7 The Army water below, earth above
For the army to be right, mature people are good.
If one can contend with oneself, then one will not get into contention with others.
... weapons are unlucky and battle is dangerous;...
... people's afflictions are infinite, so the methods of curing them are also infinite. ... If one can use the many liberative methods to correct one's innumerable delusions, one helps oneself and helps others, and can thereby be a spiritual monarch governing the spiritual realm.
Therefore progressive people realize that all the countless problems experienced in the course of life in the world are also so many ways to enlightenment, so they do not cling to anything, nor do they reject anything.
If one cannot lead an orderly life, one's actions, speech, and thoughts will be no good and will lead to misfortune. ... to take up celestial action, and make it into wise and pure, compassionate and innocent work, is what is called keeping all this work in one mind.
... if you apply corrective methods arbitrarily, without knowing when they will work, you will on the contrary damage your own and others' mental life.
... mental afflictions damaging the sprouts of enlightenment.
It is beneficial to take up words in the sense that it is good to read the teachings to clearly understand this.
However, the principles for reading scriptures are to rely on the meaning, not on the words; to rely on the complete teaching, not on incomplete teachings; to rely on the true knowledge, not on conditioned discrimination.
If you can make a deep search of the meanings and principles in the scriptures, and go into contemplation along with the scripture, then you are like a mature person leading the army.
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