CONFUCIUS SAYS: DON'T BE AN ARSEHOLE

Correspondent 18 December 2002 0 minutes read

NO POLITICIAN TODAY FOLLOWS THE ADVICE OF CONFUCIUS, WHO SAID OF WISE RULERS:
"... WANTING ORDER IN THE HOME, THEY FIRST DISCIPLINED THEMSELVES; DESIRING SELF-DISCIPLINE, THEY RECTIFIED THEIR OWN HEARTS; AND WANTING TO RECTIFY THEIR HEARTS, THEY SOUGHT PRECISE VERBAL DEFINITION OF THEIR INARTICULATE THOUGHTS; WISHING TO ATTAIN PRECISE VERBAL DEFINITIONS, THEY SET TO EXTEND THEIR KNOWLEDGE TO THE UTMOST."
- LEMON AID

Pithy Quote

Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge, which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution. When man becomes aware of the movement of his own thoughts, he will see the division between the thinker and thought, the observer and the observed, the experiencer and the experience. He will discover that this division is an illusion. Then only is there pure observation which is insight without any shadow of the past or of time. This timeless insight brings about a deep, radical mutation in the mind. Total negation is the essence of the positive. When there is negation of all those things that thought has brought about psychologically, only then is there love, which is compassion and intelligence.