Ancient Rowing Metaphor Captures Cost of Pausing: Inaction Isn't Neutral, It's Reversal

A proverb plausibly linked to Xunzi uses the image of an oarsman on a swift current to argue that stopping effort means losing ground — a claim coherent with his philosophy of deliberate self-cultivation.

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