Understanding of
Confucius
has been retarded by wanting to fit his tho"ght inf.
Ezra Pound - Confucian Analects
He said : A proper man, that !
what a man ought to be like.
Respects conscientious action as a man should.
VII
1. He said: Superior men aren't always complete; no mean man has manhood.
[The langitage is very close; . one might say,
a n1an can have the voice of his ancestry with- in him, without attaining complete h-umanitas. No mean n1an has humanitas. ]
VIII
1. I-Ie said: I. . . . ove exists, can it be other than exigent? Where there is sincerity (mid-mind, mid- heart) can it refrain from teaching?
["word-each. " 2338. hui4? Again it is in,- struction by sorting out terms. Can you get the centre of the mind, without terminology? ]
IX
I. He said : Drawing up the decrees (government orders) P'i Shan invented the straw (i. e. , made the rough drafts), Shih-shu inched the words* and discussed them with the Chef du Protocole (the Hsing jen, official in charge of trave11ing envoys), Tze-Yu combed 'em out and polished 'em, and Tze-Chan of Tung Li added the beauties.
1. Someone asked about (this) Tze-Chan. He said : A kind man.
2. Asked about Tze-Hsi. He said: That bloke! That one!
[If you accept Legge's interpretation, but the pi tsai might be perhaps taken as: "just another, uomo qualunque. " There just isn't enough in the text to indicate tone of voice: query, alas? or what will you! ]
3. Asked about Kwan Chung. He said: Jen yeh*, man who snatched from Po chief, P'ien, a city of three hundred (L. families), (L. the latter) ate coarse rice till his teeth were gone (L. and current, till death) without a grumbling word. [L. 's note, that the dispossessed respected Kwan to this extent. J
XI
1. He said: To be poor without grumbling or resent- ments is difficult; easy to be rich and not haughty.
XII
1. He said : Mang Kung-ch'o for being an elder (senex, senator) of the Chao or Wei, has it in abundance (easily more than fill the pattern requirements), couldn't
1nake it as Gr. eat Officer of Tang or Hsieh.
XIII
1. Tze-Lu asked about the perfect man (the man of perfect focus).
*Possibly wider reading wd/ enlighten as to bearing of Chinese equivalents of, Oh, ugh, and ali ! and any flavour that might have been kept in a strictly oral tradition as to tone of voice used. Here it seems to be approbative, and the tsai seems pejorative in verse 2.
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He said: As if he had Tsang Wu-chung's knowledge, Kung-ch'o's freedom from greed, Chwang of Pien's bravery, Zan Ch'iu's versatile talents, culture enough for the rites and music, he'd have the wherewithal for human perfection.
2. Said: At present why need we such perfect
humanity; to see chance of profit and consider equity, to see danger and be ready to accept one's fate, not to forget the level words of a compact made long ago, that also would make a focus'd man (a man brought to the point, perfect).
XIV
1. Asking about Kung shu Wan, he said to Kung- ming Chia : Do you stick by the statement that your big man doesn't talk, doesn't smile, doesn't accept anything?
2. Kung-ming Chia replied : That's from rumours (reports) overrunning the limit. My big man talks when it's the time, whereby he does not bore with his talking; smiles when pleased, thereby not boring with grins; when it is just to take, he accepts, thus he don't wear people
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1. Tze-Lu said : Duke Hwan executed the Ducal-son (hls brother) Chiu; Shao Hu died [L. with his boss]. Kwan Chung did not die, say, is that inhumane (un-
manly)?
2. He said: Duke Hwan gathered the princes, not
with weapons and war cars : Kwan Chung's energy
(strength) that was; is that manly? It is manly. XVIII
1. Tze-Kung [not to be confused with Kung (fu) tze] said : I'd give it that Kwan Chung was lacking in humanity, Duke Hwan had his brother Chiu bumped off, and (Kwan Chung) couldn't die, but came back and worked with Hwan as (Prime Minister).
2. He said : Kwan Chung reciprocal'd, aided Duke
Hwan as prime minister, overruling the princes; unified
and rectified the empire, and people till today receive the benefits. But for Kwan Chung we'd be wearing our hair loose and buttoning our coats to the left.
3. You want him to behave like a comtnon man or woman, who could end in a creek or ditch without any- one's being the wiser?
