My Sunday Scripture 2010.9.5.
Great crowds accompanied him on his way and he turned and spoke to them.
'Anyone who comes to me without hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, cannot be my disciple.
No one who does not carry his cross and come after me can be my disciple.
'And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it?
Otherwise, if he laid the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, anyone who saw it would start making fun of him and saying,
"Here is someone who started to build and was unable to finish."
Or again, what king marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider whether with ten thousand men he could stand up to the other who was advancing against him with twenty thousand?
If not, then while the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace.
So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple without giving up all that he owns.
Luke 14:25-33
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My Reading Notes:
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The point of "give up" can be understand more easily in the context of Zheong Zi.
If we could see through the secret of life: life is but a will and this will can produce real effort with the help of material. Material it self is not life.
Life is something behind the body, is something like a will power.
How can a will power itself "own" material ? no and never.
The point is people seldom understands this. They thought life is material, hence giving up has become impossible.
Once you get the point, all problems are gone.
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