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子曰：飽食終日，無所用心，難矣哉！不有博弈者乎，為之猶賢乎已。The Master said: To eat one's fill all day and give one's mind to nothing — that is hard indeed! Are there not games like bo and yi? Playing them would still be better than nothing.
白Plain Chinese
孔子说，整天吃饱却不用心，真难有所成，难道没有博戏、围棋可做，做那些还胜过完全不动心思。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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Connections
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- Cited by commentatorsThree Character Classic 37: “A person who does not learn is worse than a creature” (人不学，不如物): the expanded commentary (增注) uses this line of Confucius.
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Our base text is Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries (above). Here are other commentaries side by side: for old commentaries, the first line of the sub-commentary with a link to the woodblock scan; for modern editions, one short quoted translation for comparison. The “compared with Zhu Xi” notes are written by Yikonglu, not quoted.
皇侃《论语义疏》Liang dynasty · 1750 Japanese woodblock edition · juan 九
“云子曰云云者，夫人衣食，所以充飽寒虛也。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 杨伯峻《论语译注》 | same | settled | 博弈尚胜全无用心，非孔子专劝赌博；杨细辨掷采行棋的古博，朱博局戏弈围棋。 | |
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同分博为局戏、弈为围棋，宁有用心胜饱食终日无所事，并非教人以赌博为正业；钱详述六博形制而仍记古法难详。 |
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