The original text and translation notes of "Jian Ai Mo Zi" are as follows:

1. Original text:

The sage who aims at governing the world must know where the chaos comes from. How can we control it if it arises? How can we control it if we don't know where it arises? For example, when a doctor attacks a person's illness, he must know where the illness arises, so how can he attack it; if he doesn't know where the illness arises, then he cannot attack it. Why are those who control chaos alone? If you know where chaos starts, how can you control it? If you don’t know where chaos starts, you can’t control it.

The sage, whose mission is to govern the world, must not fail to observe where chaos arises. Why did the chaos start? Do not fall in love. The unfilial piety of the ministers to the king and father is called chaos. A son loves himself but does not love his father, so he benefits himself at the expense of his father; a younger brother loves himself but does not love his brother, so he benefits himself at the expense of his brother; a subject loves himself but does not love the king, so he benefits himself by harming his king. This is called chaos. Although a father is unkind to his son, an elder is unkind to his younger brother, and a king is unkind to his ministers, this is what is called chaos in the world.

The father loves himself, but does not love his son, so he benefits himself at the expense of his son; the brother loves himself, but does not love his younger brother, so he benefits himself at the expense of his younger brother; the king loves himself, but does not love his ministers, so he benefits himself at the expense of his ministers. profit.

What is it? They all don't love each other. Even if there are thieves in the world, this is the same. A thief loves his own house but not a different house, so he steals a different house to benefit his own house; a thief loves his own body but not others, so he steals to benefit his own body. Why is this?

No one loves each other. It is the same even if the great officials disturb their families and the princes attack the country. The officials love their own families and do not love foreign families, so they disrupt foreign families to benefit their own families. The princes each love their own country and do not love foreign countries, so they attack foreign countries to benefit their own countries. This is all the chaos in the world.

How did this start? They all don't love each other. If everyone in the world could love each other and love others as much as they love themselves, would there still be those who are unfilial?

Do you treat your father, brother, and king as if you are your own person, and do evil and unfilial piety? Are there still unkind people? Do you treat your disciples and ministers as if you are your own body, and do evil and unkindness? Therefore, one who is unfilial and unkind will perish. Are there still thieves? If you regard a person's house as his own, who will steal it? Who is a thief if he regards a human body as his own? Therefore, thieves will perish. Are there still great officials who want to disrupt their families and princes who want to attack each other's country? If you treat other people's homes as your own, who will cause chaos? If you regard other people's countries as your own, who will attack them?

Therefore, those who interfere with the great officials and disrupt the family and the princes who attack the country will perish. If the world loves each other, countries do not attack each other, families do not interfere with each other, there are no thieves and thieves, and kings, ministers, fathers and sons can all be filial and kind, then the world will be governed.

So the sage’s mission is to govern the world. How can he be so evil that he can’t help but encourage love? Therefore, if the world loves each other, it will be governed, and if they love each other, it will lead to chaos. Therefore, Zi Mozi said that one cannot but encourage those who love others. This is why.

2. Translation:

A sage is a person whose job is to govern the world. He must know where chaos arises in order to govern it. You cannot govern without knowing where chaos arises. This is just like a doctor treating people. He must know the root cause of the disease before he can treat it. If the root cause of the disease is not known, it cannot be cured. This is not the case when it comes to managing chaos. You must know the root causes of chaos before you can manage it. If you don't know the root causes of chaos, you can't govern it.

A sage is a person whose job is to govern the world, so he must examine the root causes of chaos. Try to see where the confusion comes from? It starts from people not loving each other. When ministers and sons are not filial to their king and father, this is called chaos. A son loves himself but does not love his father, so he harms his father for self-interest; a younger brother loves himself but does not love his elder brother, so he harms his brother for self-interest; a subordinate loves himself but does not love his superior, so he harms his superior for self-interest. This is what is called confusion.

Conversely, even if a father does not love his son, an elder brother does not love his younger brother, and a king does not love his subordinates, this is the so-called chaos in the world. A father loves himself but not his son, so he harms his son to benefit himself; an elder brother loves himself but not his younger brother, so he harms his younger brother to benefit himself; a king loves himself but not his subjects, so he harms his subjects to benefit himself.