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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THÉ APPENDIXES.
SECT. IT.
indicates the grand accomplishment of the idea in the hexagram).
XLIX. (The trigram representing the waters of) a marsh and that for fire in the midst of them form Ko. The superior man, in accordance with this, regulates his (astronomical) calculations, and makes clear the seasons and times.
1. He is bound with (the skin of) a yellow ox:'-he should in his circumstances be taking action.
2. He makes his changes when some time has passed :—what he does will be matter of admiration.
3. "The change (contemplated) has been three times fully discussed :'-to what else should attention (now) be directed ?
4. “The good fortune consequent on changing (existing) ordinances' is due to the faith reposed in his aims.
5. •The great man produces his changes as the tiger does when he changes his stripes :'-their beauty becomes more brilliant.
XLVIII. The Great Symbolism here may well enough represent a well, it being understood that the water which is above the wood is that raised by it for irrigation and other uses. What is said, moreover, in the application is more akin to the idea of the hexagram than in most of the other cases. It is certainly one way in which the ruler should nourish the people.
It is said on paragraph 1:-'Those who have a mind to do something in the world, when they look at this line, and its symbolism, will learn how they ought to exert themselves.'
Rather in opposition to what I have said on the Text of line 4, the Daily Lecture' observes here :- The cultivation of one's self, which is represented here, is fundamental to the government of others."
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