Adult teacher - Taijin Sensei (English)

Japanese: 大人先生 - たいじんせんせい（英語表記）Dà rén xiān shēng

A Taoist philosopher described in the "Biography of the Great Teacher" by Ruan Ji (210-263) of the Jin Dynasty in China. The Great Teacher, who is one with the creation of heaven and earth and soars into the unconstrained world of "Tao," criticizes followers of Taoism who are trapped in Confucian ethics and secular values and have lost sight of what true life is, but who are not ashamed of themselves and do not realize it, by comparing them to lice who believe that what is inside their loincloth is the whole world. This was also Ruan Ji's sharp criticism of the social conditions of the time. [Mugiya Kunio]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，晋の阮籍（げんせき）(210‐263)の《大人先生伝》に描かれた道家的哲理の体得者。天地造化と一体となり何ものにもとらわれない“道”の世界に飛翔する大人先生は，儒教的倫理や世俗的価値観にとらわれて真の人生の何たるかを見失いながら，みずからは悟らず得々として恥じない名教の徒を褌（ふんどし）の中を世界のすべてと心得るシラミにたとえて否定しさるが，それは当時の世相に対する阮籍の鋭い批判でもあった。【麦谷邦夫】

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