| The Seldom Seen: |
Like trees sprouting in spring, great is the hand that leads me on! Although Confucius died five hundred years ago, it is as if he were still here. Someone said: All under Heaven unceasingly bicker and make persuasions. Where is he now? Yangzi said: Do not talk like that! The world has been without the sage for a long time. Just as crying children only recognize their own mother, those unceasingly bickering Confucian scholars study only their own teachers. Single-mindedly concentrate on the essentials, Confucius lies therein. |