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庄子 - Zhuangzi

[Warring States] 350 BC-250 BC English translation: James Legge [?]
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[Also known as: 《南华真经》]

外篇 - Outer Chapters

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胠箧 - Cutting open Satchels

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1 胠箧:
将为胠箧、探囊、发匮之盗而为守备,则必摄缄、縢,固扃、鐍,此世俗之所谓知也。然而巨盗至,则负匮、揭箧、担囊而趋,唯恐缄、縢、扃、鐍之不固也。然则乡之所谓知者,不乃为大盗积者也?故尝试论之,世俗之所谓知者,有不为大盗积者乎?所谓圣者,有不为大盗守者乎?何以知其然邪?昔者齐国邻邑相望,鸡狗之音相闻,罔罟之所布,耒耨之所刺,方二千馀里。阖四竟之内,所以立宗社稷,治邑、屋、州、闾、乡曲者,曷尝不法圣人哉!然而田成子一旦杀齐君而盗其国。所盗者岂独其国邪?并与其圣知之法而盗之。故田成子有乎盗贼之名,而身处尧、舜之安,小国不敢非,大国不敢诛,十二世有齐国。则是不乃窃齐国,并与其圣知之法,以守其盗贼之身乎?尝试论之,世俗之所谓至知者,有不为大盗积者乎?所谓至圣者,有不为大盗守者乎?何以知其然邪?昔者龙逢斩,比干剖,苌弘胣,子胥靡,故四子之贤而身不免乎戮。故盗跖之徒问于跖曰:“盗亦有道乎?”跖曰:“何适而无有道邪?夫妄意室中之藏,圣也;入先,勇也;出后,义也;知可否,知也;分均,仁也。五者不备而能成大盗者,天下未之有也。”由是观之,善人不得圣人之道不立,跖不得圣人之道不行;天下之善人少而不善人多,则圣人之利天下也少而害天下也多。
Cutting open Satchels:...:
In taking precautions against thieves who cut open satchels, search bags, and break open boxes, people are sure to cord and fasten them well, and to employ strong bonds and clasps; and in this they are ordinarily said to show their wisdom. When a great thief comes, however, he shoulders the box, lifts up the satchel, carries off the bag, and runs away with them, afraid only that the cords, bonds, and clasps may not be secure; and in this case what was called the wisdom (of the owners) proves to be nothing but a collecting of the things for the great thief. Let me try and set this matter forth. Do not those who are vulgarly called wise prove to be collectors for the great thieves? And do not those who are called sages prove to be but guardians in the interest of the great thieves? How do I know that the case is so? Formerly, in the state of Qi, the neighbouring towns could see one another; their cocks and dogs never ceased to answer the crowing and barking of other cocks and dogs (between them). The nets were set (in the water and on the land); and the ploughs and hoes were employed over more than a space of two thousand li square. All within its four boundaries, the establishment of the ancestral temples and of the altars of the land and grain, and the ordering of the hamlets and houses, and of every corner in the districts, large, medium, and small, were in all particulars according to the rules of the sages. So it was; but yet one morning, Tian Cheng-zi killed the ruler of Qi, and stole his state. And was it only the state that he stole? Along with it he stole also the regulations of the sages and wise men (observed in it). And so, though he got the name of being a thief and a robber, yet he himself continued to live as securely as Yao and Shun had done. Small states did not dare to find fault with him; great states did not dare to take him off; for twelve generations (his descendants) have possessed the state of Qi. Thus do we not have a case in which not only did (the party) steal the state of Qi, but at the same time the regulations of its sages and wise men, which thereby served to guard the person of him, thief and robber as he was? Let me try to set forth this subject (still further). Have not there been among those vulgarly styled the wisest, such as have collected (their wealth) for the great chief? And among those styled the most sage such as have guarded it for him? How do I know that it has been so? Formerly, Long-feng was beheaded; Bi-gan had his heart torn out; Chang Hong was ripped open; and Zi-xu was reduced to pulp (in the Chang). Worthy as those four men were, they did not escape such dreadful deaths. The followers of the robber Zhi asked him, saying, 'Has the robber also any method or principle (in his proceedings)?' He replied, 'What profession is there which has not its principles? That the robber in his recklessness comes to the conclusion that there are valuable deposits in an apartment shows his sageness; that he is the first to enter it shows his bravery; that he is the last to quit it shows his righteousness; that he knows whether (the robbery) may be attempted or not shows his wisdom; and that he makes an equal division of the plunder shows his benevolence. Without all these five qualities no one in the world has ever attained to become a great robber.' Looking at the subject in this way, we see that good men do not arise without having the principles of the sages, and that Zhi could not have pursued his course without the same principles. But the good men in the world are few, and those who are not good are many - it follows that the sages benefit the world in a few instances and injure it in many.

