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中国哲学书电子化计划
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道家 -> 庄子 -> 内篇 -> 大宗师 -> 5

子祀、子舆、子犁、子来四人相与语曰：Zi-si, Zi-yu, Zi-li, and Zi-lai, these four men, were talking together, when some one said,
“孰能以无为首， 'Who can suppose the head to be made from nothing,
以生为脊， the spine from life,
以死为尻， and the rump-bone from death?
孰知生死存亡之一体者，Who knows how death and birth, living on and disappearing, compose the one body?
吾与之友矣。” I would be friends with him.'
四人相视而笑， The four men looked at one another and laughed,
莫逆于心， but no one seized with his mind the drift of the questions.
遂相与为友。All, however, were friends together.
俄而子舆有病， Not long after Zi-yu fell ill,
子祀往问之。 and Zi-si went to inquire for him.
曰：“伟哉！'How great,' said (the sufferer),
夫造物者， 'is the Creator!
将以予为此拘拘也！ That He should have made me the deformed object that I am!'
曲偻发背，He was a crooked hunchback;
上有五管， his five viscera were squeezed into the upper part of his body;
颐隐于齐， his chin bent over his navel;
肩高于顶， his shoulder was higher than his crown;
句赘指天。” on his crown was an ulcer pointing to the sky;
阴阳之气有沴， his breath came and went in gasps:
其心闲而无事，yet he was easy in his mind, and made no trouble of his condition.
跰足而鉴于井，He limped to a well, looked at himself in it,
曰： and said,
“嗟乎！夫造物者，又将以予为此拘拘也！” 'Alas that the Creator should have made me the deformed object that I am!'
子祀曰：“汝恶之乎？”Si said, 'Do you dislike your condition?'
曰：“亡，予何恶！He replied, 'No, why should I dislike it?
浸假而化予之左臂以为鸡， If He were to transform my left arm into a cock,
予因以求时夜； I should be watching with it the time of the night;
浸假而化予之右臂以为弹， if He were to transform my right arm into a cross-bow,
予因以求鴞炙； I should then be looking for a Xiao to (bring down and) roast;
浸假而化予之尻以为轮， if He were to transform my rump-bone into a wheel,
以神为马， and my spirit into a horse,
予因以乘之， I should then be mounting it,
岂更驾哉！ and would not change it for another steed.
且夫得者时也，Moreover, when we have got (what we are to do), there is the time (of life) in which to do it;
失者顺也，when we lose that (at death), submission (is what is required).
安时而处顺，When we rest in what the time requires, and manifest that submission,
哀乐不能入也。 neither joy nor sorrow can find entrance (to the mind).
此古之所谓县解也， This would be what the ancients called loosing the cord by which (the life) is suspended.
而不能自解者， But one hung up cannot loose himself;
物有结之。-- he is held fast by his bonds.
且夫物不胜天久矣， And that creatures cannot overcome Heaven (the inevitable) is a long-acknowledged fact
吾又何恶焉？”- why should I hate my condition?'
俄而子来有病，Before long Zi-lai fell ill,
喘喘然将死， and lay gasping at the point of death,
其妻子环而泣之。 while his wife and children stood around him wailing.
子犁往问之曰：“叱！Zi-li went to ask for him, and said to them, 'Hush!
避！Get out of the way!
无怛化！” Do not disturb him as he is passing through his change.'
倚其户与之语曰：Then, leaning against the door, he said (to the dying man),
“伟哉造物！ 'Great indeed is the Creator!
又将奚以汝为？What will He now make you to become?
将奚以汝适？Where will He take you to?
以汝为鼠肝乎？ Will He make you the liver of a rat,
以汝为虫臂乎？” or the arm of an insect?
子来曰： Zi-lai replied,
“父母于子， 'Wherever a parent tells a son to go,
东西南北，east, west, south, or north,
唯命之从。 he simply follows the command.
阴阳于人，不翅于父母， The Yin and Yang are more to a man than his parents are.
彼近吾死而我不听，If they are hastening my death, and I do not quietly submit to them,
我则悍矣，彼何罪焉！ I shall be obstinate and rebellious.
夫大块载我以形，There is the great Mass (of nature);-- I find the support of my body in it;
劳我以生， my life is spent in toil on it;
佚我以老， my old age seeks ease on it;
息我以死。 at death I find rest on it:
故善吾生者，乃所以善吾死也。 what has made my life a good will make my death also a good.
今之大冶铸金，Here now is a great founder, casting his metal.
金踊跃曰If the metal were to leap up (in the pot), and say,
‘我且必为镆鋣’， "I must be made into a (sword like the) Mo-ye,"
大冶必以为不祥之金。 the great founder would be sure to regard it as uncanny.
今一犯人之形，So, again, when a form is being fashioned in the mould of the womb,
而曰‘人耳人耳’，if it were to say, "I must become a man; I must become a man,"
夫造化者必以为不祥之人。 the Creator would be sure to regard it as uncanny.
今一以天地为大炉， When we once understand that heaven and earth are a great melting-pot,
以造化为大冶， and the Creator a great founder,
恶乎往而不可哉！ where can we have to go to that shall not be right for us?
成然寐， We are born as from a quiet sleep,
蘧然觉。” and we die to a calm awaking.'

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