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. I.
Chapter IV. 17. "The dragon lies hid in the deep ;-it is not the time for active doing :'—the energy denoted by the undivided line is laid up and hid away as in the deep.
18. “The dragon appears in the field :'-all under heaven (begins to be) adorned and brightened.
19. 'All the day active and vigilant:'-continually, as the time passes and requires, does he act.
20. 'He is as if he were leaping up, (but still) is in the deep :'-a change is taking place in the method indicated by (this) Khien diagram.
21. “The dragon is on the wing in the sky :this shows that his place is based on his heavenly virtue.
22. “The dragon exceeds the (proper) limit;there will be occasion for repentance :'--the time is come to an end, and so also is his opportunity.
23. Undivided lines appear in all these representations of the great and originating power denoted by Khien :-and (from what follows in the Yao) we see the model (of action) afforded by heaven.
difficulty in understanding the first part of the short paragraph; the conclusion of it must be a consequence of the language of the Yao, though it is not repeated here.
Chapter IV, paragraphs 17-23, goes over the same ground for a third time, treating the various paragraphs chiefly from the standpoint of time.
Paragraph 17 tells us that time and circumstances are essential, as well as inward power, to successful development and demonstration. In paragraph 18, the words of the Yão about meeting with the great man are not quoted, but they prompted the latter half of it.
Paragraph 19. Compare the language on paragraph 6, towards the end.
Paragraph 20. The subject passes here from the lower trigram and enters into the upper. We are told not to lay stress on the method of Khien.' In paragraph 21 we have the sage upon the
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