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Translations -> Xunzi 23.14 English
| 2016-11-18 05:19:15Xunzi 23.14 English |
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| Posted by: frank091 (Frank Saunders Jr) | Straight wood not waiting for the straightening board but being straight---its spontaneous nature is to be straight. Crooked wood necessarily waiting for steaming and pressing on the straightening board and only then becoming straight---it's because its spontaneous nature is to not be straight. If people's spontaneous nature is bad, then they must await the ordering of the sage kings and the transforming effects results of ritual and duty. Only then will they begin to exhibit order and unite in goodness. If we look at it in this way, people's spontaneous nature is clearly bad. Their goodness is artificial. |
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