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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THE APPENDIXES.
SECT. 1.
III. (The trigram representing) clouds and (that representing) thunder form Kun. The superior man, in accordance with this, (adjusts his measures of government) as in sorting the threads of the warp and woof.
I. Although there is a difficulty in advancing, the mind (of the subject of the line) is set on doing what is correct. While noble, he humbles himself to the mean, and grandly gains the people.
2. The difficulty (to the subject of) the second line, divided, arises from its place over the undivided line below it. The union and children after ten years' shows things resuming their regular course.
3. 'One pursues the deer without the (guidance of the) forester :'-(he does so) in (his eagerness to follow the game. The superior man gives up the chase, (knowing that) if he go forward he will regret it:'-- he would be reduced to extremity.
4. 'Going forward after such a search (for a helper)' shows intelligence.
5. Difficulty is experienced (by the subject of the fifth line) in bestowing his rich favours :'--the extent to which they reach will not yet be conspicuous.
6. He weeps tears of blood in streams :'-how can the state (thus emblemed) continue long?
III. Khan represents water, especially in the form of rain. Here its symbol is a cloud. The whole hexagram seems to place us in the atmosphere of a thunderous sky overhung with thick and gloomy clouds, when we feel oppressed and distressed. This is not a bad emblem of the political state in the mind of the writer. When the thunder has pealed, and the clouds have discharged their
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