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Han shih wai chuan

Han Ying's Illustrations of the didactic application of the Classic of songs
Han, Ying
  
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INTRODUCTION

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CHAPTER X

  
APPENDIX
  
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
TABLE OF UNUSUAL ORTHOGRAPHIES
  
FINDING LIST
  
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES
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14[1]

Traditionally, when the superior man hears of the Way, he lets
it enter his ears and treasures it up in his heart. He illumines
it with jên and protects it with sincerity. He puts it into practice
according to i, and delivers it with complaisance. As a result
none listens to him but with a receptive mind.

When the mean man hears of the Way, he lets it enter his ears

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and then ejects it through his mouth. It is simply a case of speech
put to a perverted use. It is comparable to eating to repletion
and then vomiting. Not only is that of no benefit to the body,
but this also impairs the mind.[2]

The Ode says,[3]

How can he get his mind settled?

 
[1]

This differs considerably from Hsün-tzŭ 1.8b: "In learning the superior man lets
it enter his ears and appear in his heart, spread through his four limbs and take form
in his activity. One of his least words, of his slightest movements, can be taken as a
rule. The mean man, however, in learning lets it enter his ear and ejects it through
his mouth. Between mouth and ears there is only four inches. How can that suffice
to ameliorate a body of seven ch`ih?" [OMITTED],
[OMITTED]
[OMITTED].

[2]

The meaning is clear, but the logic is bad. It might be expanded to "as in the
latter case, where the body fails to benefit from the food ingested only to be vomited
up again, so in the former, there is no benefit to the mind—but what is worse, the
mind actually suffers from the procedure."

[3]

Shih 44 No. 29.

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