The given measure is the higher law a man did not invent and cannot revise to fit his weakness. Modern man treats every standard as a personal construction. That is why his standards collapse when they become inconvenient. Tradition begins with recognition. There are higher and lower ways of being. The higher does not ask permission of the lower.
Young men who have spent a year with this material may still try to bargain. They keep the language of the measure and quietly carve exceptions for appetite, speech, or ambition. An exception repeated is a new law. The given measure remains given only if it continues to cost something.
This refusal to revise the law is the residual form of the older traditional knowledge of the sacred as that which cannot be handled at will. The sacred was not chosen. It was encountered and then served. The man who keeps the measure unedited already performs the residual act.
Receive the measure as given. Do not improve it to spare yourself. The residual act is to let the law remain higher than your mood and your era. A measure you can rewrite is already horizontal.