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APPENDIX II.
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XXVII. (The trigram representing) a mountain and under it that for thunder form i. The superior man, in accordance with this, (enjoins) watchfulness over our words, and the temperate regulation of our eating and drinking.
1. You look at me till your lower) jaw hangs down:'-(the subject of the line) is thus shown unfit to be thought noble.
2. “The evil of advance by the subject of the second line, divided,' is owing to his leaving in his movements his proper associates.
3. 'For ten years let him not take any action:his course is greatly opposed (to what is right).
4. “The good fortune attached to looking downwards for (the power to) nourish,' shows how brilliant will be the diffusion (of that power) from (the subject of the line's) superior position.
5. “The good fortune from abiding in firmness' is due to the docility (of the subject of the line) in following the subject of the line) above.
6. 'The good fortune, notwithstanding the peril
is the labour of the superior man in learning, acquiring, and remembering, to accumulate his virtue.'
Paragraph 1. The calamity' is that of opposition from, or repression by, the subject of line 4.
Paragraph 3. When the action of the hexagram has reached line 6, its work is done. The subject of 6 will no longer exercise repression, but join with that of 3, assisting him to advance.
Paragraph 4. The subject of line 4 has indeed occasion for joy. Without the use of punishment for crimes committed, by precaution anticipating them, without any trouble he has repressed evil. The 'joy' gives place in paragraph 5 to congratulation, the people being all interested in the action of the ruler.
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| 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 |