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THE
WRITINGS OF KWANG-3ZE.
INTRODUCTION. BRIEF NOTICES OF THE DIFFERENT Books.
BOOK I. HSIÃO-YÂO YU. The three characters which form the title of this Book have all of them the ideagram (Ko), which gives the idea, as the Shwo Wăn explains it, of now walking, now halting. We might render the title by 'Sauntering or Rambling at Ease;' but it is the untroubled enjoyment of the mind which the author has in view. And this enjoyment is secured by the Tâo, though that character does not once occur in the Book. Kwang-zze illustrates his thesis first by the cases of creatures, the largest and the smallest, showing that however different they may be in size, they should not pass judgment on one another, but may equally find their happiness in the Tâo. From this he advances to men, and from the cases of Yung-3ze and Lieh-zze proceeds to that of one who finds his enjoyment in himself, independent of every other being or instrumentality; and we have the three important definitions of the accomplished Tâoist, as 'the Perfect Man,' the Spirit-like Man,' and 'the Sagely Man. Those definitions are then illustrated ;- the third in Yâo and Hsü Yû, and the second in the conversation between Kien Wû and Lien Shů. The description given in this conversation of the spiritlike man is very startling, and contains statements that are true only of Him who is a 'Spirit,''the Blessed and only Potentate,' 'Who covereth Himself with light as with a garment, Who stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain,
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |