Mencius said: "Yang Zi takes it for me, pulls out a dime and benefits the world, not for it." Mozi and love, mo top heel to benefit the world, for it. Zi Mo zhi zhong. Holding the middle is close. There is no power in clinging, and there is no right to cling to one. Whoever clings to one evil deed is a thief and destroys a hundred. ”
Translations
Mencius said: "Yang Zi advocates that for me, pulling out a single hair can be beneficial to the world, and he is not willing to do it." Mozi advocates both love, rubbing the top of the bald head, grinding the heel, as long as it is beneficial to the world, he will do it. Zi Mo advocates compromise, and compromise is close to correctness. But there is no right to change in the compromise, as if stubbornly on one point. People hate stubbornness because it damages the right path, grasps one point and abandons the rest. ”
unscramble
In this chapter, Yang Zhu and Mozi are criticized for their own biases. Regarding the ideas of Yang Zhu and Mozi, Mencius has commented earlier (see 6.9). Mencius in this chapter proposes that Yang Zhu is extremely self-interested, and Mo Zhai is extremely altruistic, and they all have their own biases, which is "clinging to one.". The important thing is to "hold the middle", Zi Mo has done this, close to the right. However, if you "cling to the middle" and do not understand the "change of power", it becomes "holding one", so you must understand both "holding the middle" and "exercising power".
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