"Zang Gu Dead Sheep"
Pre-Qin Zhuangzi
Zang and Gu herded sheep together, and both perished. If you ask Zang Xi about things, you will study a book; if you ask Gu Xi about things, you will travel. The two have different careers, and they are also dead sheep.
Zang and Gu (Zang and Gu are both slaves for human slavery, the text is assumed to be the names of two child servants) went to herd sheep together, and as a result, both of them lost the sheep.
The master scolded, "Ah Zang, you stinky thing, why did you go when you herded sheep?" Oh, it turns out that Zang was lying on the side when he was herding sheep and reading (taking the book to read the book); what was He Gu doing? Alas, the valley is on the side of the Bosse to swim (play a board game).
The two did different things, but the same thing was to let the sheep go.
Many things fail for different reasons;
You can't blame Gu for being in the game without blaming Zang;
"Zang Gu" is also known as: people who do not concentrate on their own business.
"Confucius Gate Miscellaneous"
Pre-Qin Xunzi
Nanguo Huizi asked Yu Zi Gongyue, "How complicated is the Gate of the Master?"
Zigong: "A gentleman is in the same body, and those who want to come are not far away", and those who want to go are not stopped. And there are many patients in the door of the good doctor. The side of the tree is full of wood, and it is zaya. ”
Once, Nanguo Huizi asked Zigong, "Hey, your teacher, why are the students under Confucius so mixed?" Say whatever people have.
Zigong said: "The gentleman is waiting for himself (straightening his mind and body), and Teacher Kong in my family has no class of teaching, and does not refuse anyone who wants to come to study, and does not leave them for those who feel that they have learned, feel that it is useless to learn, and want to leave." ”
"You see the wise doctors, there are always all kinds of patients gathered in front of the door, and there are always a lot of bent wood next to the fence (an instrument for correcting the bending of wood). Therefore, Confucius's disciples are mixed. ”