折疑論 3.38

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3.38

Now, ritual is the thinning of loyalty and trustworthiness, and the beginning of disorder.' (This means that ritual does not accord with the Way of non-action. Therefore what Laozi called ritual is the thinning of loyalty and trustworthiness and the beginning of disorder. It means not attending to what is within while adorning what is without; hence ritual emerges from human contrivance.)

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折疑論 — Classical Chinese