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CAP. XIV.]
The Circling Sky
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out waiting to be called. Accordingly, Yu Piao praised it, saying, 'Listening you cannot hear its sound; gazing you cannot see its form.
- Yu Piao is said to have been one of the pre-historic rulers of China. Readers of the Tao-Tê-Ching (ch. xiv) will here find another nail for the coffin of that egregious fraud. See The Remains of Lao Tzŭ, p. 14. Also ch. xxii of this work.
It fills heaven and earth. It embraces the six cardinal points.' Now you desired to listen to it, but you were not able to grasp its existence. And so you were confused.
"My music first induced fear; and as a consequence, respect. I then added amazement, by which you were isolated.
- From consciousness of your surroundings.
And lastly, confusion; for confusion means absence of sense, and absence of sense means Tao, and Tao means absorption therein."
When Confucius travelled west to the Wei State, Yen Yüan
- The "John" among the disciples of Confucius. He closed a pure and gentle life at the early age of 32, to the inexpressible grief of the Sage.
asked Shih Chin,
- Chief musician of the Lu State.
saying, "What think you of my Master?"
"Alas!" replied Shih Chin, "he is not a success."
