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Chapter Thirteen: On the Order 19
The Founding Master said to several of his disciples, “Our job is the same as that flock of wild geese. According to the seasons and conditions, colleagues with shared affinities gather for edification in the east or west, just as those wild geese fly together according to the seasons, sometimes toward the south and sometimes the north, searching for a place to roost. But if a goose is careless in following the flight line of the leader, it can easily injure itself by getting caught in bird’s netting or being shot. For people who practice the Way and are engaged in the work of delivering others, bird’s netting and bullets correspond to the sensory conditions of wealth and sex.”
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