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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CHAP. 5.
APPENDIX IV.
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Chapter V. 24. The 'greatness' and 'originating' represented by Khien refer to it as (the symbol of) what gives their beginning (to all things), and (also) secures their growth and development.
25. “The advantageousness and the correctness and firmness' refer to its nature and feelings (as seen in all the resulting things).
26. Khien, (thus) originating, is able with its admirable benefits to benefit all under the sky. We are not told how its benefits are conferred; but how great is (its operation)!
27. How great is (what is emblemed by) Khien!strong, vigorous, undeflected, correct, and in all these qualities) pure, unmixed, exquisite !
28. The six lines, as explained (by the duke of Kâu), bring forth and display (its meaning), and everything about it is (thus) indirectly exhibited.
29. (The great man) at the proper time drives with these six dragons through the sky. The clouds move, and the rain is distributed; all under heaven enjoys repose. throne. Time and opportunity are both in progress in 19; here in 22, they are both passed, have reached their extremity or end.
Paragraph 23:see on paragraph 16. The model of heaven,' says wa Khăng, 'is the due blending of the strong and active with the weak and passive, the regulation of movement in accordance with the highest reason, so that there shall be neither excess nor deficiency.'
Chapter V, paragraphs 24-29. The author here, leaving the treatise on the symbolism of the Yão, turns to that on the Thwan, or expositions of king Wăn, and amplifies it, not quoting from it, however, so fully and exactly, as he has done in the previous chapters from the Yão.
Paragraphs 24 and 25 are based on the statement of the significance of the Thwan under Khien, and not on the treatise on the symbolism. The originating power cannot be separated from that of penetration and development. The latter issues from the former
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