XIX
1. Kung-shu Wan's minister, the Great Officer Hsien, rose shoulder to shoulder with Wan in this Duke's (court).
2. Confucius hearing this said: Wan's the name for him [Wan, accomplished, having real culture] on that count.
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1. He was speaking of the evil government of the Duke Ling of Wei (Nan-tze's husband). K'ang-tze said: A man like that, how come he don't lose (his state)?
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out with taking.
He said : Yes, does he really do that?
xv
1. He said : Tsang Wu-chung flowing through Fang, asked Lu to appoint a successor; although you say this is not bringing pressure to bear on a prince, I won't stand by that definition.
XVI
1. He said: Duke Wan of Tsin was wily and not
correct, [chiieh2-5; wily from words and an arwl, clouds of three colours, hypocrite. P. admirably: un fourbe sans droiture. ]
Duke Hwan of Ch'i was correct and not wily. 90
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[Might almost say: goes far up, far down. All the way through, penetrates upward or downward. Covers the meaning: his mental penetration goes upward, or downward. ]
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2. Kung-tze said: The second brother Yu looks after guests and strangers; the ecclesiastic T'o looks after the dynastic temple; Wang-sun Chia looks after the army corps and regi1nents1 n1en like that, how lose his (state) ?
XXI
1. He said : If a man don't say what he means, it's difficult to shape business to it, action to it. [L and M, take the put se as mea. ning immodest. Pictogrammic interpretation at least as interesting. ]
XXII
L Chan Ch'ang murdered the Duke of Ch'i.
2. Confucius took a bath, went to court, and made formal announcement to the Duke Ai, in these words : Chan Ch'ang has murdered his prince; this invites
punish111ent.
3. The Duke said : Inform the Three Great.
4. Kung-tze said: Coming (in rank) just after the
Great Officers, I did not venture to leave my prince un- informed, (My prince) says inform the Three Great.
5. He announced it to the Three, (who pied) non possunius.
Kung-tze said : Con1ing just after the Great Officers, I did not dare omit the announcement.
XXIII
1. 'fze-lu asked about serving a prince. He said : Don't cheat him, stand up to him [L. withstand him to his face].
XXIV
L He said : A proper man progresses upward (far), a mean man progresses downward (far).
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L He said : In the old days men studied to make themselves, IlO\V they study to in1press others.
XXVI
1. Chu Po-yu sent a man to Confucius.
2. l(ung-tze sat v. 1ith him and questioned him: What's your boss doing?
Replied : " My big man wants to diminish the number of his errors, and cannot. " The messenger went out. Kung-tze said : Some inessenger, isn't he?
XXVII
1. He said: Not in a particular government office, don't plan to run it.
XXVIII
L Tsang-tze (his son-in-law) said: A proper man's thoughts do not go outside (the sphere of) his office. fYi King diaigrant 52, eight characters, here seven, omit-
ting one. J
XXIX
L He said : A proper man is ashamed of words [L. modest in speech], and goes beyond (them) in action,
[Also: ashamed of words that exceed his action. ] 93
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1. He said : A proper man's mode of life is three- ply. I can't make it : manhood without regrets; know- ing, he is without suspicion; courageous and therefore without anxiety.
2: Tze-Kung said: Boss, that's the way you go on yourself.
XXXI
1. Tze-Kung square-measur. ed men (one by another).
Confucius said : Tze, you must have heavy talents, n'est- ce past Anyhow, I haven't got the spare time.
XXXII
1
1. He said : Not worried that others don t know me,
worried by my incapacities.
XXXIII
1. He said : Not anticipating deceit or calculating on infidelity [L. anticipate attempts to deceive him, nor think beforehand of not being believed. Might even be: don't oppose deceit (to deceit) or calculate on a man's lies, or lying], but to be quick to spot a hoax when it happens, man who can do this must have solid sense?
XXXIV
1. In course of conversation (old) Wei-shang Mau, said to him: Hummock, my boy, how do you manage to roost when there's a roost going, do you manage it by an oily tongue?
2. He said : I don't dare oil the tongue, but I hate stick-in-a-rut-ness (hate being boxed in with frowst).
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1. He said: A horse is grade A not because of strength but from a balance of qualities (proportionate ensemble).
