Brook Ziporyn

[Gregory S. Moss @GregorySMoss2]

Brook Ziporyn delivers an electrifying lecture on Hegel and Tiantai Buddhist thought!

A kindred spirit for sure. Check it out on thinking the absolute:

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

For to benefit some one thing
yet without harming any other—
that is the course of heaven.
And to take action for some one purpose
yet without striving against any other—
that is the course of the sage.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

The sage is one who accumulates nothing.
Having used all he has for others,
he finds his own self enhanced.
Having given all he has to others,
he finds his own self enriched.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

“He who receives the filth of the land
is called ruler of the altars of grain.
He who receives the misfortunes of the land
is called king of all the world.”

Straight words always seem reversed.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

“He who receives the filth of the land
is called ruler of the altars of grain.
He who receives the misfortunes of the land
is called king of all the world.”
Straight words always seem reversed.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

“He who receives the filth of the land
is called ruler of the altars of grain.
He who receives the misfortunes of the land
is called king of all the world.”

Straight words always seem reversed.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

Nothing in the world is softer and weaker than water.
Yet in attacking the hard and rigid none can outdo it,
for nothing at all replaces it.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

The course of heaven, is it not like the stretching of a bow?
The high is brought low,
the low is raised up.
Reducing what is too much,
increasing what is too little.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

And so it is
that when any weapon grows too strong
it ceases to be the victorious one,
as a strong tree is the one chopped down—
by weapons, to make weapons.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

So it is that the hard and strong are followers of death,
while the soft and weak are followers of life.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

People are weak and soft when born,
strong and hard when dead.
All things, even grasses and trees,
are soft and fragile when born,
but dried out and rigid when dead.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

Precisely by regarding sickness as sickness,
one is no longer sick.
Sages are not sick:
because they regard their sickness as sickness,
they are no longer sick.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

To understand nonunderstanding—
that is the supreme.
Not to understand understanding—
that is a sickness.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

The understanding of us is meager indeed!
So it is that those who find a model in us
are precious indeed.
In just this way
the sage keeps the treasure in his breast
covered over with the coarsest cloth.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

For there is a guiding source for such words,
a ruling master for such deeds.
It is our nonunderstanding itself—
because of which no one can understand us.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

Our words are so very easy to understand,
so very easy to put into practice
that no one in all the world
can understand them
or put them into practice.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

There is no disaster greater than to undervalue the enemy.
Undervaluing the enemy puts us in danger of losing—
our own treasure.
So when two combatants clash,
the one whom it pains
is the winner.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

This is called advancing the nonadvance,
rolling up the sleeves to bare the nonarms,
seizing the nonopposition,
wielding the nonweaponry.

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

The military strategists have a saying:
“I dare not play the host but would rather play the guest.
I dare not advance an inch but would rather retreat a foot.”

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[Brook Ziporyn @brookziporyn]

A skillful knight does not wage war.
A skillful warrior does not get angry.
The most skillful victory over enemies is never to engage them at all.
The most skillful deployment of others is to put oneself below them.

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