Profit and loss, right and wrong, - away with them once for all!

"What Sengtsan means here, is that we are to give up the false idea that profit actually profits us, that there is any individual self to suffer loss or gain. Forgetting all moral principles, we are to 'Dilige, et quod vis fac.' (Love, and do as you please.)

"This abstention from choosing, from judging, does not mean that we do not choose as pleasant or judge as wrong. What it means is that God does it for us, God who is so often disobeyed, who turns the other cheek and forgives his enemies. When for example we give an order, as a teacher, or an official, it is to be given peremptorily without a thought of the possibility of its not being obeyed. But if it is not obeyed, there is no personal irritation and wounded vanity in the angry remonstrance we make. A law of nature, of human society has been broken and it is right that our emotion should be aroused by this.

"The doctrine that in all our acts we are to be vice-regents of Nature is a dangerous one, but every truth is dangerous, for it liberates universal energies that may easily go astray, Religious persecution, megalomania, political fanaticism are all misuses of what the Third Patriarch inculcates. But we know them by their fruits; by the defects, the distortions, the hatreds of the dictators."