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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