Bigg Elephant

It is a difficult thing to despise unrighteousness (fugi) and hold onto rectitude (gi). nevertheless, to think that rectitude is supreme and devote oneself exclusively to that rectitude is actually quiet mistaken. There is a Way above and beyond rectitude. It is a difficult thing to find it, but for those that do, it is the highest wisdom. When one looks from the higher point of view, rectitude is something small. However, even when one is not able to find it on ones own, there is a way to achieve this Way. It is through talking to others. Even a person that has not mastered the Way can see another person’s affairs quite clearly as an uninvolved bystander. It is like the saying in the game of go that ” the bystander sees the best of the game”. To ‘become aware of one’s wrongs in every thought.” is also best achieved through talking with other people. The reason we listen to what they say and read in books is also to learn to discard our own judgements and internalise the judgements of people of former times.