SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

impartiality

  • Han Feizi – Chapter 29.2

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    This excerpt comes from Han Feizi · The Grand Outline, its most Daoist‑tinged chapter on rulers emulating nature for grand vision. Using heaven‑earth and mountains‑seas as metaphors, Han Fei holds that an enlightened ruler should possess cosmic tolerance and impartiality. Rejecting personal whims in governance and appointment, he lets all things thrive to achieve…

  • Mozi – Chapter 16

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    This final Universal Love chapter refutes critics, contrasting biased partiality with impartial universal love. It uses hypothetical rulers, ancient sage records and reciprocal virtue to prove universal love practical, the only path to social peace.

  • The Analects – Chapter 15.22

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    The Master said, “The noble person is dignified but not contentious; he associates with others but does not form cliques.”

  • The Analects – Chapter 15.14

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    The Master said, “Was Zang Wenzhong not a usurper of office? He knew of Liu Xiahui’s virtue, yet did not help him gain a position.”

  • The Analects – Chapter 11.8

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    After Yan Hui died, his father Yan Lu asked Confucius to sell his carriage so that an outer coffin (guo) could be made for Yan Hui’s burial. Confucius replied, “Whether talented or not, when it comes to one’s son, each is speaking of his own child. When my son Li died, he had a…

  • Great Learning Chapter 10. Beyond Affection and Aversion

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    What is meant by “regulating the family depends on cultivating the self” is this:People become biased toward those they love,biased against those they despise,biased in favor of those they revere,biased out of pity for those they feel sorry for,and biased in disdain toward those they look down upon or neglect.

  • The Analects – Chapter 69 (4.3, 4.4). Impartial judgment rooted in benevolence

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    4.3, 4.4 Of the adage “Only a benevolent man knows how to like people, knows how to dislike them,” the Master said, “If the will be set on virtue, there will be no practice of wickedness.”

  • Dao De Jing – Chapter 62

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    This chapter from Tao Te Ching – Dao De Jing centers on the Dao as the origin of all things and a universal law, emphasizing its all-encompassing inclusivity and redemptive power transcending moral binaries. Both the virtuous (those aligned with the Dao) and the non-virtuous (those yet to awaken to it) can benefit from…