The Shû King (Book of Documents)

Contents

1. 1.1The Canon of Yâo12 paragraphs
2. 2.1The Canon of Shun26 paragraphs
3. 2.2The Counsels of the Great Yü11 paragraphs
4. 2.3The Counsels of Kâo-yâo5 paragraphs
5. 2.4The Yî and K î11 paragraphs
6. 3.1The Tribute of Yü, Section 162 paragraphs
7. 3.2The Speech at Kan3 paragraphs
8. 3.3The Songs of the Five Sons6 paragraphs
9. 3.4The Punitive Expedition of Yin6 paragraphs
10. 4.1The Speech of Thang4 paragraphs
11. 4.2The Announcement of K ung-hui5 paragraphs
12. 4.3The Announcement of Thang6 paragraphs
13. 4.4The Instructions of Î5 paragraphs
14. 4.5The Thâi K iâ, Section 111 paragraphs
15. 4.6The Common Possession of Pure Virtue5 paragraphs
16. 4.7The Pan-kăng, Section 118 paragraphs
17. 4.8The Charge to Yüeh, Section 117 paragraphs
18. 4.9The Day of the Supplementary Sacrifice to Kâo Z ung2 paragraphs
19. 4.10The Chief of the West's Conquest of Lî3 paragraphs
20. 4.11The Count of Wei3 paragraphs
21. 5.1The Great Declaration, Section 113 paragraphs
22. 5.2The Speech at Mû3 paragraphs
23. 5.3The Successful Completion of the War7 paragraphs
24. 5.4The Great Plan19 paragraphs
25. 5.5The Hounds of Lü5 paragraphs
26. 5.6The Metal-bound Coffer8 paragraphs
27. 5.7The Great Announcement9 paragraphs
28. 5.8The Charge to the Count of Wei4 paragraphs
29. 5.9The Announcement to the Prince of Khang17 paragraphs
30. 5.10The Announcement about Drunkenness12 paragraphs
31. 5.11The Timber of the Rottlera5 paragraphs
32. 5.12The Announcement of the Duke of Shâo14 paragraphs
33. 5.13The Announcement Concerning Lo16 paragraphs
34. 5.14The Numerous Officers8 paragraphs
35. 5.15Against Luxurious Ease7 paragraphs
36. 5.16The Prince Shih11 paragraphs
37. 5.17The Charge to K ung of Z hai8 paragraphs
38. 5.18The Numerous Regions9 paragraphs
39. 5.19The Establishment of Government11 paragraphs
40. 5.20The Officers of K âu9 paragraphs
41. 5.21The K ün- kh ăn6 paragraphs
42. 5.22The Testamentary Charge12 paragraphs
43. 5.23The Announcement of King Khang4 paragraphs
44. 5.24The Charge to the Duke of Pî6 paragraphs
45. 5.25The K ün-yâ3 paragraphs
46. 5.26The Charge to Kh iung3 paragraphs
47. 5.27The Marquis of Lü on Punishments15 paragraphs
48. 5.28The Charge to the Marquis Wăn4 paragraphs
49. 5.29The Speech at Pî6 paragraphs
50. 5.30The Speech of (the Marquis of) Kh in5 paragraphs

Nearest to the Papers

The passages of this work and the paragraphs of the Papers that are nearest to each other in meaning, as the API compares them.

• Shu 5.27.1460%The king said, 'Oh! let there be a feeling of reverence. Ye judges and princes, of the same surname with me, and of other surnames, (know all) that I speak in much fear. I think with reverence of the subject of punishment, for the end of it is to promote virtue. Now Heaven, wishing to help the people, has made us its representatives here below. Be intelligent and pure in hearing (each) side of a case. The right ordering of the people depends on the impartial hearing of the pleas on both sides;—do not seek for private advantage to yourselves by means of those pleas. Gain (so) got by the decision of cases is no precious acquisition; it is an accumulation of guilt, and will be recompensed with many judgments:—you should ever stand in awe of the punishment of Heaven. It is not Heaven that does not deal impartially with men, but men ruin themselves. If the punishment of Heaven were not so extreme, nowhere under the sky would the people have good government.'133:4.7The Return from RomeTo the Roman judge he said: “As you judge men, remember that you yourself will also some day come to judgment before the bar of the Rulers of a universe. Judge justly, even mercifully, even as you shall some day thus crave merciful consideration at the hands of the Supreme Arbiter. Judge as you would be judged under similar circumstances, thus being guided by the spirit of the law as well as by its letter. And even as you accord justice dominated by fairness in the light of the need of those who are brought before you, so shall you have the right to expect justice tempered by mercy when you sometime stand before the Judge of all the earth.”
• Shu 5.29.558%'And let none of you presume to commit any robbery or detain any creature that comes in your way, to jump over enclosures and walls to steal (people's) horses or oxen, or to decoy away their servants or female attendants. If you do so, you shall be dealt with according to the regular punishments.66:7.13The Planetary Prince of Urantia5. You shall not steal your neighbor’s goods or cattle.
• Shu 5.4.556%ii. 'Second, of the five (personal) matters. The first is the bodily demeanour; the second, speech; the third, seeing; the fourth, hearing; the fifth, thinking. (The virtue of) the bodily appearance is respectfulness; of speech, accordance (with reason); of seeing, clearness; of hearing, distinctness; of thinking, perspicaciousness. The respectfulness becomes manifest in gravity; accordance (with reason), in orderliness; the clearness, in wisdom; the distinctness, in deliberation; and the perspicaciousness, in sageness.'147:4.6The Interlude Visit to Jerusalem“3. The level of mind. Now come into action the reason of mind and the intelligence of experience. Good judgment dictates that such a rule of living should be interpreted in consonance with the highest idealism embodied in the nobility of profound self-respect.

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Translator

James Legge

Year

1879

Tradition

Confucian

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Public domain in the United States

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