When one drops the desire to gain fame and fortune, one rises above the vulgar, when one no longer sets one’s mind on morality and righteousness, one enters sage hood.
CaigentanThe character that is like clear sky in broad daylight is generated in dark rooms under leaky roofs. The statesmanship that can right the course of the cosmos is born of probing profound depths and of treading on thin ice.
CaigentanIf there is beauty, then inevitable there is ugliness in opposition. If I take no pride in my beauty, who can call me ugly? Integrity is the opposite of corruption. If I do not covet integrity, who can call me corrupt?
CaigentanWhen you let others crave things and don’t mind their intoxication with them; when you are calm and composed and don’t boast of your loftiness, then you fulfill the Buddhist dictum: “not being trapped by the Dharma and not being caught by the void leads to liberation of both body and mind.”.
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