[This is another definit;on, directing thought to the composition of the ideogram itself. A "separate differences horse," extraordinary, yes, defined by the ch'eng, with se. nse of weighing of the grain, good grain, agreeable, etc. (383) vid. also alternations (3067). ]
XXXVI
Someone said what about returning straight good-
1.
ness for injury [L. kindness for injury]?
2. He said: What do you do to repay someone who acts straight with you?
3. See straight when someone injures you, and return good deeds by good deeds.
[L. has the old: justice for injury, kindness for kindness. This does not exhaust the con- tents of the ideograms. Yiian (4th) : murmur, harbour resentment. Allay resentment by straightness, watch a man who harbours re- sentmernt against you. Give frank act for frank act.
Understanding of Confucius has been retarded by wanting to fit his tho"ght inf. a gross ? Occidental clichts. ]
XXXVII
1. He said : The extent to which no one understands
me!
2. Tze-kung said: How do you make out no one
understands you (knows you)?
He said : I do not harbour resentment against heaven,
I study what is below and my thought goes on, penetrates
upward. Is it heaven that knows me? Aristotle: generals FROM pa~ticulars. ]
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1. Kung-po Liao slandered [curre. ntly "smeared "] Tze-Lu to Chi-sun [ed. be: definitely brought formal charge against him, or: laid an information, pejorative, or definitely false]. Tze-fu Ching-po told of it, saying: The big 1nan is certainly having his intentions misled
(direction of his will deflected) by Kung-po Liao, I have
strength enough to have him executed in the market place or in court. [i. e. , as common criminal or great officer]. 2. He said : If my mode of living is to make head- way, or if iny process is to go to waste, it is destined [seal and mouth ? Of heaven] ; what can Kung-po Liao do
about that decree?
XXXIX
1. He said : Some with solid talents get away from
their generation.
2. Those nearest (that solidity) retire from a par- ticular locality.
3. The next grade get away from dazzle (display).
4. Those next get away from words [the dominion of catch phrases. Cd/ even be: stop talking].
[5172, in various c-onnotations. (i): look down upon. rad/ 160. "bitter. " A cross under rad/ 117. looks no? t unlike a graph of a sp? inning-whorl. ]
XL
1. He said: Seven men started this [L. have done
this].
XLI
1. Tze-Lu was passing the night at Stone Gate, the gate guard said : Where from?
Tze-Lu said : The Kung clan.
Said : He's the man who knows there's nothing to be
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XLII
J. He was dru1nming on the musical stone in Wei, a man with a straw hamper on his back passed th. e door of the Kung family house, and said : What a mind he's got beating that stone, n'est-ce pas?
2. That was that, then he said : How vulgar ! Per- sistent, water on stone, vvater on stone. When one is not recognised that's the end of it, end it. " Over deep with your clothes on, pick 'em up when the water is shallow. " (Odes I. iii. 9. )
3. He said : Certainly, no difficulty about that.
[The text does not give one sufficient to insist on the bearing of the kuo, 3732, fruft. ]
XLIII
In the History, Tze-chang said: What's the mean- ing of the statement : Kao-tsung observing the imperial rnourning did not speak for three years?
2. He said : Why drag in Kao-tsung, in the old days everyone did. When the sovereign died, the hundred officers carried on, getting instructions from the prime minister for three years.
XLIV
1. He said : When men high up love the rites the
people are easily governed.
XLV
1. Tze-Lu asked about "right 'uns. " He said: (The
proper man) disciplines himself with reverence for the forces of vegetation.
Said : Is that all there is to it?
Said : Disciplines himself and quiets others (rests them, considers their quiet).
Said : Disciplines himself and brings tranquillity to the hundred clans. Discipline self and quiet the hundred
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clans Yao and Shun were almost in agony over that (alm~st painfully anxious to do that).
XLVI
l. Yuan Zang remained squatting on his heels as
Kung approached. .
He said: Young and not deferentially (holdmg . the
line) fraternal, come to manhood a~d not transm_ittu~g, old and not dying, exactly a burglarious bum. Hit him over the shin with his cane.
XLVII
1. A young Ch'ueh villager ran errands for him,
. ?
someone said : Up and coming . .
2. He said: I see him sit in men's chairs, ;vatk ~breast of his elders, he's not trying to fill up, hes trymg to finish in a hurry.
BOOK FIFTEEN
Wei Ling Kung Duke Ling of Wei
I
l. Duke Ling of Wei asked Kung-tze about tactics. Kung-tze replied : I have heard a bit about sacrificial stands and dishes, I have not studied the matter of army arrangements. He left next morning.
