Thursday, June 24, 2010

The Sayings - Positive Clings to Negative

The Sayings of Chen Jen

Number Forty-Five
Positive clings to negative
for there it finds its being.

Without this ceaseless judging
what would the ego be?

It is only in division
that self has reality.

The path is clear.
The terms are set.
The price of freedom?
Everything.
Yet what is there to
lose?

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