在宥 - Letting Be, and Exercising Forbearance

English translation: James Legge [?]
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2 在宥:
崔瞿问于老聃曰:“不治天下,安藏人心?”老聃曰:“汝慎无撄人心。人心排下而进上,上下囚杀,淖约柔乎刚强。廉刿雕琢,其热焦火,其寒凝冰。其疾俛仰之间,而再抚四海之外,其居也渊而静,其动也县而天。偾骄而不可系者,其唯人心乎!昔者黄帝始以仁义撄人之心,尧、舜于是乎股无胈,胫无毛,以养天下之形,愁其五藏以为仁义,矜其血气以规法度。然犹有不胜也。尧于是放欢兜于崇山,投三苗于三峗,流共工于幽都,此不胜天下也夫!施及三王而天下大骇矣。下有桀、跖,上有曾、史,而儒、墨毕起。于是乎喜怒相疑,愚知相欺,善否相非,诞信相讥,而天下衰矣;大德不同,而性命烂漫矣;天下好知,而百姓求竭矣。于是乎釿锯制焉,绳墨杀焉,椎凿决焉。天下脊脊大乱,罪在撄人心。故贤者伏处大山嵁岩之下,而万乘之君忧栗乎堂之上。今世殊死者相枕也,桁杨者相推也,刑戮者相望也,而儒、墨乃始离跂攘臂乎桎梏之间。意!甚矣哉!其无愧而不知耻也甚矣!吾未知圣知之不为桁杨椄槢也,仁义之不为桎梏、凿枘也,焉知曾、史之不为桀、跖嚆矢也!故曰:‘绝圣弃知而天下大治。’”
Letting Be, and Exercising...:
Cui Ji asked Lao Dan, saying, 'If you do not govern the world, how can you make men's minds good?' The reply was, 'Take care how you meddle with and disturb men's minds. The mind, if pushed about, gets depressed; if helped forward, it gets exalted. Now exalted, now depressed, here it appears as a prisoner, and there as a wrathful fury. (At one time) it becomes pliable and soft, yielding to what is hard and strong; (at another), it is sharp as the sharpest corner, fit to carve or chisel (stone or jade). Now it is hot as a scorching fire, and anon it is cold as ice. It is so swift that while one is bending down and lifting up his head, it shall twice have put forth a soothing hand beyond the four seas. Resting, it is still as a deep abyss; moving, it is like one of the bodies in the sky; in its resolute haughtiness, it refuses to be bound - such is the mind of man!'
Anciently, Huang-Di was the first to meddle with and disturb the mind of man with his benevolence and righteousness. After him, Yao and Shun wore their thighs bare and the hair off the calves of their legs, in their labours to nourish the bodies of the people. They toiled painfully with all the powers in their five viscera at the practice of their benevolence and righteousness; they tasked their blood and breath to make out a code of laws - and after all they were unsuccessful. On this Yao sent away Huan Dou to Chong hill, and (the Chiefs of) the Three Miao to San-wei, and banished the Minister of Works to the Dark Capital; so unequal had they been to cope with the world. Then we are carried on to the kings of the Three (dynasties), when the world was in a state of great distraction. Of the lowest type of character there were Jie and Zhi; of a higher type there were Zeng (Shen) and Shi (Qiu). At the same time there arose the classes of the Literati and the Mohists. Hereupon, complacency in, and hatred of, one another produced mutual suspicions; the stupid and the wise imposed on one another; the good and the bad condemned one another; the boastful and the sincere interchanged their recriminations - and the world fell into decay. Views as to what was greatly virtuous did not agree, and the nature with its endowments became as if shrivelled by fire or carried away by a flood. All were eager for knowledge, and the people were exhausted with their searchings (after what was good). On this the axe and the saw were brought into play; guilt was determined as by the plumb-line and death inflicted; the hammer and gouge did their work. The world fell into great disorder, and presented the appearance of a jagged mountain ridge. The crime to which all was due was the meddling with and disturbing men's minds. The effect was that men of ability and worth lay concealed at the foot of the crags of mount Tai, and princes of ten thousand chariots were anxious and terrified in their ancestral temples. In the present age those who have been put to death in various ways lie thick as if pillowed on each other; those who are wearing the cangue press on each other (on the roads); those who are suffering the bastinado can see each other (all over the land). And now the Literati and the Mohists begin to stand, on tiptoe and with bare arms, among the fettered and manacled crowd! Ah! extreme is their shamelessness, and their failure to see the disgrace! Strange that we should be slow to recognise their sageness and wisdom in the bars of the cangue, and their benevolence and righteousness in the rivets of the fetters and handcuffs! How do we know that Zeng and Shi are not the whizzing arrows of Jie and Zhi? Therefore it is said, 'Abolish sageness and cast away knowledge, and the world will be brought to a state of great order.'

