30.dec.2002
11.51 pm


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cyborgprimatingly


The things he looked very straight at, were the arrangement of altar
dishes, war and disease.

If he was with a man who sang true, he would make him repeat and sing in
harmony with him.

He said: Study with the seasons winging past, is not this pleasant?
To have friends coming in from far quarters, not a delight?
Unruffled by men's ignoring him, also indicative of high breed.

He said: To keep things going in state of ten thousand cars: respect
what you do and keep your word, keep accurate accounts and be friendly
to others, employ the people in season. [Probably meaning public works
are not to interfere with agricultural production.]

Tseng-tse said: Look clearly to the end, and follow it up a long way;
the people acting on conscience will get back to the solid.

He said: The anthology of 300 poems can be gathered into the one
sentence: Have no twisty thoughts.

He said: Attacking false systems merely harms you.

He said: A neighborhood's humanity is its beauty. If a man doesn't
settle among real people, how can he know.

He said: A scholar with his will on learning the process, who is ashamed
of poor clothes, and fusses over bad food, is not worth, talking to.

He said: The men of old held their words for fear of not matching them
in their character.

He said: Candidness is not fatherless, it is bound to have neighbors.

Tze-Kung said: The big man's culture shows, one can manage to hear about
that; the big man's words about the inborn-nature and the process of
heaven, one cannot manage to hear. [The don't go in through the ear.]

He said: Is this the end of it? I have seen no one who can see his
errors and then go into his own mind and demand justice on them in
precise, just, discriminating words.

He said: study as if unattainable, as if fearing to lose (grip on it).