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. 52.
APPENDIX 11.
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.He yet smiles and talks cheerfully:'--the issue (of his dread) is that he adopts (proper) laws (for his course).
2. When the movement approaches, he is in a position of peril :'-(a weak line) is mounted on a strong (one).
3. 'He is distraught amid the startling movements going on:-(the third line) is in a position unsuitable to it.
4. 'Amid the startling movements, he sinks supinely in the mud :'—the light in him has not yet been brilliantly developed.
5. He goes and comes amid the startling movements, and (always) in peril :'--full of risk are his doings.
What he has to do has to be done in his central position :'-far will he be from incurring any loss.
6. ‘Amid the startling movements he is in breathless dismay:'- he has not found out (the course of) the due mean.
'Though evil (threatens), he will not fall into error :'-he is afraid of being warned by his neighbours.
LII. (Two trigrams representing) a mountain, one over the other, form Kăn. The superior man, in
LI. The account of the Great Symbolism here calls for no remark. Nor does the application of it; but may it not be too late to fear, and order anew one's thoughts and actions when the retributions in providence are taking place ? Commentators are haunted by the shadow of this question; but they are unable rightly to meet it.
Paragraph 1 is the same as 2 in Appendix I. Paragraph 4. Compare paragraph 4 of hexagram 21, Appendix II.
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