Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
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

Page 1936

PT. II. SECT. xiv.
THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-BZE.
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along," I mean 1 that when you speak, I also speak. By saying, "When you go more quickly, I also do the same," I mean that when you reason, I also reason. By saying, “When you gallop, I also gallop," I mean that when you speak of the Way, I also speak of the Way; but by saying, “When you race along and spurn the dust, then I can only stare, and keep behind you," I am thinking how though you do not speak, yet all men believe you ; though you are no partisan, yet all parties approve your catholicity; and though you sound no instrument, yet people all move on harmoniously before you, while all the while) I do not know how all this comes about; and this is all which my words are intended to express 2.'
Kung-ni said, ' But you must try and search the matter out. Of all causes for sorrow there is none so great as the death of the mind ;—the death of man's (body) is only next to it. The sun comes forth in the east, and sets in the extreme west;all things have their position determined by these two points. All that have eyes and feet wait for this (sun), and then proceed to do what they have to do. When this comes forth, they appear in their places; when it sets, they disappear. It is so with all things. They have that for which they wait, and (on its arrival) they die; they have that for which they wait, and then (again) they live. When once I receive my frame thus completed, I remain unchanged, awaiting the consummation of my course.
* In these three cases the t of the text should be
? So Hui is made to represent the master as a mental Thaumathurgist, and Confucius is made to try to explain the whole thing to him ;-but not to my mind successfully. Still a distinction is maintained between the mind and the body.
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