2. In Chan, provisions cut off, those following him
sickened so no one could get up.
3. Tze-Lu showing his irritation said: Does a gentle-
man have to put up with this sort of thing? He said : A gentleman gets obstinate when he has to; a small man dissolves (when he's up against it).
II
l. He said: Tz'u ("Grant"), you think I make a lot of studies and commit things to memory?
Replied : Aye, ain't it so?
Said: No, I one, through, string-together, sprout [that is: unite, flow through, connect, put forth leaf]. For me there is one thing that flows through, holds things to- gether, germinates.
III
l. He said : Sprout, few know how to carry their
inwit straight into acts.
IV
l. He said : Shun governed without working. How did he do it? He soberly corrected himself and sat look- ing to the south (the sovereign sat on a throne looking south), that's all.
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1. Tzc-chang asked about conduct.
2. He said : Speak from the plumb centre of your mind, and keep your word; bamboo-horse your acts [that is, have this quality of surface hardness, and s~ppleness] with reverence for the vegetative powers, even if you are among the wild men of the South and North _(Man an_d Mo), that is the way to act. If you speak _without this candour, and break your word; if you act without polish
(honour) and reverence, how will it go even in your own
bailiwick (department [and] neighbourhood)?
3. Standing (stablishing, building up a heap) let him form a triad looking at those two powers before hin1
(either facing him, or existing there before him).
[1Vote the three "arms. trongs," bent artns with biceps, in upper part of the ts'an ideo- gram, and use of same in The Pivot XXII,
last line. ]
In his carriage let him see them hitched to the yoke [from rad 144, as traces or reins. Contrast: "like a carriage with no place to hitch the traces"], then he can
proceed.
4. Tze-chang wrote these (words) on his belt.
VI
1. He said : Straight, and how ! the historian Yu.
Country properly governed, he was like an arrow; coun- try in chaos he was like an arrow.
2. Some gentleman, Chu Po-yu! Country decently
governed, he is in office; when the government is rotten he rolls up and keeps the true process inside him.
VII
1. He said : When you should talk to a man, and
don't, you lose the man; when it's no use talkin? to . a man, and you talk to him, you waste words. An tntelh- gent man 'vastes (loses) neither men nor words.
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VIII
He said: An officer (scholar) ruling his mind, a humane man (man of full manhood) will not try to live by damaging his manhood; he will even die to perfect his hu1nanitas.
[There are probably earlier expressions of
this C? Oncept; I ha! Ve not ,yet found an earlier
statement as to abolition of the death penalty.
\Tide supra XIII, xi. ]
IX
1. Tze-kung asked about this business of manhood.
He said : The craftsman wanting to perfect his craft
must first put an edge on his tools (take advantage of
implements already there, the containers). Living in a country, take service with the big men who have solid merit, make friends with the humane scholar-officers.
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1. Yen Yuan asked about governing.
2. He said : Go along with the seasons of Hsia [the
Hsia calendar, but probably including the dates for the markets, however computed].
3. L. and M. both say: Use Yin state carriages. [I think it may refer to the gauge, the wheel-spread, cf/ ref/ to uniform gauge of wheel-ruts. ]
4. Wear the Chou coronation cap [mortar board with
friinge:
I suppose this is related to four-squareness,
~?
Urzahl].
5. Music patterned to the Shao pantomimes.
6. Banish the ear-noise* of Chang, and clear out the
flatterers. The tonalities of Chang are slushy, and double-talkers a danger (diddling, debauching).
XI
1. He said : Man who don't think of the far, will
have trouble near.
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XII
l. He said: Can't get beyond the fact; I have not seen anyone who loves acting from inwit as they_ love a beautiful person.
XIII
l. He said: Tsang Wan-chung like a man who has purloined his position, he knew the solid merit of Hui of Lin-hsia, and did not get him for colleague.
XIV
l. He said: Requiring the solid from oneself and
the trifling from others, will keep one far from resent- ments.
xv
l. He said: When a man don't say, "What's it like, what's it like? " I don't (bother to) compare him to any- thing, and that's that (aliter: I don't ! mow where he'll end up).
XVI
l. He said : Gabbling all day without getting to a discussion of equity (ethics, justice), in love with being clever in a small way; hard to do anything with 'em.
