[Takuan] said, "Dying because someone is vexed at being insulted resembles right-mindedness, but it is not that at all. This is forgetting oneself in the anger of the moment. It is not rightmindedness in the least. Its proper name is anger and nothing else. Before a person has even been insulted, he has already departed from right-mindedness. And for this reason, he suffers insult. If one's right-mindedness is correct when he is associating with others, he will not be insulted by them. Being insulted by others, one should realize that he had lost his own right-mindedness prior to the offense." Right-mindedness is a matter of extreme importance. Its substance is none other than the Principle of Heaven, which gives life to all things. When this is acquired by the human body, it is called one's nature. Its other names are virtue, the Way, human-heartedness, probity and propriety. While the name changes according to the situation, and though its function is different, in substance it is only one thing. When this is written as human-heartedness and the situation involves human intercourse, its function is benevolence. When it is written as right-mindedness and the situation involves social station and integrity, its function is in making no mistakes in clarity of judgment. Even in dying, if one has not hit upon the principle therein, he has no right-mindedness, albeit some think that if a person just dies, he had this quality.
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In the end, they died of starvation, at the foot of Mt. Huangbo.
At Mt. Moon, which fossil did you pick?
If you don't get that reference, you are the fossil! The best fate we could hope for.
Submitted September 13, 2020 at 11:02PM by PaladinBen https://ift.tt/2Fr3slV
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