X insults me. I am about to hit him. Thinking it over, I refrain. Who am I? which is my real self: the self of the retort or that of the refraining? My first reaction is always energetic; the second one, flabby. What is known as “wisdom” is ultimately only a perpetual “thinking it over,” i.e., non-action as first impulse.
Was Reading the Essential Dogen about hanging from that tree brach by the teeth...
Submitted December 27, 2019 at 05:16PM by mementomega https://ift.tt/2PZhY6Y
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