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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Chapter V. 31. It is said in the Yi, Full of anxious thoughts you go and come; (only) friends will follow you and think with you.' The Master said: In all (the processes taking place) under heaven, what is there of thinking? what is there of anxious scheming? They all come to the same (successful) issue, though by different paths; there is one result, though there might be a hundred anxious schemes. What is there of thinking? what is there of anxious scheming?'
CHAP. 5.
APPENDIX III.
32. The sun goes and the moon comes; the moon goes and the sun comes;-the sun and moon thus take the place each of the other, and their shining is the result. The cold goes and the heat comes; the heat goes and the cold comes;-it is by this mutual succession of the cold and heat that the year is completed. That which goes becomes less. and less, and that which comes waxes more and more; it is by the influence on each other of this contraction and expansion that the advantages (of the different conditions) are produced.
33. When the looper coils itself up, it thereby straightens itself again; when worms and snakes
sons' and 'three daughters' in the later arrangement of the trigrams, ascribed to king Wăn.
Paragraph 29. Each part of the divided line counts as one; hence a yang trigram counts as 1 + 2 + 2 = 5 strokes, four of which are yin, while a yin trigram counts as 2 + I + I = 4, only two of which are yang. But this is mere trifling.
In explanation of paragraph 30 it is said that we have in the yang trigrams two (or more) subjects serving one ruler, and in the yin one subject serving two rulers, and two rulers striving together for the allegiance of one subject.' This is ingenious, but fanciful; as indeed this distinction of the trigrams into a yang class and a yin is a mere play of fancy.
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