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A candidate's one thought, and the lust goes out
Key takeaway
If your mother or your sister sat behind that curtain, could the thought still rise? The trick works just as well when you open your phone.
If your mother or your sister sat behind that curtain, could the thought still rise? The trick works just as well when you open your phone.
A Ming scholar travelling to the capital for the exams could not control his lust. A wise friend asked him to imagine that behind the bed curtain sat his own mother or sister. The thought went out at once. The talk also notes the old belief that candidates who break the precept are struck from the register by the god of literature.