alanbwt on Nostr: “There is a story of a Chinese sage who was asked, ‘How shall we escape the ...
“There is a story of a Chinese sage who was asked, ‘How shall we escape the heat?’—meaning, of course, the heat of suffering. He answered, ‘Go right into the middle of the fire.’ ‘But how, then, shall we escape the scorching flame?’ ‘No further pain will trouble you.’”
— Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
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