Emile comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Emile 16 September 2012 07:29:58PM *  3 points [-]

For the curious, it's the opening of 信心铭 (Xinxin Ming), whose authorship is disputed (probably not the zen patriarch Jiangzhi Sengcan). In Chinese, that part goes:

至道无难,惟嫌拣择。
但莫憎爱,洞然明白。
毫厘有差,天地悬隔。
欲得现前,莫存顺逆。
违顺相争。是为心病。

(The Wikipedia article lists a few alternate translations of the first verses, with different meanings)