Shun Among Mountain Dwellers

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Mencius said, “When Shun lived deep in the mountains, among trees and rocks and roaming with deer and pigs, he differed little from the ordinary people living in the mountains.”

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“Yet whenever he heard one good word or saw one good deed, he surged forward like a river bursting its banks, with nothing able to hold him back.”

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