> Courtesy was made up after losing sincerity and honesty. Courtesy is the very cause that is confusing the world. If you teach benevolence, justice and courtesy with knowledge to people, they will become fools. So a person with true virtue chooses sincerity, not knowledge. He chooses a fruit, not flowers which only look beautiful. He chooses “the way”, not benevolence, justice and courtesy which only sound nice.
https://blog.mage8.com/roushi-38
#LaoTse, #LaoTzu #LaoTzu38 #老子38
https://aokikenji.com/tao-38

> Therefore when Tao is lost, there is goodness.
When goodness is lost, there is kindness.
When kindness is lost, there is justice.
When justice is lost, there is ritual.
Now ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of confusion.
https://www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotzu38.html
> Thus, when the Tao was lost, the Magick Powers appeared; then, by successive degradations, came Benevolence, Justice, Convention.
- https://www.taoistic.com/taoteching/taoteching-aleistercrowley.htm
#LaoTse, #LaoTzu #LaoTzu38 #老子38 #taoistic #Wussu

> Paul’s doctrine of grace: “Law came in to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.”
#HannahArendt in #LifeOfTheMind has me thinking of #LaoTse, #LaoTzu #LaoTzu38 #老子38
> Courtesy was made up after losing sincerity and honesty. Courtesy is the very cause that is confusing the world. If you teach benevolence, justice and courtesy with knowledge to people, they will become fools.
https://blog.mage8.com/roushi-38
#ChyonMage #ちょんまげ英語日誌 #英訳 #translation