240915 What I learned in my studies this morning 4

Today's Meditation(s):

Tao Te Ching, 3, Gia-fu Feng and Jane English

Machiavelli in Buddhist robes? How to keep your peasantry harmonious and docile?

Depending on my summum bonum, different outcomes will becone more and less likely. Commitment to the community. Commitment to the individual. They offer different resolutions, different visions of the anointed.

This is a story of a man who runs away from the very life he claims to want to deal with. This is the story of a good life that sometimes seems oppressive. This is the story of aspirations and garbage time together.