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君子卷第十二 - The Junzi

English translation: Jeffrey S. Bullock [?] Library Resources
20 君子卷第... :
或问:“人言仙者,有诸乎?”“吁,吾闻虙羲、神农殁,黄帝、尧、舜殂落而死,文王,毕;孔子,鲁城之北。独子爱其死乎?非人之所及也。仙亦无益子之汇矣!”或曰:“圣人不师仙,厥术异也。圣人之于天下,耻一物之不知;仙人之于天下,耻一日之不生。”曰:“生乎!生乎!名生而实死也。”
The Junzi:
Someone asked: People speak of immortals. Do they exist?
Yangzi sighed, saying: I have heard that Fu Xi and Shen Nong died; that Huangdi, Yao, and Shun also passed away; that King Wen was buried at Bi; and that Confucius was buried north of the Lu walls. Do you alone begrudge your death? It is not something that men can do anything about. Indeed, immortality is of no benefit to mankind.
The other said: Sages do not study the immortals, their skills are different. The sage's relation to the world is such that he is ashamed if there is one thing that he does not understand. For the immortal, he is ashamed that there is a single day that he does not live.
Yangzi said: Life? It is called "life," but it is really death.
或曰:“世无仙,则焉得斯语?”曰,“语乎者,非嚣嚣也与?惟嚣嚣为能使无为有。”或问“仙之实”。曰:“无以为也,有与无,非问也。问也者,忠孝之问也。忠臣孝子,偟乎不偟。”
The other said: If the world does not have immortals, then where does talk of them come from?
Yangzi said: Isn't the talk of immortals just a bunch of frivolous nonsense? Only that sort of nonsense is able to make something out of nothing.
The other asked: What is the truth regarding immortals?
Yangzi said: There is nothing to say. Whether they exist or not is not a question that you should be concerned with. The questions you ought to ask about concern loyalty and filial devotion. Do loyal ministers and filial sons have the leisure to ask about such things? They do not.

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