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Tao Stoic 95

'You fill these bottles with water and leaves and sell them as medicine?'

'I can't be free without money.'

'Can you be free without truth?' (Kung Fu 26)(See also [97)

"Freedom, for many people, seem to represent a problem Master. They would even think one has to fight for it."

"Wells, in 'The Holy Terror' has it: 'Guarding one's freedom isn't freedom at all'. Indeed, one should be careful with the term or rather the idea of freedom. In physics, when you fit a loose object to another by means of a hinge, it has 'a degree of freedom'. It is perhaps best to also speak of degrees of freedom in a person. He is free, who can accept the necessary restrictions, freely."


Ven 2005-01-24