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南榮趎:「?」Nan-rong Chu said, 'And are these all the characteristics of the Perfect man?'
:「Laozi replied, 'No.
These are what we call the breaking up of the ice, and the dissolving of the cold.
The Perfect man,
along with other men, gets his food from the earth, and derives his joy from his Heaven (-conferred nature).
But he does not like them allow himself to be troubled by the consideration of advantage or injury coming from men and things;
he does not like them do strange things,
or form plans,
or enter on undertakings;
he flees from the allurements of desire,
and pursues his way with an entire simplicity.
Such is the way by which he guards his life.
:「?」And is this what constitutes his perfection ?
:「Not quite.
:『?』I asked you whether you could become a little child.
The little child moves unconscious of what it is doing,
and walks unconscious of whither it is going.
Its body is like the branch of a rotten tree, and its mind is like slaked lime.
Being such,
misery does not come to it,
nor happiness.
It has neither misery nor happiness
?」- how can it suffer from the calamities incident to men?'


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