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257 Mystic, by L. Giles, p. 100). Perfection is not constitu. ted by "......charity and duty to one's neighbour. 1t is found in the
cultivation of Tao. Perfection of hearing is not hearing others, but oneself....... Perfection of vision is not seeing others, but oneself. For a man who sees not himself, but others, takes not possession of himself, but of others, thus taking what others should take and not what he himself should take. Instead of being himself, he in
fact becomes some one else" (Ibid. p. 97). By mental perfection good and evil cease to exist. A Chinese Mystic puts it : "The question is, how to bring the miod into a state of
calm, in which there is no thinking or mental activity ; how to keep the lips silent, with only natural inhalation and exhalation going on. If you give yourself up to mental perfection, right and wrong will cease to exist; if the lips follow their natural law they know not profit
or loss” (Taoist Teachings, p. 41). We also have it from the same source : “ The only way to etherealise the body being to parge the
mind of its passions ” (Ibid. p. 42). The mind is the seat of felicitous influences : " Look at that aperture : the empty apartment is filled with
light through it. Felicitous influences rest in the mind thus emblemed), as in their proper resting place"
(SBE. vol. xxxix. p. 210). The True man, a Master of the Tao, or the spirit-like Man, is defined as "a recluse of the mountain, whose bodily form has been changed, and who ascends to
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