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. II.
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line seek to overpass that similarity, there will be calamity.
2. 'Let him cherish his feeling of sincere devo- tion, that it shall appear being put forth :'-it is by sincerity that the mind is affected.
3. “There is an additional) screen of a large and thick banner :'-great things should not be attempted (in such circumstances).
He breaks his right arm :'-in the end he will not be fit to be employed.
4. 'He is surrounded by a screen large and thick :'—the position of the line is inappropriate.
At midday he sees the constellation of the Bushel :'— there is darkness and no light.
'He meets with the subject of the line, undivided like himself. There will be good fortune :'-action may be taken.
5. “The good fortune indicated by the fifth line, divided,' is the congratulation (that is sure to arise).
6. He has made his house large :'-he soars (in his pride) to the heavens.
*He looks at his door, which is still, with no one about it:'-he (only) keeps himself withdrawn from all others.
LV. Lightning appears here as the natural phenomenon of which Li is the symbol. The virtues attributed to the two trigrams are certainly required in the application of them which is subjoined; but that application has little or nothing to do with the explanation of the hexagram supplied by the Text.
I hardly understand the conclusion of paragraph 1. My translation of it is according to the view of Ka Hsî, if I rightly understand that.
Paragraph 2. It is by such sincerity that the mind is affected, that is, the mind of the ruler occupying line 5.
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