/lit/ - Literature

>>19426033
They use various elaborate rites and music
to delude people. They use prolonged mourning and false grief to deceive relatives. They believe in Fate and accept
poverty, yet they are arrogant and self-important. They turn their backs on what is fundamental and abandon their duties,
finding contentment in idleness and pride. They are greedy for drink and food. They are indolent in carrying out their responsibilities and sink into hunger and cold, but when
endangered by starvation and freezing, they have no way of avoiding these things. They are like beggars. They hoard food like field mice. They stare like billy-goats. They rise up like castrated pigs. When a noble man laughs at them, they angrily reply: ‘Useless fellow! What do you know of good Confucians.’ In spring, they beg for wheat. In summer, they beg for rice. When the five grains have already been
harvested, they attach themselves to large funerals with their sons and grandsons all following along, and so they get their fill of drink and food. If they are put in charge of
several funerals, they have enough to live on. They depend on other people’s households for food and rely on other people’s fields for wine. When a rich man has a funeral, they are very happy indeed and say with delight: ‘This is a
source of clothing and food.’

>>19426150
>remains unrefuted
Daoism is simply the path of the indolent and unvirtuous. Reject fate, reject inaction.

>>19419426
Subjectivity is created by partiality, which is to say that subjectivity is caused by loving yourself more than those around you.
>Undoubtedly what Heaven desires is for there to be mutual
love and mutual benefit among people. What it does not
desire is for there to be mutual hatred and mutual harm
among people. How do we know that Heaven desires
mutual love and mutual benefit among people and does not
desire mutual hatred and mutual harm among people? We
know because it is without partiality in loving and
benefiting them. How do we know that Heaven is without
partiality in loving and benefiting them? We know because
it is without partiality in possessing and feeding them.