XVII
l.
VII
1. He said: Superior men aren't always complete; no mean man has manhood.
[The langitage is very close; . one might say,
a n1an can have the voice of his ancestry with- in him, without attaining complete h-umanitas. No mean n1an has humanitas. ]
VIII
1. I-Ie said: I. . . . ove exists, can it be other than exigent? Where there is sincerity (mid-mind, mid- heart) can it refrain from teaching?
["word-each. " 2338. hui4? Again it is in,- struction by sorting out terms. Can you get the centre of the mind, without terminology? ]
IX
I. He said : Drawing up the decrees (government orders) P'i Shan invented the straw (i. e. , made the rough drafts), Shih-shu inched the words* and discussed them with the Chef du Protocole (the Hsing jen, official in charge of trave11ing envoys), Tze-Yu combed 'em out and polished 'em, and Tze-Chan of Tung Li added the beauties.
1. Someone asked about (this) Tze-Chan. He said : A kind man.
2. Asked about Tze-Hsi. He said: That bloke! That one!
[If you accept Legge's interpretation, but the pi tsai might be perhaps taken as: "just another, uomo qualunque. " There just isn't enough in the text to indicate tone of voice: query, alas? or what will you! ]
3. Asked about Kwan Chung. He said: Jen yeh*, man who snatched from Po chief, P'ien, a city of three hundred (L. families), (L. the latter) ate coarse rice till his teeth were gone (L. and current, till death) without a grumbling word. [L. 's note, that the dispossessed respected Kwan to this extent. J
XI
1. He said: To be poor without grumbling or resent- ments is difficult; easy to be rich and not haughty.
XII
1. He said : Mang Kung-ch'o for being an elder (senex, senator) of the Chao or Wei, has it in abundance (easily more than fill the pattern requirements), couldn't
1nake it as Gr. eat Officer of Tang or Hsieh.
XIII
1. Tze-Lu asked about the perfect man (the man of perfect focus).
*Possibly wider reading wd/ enlighten as to bearing of Chinese equivalents of, Oh, ugh, and ali ! and any flavour that might have been kept in a strictly oral tradition as to tone of voice used. Here it seems to be approbative, and the tsai seems pejorative in verse 2.
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He said: As if he had Tsang Wu-chung's knowledge, Kung-ch'o's freedom from greed, Chwang of Pien's bravery, Zan Ch'iu's versatile talents, culture enough for the rites and music, he'd have the wherewithal for human perfection.
2. Said: At present why need we such perfect
humanity; to see chance of profit and consider equity, to see danger and be ready to accept one's fate, not to forget the level words of a compact made long ago, that also would make a focus'd man (a man brought to the point, perfect).
XIV
1. Asking about Kung shu Wan, he said to Kung- ming Chia : Do you stick by the statement that your big man doesn't talk, doesn't smile, doesn't accept anything?
2. Kung-ming Chia replied : That's from rumours (reports) overrunning the limit. My big man talks when it's the time, whereby he does not bore with his talking; smiles when pleased, thereby not boring with grins; when it is just to take, he accepts, thus he don't wear people
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XVII
1. Tze-Lu said : Duke Hwan executed the Ducal-son (hls brother) Chiu; Shao Hu died [L. with his boss]. Kwan Chung did not die, say, is that inhumane (un-
manly)?
2. He said: Duke Hwan gathered the princes, not
with weapons and war cars : Kwan Chung's energy
(strength) that was; is that manly? It is manly. XVIII
1. Tze-Kung [not to be confused with Kung (fu) tze] said : I'd give it that Kwan Chung was lacking in humanity, Duke Hwan had his brother Chiu bumped off, and (Kwan Chung) couldn't die, but came back and worked with Hwan as (Prime Minister).
2. He said : Kwan Chung reciprocal'd, aided Duke
Hwan as prime minister, overruling the princes; unified
and rectified the empire, and people till today receive the benefits. But for Kwan Chung we'd be wearing our hair loose and buttoning our coats to the left.
3. You want him to behave like a comtnon man or woman, who could end in a creek or ditch without any- one's being the wiser?
