Xing Zi Ming Chu 性自命出 (One’s Natural Dispositional Tendencies are Drawn Out within One’s Allotted Circumstances)
In general, though people have xing, the mind [xin] lacks stable commitment [zhi]. It [the mind] awaits [encountering] things and then moves, awaits being pleased and then acts, and awaits practice and then is stable. The qi of pleasure, anger, grief, and sorrow is xing. The qi’s breaking through to outside is because things stimulate it....
NOTE: the rest of the text mentions joy (le), anxious concern (you), and even reverence (jing)
Loving and hating are xing. What is loved and what is hated are things. Affirming as good or [not good is xing]. What is affirmed as good or not good are circumstances....
Xing comes out from conditions [ming] and conditions come down from heaven [tian]. The way begins from qing [affective reactions]and qing are born from xing. The beginning is close to qing; the ending is close to rightness [yi]....
In general, for xing, some things move it, some entice it, some restrain it, some hone it, some draw it out, some nourish it, and some grow it. What moves xing are things. What entices xing is being pleased. What restrains xing are deliberate reasons [gu]. What hones xing is rightness. What draws out xing are circumstances [shi]. What nourishes xing is practice. What grows xing is dao [a guiding practice]....
Rituals are made from qing. Some made them arise, suiting affairs and relying on rules [fang] to regulate them. The order of what was first and last then were appropriate to the way. From this order they made them restrained, so they were refined....