tailieunhanh - Confucian Canon phần 5

"Các thiết bị quân sự", Thạc sĩ. 470 Tsze-kung một lần nữa hỏi: "Nếu nó không thể được giúp đỡ, và một trong hai còn lại phải được phân phát, chúng nên được bỏ qua?" Hòa Thượng trả lời, "Một phần với thực phẩm Từ cũ, cái chết đã được rất nhiều của một người đàn ông, nhưng nếu mọi người không có đức tin trong họ | thoughts inward and examined into it I could not discover my own mind. When you Master spoke those words the movements of compassion began to work in my mind. How is it that this heart has in it what is equal to the royal sway 43 10. Mencius replied Suppose a man were to make this statement to your Majesty -- My strength is sufficient to lift three thousand catties but it is not sufficient to lift one feather -- my eyesight is sharp enough to examine the point of an autumn hair but I do not see a waggon-load of faggots -- would your Majesty allow what he said No was the answer on which Mencius proceeded Now here is kindness sufficient to reach to animals and no benefits are extended from it to the How is this Is an exception to be made here The truth is the feather is not lifted because strength is not used the waggon-load of firewood is not seen because the eyesight is not used and the people are not loved and protected because kindness is not employed. Therefore your Majesty s not exercising the royal sway is because you do not do it not because you are not able to do it. 44 11. The king asked How may the difference between the not doing a thing and the not being able to do it be represented Mencius replied In such a thing as taking the T ýi mountain under your arm and leaping over the north sea with it if you say to people-- I am not able to do it that is a real case of not being able. In such a matter as breaking off a branch from a tree at the order of a superior if you say to people-- I am not able to do it that is a case of not doing it it is not a case of not being able to do it. Therefore your Majesty s not exercising the royal sway is not such a case as that of taking the T ai mountain under your arm and leaping over the north sea with it. Your Majesty s not exercising the royal sway is a case like that of breaking off a branch from a tree. 45 12. Treat with the reverence due to age the elders in your own family so that the elders in the .