Mang I asked what filial piety was. The Master said, "It is not being disobedient."Go here to read the introductory post to this serialized version of the Analects of Confucius.
Soon after, as Fan Ch'ih was driving him, the Master told him, saying, "Mang-sun asked me what filial piety was, and I answered him,-'not being disobedient.'"
Fan Ch'ih said, "What did you mean?" The Master replied, "That parents, when alive, be served according to propriety; that, when dead, they should be buried according to propriety; and that they should be sacrificed to according to propriety."
~ James Legge translation via The Internet Classics Archive ~
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Chapter 2, Part 5 - Confucius
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