XIX
1. Kung-shu Wan's minister, the Great Officer Hsien, rose shoulder to shoulder with Wan in this Duke's (court).
2. Confucius hearing this said: Wan's the name for him [Wan, accomplished, having real culture] on that count.
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1. He was speaking of the evil government of the Duke Ling of Wei (Nan-tze's husband). K'ang-tze said: A man like that, how come he don't lose (his state)?
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out with taking.
He said : Yes, does he really do that?
xv
1. He said : Tsang Wu-chung flowing through Fang, asked Lu to appoint a successor; although you say this is not bringing pressure to bear on a prince, I won't stand by that definition.
XVI
1. He said: Duke Wan of Tsin was wily and not
correct, [chiieh2-5; wily from words and an arwl, clouds of three colours, hypocrite. P. admirably: un fourbe sans droiture. ]
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[Might almost say: goes far up, far down. All the way through, penetrates upward or downward. Covers the meaning: his mental penetration goes upward, or downward. ]
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2. Kung-tze said: The second brother Yu looks after guests and strangers; the ecclesiastic T'o looks after the dynastic temple; Wang-sun Chia looks after the army corps and regi1nents1 n1en like that, how lose his (state) ?
XXI
1. He said : If a man don't say what he means, it's difficult to shape business to it, action to it. [L and M, take the put se as mea. ning immodest. Pictogrammic interpretation at least as interesting. ]
XXII
L Chan Ch'ang murdered the Duke of Ch'i.
2. Confucius took a bath, went to court, and made formal announcement to the Duke Ai, in these words : Chan Ch'ang has murdered his prince; this invites
punish111ent.
3. The Duke said : Inform the Three Great.
4. Kung-tze said: Coming (in rank) just after the
Great Officers, I did not venture to leave my prince un- informed, (My prince) says inform the Three Great.
5. He announced it to the Three, (who pied) non possunius.
Kung-tze said : Con1ing just after the Great Officers, I did not dare omit the announcement.
XXIII
1. 'fze-lu asked about serving a prince. He said : Don't cheat him, stand up to him [L. withstand him to his face].
XXIV
L He said : A proper man progresses upward (far), a mean man progresses downward (far).
92
L He said : In the old days men studied to make themselves, IlO\V they study to in1press others.
XXVI
1. Chu Po-yu sent a man to Confucius.
2. l(ung-tze sat v. 1ith him and questioned him: What's your boss doing?
Replied : " My big man wants to diminish the number of his errors, and cannot. " The messenger went out. Kung-tze said : Some inessenger, isn't he?
XXVII
1. He said: Not in a particular government office, don't plan to run it.
XXVIII
L Tsang-tze (his son-in-law) said: A proper man's thoughts do not go outside (the sphere of) his office. fYi King diaigrant 52, eight characters, here seven, omit-
ting one. J
XXIX
L He said : A proper man is ashamed of words [L. modest in speech], and goes beyond (them) in action,
[Also: ashamed of words that exceed his action. ] 93
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xxx
1. He said : A proper man's mode of life is three- ply. I can't make it : manhood without regrets; know- ing, he is without suspicion; courageous and therefore without anxiety.
2: Tze-Kung said: Boss, that's the way you go on yourself.
XXXI
1. Tze-Kung square-measur. ed men (one by another).
Confucius said : Tze, you must have heavy talents, n'est- ce past Anyhow, I haven't got the spare time.
XXXII
1
1. He said : Not worried that others don t know me,
worried by my incapacities.
XXXIII
1. He said : Not anticipating deceit or calculating on infidelity [L. anticipate attempts to deceive him, nor think beforehand of not being believed. Might even be: don't oppose deceit (to deceit) or calculate on a man's lies, or lying], but to be quick to spot a hoax when it happens, man who can do this must have solid sense?
XXXIV
1. In course of conversation (old) Wei-shang Mau, said to him: Hummock, my boy, how do you manage to roost when there's a roost going, do you manage it by an oily tongue?
2. He said : I don't dare oil the tongue, but I hate stick-in-a-rut-ness (hate being boxed in with frowst).
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xxxv
1. He said: A horse is grade A not because of strength but from a balance of qualities (proportionate ensemble).
[This is another definit;on, directing thought to the composition of the ideogram itself. A "separate differences horse," extraordinary, yes, defined by the ch'eng, with se. nse of weighing of the grain, good grain, agreeable, etc. (383) vid. also alternations (3067). ]
XXXVI
Someone said what about returning straight good-
1.
ness for injury [L. kindness for injury]?
