Confucean thought summarized for the Prince. Tr. Legge (en), Pauthier (fr), Bog (fr).
Confucius' text, Zengzi's comments on illustrious virtue, renovation of the people, the highest excellence, the root and the branches, investigation of things, having the thoughts sincere, the rectification of the mind, the regulation of the family, the well-ordering of the State, making the whole kingdom peaceful and happy.
Zengzi's Seventh Commentary
On personal cultivation as dependent on the rectification of the mind.
When the mind is not present, we look and do not see; we hear and do not understand; we eat and do not know the taste of what we eat.
Legge VII. 2.
心不在那里,(另想别处,)看什么也看不见,听什么也听不到,吃什么也不晓得味道,
白话翻译
L'âme n'étant point maîtresse d'elle-même, on regarde et on ne voit pas ; on écoute et on n'entend pas ; on mange et on ne connoît point la saveur des aliments.
Pauthier VII. 2.
Celui dont le cœur est ailleurs regarde sans voir, entend sans écouter, et ne reconnaît même pas le goût de ce qu'il mange.
Bog
The Great Learning – Daxue VIII. 2. – Chinese off/on – Français/English
Alias Daxue, Da Xue, Ta Hsue, Ta Hio, Great Learning, Adult Study (Pound), Grande Etude.
The Book of Odes, The Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Three-characters book, The Book of Changes, The Way and its Power, 300 Tang Poems, The Art of War, Thirty-Six Strategies
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