The Analects

Same Question, Different Answers

The Disciples 4, One Teaching for Each

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Two students asked their teacher the same thing. If you hear something right, must you act on it there and then?

One of them was told not to and the other was told to. The two exchanges came one after another in the same place, and a third student stood beside them.

When that student, who had heard it all, said he was confused and asked why, the explanation his teacher gave ran to thirteen characters.

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