- Humility is the greatest of virtues.
But the enlightened one is full of light and shines like the sun! He could not mask his brightness if he tried. Is he then lacking in humility and virtue? If you do not shine with wisdom, you are in darkness. What use has true wisdom of humility?
- Go with the flow.
Be supple, bend like a blade of grass which bends with the wind. Trees may be torn from the ground, but you will be unharmed. Don't fight reality. It is a delusion to think you can change the world.
Such talk sickens me. It is yet more in the vein of feminine passivity. This philosophy of the Devil protects happiness by avoiding confrontation.
The truly wise man is like a fish swimming upstream. The farther he proceeds, the faster and more steeply the water surges against him. Yet even though everything goes against him increasingly, his effort is unceasing. Eventually he reaches the Dragon Gate. Here, hundred-metre high waves crash down through towering perpendicular gorges, carrying away whole hillsides as they go. Even the mountain spirits are stunned into senselessness. Just a drop of this water breaks the bones of a great whale. Through this maelstrom the wise man dies the Great Death, and becomes a Dharma Dragon.