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 me for what I am.—Tzǔ Kung said: How is it, Sir, that none know you?—The Master replied: I make no complaint against Heaven, neither do I blame my fellow-men. In the study of virtue I begin at the bottom and tend upwards. Surely Heaven knows me for what I am.

Tz'ǔ, do you look upon me as a man who has studied and retained a mass of various knowledge?—I do, he replied. Am I wrong?—You are wrong, said the Master. All my knowledge is strung on one connecting thread.

I used to spend whole days without food and whole nights without sleep, in order to meditate.