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. 4.
APPENDIX II.
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IV. (The trigram representing) a mountain, and beneath it that for a spring issuing forth form Măng. The superior man, in accordance with this, strives to be resolute in his conduct and nourishes his virtue.
I. 'It will be advantageous to use punishment:'the object being to bring under the influence of correcting law.
2. 'A son able to (sustain the burden of) his family:'- -as appears from the reciprocation between this strong line and the weak (fifth line).
3. 'A woman (such as is here represented) should not be taken in marriage:'-her conduct is not agreeable to what is right.
4. 'The regret arising from ignorance bound in chains' is due to the special distance of (the subject of this line) from the solidity (shown in lines 2 and 6).
5. 'The good fortune belonging to the simple lad without experience' comes from his docility going on to humility.
burden of rain, the atmosphere is cleared, and there is a feeling of relief. But I fail again to discern clearly the connexion between the symbolism and the lesson about the superior man's administration of affairs.
The subject of the first line of the Smaller Symbolism is represented by the undivided line, and therefore is firm and correct. He is noble, but his place is below the divided lines, symbols of the weak and mean (see Appendix IV, i, 1).
Line 2. 'Things resume their regular course:'-the subject is now at liberty to seek a union with the subject of line 5, according to the rules of the symbolism. Lines 1 and 4, 2 and 5, 3 and 6, the corresponding lines of the trigrams, are correlates.
The subject of line 4 naturally recurs to the correlate in line 1. He is the natural helper in the case, and he has the ability.
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