Translators Notes
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{1} He is reputed to have lived 800 years.{2} 1783 B.C.
{3} Philosopher about whose life nothing is known. The book Liehtse is sidered a later pilatiohe se "Parables of A Philosophers."
{4} The wind.
{5} 2357 B.C.
{6} Sage emperors/
{7} A sophist and friend of gtse who often carried oes with him.
{8} Agitations of the soul (music of Heaven) pared to the agitations of the forest (music of Earth).
{9} Lit. "true lord."
{10} Shih and fei mean general moral judgments aal distins; &quht" and &qu," "true" and "false," "is" and "is not," "affirmative" and "ive," also "to justify" and "n," "to affirm" and "deny."
{11} The followers of Motse were powerful rivals of the fuists in gtses days. See the seles from Motse.
{12} The meaning of these two sentences is made clear by a line below. &<bdi></bdi>quot;But if we put the different categories ihen the differences of category cease to exist."
{13} g and kuei, lit. "whole" and "defit."
"Wholeness" refers to unspoiled unity of Tao. In the followiences, g is used in the sense of "success " It is explained by entators that the "wholeness" of music exists only in silence, and that as soon as oe is struck, other notes are necessarily held in abeyahe same thing is true uments: when we argue, we necessarily cut up truth by emphasiziain aspects of it.
{14} See Laotse, Ch. 42.
{15} See Laotse, Ch. 5.
{16} See Laotse, Ch. 58.
{17} Lit. in the "Palace of Heaven."
{18} Personal name of gtse. "tse" being the equivalent of "Master."
{19} An important idea that recurs frequently in gtse, all things are in stant flow and ge, but are different aspects of the One.
{20} Best disciple of fucius.
{21} Lit. &quarded as sons (ie. fathered) by Heaven."
{22} The first part of this song is found in the As.
{23} This chapter deals entirely with deformitiesa literary deviphasizing the trast of the inner and the outer man.
{24} A well-known historical person, a model minister referred to in the As.
{25} Lit. "The outside of frame and bones."
{26} Hueitse often discusses the nature of attributes, like the "hardness" and "whiteness" of objects.
{27} All of these historical and semi-historical persons were good men who lost their lives, by drowning o<dfn>..</dfn>r starving themselves, or pretending insanity, in protest against a wicked world, or just to avoid being called into office.
{28} General attitude of fluidity towards life.
{29} Mythical emperor (2852 B.C.) said to have discovered the principles of mutations of Yin and Yang.
{30} With a mans head but a beasts body.
{31} A river spirit.
{32} A mountain god.
{33} A semi-mythical ruler, who ruled in 2698-2597 B.C.
{34} A semi-mythical ruler, who ruled in 25I4-2417 B.C., shortly before Emperor Yao.
{35} A water god with a human fad a birds body.
{36} A monarch of the Shang Dyn<samp>.9９ｌiｂ.</samp>asty, 1324-l266 B.C.100
{37} A famous sword.
{38} Personal name of fucius.
{39} Huang-g and ta-lu: were the standard pitchpipes.
{40} Tseng Tsan and Shih <tt>９９lib.t>Yu:, disciples of fucius.
{41} I Yang chu and Motse (Mo Ti).
{42} Beginning with this phrase there is a marked ge in style and vocabulary in this part.
{43} Because he refused to serve the new dynasty.
{44} Sun Yang, 658-619 B.C.
{45} A mythical ruler.
{46} 481 B.C.
{47} There is an ana here for gtse lived to see only the ninth geion of Tiens, At least the number "twelve" must have beenbbr>.</abbr> slipped in by a later scribe. This evidence is not suffit to vitiate the whole chapter, as some "textual critics" claim.
{48} Refereo a story. The states Lu and Chao both presented wio the King of Chu. By the trickery of a servant, the flasks were exged, and Chao was blamed for presenting bad wine, and its city Hantan was beseiged.
{49} See Laotse, Ch. 36.
{50} See Laotse, Ch. 19.
{51} See Laotse, Ch. 45.
{52} See Note 40.
{53} See Laotse, Ch. 1.
{54} All legendary a rulers.
{55} Cf. Laotse, Ch. 80.
{56} See Laotse, Ch. 13.
{57} Laotse, Tan being one of the personal names of Laotse (Li Tan, or Li Erh). "Lao" means "old," while "Li" is the family name.
{58} The founders of the three dynasties, Hsia, Shang and Chou (2205-222 B.C.)
{59} Signal for attack.
{60} Lit. "Heaven."
{61} Yin, yang, wind, rain, light and darkness.
{62} Great Nebulous is here addressed as "Heaven." See Note 60.
{63} See Note 58.
{64} This chapter further develops the ideas in Chapter "On Levelling All Things" and tains the important philosophical cept of relativity.
{65} Wei-Lu:, a mythical hole itom or end of the o.
{66} Mythical rulers before the Three Kings.
{67} Lit. "levelling of ranks or distins."
{68} From here on to the end of this paragraph, most of the passages are rhymed.
{69} Kuei, a mythical, one-legged animal.
{70} Now a slogan used in a in the war against Japan.
{71} A Neo-Motseanist (of the Sophist school) who lived after gtse. This seust have been added by the latters disciples, as is easy to see from the three stories about gtse which follow.
{72} Capital of Chao.
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