My precepts

davidsmith208
Sep 8, 2018
1 min read

With explosively positive personality disorder you smile at a lot of babies. It requires a lot of analysis to be positive. Every time you have a negative thought it has to be tortured and killed. If your mind has become universal it actually is easy. If you rise completely above the body, everything below seems silly. You may follow a lot of precepts. Here is an example of Ryokan’s:

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