• First, in judging and measuring your opponent, never rely on your instincts. Nothing can substitute for gathering concrete knowledge.
• Second, never trust appearances. Never trust the version that people give of themselves—it is utterly unreliable.
• Do not commit yourself to an...

You can strip away many unnecessary troubles which lie wholly in your own judgement. And you will immediately make large and wide open room for yourself by grasping the whole universe in your thought, contemplating the eternity of time, and reflecting on the rapid change of each thing in every pa...