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WHEN YOU know where to stop, you have stability. When you have
stability, you can be tranquil. When you are tranquil, you can be at
ease.
When you are at ease, you can deliberate. When you can deliberate
you can attain your aims. [Confucius, Great
Learning]
HE WHO possesses the country must be prudent. If he errs, he will
be the embarrassment of the realm. [The Book of Odes]
Contents
Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed
throughout:Briefing
Not all are very responsive to the new territory at once. Besides,
there is variegation. By trying to search or 'look' inside, many different
responses come to light, and varied needs to acclimatise or integrate
their new-won wisdom in everyday life, where it should be the most
needed.Even if crowds come in streams to listen to a sage and some hope to lift (elevate) the baser to the spiritual, say "Bah!" to stupid disregard of the flesh the sooner the better.
To flourish, penetrating insights need deeper understanding than surface interpretations give. Note as well that you may have had many wonderful realisations, but to make some of them count, you have to stick to them and let them into the everyday life - which may seem like surface living - it's fairly often like that. What is needed is living out good things one comes across.
Sage Words
ONCE OLD God was afraid. He thought:"Since there is nothing but myself anywhere, what am I afraid of?"
He also found he was not happy; he desired a mate. He turned into a man and wife in close embrace.
He divided his body in two; from that division husband and wife came about. Therefore the body, before one accepts a wife, is half of oneself, like the half of a split pea.
And therefore this space is indeed filled by the wife.
He was united with her. From that union human beings were born. She reflected:
"How can God unite with me after having produced me from himself? Well, let me hide."
She became a cow, God became a bull and was united with her, and from that union cattle were born. In this way he produced everything that comes in pairs -
God created a man and wife in order to enjoy happiness, yet did not do
away with his own keen self. [Cf. Hirr 40]
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