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PT. I. SECT. VI. THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-BZE.
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sent 3ze-kung to go and see if he could render any assistance. One of the survivors had composed a ditty, and the other was playing on his lute. Then they sang together in unison, ‘Ah! come, Sang Hû! ah! come, Sang Hû!
Your being true you've got again, While we, as men, still here remain
Ohone 1!' Zze-kung hastened forward to them, and said, 'I venture to ask whether it be according to the rules to be singing thus in the presence of the corpse ?' The two men looked at each other, and laughed, saying, 'What does this man know about the idea that underlies (our) rules ?' Zze-kung returned to Confucius, and reported to him, saying, "What sort of men are those ? They had made none of the usual preparations ?, and treated the body as a thing foreign to them. They were singing in the presence of the corpse, and there was no change in their countenances. I cannot describe them ;—what sort of men are they?' Confucius replied, 'Those men occupy and enjoy themselves in what is outside the (common) ways (of the world), while I occupy and enjoy myself in what lies within those ways. There is no common ground for those of such different ways; and when I sent you to condole with those men, I was acting stupidly. They, moreover, make man to be the fellow of the
1 In accordance with the ancient and modern practice in China of calling the dead back. But these were doing so in a song to the lute.
? Or, 'they do not regulate their doings (in the usual way).'
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| 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 |