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盡其心者，知其性也。知其性，則知天矣。
Those who fully realize their heart-mind know their nature; knowing their nature, they know Heaven.
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「盡其心者，
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The claimed movement from knowing one's nature to knowing Heaven.
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論語 · Follow a condition and its consequence行有餘力，則以學文論語 · Follow a condition and its consequence過則勿憚改論語 · Track whose, which, and whose perspective父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行論語 · Name the one, thing, or situation未若貧而樂道，富而好禮者也Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 孟子 · Mencius
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Meng Ke (Mencius) and his followers.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR1h0001 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1h0001_013.txt, lines 14–21. MENG 7A01:01; tr. D. C. Lau 2.26
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