money. Therefore, the accomplished man prefers to settle in a place where there is neither strife nor striving, and dwell in an incomplete placed, not a finished one. A vessel topples because it is too full. A piggy bank is saved from being shattered for its emptiness. So a true person prefers "have-not" than "have". Rather be incomplete than to be complete. The qiqi water vessel tips over when it is full. The puman money-saving vessel is perfect when it is empty. The noble person abides with nothing rather than with something, and is content with lack rather than with completeness. This qiqi alludes to the ancient Xunzi (28.1), where it was a symbolic warning against complacency. When Confucius visited the ancestral temple of Duke Huan of Qi, he saw a "vessel that inclined to one side", which the caretaker called a you zuo zhi qi 宥坐之器 "warning vessel that sat on the right". Confucius said: "I have heard of such a warning vessel; if empty, it inclines; if half full, it is upright, and if completely full, it overturns". After watching a demonstration of the vessel's operation, he sighed: "Alas! How indeed could there be complete fullness and no overturning!" References Hong Yingming, 2020. The Art of Living: Chinese Proverbs and Wisdom. A modern reader of the Vegetable Roots Discourse. Tuttle (ann. by Wu Yansheng and Ding Liangyan; trans. Tony Blishen). Hong Zicheng, 1995, Propos sur la racine des légumes. Zulma (French trans. and ann. by Martine Vallette-Hémery). Hong Zicheng, 2016. Caigentan (Saikontan). Weisheiten eines Vegetariers. Angkor (German trans. Guido Keller and Taro Yamada). Hong Zicheng, 2020a. Wortels van Levenskunst. ISVW (Dutch trans. Carlo Hover). Hong Zicheng, 2020b. Wortels van Levenskunst. Verantwoording, verwijzingen en commentaren, samengesteld door Carlo Hover. ISVW. (Only annotations and commentary) Hong Zi-Cheng, 2002. Roots of Vegetables Table Talks (trans. Chung Hing Sin and Linda Elena Opyr) . {{cite book |translator-last=Wilson |translator-first=William Scott |date=1985 |title=The Roots of Wisdom Saikontan by Hung Ying-ming |publisher=Kodansha International |ref=CITEREFWilson1985 }} Wilson, William Scott, trans. 2012. Master of the Three Ways: Reflections of a Chinese Sage on Living a Satisfying Life. Shambhala. Footnotes Further reading Huanshu Daoren, 1999. Zum Anfang zurück. Gedanken über das Tao. Aurum (German translation of Cleary 1990). Huanshu Daoren, 2001. Tao van eenvoud. Altamira-Becht (Dutch translation of Cleary 1990). Kitao, Yoshitaka. 2007. The SBI Group Vision and Strategy. John Wiley and Sons. Röser, Sabine A.M. Die Aphorismensammlung