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. I.
4. (Nothing but) a bottle of spirits and a subsidiary basket of rice:'-(these describe) the meeting at this point of (those who are represented by) the strong and weak lines.
5. 'The water in the defile is not full (so as to flow away):'-(the virtue indicated by) the central situation is not yet (sufficiently) great.
6. 'The sixth line, divided, shows its subject missing his (proper) course :'-'there will be evil for three years.
XXX. (The trigram for) brightness, repeated, forms Lt. The great man, in accordance with this, cultivates more and more his brilliant (virtue), and diffuses its brightness over the four quarters (of the land).
1. •The reverent attention directed to his confused steps' is the way by which error is avoided.
2. “The great good fortune (from the subject of the second line) occupying his place in yellow' is owing to his holding the course of the due mean.
3. 'A position like that of the declining sun :'how can it continue long?
4. How abrupt is the manner of his coming!'none can bear with him.
5. “The good fortune attached to the fifth line,
XXIX. The application of the Great Symbolism is here more perplexing even than usual. What is said of the superior man is good, but there is no reference in it to the subject of danger.
The subject of line 3 goes and comes, moves up and down, backwards and forwards; making no advance. This can be of no use in extricating him from the danger.
Those represented in line 4 by the strong and weak lines are the ruler and his minister.
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