He transcends the finite sphere.—Tr.
“His spirit is compact.”
His spirit or mind is quiet,calm,and cannot be affected by external things.—Tr.
“Yet he could save things from corruption and secure every year a plentiful harvest.I thought all these sayings were nonsense and refused to believe in them.”
“Yes,” said Lien Shu,“the blind have nothing to do with beauty,nor the deaf with music.There are not only physical blindness and deafness,there are also the intellectual.Of the latter you yourself supply an illustration.That man,with those virtues,would embrace all things.According to him,everything in the world is longing for peace,why should there be some who address themselves laboriously to govern the empire?