2. He said: What do you do to repay someone who acts straight with you?
3. See straight when someone injures you, and return good deeds by good deeds.
[L. has the old: justice for injury, kindness for kindness. This does not exhaust the con- tents of the ideograms. Yiian (4th) : murmur, harbour resentment. Allay resentment by straightness, watch a man who harbours re- sentmernt against you. Give frank act for frank act.
Understanding of Confucius has been retarded by wanting to fit his tho"ght inf. a gross ? Occidental clichts. ]
XXXVII
1. He said : The extent to which no one understands
me!
2. Tze-kung said: How do you make out no one
understands you (knows you)?
He said : I do not harbour resentment against heaven,
I study what is below and my thought goes on, penetrates
upward. Is it heaven that knows me? Aristotle: generals FROM pa~ticulars. ]
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[Not id. but cf/
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XXXVIII
1. Kung-po Liao slandered [curre. ntly "smeared "] Tze-Lu to Chi-sun [ed. be: definitely brought formal charge against him, or: laid an information, pejorative, or definitely false]. Tze-fu Ching-po told of it, saying: The big 1nan is certainly having his intentions misled
(direction of his will deflected) by Kung-po Liao, I have
strength enough to have him executed in the market place or in court. [i. e. , as common criminal or great officer]. 2. He said : If my mode of living is to make head- way, or if iny process is to go to waste, it is destined [seal and mouth ? Of heaven] ; what can Kung-po Liao do
about that decree?
XXXIX
1. He said : Some with solid talents get away from
their generation.
2. Those nearest (that solidity) retire from a par- ticular locality.
3. The next grade get away from dazzle (display).
4. Those next get away from words [the dominion of catch phrases. Cd/ even be: stop talking].
[5172, in various c-onnotations. (i): look down upon. rad/ 160. "bitter. " A cross under rad/ 117. looks no? t unlike a graph of a sp? inning-whorl. ]
XL
1. He said: Seven men started this [L. have done
this].
XLI
1. Tze-Lu was passing the night at Stone Gate, the gate guard said : Where from?
Tze-Lu said : The Kung clan.
Said : He's the man who knows there's nothing to be
done, yet sticks with it (keeps on trying). 96
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XLII
J. He was dru1nming on the musical stone in Wei, a man with a straw hamper on his back passed th. e door of the Kung family house, and said : What a mind he's got beating that stone, n'est-ce pas?
2. That was that, then he said : How vulgar ! Per- sistent, water on stone, vvater on stone. When one is not recognised that's the end of it, end it. " Over deep with your clothes on, pick 'em up when the water is shallow. " (Odes I. iii. 9. )
3. He said : Certainly, no difficulty about that.
[The text does not give one sufficient to insist on the bearing of the kuo, 3732, fruft. ]
XLIII
In the History, Tze-chang said: What's the mean- ing of the statement : Kao-tsung observing the imperial rnourning did not speak for three years?
2. He said : Why drag in Kao-tsung, in the old days everyone did. When the sovereign died, the hundred officers carried on, getting instructions from the prime minister for three years.
XLIV
1. He said : When men high up love the rites the
people are easily governed.
XLV
1. Tze-Lu asked about "right 'uns. " He said: (The
proper man) disciplines himself with reverence for the forces of vegetation.
Said : Is that all there is to it?
Said : Disciplines himself and quiets others (rests them, considers their quiet).
Said : Disciplines himself and brings tranquillity to the hundred clans. Discipline self and quiet the hundred
D
1.
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clans Yao and Shun were almost in agony over that (alm~st painfully anxious to do that).
XLVI
l. Yuan Zang remained squatting on his heels as
Kung approached. .
He said: Young and not deferentially (holdmg . the
line) fraternal, come to manhood a~d not transm_ittu~g, old and not dying, exactly a burglarious bum. Hit him over the shin with his cane.
XLVII
1. A young Ch'ueh villager ran errands for him,
. ?
someone said : Up and coming . .
2. He said: I see him sit in men's chairs, ;vatk ~breast of his elders, he's not trying to fill up, hes trymg to finish in a hurry.
BOOK FIFTEEN
Wei Ling Kung Duke Ling of Wei
I
l. Duke Ling of Wei asked Kung-tze about tactics. Kung-tze replied : I have heard a bit about sacrificial stands and dishes, I have not studied the matter of army arrangements. He left next morning.
