Under the Heaven (7)

1 Huishi’s knowledge was all-inclusive. His works were fairly many. Nevertheless, his thought was very freak, and his awareness of truth was problem-ridden.

2 He described the material world as follows, “Anything infinitely big has no boundary and so it is called ‘large infinity’; anything infinitely small has nothing in it and so it is called ‘small infinity’.

3 If press a thing into so thin that it has no thickness, then, there is no thing can be put on its surface; and in principle, it can be extended to thousand miles square wide. In the point of view of universe, the heaven is as high as the earth, and mountain is as high as lake. At noon, sun seems holding at the middle of heaven, but actually it is becoming down to the west. Creatures are bond to die since they are born.

4 There are nuances among things of same species, or they are said similar. There are totally different appearances among things of different species but detailed study finds that there still some similarities between them. That is called nuance among similar and similar among difference.

5 Distance by pointing to south seems infinite. Nevertheless, it is limited. For example, we stand on earth and go south. Someday, you will find yourself reaching the starting place. The distance between starting place and end place is a circle of earth but it eventually is limited.”

6 Huishi added, “A man starts to Yue today but he arrives there yesterday. Time reverses. Iron rings linked each other can be unlinked.”

7 Hui said, “I know that the center of heaven is located above the linking line of north of Yan and south of Yue.

8 People should love all things, because universe, heaven and earth are integrated and derive from the same source.”