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Contents

Introduction

The First Discourse

The Second Discourse

The Third Discourse

The Fourth Discourse

The Fifth Discourse

The Sixth Discourse

The Seventh Discourse

The Eighth Discourse

The Ninth Discourse

The Tenth Discourse

The Eleventh Discourse

Notes

  1. A position held by Kant, who argued that the person who did good out of principle rather than character, was to be preferred to one who did good out of character.
  2. A Confucian who lived 313-238 BC and who argued that men were essentially evil and required the restraint of law.
  3. Another name for the study of the passage of chi through the body, and its effects on the organs of the body and the mind, which is the focus of acupuncture and other studies.
  4. The principle organs studied in Chinese medicine. The other two are the pericardium and triple warmer, whose identity is more mysterious. Some authorities identify these with the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
  5. The yin organs are the hollow organs on the body such as the intestines and the stomach.
  6. Tsia Tung is quoting Chinese medicine. Accounts vary on the identity of the afflictive emotions, some authorities recognise seven afflictive emotions.
  7. Yueh Fei was a twelfth century Chinese general who advocated armed resistance to the invasion of the Jin tribe. He was executed by the prime minister Qin Guei who desired peace.
  8. A phrase used in Taoism to refer to the trained body, which is soft and supple without, but tough and resistant within.
  9. A point about three inches below the navel.

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