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. 59.
APPENDIX II.
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LIX. (The trigram representing) water and that for wind moving above the water form Hwân. The ancient kings, in accordance with this, presented offerings to God and established the ancestral temple.
I. The good fortune attached to the first line, divided,' is due to the natural course (pursued by its subject).
2. ‘Amidst the prevailing dispersion, he hurries to his contrivance (for security):'-he gets what he desires.
3. He has no regard to his own person :'-his aim is directed to what is external to himself.
4. He scatters the different) parties (in the state), and there is great good fortune :'- brilliant and great (are his virtue and service).
5. “The accumulations of the royal (granaries) are dispersed, and there is no error:'— this is due to the correctness of the position.
6. His bloody wounds are gone::—he is far removed from the danger of injury.
Line 3 should be strong, and the desire of pleasure which is the idea of the hexagram leads its weak subject to the course which is so emphatically condemned.
Paragraph 5 is incomplete. Does the correctness and appropriateness of the position of the subject of the line afford any explanation of his trusting the subject of the weak line above, who would only injure him? It ought to keep him on the contrary from doing so. The commentators have seen this, and say that the paragraph is intended by way of caution.
The action of the hexagram should culminate and end in line 5. But the subject of it has not made brilliant attainment in the firmness and correctness by which the love of pleasure should be controlled.
LIX. The in accordance with this' must be equivalent to--to remedy the state of things thus symbolised.' What follows certainly
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