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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FO-SHO-HING-TSAN-KING.
II, 9.
So by the force of concomitance, relationships are framed, and then, according to each one's destiny , there is separation; he who thoroughly investigates this false connection of relationship ought not to cherish in himself grief; 711
'In this world there is rupture of family love, in another life (world) it is sought for again ; brought together for a moment, again rudely divided ?, everywhere the fetters of kindred are formed 3! 712
'Ever being bound, and ever being loosened ! who can sufficiently lament such constant separations; born into the world, and then gradually changing, constantly separated by death and then born again. 713
All things which exist in time must perish ®, the forests and mountains all things thus existo; in time are born all sensuous things (things possessing the five desires), so is it both with worldly substance ? and with time. 714
Because, then, death pervades all time, get rid of death, and time will disappear. You desire to
1 The word for destiny' is li; it means the 'reason' or 'rule of action.'
? Or, separated in opposite directions.
* In every place (place-place) there is no (place) without rela. tionships.
From the moment of conception (placed in the womb) gradually changing.
o All things (in) time have death.
• The text is very curt, ' mountains, forests, what is there) without time.
? "Seeking wealth (in ?) time, even thus;' or, 'Seeking wealth and time, are even thus.'
8 Exclude the laws of death (sse fă), there will be no time.'
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