Fan Ch'ih rambling with the Master under the trees about the rain altars, said, "I venture to ask how to exalt virtue, to correct cherished evil, and to discover delusions."Go here to read the introductory post to this serialized version of the Analects of Confucius.
The Master said, "Truly a good question!
"If doing what is to be done be made the first business, and success a secondary consideration: is not this the way to exalt virtue? To assail one's own wickedness and not assail that of others; is not this the way to correct cherished evil? For a morning's anger to disregard one's own life, and involve that of his parents; is not this a case of delusion?"
~ James Legge translation via The Internet Classics Archive ~
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Chapter 12, Part 21 - Confucius
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