a complicated calibration
"A Complicated Calibration," December 15, 2022 (#349)
title from "The Extreme Pleasures of the 'White Lotus' Season 2 Finale" by Naomi Fry (December 12, 2022)
A Buddhist Bible ed. by Dwight Goddard (1938)
Ancient Records and the Bible by J. McKee Adams, PhD (1945)
A Complicated Calibration
Personality is made up of the five grasping aggregates: form, sensation,
comparison with the legends of other countries brought to light
to even lower attainments, to the state of devas and heretics, and
loyalty to it in the belief that they were renewing the lapsed covenant
on the wonderful lotus-like Dharma in his perfect insight and intelligence
with the hope of determining, if possible, other probable relations or
individuation and discriminative thinking; it is all-embracing, extending to
precious stones, copper, palm-wood and cedar wood, everything that was
conscious that we are acting from some unworthy motive--because of
the dark cloud of its abject humiliation there shone the unflickering light.
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