"The childlike heart is pure truth, free of all falsehood—the original mind of one's very first thought. To lose the childlike heart is to lose the true heart; to lose the true heart is to lose the true self."
Today's Question
To you, what is the 'childlike heart'—the unadorned first mind?
The Price of Doubting the Sages Was Prison
Li Zhi was a thinker of the late Ming dynasty who, at a time when Neo-Confucianism reigned as absolute truth, declared that one need not blindly follow even Confucius. He gave up office, shaved his head, lived in a temple, and praised the value of novels and plays that were then looked down upon.
Knowing his work was dangerous, he titled one of his books A Book to Burn (Fenshu). In 1602, at seventy-six, he was imprisoned for 'deluding the world', and he died in prison.