ABSTRACT
Sun Pin of Ch'i addressed die king of Ch'i saying: "Now in the Tao for attacking other states assaulting their hearts is uppermost. Concentrate upon first causing their hearts to submit. This chapter focuses upon the dual meaning of the character "heart" and "mind." Obviously when physical location is intended, "heart" is immediately understood. However, beyond this circumscribed case, neither meaning ever completely excludes the other, just as when Sun Pin speaks about "assaulting their hearts" and "causing their hearts to submit." This succinct discussion evinces a word play more characteristic of late Warring States period writings than of writings of Sun Pin's own era and may even have been composed many centuries after his death. However, it helped preserve his image as a historical figure and would seem to belong to the Kuo-yu genre.
