…was a founder of the left-wing of the teaching of Wang Yang-ming, taught his thinking through all the life as common people were, produced many passionate practical persons of the age under his school. He was called as a teacher, treated as an important figure from everyone.
‘There are eels in the water of a large pot, gasping for breath feebly, tangled one another. Suddenly a loach appeared amid, rampaged through them, at that moment the eels changed their conditions as if they got the lifeblood by the loach establishing secret communication with, however, it seemed that the small fish just obeyed his original nature indeed. Then, an old thinker said, ‘It also must be the same situation of mine as an existence between the people and the world. Because a manly man holds everything in the world being with it as one, have the will for the world to sacrifice his life for the people.’ At last, a will of going around the world happened there, evoked thunderstorm in a minute. The loach leaped over the pot, threw himself into the ocean, enjoyed his great pleasure unlimited. Next, after looked back the eels in the pot, the loach changed into a dragon with the entire tremble, brought the thunderstorm again, turned over the pot. Finally, the fish with a gasp for feeble breath recovered their conditions completely, came back to the broad ocean with the small fish cheerfully.’ - From 'A theory of eels and loaches'
