Proverbs for living in life: Interpretation of "The Analects"--Don't seek mutual understanding if the Tao is different

Author: Unknown Time: 2005-6-1 From China Confucius Network

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Original text

Confucius said: "Those who have different paths cannot conspire with each other."

Translation

Confucius said : "If we have different ambitions, we should not plan things together."

Interpretation

As the saying goes, "Everyone has his own ambitions, and cannot be forced." It is also said that "a crane and a magpie know the swan." Ambition!" In fact, they all mean "different ways, don't work together".

Of course, "Tao" has a wider connotation here, referring to not only life aspirations, but also ideological concepts, academic opinions, etc.

Bo Yi and Shu Qiyi did not eat Zhou millet and died of starvation on Shouyang Mountain. Sima Qian sighed: "We have different paths and we don't work together. It's true that everyone follows his own ambition!" ("Historical Records: Biography of Boyi Changqi")

This is because people with different political attitudes do not work together. typical.

Sima Qian also said: "People in the world who study Laozi disdain Confucianism, and people who study Confucianism also disdain Laozi. The Tao is different and we do not seek each other. Is this the case?" (" "Historical Records·Biographies of Lao Zhuang, Shen and Han")

This is a typical example of people with different ideological concepts and academic opinions who do not agree with each other.

Jia Yi's "Pengniao Fu" is well written:

"A greedy husband will die for money, and a martyr will die for his name;

"Those who praise will have the right to die, The common people depend on their livelihood. ”

Confucius himself once said: “Wealth is something to be desired. Even if you are a whip-wielding man, I will do it.” If you can't ask for it, do as I like. ” ("Shu Er")

"Follow my own preferences" means that we have different paths and do not work together.

Karl Marx once quoted a famous saying of the poet Dante, which is called - "Go your own way and let people say it!"

No, it is also "different ways, different ways." "For conspiracy"?

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