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Solinear -> RE: Does gentle Master mean weak? (1/15/2007 12:04:14 AM)
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To paraphrase the Buddha:
The high road ends up with you climbing a big hill early and then relaxing on the down side, the low road you start out easy and then have a hard time later, but the middle road leads you on a path that is never too hard and never too easy, but you can keep walking when you get to your destination.
OK, he didn't really say anything like that, but I could imagine him having said something like that.
Moderation is always good in everything, from discipline to reward. The key to knowing whether a master is weak or not is to know whether the slave truly needs discipline and if the master lets things go well past when the discipline should have occured, they will have taken the low road - they now have a hard path to walk up to get to the destination (a well behaved slave, but not too harshly disciplined). A well chosen word here and there can keep you on the middle path, rarely requiring punishment (well, unless the slave requests 'punishment').
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