Willing the Good Means You Shouldn't Frown on a Frugal Living Style - Deepstash
Willing the Good Means You Shouldn't Frown on a Frugal Living Style

Willing the Good Means You Shouldn't Frown on a Frugal Living Style

子曰:“士志于道,而耻恶衣恶食者,未足与议也。”

If you will the good and you find a life of simplicity, humbleness, and frugality a shame, then you are not yet ready to embark on the path to truth.

The fact is, as Kierkegaard puts it, to will the good means to will it without considering the rewards and punishments it may bring. In other words, one should be willing to undergo any suffering if one is going to will the good in truth. Thus, wanting the good and finding suffering humiliating is doublemindedness. 

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