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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husband who) cannot maintain correctly his relations with his wife.
4. 'He is possessed of sincerity; his (ground for) apprehension is dismissed :'-(the subjects of the lines) above agree in aim with him.
5. He is possessed of sincerity, and draws others to unite with him :'-he does not use only his own rich resources.
6. •The rain has fallen and (the onward progress) is stayed :'--the power (denoted in the figure) has accumulated to the full. 'If the superior man prosecute his measures, there will be evil:'-he will find himself obstructed.
IX. The suitability of the symbolism here is made all to turn on the wind. Wind,' says KA, is simply the air, without solid substance; it can restrain, but not for long.' The wind moves in the sky for a time, and then ceases. The process of thought from the symbol to the lesson is not easily traced. Is it meant to say that virtue manifesting itself outwardly—in the carriage and speech-is, however good, but a small matter, admirable in an officer, or even a feudal lord, but that we look for more in a king, the Head of a nation?
Khăng-zze calls attention to the addition to the duke of Kâu's explanation in the notice on line 2, that it is in the central place,' adding that this explains how the subject of the line restrains himself, and does not go beyond what is due from him.
Only half of the symbolism in the Text of line 3 is taken up here. Line 1, it is said, is far from line 4, the mauvais sujet of the hexagram, and little affected by it; line 2 is nearer, but, being in the centre, suffers little; line 3 is close on it, and, not being in the centre, comes under its evil influence; while line 6 gives no help.
Line 4 is weak, and in an even place, appropriate to it; and hence its subject is said to have sincerity.' Being the first line, moreover, of Sun, the two others take their character from it.
Line 5, being undivided, and occupying the most important place in the figure, according to the value usually attached to the lines, is
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