Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Excerpt
"Compromise to please others is not as good as integrity that annoys others. Rather than be praised without being good, it is better to be slandered without being bad."
"Mountain forests are beautiful places, but once you become attached to them, they become cities. Calligraphy and painting are elegant pastimes, but once you get greedy they become commercialized. In general, when the mind is unattached, then the realm of desire is the capital of immortals; when the mind is attached, then objects of pleasure become an ocean of suffering."
From Back to Beginnings by Huanchu Daoren
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