- The Most Dreadful Crime
- 1 “If Xiang Yu had waited until he was twenty-five before setting out to conquer the world, he would have succeeded. Because he started at twenty-four, he failed.
- 2 In trying to gain the world, it is better to yield until you are aware of the flow of things, or else you will be as preposterous as a doh-ggae-bee in daylight.
- 3 If one who knows nothing deceives others and gathers people together, that person will perish first.
- 4 The most dreadful crime in this world is to gather people and take on followers without knowing anything.
- 5 “The heads of religions deceive people by promising salvation and blessings, though they do not know how to save even their own families. How can they expect to succeed?
- 6 Confucius taught from knowledge of truth, yet people harbored bitterness. Buddha taught from knowledge of truth, but could not untie the knots of bitterness.
- 7 Those who have no knowledge but gather people are surely digging their own graves.”
- (JSD Dojeon 2,81)