2. In Chan, provisions cut off, those following him
sickened so no one could get up.
3. Tze-Lu showing his irritation said: Does a gentle-
man have to put up with this sort of thing? He said : A gentleman gets obstinate when he has to; a small man dissolves (when he's up against it).
II
l. He said: Tz'u ("Grant"), you think I make a lot of studies and commit things to memory?
Replied : Aye, ain't it so?
Said: No, I one, through, string-together, sprout [that is: unite, flow through, connect, put forth leaf]. For me there is one thing that flows through, holds things to- gether, germinates.
III
l. He said : Sprout, few know how to carry their
inwit straight into acts.
IV
l. He said : Shun governed without working. How did he do it? He soberly corrected himself and sat look- ing to the south (the sovereign sat on a throne looking south), that's all.
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v
1. Tzc-chang asked about conduct.
2. He said : Speak from the plumb centre of your mind, and keep your word; bamboo-horse your acts [that is, have this quality of surface hardness, and s~ppleness] with reverence for the vegetative powers, even if you are among the wild men of the South and North _(Man an_d Mo), that is the way to act. If you speak _without this candour, and break your word; if you act without polish
(honour) and reverence, how will it go even in your own
bailiwick (department [and] neighbourhood)?
3. Standing (stablishing, building up a heap) let him form a triad looking at those two powers before hin1
(either facing him, or existing there before him).
[1Vote the three "arms. trongs," bent artns with biceps, in upper part of the ts'an ideo- gram, and use of same in The Pivot XXII,
last line. ]
In his carriage let him see them hitched to the yoke [from rad 144, as traces or reins. Contrast: "like a carriage with no place to hitch the traces"], then he can
proceed.
4. Tze-chang wrote these (words) on his belt.
VI
1. He said : Straight, and how ! the historian Yu.
Country properly governed, he was like an arrow; coun- try in chaos he was like an arrow.
2. Some gentleman, Chu Po-yu! Country decently
governed, he is in office; when the government is rotten he rolls up and keeps the true process inside him.
VII
1. He said : When you should talk to a man, and
don't, you lose the man; when it's no use talkin? to . a man, and you talk to him, you waste words. An tntelh- gent man 'vastes (loses) neither men nor words.
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VIII
He said: An officer (scholar) ruling his mind, a humane man (man of full manhood) will not try to live by damaging his manhood; he will even die to perfect his hu1nanitas.
[There are probably earlier expressions of
this C? Oncept; I ha! Ve not ,yet found an earlier
statement as to abolition of the death penalty.
\Tide supra XIII, xi. ]
IX
1. Tze-kung asked about this business of manhood.
He said : The craftsman wanting to perfect his craft
must first put an edge on his tools (take advantage of
implements already there, the containers). Living in a country, take service with the big men who have solid merit, make friends with the humane scholar-officers.
x
1. Yen Yuan asked about governing.
2. He said : Go along with the seasons of Hsia [the
Hsia calendar, but probably including the dates for the markets, however computed].
3. L. and M. both say: Use Yin state carriages. [I think it may refer to the gauge, the wheel-spread, cf/ ref/ to uniform gauge of wheel-ruts. ]
4. Wear the Chou coronation cap [mortar board with
friinge:
I suppose this is related to four-squareness,
~?
Urzahl].
5. Music patterned to the Shao pantomimes.
6. Banish the ear-noise* of Chang, and clear out the
flatterers. The tonalities of Chang are slushy, and double-talkers a danger (diddling, debauching).
XI
1. He said : Man who don't think of the far, will
have trouble near.
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XII
l. He said: Can't get beyond the fact; I have not seen anyone who loves acting from inwit as they_ love a beautiful person.
XIII
l. He said: Tsang Wan-chung like a man who has purloined his position, he knew the solid merit of Hui of Lin-hsia, and did not get him for colleague.
XIV
l. He said: Requiring the solid from oneself and
the trifling from others, will keep one far from resent- ments.
xv
l. He said: When a man don't say, "What's it like, what's it like? " I don't (bother to) compare him to any- thing, and that's that (aliter: I don't ! mow where he'll end up).
XVI
l. He said : Gabbling all day without getting to a discussion of equity (ethics, justice), in love with being clever in a small way; hard to do anything with 'em.
XVII
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