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The old man said to Baizhang, “A student asked me, ‘Does an enlightened person fall under the law of cause and effect?’ ‘No,’ I said, ‘someone like that doesn’t fall under the law of cause and effect.’ Because of this, I’ve been reborn 500 times as a fox. Please, will you say a turning word for me?” Baizhang said, “You don’t cut the chains of cause and effect.” Gateless Gate , Case 2 & Book of Serenity , Case 8 On this day C. G. Jung talked about his mother. Since early childhood and again during significant phases of his adulthood he had been aware of two personalities in her. The usually visible one was a warm-hearted, conventional and affable woman but at decisive moments a second voice with powerful, unassailable authority could emerge. Aniela Jaffé, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung For sixteen of the first twenty days of the month, the island is raked by gales. Each day, and some nights, for ten or twelve hours at a stretch, everything thrash...