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' The Noble-Minded '...


"The noble-minded are all-encompassing, not stuck in doctrines....
The noble-minded are principled but never dogmatic."

Confucius
Analects, 2.14, 15.37

Mencius comments:

"The problem with clinging to a single doctrine is that it plunders the Way [Tao]."

Mencius 7.A.26
in Bonnie Louise Kuchler
One Heart: Wisdom from the World's Scriptures
NY: One Spirit, 2003, p. 48

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