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齐物论 - The Adjustment of Controversies

English translation: James Legge [?]
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4 齐物论:
夫随其成心而师之,谁独且无师乎?奚必知代而心自取者有之?愚者与有焉。未成乎心而有是非,是今日适越而昔至也。是以无有为有。无有为有,虽有神禹,且不能知,吾独且柰何哉!夫言非吹也。言者有言,其所言者特未定也。果有言邪?其未尝有言邪?其以为异于鷇音,亦有辩乎,其无辩乎?道恶乎隐而有真伪?言恶乎隐而有是非?道恶乎往而不存?言恶乎存而不可?道隐于小成,言隐于荣华。故有儒、墨之是非,以是其所非,而非其所是。欲是其所非而非其所是,则莫若以明。
The Adjustment of Controversies:...:
If we were to follow the judgments of the predetermined mind, who would be left alone and without a teacher? Not only would it be so with those who know the sequences (of knowledge and feeling) and make their own selection among them, but it would be so as well with the stupid and unthinking. For one who has not this determined mind, to have his affirmations and negations is like the case described in the saying, 'He went to Yue to-day, and arrived at it yesterday.' It would be making what was not a fact to be a fact. But even the spirit-like Yu could not have known how to do this, and how should one like me be able to do it? But speech is not like the blowing (of the wind); the speaker has (a meaning in) his words. If, however, what he says, be indeterminate (as from a mind not made up), does he then really speak or not? He thinks that his words are different from the chirpings of fledgelings; but is there any distinction between them or not? But how can the Dao be so obscured, that there should be 'a True' and 'a False' in it? How can speech be so obscured that there should be 'the Right' and 'the Wrong' about them? Where shall the Dao go to that it will not be found? Where shall speech be found that it will be inappropriate? Dao becomes obscured through the small comprehension (of the mind), and speech comes to be obscure through the vain-gloriousness (of the speaker). So it is that we have the contentions between the Literati and the Mohists, the one side affirming what the other denies, and vice versa. If we would decide on their several affirmations and denials, no plan is like bringing the (proper) light (of the mind) to bear on them.

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