The Way of Contentment
Translated by Ken Hoshino
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The opening
I THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLEASURE
THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLEASURE
AMONG the myriad types which live by the beneficence of Heaven and Earth, the most precious is man, well termed the soul of the universe.
To be born a man is a privilege, yet if through ignorance we do not follow the true path of mankind, we become wanderers in the wilderness of Distress, and daily do our hearts grow harder towards our neighbours and more disobedient towards our parents. What is worse, we live like beasts and then die and decay like plants.
Remember the words of Ganshi’sui: “It is great fortune to be born a man; let us not fritter away our lives meaninglessly.”
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About this edition
- The words
- Ken Hoshino's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 99 places
- Other material that isn't the author's, in 3 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers
- The head title over the text, “THE WAY OF CONTENTMENT”: the book's title again (2 blocks)
- The printer's line “Printed by Haeell, Watson & Viney, Ld.t London and Aylesbury.”
- The library's shelf marks and stamp (“UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY”) (4 blocks)
- Specks read by the OCR as characters (“ii”) (2 blocks)
- Specks read by the OCR as characters (“t”)
- Specks read by the OCR as characters (“•v”)