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Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Miscellaneous Chapters -> Xu Wu-gui -> 5.2

庄子Zhuangzi went on,
'Very well;
there are the literati, the followers of Mo (Di), of Yang (Zhu), and of Bing - making four (different schools).
Including yourself, Master, there are five.
Which of your views is really right?
Or will you take the position of Lu Ju?
One of his disciples said to him,
"Master, I have got hold of your method.
。’I can in winter heat the furnace under my tripod, and in summer can produce ice."
Lu Ju said,
"That is only with the Yang element to call out the same,
and with the Yin to call out the yin
- that is not my method.
。’I will show you what my method is."
On this he tuned two citherns,
placing one of them in the hall,
and the other in one of the inner apartments.
Striking the note Gong in the one, the same note vibrated in the other,
and so it was with the note Jiao;
the two instruments being tuned in the same way.
But if he had differently tuned them on other strings
different from the normal arrangement of the five notes,
the five-and-twenty strings would all have vibrated,
without any difference of their notes,
the note to which he had tuned them ruling and guiding all the others.
Is your maintaining your view to be right just like this?


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