Chapter 1
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What Heaven has conferred is called the Nature; an accordance with this nature is called the Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction.
The Doctrine of the Mean
中庸
Zisi (attributed) · c. 5th century BCE
Balance, sincerity, and the unwobbling pivot.
One of the Four Books of Neo-Confucian education.
One of the Four Books of Neo-Confucian education.
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