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养生主 - Nourishing the Lord of Life

English translation: James Legge [?]
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5 养生主:
老聃死,秦失吊之,三号而出。弟子曰:“非夫子之友邪?”曰:“然。”“然则吊焉若此,可乎?”曰:“然。始也,吾以为其人也,而今非也。向吾入而吊焉,有老者哭之,如哭其子;少者哭之,如哭其母。彼其所以会之,必有不蕲言而言,不蕲哭而哭者。是遁天倍情,忘其所受,古者谓之遁天之刑。适来,夫子时也;适去,夫子顺也。安时而处顺,哀乐不能入也,古者谓是帝之县解。”
Nourishing the Lord of...:
When Lao Dan died, Qin Shi went to condole (with his son), but after crying out three times, he came out. The disciples said to him, 'Were you not a friend of the Master?' 'I was,' he replied, and they said, 'Is it proper then to offer your condolences merely as you have done?' He said, 'It is. At first I thought he was the man of men, and now I do not think so. When I entered a little ago and expressed my condolences, there were the old men wailing as if they had lost a son, and the young men wailing as if they had lost their mother. In his attracting and uniting them to himself in such a way there must have been that which made them involuntarily express their words (of condolence), and involuntarily wail, as they were doing. And this was a hiding from himself of his Heaven (-nature), and an excessive indulgence of his (human) feelings; a forgetting of what he had received (in being born); what the ancients called the punishment due to neglecting the Heaven (-nature). When the Master came, it was at the proper time; when he went away, it was the simple sequence (of his coming). Quiet acquiescence in what happens at its proper time, and quietly submitting (to its ceasing) afford no occasion for grief or for joy. The ancients described (death) as the loosening of the cord on which God suspended (the life).

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