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THE TEXTS OF TÂOISM.
BK. XXXII.
BOOK XXXII.
Part III. SECTION X.
Lich Yu-khâu. 1. Lieh Yü-khâu had started to go to Khi, but came back when he was half-way to it. He met Po-hwăn Wû-zăn”, who said, 'Why have you come back?' His reply was, 'I was frightened.' 'What frightened you?' 'I went into ten soup-shops to get a meal, and in five of them the soup was set before me before (I had paid for it).' But what was there in that to frighten you ?" (Lieh-zze) said,
Though the inward and true purpose be not set forth, the body like a spy gives some bright display of it. And this outward demonstration overawes men's minds, and makes men on light grounds treat one as noble or as aged, from which evil to him will be produced. Now vendors of soup supply their commodity simply as a matter of business, and however much they may dispose of, their profit is but little,
1 See vol. xxxix, pp. 160-162.
2 The same teacher, no doubt, who is mentioned in II, par. 2, and XXI, par. 2, though the Wâ in Wa-zăn is here , and there 無
Like the tea and congee shanties, I suppose, which a traveller in China finds still on the road-side.
The meaning is not plain. There must have been something in the respect and generosity of the attendants which made Liehsze feel that his manner was inconsistent with his profession of Taoism.
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