天道 - The Way of Heaven

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3 天道:
本在于上,末在于下;要在于主,详在于臣。三军、五兵之运,德之末也;赏罚利害,五刑之辟,教之末也;礼法度数,形名比详,治之末也;钟鼓之音,羽毛之容,乐之末也;哭泣衰绖,隆杀之服,哀之末也。此五末者,须精神之运,心术之动,然后从之者也。末学者,古人有之,而非所以先也。
The Way of Heaven:
Originating belongs to those in the higher position; details (of work) to those who are in the lower. The compendious decision belongs to the lord; the minutiae of execution, to his ministers. The direction of the three hosts and their men with the five weapons is but a trifling quality; rewards and penalties with their advantages and sufferings, and the inflictions of the five punishments are but trivial elements of instruction; ceremonies, laws, measures, and numbers, with all the minutiae of jurisprudence, are small matters in government; the notes of bells and drums, and the display of plumes and flags are the slightest things in music, and the various grades of the mourning garments are the most unimportant manifestations of grief. These five unimportant adjuncts required the operation of the excited spirit and the employment of the arts of the mind, to bring them into use. The men of old had them indeed, but they did not give them the first place.
君先而臣从,父先而子从,兄先而弟从,长先而少从,男先而女从,夫先而妇从。夫尊卑先后,天地之行也,故圣人取象焉。天尊地卑,神明之位也;春夏先,秋冬后,四时之序也。万物化作,萌区有状,盛衰之杀,变化之流也。夫天地至神,而有尊卑先后之序,而况人道乎!宗尚亲,朝廷尚尊,乡党尚齿,行事尚贤,大道之序也。语道而非其序者,非其道也;语道而非其道者,安取道!
The ruler precedes, and the minister follows; the father precedes, and the son follows; the elder brother precedes, and the younger follows; the senior precedes, and the junior follows; the male precedes, and the female follows; the husband precedes, and the wife follows. This precedence of the more honourable and sequence of the meaner is seen in the (relative) action of heaven and earth, and hence the sages took them as their pattern. The more honourable position of heaven and the lower one of earth are equivalent to a designation of their spirit-like and intelligent qualities. The precedence of spring and summer and the sequence of autumn and winter mark the order of the four seasons. In the transformations and growth of all things, every bud and feature has its proper form; and in this we have their gradual maturing and decay, the constant flow of transformation and change. Thus since Heaven and Earth, which are most spirit-like, are distinguished as more honourable and less, and by precedence and sequence, how much more must we look for this in the ways of men! In the ancestral temple it is to kinship that honour is given; in court, to rank; in the neighbourhoods and districts, to age; in the conduct of affairs, to wisdom; such is the order in those great ways. If we speak of the course (to be pursued in them), and do not observe their order, we violate their course. If we speak of the course, and do not observe it, why do we apply that name to it?

秋水 - The Floods of Autumn

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11 秋水:
庄子钓于濮水,楚王使大夫二人往先焉,曰:“愿以境内累矣!”庄子持竿不顾,曰:“吾闻楚有神龟,死已三千岁矣,王巾笥而藏之堂之上。此龟者,宁其死为留骨而贵乎,宁其生而曳尾于涂中乎?”二大夫曰:“宁生而曳尾涂中。”庄子曰:“往矣!吾将曳尾于涂中。”
The Floods of Autumn:...:
Zhuangzi was (once) fishing in the river Pu, when the king of Chu sent two great officers to him, with the message, 'I wish to trouble you with the charge of all within my territories.' Zhuangzi kept on holding his rod without looking round, and said, 'I have heard that in Chu there is a spirit-like tortoise-shell, the wearer of which died 3000 years ago, and which the king keeps, in his ancestral temple, in a hamper covered with a cloth. Was it better for the tortoise to die, and leave its shell to be thus honoured? Or would it have been better for it to live, and keep on dragging its tail through the mud?' The two officers said, 'It would have been better for it to live, and draw its tail after it over the mud.' 'Go your ways. I will keep on drawing my tail after me through the mud.'

