The Supreme Doctrine - neo-alchemist

THE PRIMORDIAL ERROR
unhappy or unwell. I regard my horse as a friend and no longer as a simple
instrument of my limitless claims. I make it up with my brother before going
into the temple, as the Gospel has it.
But this new attitude does not appear consciously; and so it must not be
confused with the banal conscious self-satisfaction which is the comfortable
result of personal training. It is like a base that one throws into an acid;
scarcely present in the mixture, the base ceases to exist as such, and its
presence is only represented by a diminution of acidity. No friendly partiality
is apparent in me for my horse, but only a diminution of my unfriendly
partiality against him. No absolving judgment is apparent, but only a
diminution of judgment in general, which always condemns when all is said
and done.
My horse works well in the degree in which I leave him alone. Zen
says: 'When the cow is properly looked after she becomes pure and docile.
Even without a chain and attached by nothing, she will follow you by
herself.'
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