Motif
death of the mind as greater sorrow than bodily death
death_of_the_mind_as_greater_sorrow_than_bodily_death
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Wisdom Teaching and Moral Instruction. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer THE SECRET OF LIFE. / CHAPTER XX. / MOUNTAIN TREES. / CHAPTER XXI.; lines 8733-8884 confidence: high
Confucius says, "There is no sorrow to be compared with the death of the mind" and uses the sun rising in the east, setting in the west, and illuminating all places as an analogy.
Confucius explicitly says that no sorrow compares with the death of the mind and that the death of the body is secondary.
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer THE SECRET OF LIFE. / CHAPTER XX. / MOUNTAIN TREES. / CHAPTER XXI.; lines 8733-8884 confidence: high
"There is no sorrow to be compared with the death of the mind. The death of the body is of but secondary importance."
Confucius states that no sorrow compares with death of the mind, while death of the body is secondary, and expands this through images of bodily wear, the graveyard, and the vanished object.
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