Analects

Chapter 12 Yan Yuan No.12

12.1
Yan Yuan asked Ren.The Master said: "Restraining oneself and returning to the rites is benevolence. If one day renounces oneself and returns to the rites, the world will return to benevolence. Is benevolence left to oneself, but to others?" Yan Yuan said: "May I ask its purpose." Don't listen, don't speak anything out of courtesy, don't move if it's out of courtesy." Yan Yuan said, "Although Hui is not sensitive, please speak like this!"

12.2
Zhong Gong asked Ren.The Master said: "When going out, it is like seeing a great guest, and making the people like receiving a great sacrifice. Do not do to others what you do not want yourself to do to yourself. There is no resentment in the state, and no resentment in the family." Zhong Gong said: "Although Yong is not sensitive, I ask you to speak like this. Yea!"

12.3
Sima Niu asked Ren.The Master said: "One who is benevolent, his words are also disrespectful." Said: "Their words are also disrespectful. Do you call this benevolence?"

12.4
Sima Niu asked the gentleman.The Master said: "A gentleman neither worries nor fears." Said: "Does not worry and fears, so do you call him a gentleman?"

12.5
Sima Niu said worryingly: "Everyone has brothers, I alone perish!" Zixia said: "Business has heard it: death and life have fate, wealth and honor are in the sky. A gentleman respects without loss, treats others respectfully and politely, within the four seas, They are all brothers. How can a gentleman worry about not having brothers?"

12.6
Zi Zhang asked Ming.

The Master said: "The sting of soaking, the stinging of the skin, can't be done, it can be said to be clear. The sputum of soaking, the stinging of the skin, can't be done, it can be said to be far away."

12.7
Zigong asked about politics.Confucius said: "Enough food, enough soldiers, the people believe in it." Zigong said: "If you have to go, what should be the first of the three?" Said: "Go to the army." Zigong said: "If you have to go, So where did the two come first?" Said: "Go eat. Since ancient times, everyone has died, and the people will not stand without faith."

12.8
Jizi Cheng said: "A gentleman is nothing more than a quality, why do we use literature?" Zigong said: "It's a pity! The master said that a gentleman is also. The four are not as good as the tongue. The writing is like quality, and the quality is like writing. Tigers and leopards are like dogs. The sheep of the sheep."

12.9
Duke Ai asked Yu Youruo, "The year is hungry, and the use is not enough. What is it like?" Youruo said to him, "Is it thorough?" If the people are sufficient, who is the ruler? If the people are insufficient, who is the ruler?"

12.10
Zi Zhang asked about advocating morality and discerning confusion.The Master said: "The Lord is loyal and trustworthy, and righteousness is respected. Love wants its life, and evil wants its death. It is confusing to want both life and death." .'"

12.11
Duke Jing of Qi asked Confucius about politics, and Confucius said to him: "The emperor, the ministers, the father, the son, and the son." Millet, can I get it and eat it?"

12.12
The Master said: "Those who can break the prison with a few words, the reason is the same!" Zilu Wusu promises.

12.13
The Master said: "Listen to the lawsuit, I am like a human being. Surely there will be no lawsuit!"

12.14
Zi Zhang asked about politics.

The Master said: "Live tirelessly, act with loyalty."

12.15
The Master said: "If you are erudite in literature, if you make an appointment with courtesy, you can also help your husband!"

12.16
The Master said: "A gentleman is beautiful when he is an adult, but he is evil when he is not an adult; it is the opposite for a villain."

12.17
Ji Kangzi asked Confucius about politics.

Confucius said to him: "Politics are upright. If you are a commander in chief, who dares to be unrighteous?"

12.18
Ji Kangzi was suffering from robbery and asked Confucius about it.

Confucius said to him: "If a dog does not desire, even if it is rewarded, it will not steal."

12.19
Ji Kangzi asked Confucius about government, saying: "If you kill without the right way, then you will have the right way. How about that?" Confucius said to him, "If you are in charge of government, how can you use killing? The son wants to be good and the people are good! The virtue of a gentleman is wind; small The virtue of man is the grass; the wind on the grass will die."

12.20
Zizhang asked: "How can a scholar be said to be a master?" The Master said: "Why, what do you call a master?" Zizhang said to him: "You must hear it when you are in the state, and you must hear it when you are at home." The Master said: "It is also heard. , not up to the mark. Those who are up to the point of view are straightforward and fond of righteousness. They observe the words and look at the color, and they are concerned about the following people. They must be up to the state, and they must be up to the family. Those who have heard about it are those who are benevolent and act against them. Suspicion. You must hear it in the state, and you must hear it at home."

12.21
Fan Chi was swimming under the dancers, and said: "Dare to ask about virtue, cultivating virtue, and distinguishing confusion." The master said: "It's good to ask! First things first, then gain, is it not advocating virtue? Attacking the evil, not attacking the evil of others." Isn’t it a matter of cultivating? One day’s anger, forgetting one’s body and one’s relatives, isn’t it a confusion?”

12.22
Fan Chi asked Ren.Confucius said: "Love people." Ask to know.The Master said: "Know people." Fan Chi didn't get it.The Master said: "Putting the straight to the wrong can make the wrong straight." Fan Chi retreated, saw Zi Xia, and said, "I saw it in my hometown and asked my master. What do you mean by straightness?" Zixia said, "It's rich! Shun has the world, he chooses from the crowd, and Gao Tao is chosen, and those who are not benevolent are far away. Tang has the world, and he is chosen from the crowd. carry on."

12.23
Zigong asked friends.

The Master said: "Advice should be done well, if you can't do it, stop it, don't humiliate yourself."

12.24
Zeng Zi said: "A gentleman makes friends with literature, and helps benevolent people with friends."

(End of this chapter)