Xunzi: The Complete Text by Xunzi

Author:Xunzi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

Those who cross waters mark out the deep places, but if the markers are not clear, people will fall in.20 Those who order the people mark (240) out the Way, but if the markers are not clear, there will be chaos. The rituals are those markers. To reject ritual is to bemuddle the world, and to bemuddle the world is to create great chaos. And so, when the Way is in no part unclear, and that which is within the bounds and that which is outside the bounds have different markers, and that (245) which is inglorious and that which is illustrious have constant measures, then the pitfalls of the people will be eliminated.

The myriad things are but one facet of the Way. A single thing is but one facet of the myriad things. Foolish people take a single facet of a single thing and think themselves to know the Way—this is to (250) lack knowledge.21

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