of the trigrams; by the appropriate positions of lines 4 and 5; and by the central and correct place of 5.
Paragraph 4 illustrates the importance of doing things according to rule by reference to the operations of nature and the enactments and institutions of sage rulers.
LXI. 1. The structure of the lineal figure which is here insisted on has been pointed out in explaining the Thwan. On what is further said as to the attributes of the trigrams and their effect, Khăng-zze observes :- We have in the sincerity shown in the upper trigram superiors condescending to those below them in accordance with their peculiarities, and we have in that of the lower those below delighted to follow their superiors. The combination of these two things leads to the transformation of the country and state.'
Paragraph 2. The two divided lines in the middle of the figure are supposed to give the semblance of an empty boat, and an
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