Book Title: Questions of King Milinda Part 02
Author(s): T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ PT. III. SECT.V. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-BZE. 145 former), his approval and disapproval, are manifested, that only serves to direct the speech of men (about him). To make men in heart submit, and not dare to stand up in opposition to him; to establish the fixed law for all under heaven :-ah! ah! I have not attained to that." 3. Zăng-gze twice took office, and on the two occasions his state of mind was different. He said, While my parents were alive I took office, and though my emolument was only three fù ? (of grain), my mind was happy. Afterwards when I took office, my emolument was three thousand kung?; but I could not share it with my parents, and my mind was sad.' The other disciples asked Kung-ni, saying, 'Such an one as Shăn may be pronounced free from all entanglement :-is he to be blamed for feeling as he did 3 ?' The reply was, 'But he was subject to entanglement. If he had been free from it, could he have had that sadness? He would have looked on his three fû and three thousand kung no more than on a heron or a mosquito passing before him.' 4. Yen Khăng Zze-yû said to Tung-kwo Zze-khi", When I (had begun to hear your instructions, the first year, I continued a simple rustic; the second 1 A fQ=ten tâu and four shing, or sixty-four shing, the shing at present being rather less than an English pint. ? A kung=sixty-four tâu; but there are various accounts of its size. 8 This sentence is difficult to construe. * But Confucius could not count his love for his parents an entanglement. o We must suppose this master to be the same as the Nan-kwo Sze-khî of Bk. II. [40] Digitized by Google

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