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- Master JiGong said,
- "Contending for a name
- And striving for a heroic look
- But what one will become in
the end?
- A lonely soul and a wild ghost
- So…..what must we do?
- We must seek truthful living
- Actual experience and honest
practice
- Only this is real
- Don’t seek fame and don’t seek
gain
- If you must seek fame
- You should seek a fame that
lasts ten thousand generations
- ( that is ever-lasting )
- If you must seek gain
- You should calculate the gain
of the underheaven
- ( what benefits the world )
- Once becoming famous
- One will be bounded by a NAME
- For this name
- One must even walk in squares
(restraint)
- Fearing that the personal
image may be destroyed
- Hence people are often
- Stranded by fame and harmed by
fame
- If you wish to learn TAO
- You must first overcome this
point
- Then only can you correspond
to the hub (axis)
- Of the universe (the will of
Heaven)"
- When I was young
- I had a famous and beautiful girlfriend
- She was bounded by fame
- Having her was like what the Chinese said
- Not able to face the light because it may expose her
secret
- And her popularity may drop
- There was great restraint in our movements
- I could understand very well what fame could do
- It would be difficult to practise at that time
- Because I was also implicated in the web of fame
- Fame does not actually bring real happiness
- But sadness when it is gone.
- What has happened now to the fame?
- It is just emptiness and disappointment
- If ever you must seek fame
- Look for one
- That lasts ten thousand generations.
