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After ‘enlightenment’, chop wood, carry water.”
Zen Proverb
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about; but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.
Fitzgerald' s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ — all these are undoubtedly great virtues.
What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ.
But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself — that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness — that I myself am the enemy who must be loved — what then?|
As a rule, the Christian’s attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us “Raca,” and condemn and rage against ourselves.
We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves.”
~C.G. Jung Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Page 241
That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ — all these are undoubtedly great virtues.
What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ.
But what if I should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself — that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness — that I myself am the enemy who must be loved — what then?|
As a rule, the Christian’s attitude is then reversed; there is no longer any question of love or long-suffering; we say to the brother within us “Raca,” and condemn and rage against ourselves.
We hide it from the world; we refuse to admit ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves.”
~C.G. Jung Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Page 241
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