| The Priority of Filial...: |
Someone said: As for physical strength, there are those who can carry a massive ritual cauldron or raise military flags. In terms of wisdom and de, are there not also those who compare in this way? Yangzi said: These are merely cases of one man being like a hundred. De that allows one to harmonize with the stupid and foolish, and to abdicate the ten thousand kingdoms; wisdom that clearly perceives Heaven and Earth, and can give form to unfathomable profundity—are these merely equal to the de and wisdom of a hundred men? |