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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APPENDIX II.
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firmness of a brave soldier :'-his mind would in that case be well governed.
2. “The good fortune springing from what borders on confusion' is due to the position (of the line) in the centre.
3. •The regret arising from the violent and repeated efforts to penetrate' shows the exhaustion of the will.
4. 'He takes game in his hunting, enough for the threefold use of it:'- he achieves merit.
5. “The good fortune of (the subject of) the fifth line, undivided,' is owing to its correct position and its being in the centre.
6. •The representative of penetration is beneath a couch :'—though occupying the topmost place, his powers are exhausted.
He has lost the axe with which he executed his decisions :'— though he try to be correct, there will be evil.
LVII. I have said on the Thwan that some commentators make the upper trigram symbolical of the ordinances of the ruler and the lower symbolical of the obedience of the people. E. g., Khăng-xze says :- Superiors, in harmony with the duty of inferiors, issue their commands; inferiors, in harmony with the wishes of their superiors, follow them. Above and below there are that harmony and deference; and this is the significance of the redoubled Sun. When governmental commands and business are in accordance with what is right, they agree with the tendencies of the minds of the people who follow them.'
Paragraph 2 seems to say that the sincerity of purpose indicated by the central position of the second line conducts its subject to the right course, despite the many considerations that might distract him.
The will is exhausted'in paragraph 3 intimates that the repeated efforts' made by its subject have exhausted him. He can now only regret his failures.
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