Laozi · Daodejing · 第四十八章
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為學日益，為道日損
In pursuing learning there is daily increase; in pursuing the way, daily decrease.
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為學日益，
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Argument contrastTwo different problems of learningOne pair tests learning and reflection; the other contrasts increase and decrease. Shared vocabulary does not establish the same educational aim.
Argument contrastTwo directions of cultivationThe Xunzi opening makes continued learning imperative; Laozi 48 contrasts daily increase in learning with daily decrease in pursuing the way. Read what each text identifies as the object and outcome of cultivation before reducing the contrast to study versus ignorance.
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韓非子 · 解老第二十為而無不則德盛；德盛之謂上德。故曰：「上德無為而無不為也。」
荀子 · 富國篇第十取天下矣利而不利也、愛而不用也者，取天下矣。利而後利之、愛而後用之者，保社稷矣。不利而利之、不愛而用之者，危國家也。
莊子 · 知北遊第二十二損之又損故曰：『為道者日損，損之又損之以至於无為，无為而无不為也。』今已為物也，欲復歸根，不亦難乎！其易也，其唯大人乎！
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論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading巧言令色，鮮矣仁論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行論語 · Distinguish doing, being, and acting for禮之用，和為貴論語 · Distinguish doing, being, and acting for為政以德Edition, source, and reuse
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- 老子 · Laozi · Daodejing
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- Traditionally attributed to Laozi; composition and textual history are debated.
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- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0057 · base edition tls
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
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- KR5c0057_048.txt, lines 14–22. LAO 48.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 69; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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