Method
- aleshanee
- Jan 31, 2016
- 1 min read
An ancient adept has said: "If the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way".
This Chinese saying, unfortuntately all too true, stands in sharp contrast to our belief in the 'right' menthod irrespective of the man who applies it. In reality, in such matters everything depends on the man and little or nothing on the method. For the method is merely the path, the direction taken by a man. The way he acts is the true expression of his nature. If he ceases to be this, then the method is nothing more than an affectation, something artifically added, rootless and sapless, serving only the illegitimate goal of self-deception. It becomes a means of fooling oneself and of evading what may perhaps be the implacable law of one's being. This is far removed from the earth-born quality and sincerity of Chinese thought. On the contrary, it is the denial of one's own being, sef-betrayal to strange and unclean gods, a cowardly trick for the purpose of usurping psychic superiority, everything in fact which is profoundly contrary to the meaning of the Chinese 'method'. For these insights result from a way of life that is complete, genuine and true in the fullest sense; they are insights coming from that ancient, cultural life of China which has grown consistently and coherently from the deepest instincts."
extract from The Secret Of The Golden Flower - A Chinese Book Of Life.
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