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“Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.”
A.N. Whitehead

Rule a big countrythe way you cook a small fish.
If you keep control by following the Way,troubled spirits won’t act up.They won’t lose their immaterial strength,but they wont harm people with it,nor will wise souls come to harm.And so, neither harming the other, these powers will come together in unity.

The Master said, “What the gentleman seeks, he seeks within himself; what the small man seeks, he seeks in others.”

I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.

Cease to do evilLearn to do good,search for justice,help the opressed,be just to the orphan,plead for the widow.

His trail glows clear — like a track of fire.Invisible and silent — the spoor Of the polluted man.The smell of his mother’s womb clings to his heelsAnd sweats from his instep.Plain as the blood-slashed route of a wounded stagIn the noses of the hounds.

But your mother heard the lowing of our horned herds, and springing to her feet, gave a great cry to waken them from sleep. And they, too, rubbing the bloom of soft sleep from their eyes, rose up lightly and straight — a lovely sight to see: all as one, the old women and the [...]

Ok, if I’m going to be posting every day in October, I need some built-in multitasker slacker time. So: a new Wednesday tradition, in which I post a sample passage from the reading I’ve foisted on my poor students for today’s class:
(From Basic Teachings of the Buddha: A New Translation and Compilation, with a [...]