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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:33:44 +0200
From: Thomas <thomas23@laposte.net>
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Subject: [confucius-list] Mencius 7B.30: stolen sandals
Here in Dobson's translation:
When Mencius went to T'eng, he was given lodging in an upper room. The
lodge-keeper came looking for a sandal that was being made but was
unfinished and had been left on a window sill. He failed to find it. Someone
asked him, "Was it 'hidden' by one of his followers?"
Mencius said to the lodge-keeper, "You think my followers came to steal
sandals, don't you?"
The lodge-keeper said, "Probably not."
Mencius replied, "When I give instruction, I neither run after those who
leave, nor do I rebuff those who stay. If they come with a mind to learn,
then I teach them. There is nothing more to it than that."
***
I find this a touching story because it's like a snapshot out of Mencius
daily life, a sandal that has disappeared, a student could have stolen it
perhaps, but Mencius is teaching noble principles, and not a schoolteacher
that goes around policing his students.
Thomas
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