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Chang Chih-ho - A World apart
Identifier
012859
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
From A Lute of Jade – Being selections from the Classical poets of China [The Wisdom of the East series] edited and translated by L. Cranmer-Byng and Dr S. Kapadia [1918]
A World Apart
The Lady Moon is my lover,
My friends are the oceans four,
The heavens have roofed me over,
And the dawn is my golden door
I would liefer follow the condor
Or the seagull, soaring from ken,
Than bury my godhead yonder
In the dust of the whirl of men.
The source of the experience
Chang Chih-hoConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Higher spiritSymbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Communing with natureReducing desires
Reducing opportunities
Suppressing obligations