It is not necessary to go out of one's way to get rid of the natural mind;
it needs only that the spiritual mind shall rule.
That is, if the natural mind is to be rendered powerless to play the robber,
it must be by the spiritual mind.
But this is exceedingly difficult to secure,
so sudden and rapid are the movements of human desire.
Chu Hsi [Zhu Xi] (1130-1200) China
Translated by Joseph Percy Bruce
Source: The philosophy of human nature. Translated from the Chinese, with notes by Chu, Hsi, 1130-1200; Joseph Percy Bruce, Probsthain, 1922
This section is taken from "Mind: Thirty selections from the Collected Writings"
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