The Analects

The Painting Comes After

Learning 6, Ground Before Pattern

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It is not common for someone in the teaching seat to say that they have learned. Where it looks common, it is usually a way of showing modesty.

The Analects has a place where Confucius tells a student that the student raised him up. It comes at the end of a short exchange in the Bayi book.

That exchange begins with a line of poetry and crosses over to li. The one who crossed was the student, not the teacher.

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