So as to enable the mind to master itself appropriately, Neo-Confucians sometimes advocated a Zen-like practice called "quiet-sitting".
First, the word master itself becomes charged when placed next to white, as does scrawny when placed next to black in this scenario, and I don't know about you, but I recoil.
Not only were all popular messianic movements claiming to represent Laojun unsparingly condemned but Kou's mission was particularly aimed at the elimination of abuses from the Way of the Celestial Masters itself.
The dog both choked and gasped as if half-drowned, mastering itself enough to sink teeth into flesh, and now Lazarus heard his own screams as teeth struck bone, then reared back without loosening their hold; he screamed for mercy, the teeth pulling his flesh as if yanking at taffy.
Though the accent is always on the possibility of understanding the self as an agent responsible for its actions, Ricoeur consistently rejects any claim that the self is immediately transparent to itself or fully master of itself.
As he put it, what could be done with a people that is master of itself if it is not subject to God?
"This is more like something I'd see in Dubai than Elk Grove," added Mayor Detrick who, like the other council members present, was struggling to see past the design to the master plan itself.
In The Rule Of Metaphor (1975) and the three-volume Time And Narrative (1983-85), he tried to work out an understanding of subjectivity which would "replace the ego, master of itself, with the self, disciple of the text".
Meanwhile, Comedy Central, the network of laughs and good times that Chappelle characterised as, at best, a bully and, at worst, a slave master, found itself with 75 minutes of footage remaining from the abortive third season shoot.
In the studio system, when you sell a song to a label, you get writer's royalties and performance royalties but you alienate the property rights to the master recording itself.
When you come to apply for a role – especially one which is different from your current one – you can now select only the most relevant and interesting details that match the specific requirements (don't send the master CV itself).
