- Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-Ming (Columbia University Press, 1963) (Translated by Wing-tsit Chan) (kindle 2018-12-3)
- http://kns55.zh.eastview.com/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?filename=1014222210.nh&dbcode=CMFD&dbname=CMFD2014
- 275. The Teacher was roaming in Nan-chen. A friend pointed to flowering trees on a cliff and said, ” [You say] there is nothing under heaven external to the mind. These flowering trees on the high mountain blossom and drop their blossoms of themselves. What have they to do with my mind?”
- The Teacher said, “Before you look at these flowers, they and your mind are in the state of silent vacancy. As you come to look at them, their colors at once show up clearly. From this you can know that these flowers are not external to your mind.”
- Wang, Yangming. Instructions for Practical Living: And Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-Ming (Translated by Wing-tsit Chan, 1963) (Kindle location 3492-3496). Avery Morrow's Printing and Bagels. Kindle edition.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Wing-tsit Chan (陳榮捷 1901 – 1994)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing-tsit_Chan
