well established hierarchies are not easily uprooted;

closely held beliefs are not easily released;

so ritual enthralls generation after generation. harmony does not care for harmony, and so is naturally attained;

but ritual is intent upon harmony, and so can not attain it.

harmony neither acts nor reasons;

love acts, but without reason;

justice acts to serve reason;

but ritual acts to enforce reason.

when the way is lost, there remains harmony;

when harmony is lost, there remains love;

when love is lost, there remains justice;

but when justice is lost, there remains ritual. ritual is the end of ccpassion and honesty,

the beginning of confusion;

belief is a colourful hope or fear,

the beginning of folly.

the sage goes by harmony, not by hope;

he dwells in the fruit, not the flower;

he accepts substance, and ignores abstraction.