至乐 - Perfect Enjoyment

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5 至乐:
颜渊东之齐,孔子有忧色。子贡下席而问曰:“小子敢问:回东之齐,夫子有忧色,何邪?”孔子曰:“善哉汝问!昔者管子有言,丘甚善之,曰:‘褚小者不可以怀大,绠短者不可以汲深。’夫若是者,以为命有所成而形有所适也,夫不可损益。吾恐回与齐侯言尧、舜、黄帝之道,而重以燧人、神农之言。彼将内求于己而不得,不得则惑,人惑则死。且女独不闻邪?昔者海鸟止于鲁郊,鲁侯御而觞之于,奏九韶以为乐,具太牢以为善。鸟乃眩视忧悲,不敢食一脔,不敢饮一杯,三日而死。此以己养养鸟也,非以鸟养养鸟也。夫以鸟养养鸟者,宜栖之深林,游之坛陆,浮之江湖,食之鳅鲦,随行列而止,委蛇而处。彼唯人言之恶闻,奚以夫譊譊为乎!咸池、九韶之乐,张之洞庭之野,鸟闻之而飞,兽闻之而走,鱼闻之而下入,人卒闻之,相与还而观之。鱼处水而生,人处水而死,故必相与异,其好恶故异也。故先圣不一其能,不同其事。名止于实,义设于适,是之谓条达而福持。”
Perfect Enjoyment:
When Yan Yuan went eastwards to Qi, Confucius wore a look of sorrow. Zi-gong left his mat, and asked him, saying, 'Your humble disciple ventures to ask how it is that the going eastwards of Hui to Qi has given you such a look of sadness.' Confucius said, 'Your question is good. Formerly Guanzi used words of which I very much approve. He said, "A small bag cannot be made to contain what is large; a short rope cannot be used to draw water from a deep well." So it is, and man's appointed lot is definitely determined, and his body is adapted for definite ends, so that neither the one nor the other can be augmented or diminished. I am afraid that Hui will talk with the marquis of Qi about the ways of Huang-Di, Yao, and Shun, and go on to relate the words of Sui-ren and Shen Nong. The marquis will seek (for the correspondence of what he is told) in himself; and, not finding it there, will suspect the speaker; and that speaker, being suspected, will be put to death. And have you not heard this? Formerly a sea-bird alighted in the suburban country of Lu. The marquis went out to meet it, (brought it) to the ancestral temple, and prepared to banquet it there. The Jiu-shao was performed to afford it music; an ox, a sheep, and a pig were killed to supply the food. The bird, however, looked at everything with dim eyes, and was very sad. It did not venture to eat a single bit of flesh, nor to drink a single cupful; and in three days it died.
'The marquis was trying to nourish the bird with what he used for himself, and not with the nourishment proper for a bird. They who would nourish birds as they ought to be nourished should let them perch in the deep forests, or roam over sandy plains; float on the rivers and lakes; feed on the eels and small fish; wing their flight in regular order and then stop; and be free and at ease in their resting-places. It was a distress to that bird to hear men speak; what did it care for all the noise and hubbub made about it? If the music of the Jiu-shao or the Xian-chi were performed in the wild of the Dong-ting lake, birds would fly away, and beasts would run off when they heard it, and fishes would dive down to the bottom of the water; while men, when they hear it, would come all round together, and look on. Fishes live and men die in the water. They are different in constitution, and therefore differ in their likes and dislikes. Hence it was that the ancient sages did not require (from all) the same ability, nor demand the same performances. They gave names according to the reality of what was done, and gave their approbation where it was specially suitable. This was what was called the method of universal adaptation and of sure success.'

杂篇 - Miscellaneous Chapters

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庚桑楚 - Geng-sang Chu

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13 庚桑楚:
有生,黬也,披然曰移是。尝言移是,非所言也。虽然,不可知者也。腊者之有膍胲,可散而不可散也;观室者周于寝,又适其偃焉,为是举移是。
Geng-sang Chu:
The possession of life is like the soot that collects under a boiler. When that is differently distributed, the life is spoken of as different. But to say that life is different in different lives, and better in one than in another, is an improper mode of speech. And yet there may be something here which we do not know. (As for instance), at the li sacrifice the paunch and the divided hoofs may be set forth on separate dishes, but they should not be considered as parts of different victims; (and again), when one is inspecting a house, he goes over it all, even the adytum for the shrines of the temple, and visits also the most private apartments; doing this, and setting a different estimate on the different parts.

列御寇 - Lie Yu-kou

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15 列御寇:
或聘于庄子,庄子应其使曰:“子见夫牺牛乎?衣以文绣,食以刍叔,及其牵而入于太,虽欲为孤犊,其可得乎!”
Lie Yu-kou:
Some (ruler) having sent a message of invitation to him, Zhuangzi replied to the messenger, 'Have you seen, Sir, a sacrificial ox? It is robed with ornamental embroidery, and feasted on fresh grass and beans. But when it is led into the grand ancestral temple, though it wished to be (again) a solitary calf, would that be possible for it?'

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