Showing posts with label Chapter 12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chapter 12. Show all posts

06 October 2023

Abstaining from desire




The five colors make the human eye blind.
The five notes make the human ear deaf.
The five tastes make the human mouth blunt.

Horse-racing, over-riding, [and] field-hunting make the human heart turn mad.
The difficulty in the obtaining of treasures makes the human conduct checked.

Therefore the holy man attends to the inner [the soul]
not he attends to to the eye [the visible, the outer].
Therefore he dismisses the latter, he takes the former.


 
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