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Notes from The Book of Balance and Harmony (Thomas Cleary)

Establish firm resolve, keep the mind free from doubt; directly bring about bare clean open clarity, not
allowing any defiling attachment or fixation – then this is the pure spiritual body. If you don’t cling to
things, things won’t cling to you. If you don’t focus on something, that something won’t focus on you. If
you don’t watch anyone, no one watches you. If you aren’t obsessed with anything, nothing holds you. If
you don’t cling to appearances, appearances won’t cling to you.

Forgetting emotions in action,


Forgetting thoughts in stillness,
Forgetting self in dealing with events,
Forgetting things in adapting to change –
This is like the inner emptiness of bamboo.
Establishing certain resolve,
Keeping the mind free from doubts,
Completely pervading inside and out,
Unchanging beginning to end,
This is like the endurance of bamboo.

Openness, thoughtless? unbiased awareness (being in the now), freedom from contrivance = the Tao

Profound knowledge of principle knows without seeing, powerful practice of the Way accomplishes
without striving.

Profound knowledge = to be aware of disturbance before disturbance, be aware of calamity before


calamity

Profound practice = preservation in the body without being burdened by the body, action in the mind
without being used by the mind, working in the world without being affected by the world, carrying out
tasks without being obstructed by tasks

By profound knowledge of principle one can change disturbance into order, change danger into safety,
change danger into safety, change destruction into survival, change calamity into fortune.

By powerful practice of the Way, one can bring the body to the realm of longevity, bring the mind to the
sphere of mystery, bring the world to great peace, bring tasks to great fulfillment.

Judge/predict, people/things by looking at concrete manifestations that are associated with them.

Sensing and response:


Comprehension in a state of quiescence can comprehend anything, accomplishment without striving can
accomplish anything, knowing without seeing can know anything. To accomplish after striving is not
worthy of being called accomplishment; to know after seeing is not worthy of being called knowing.
These are far from the way of sensing and response. To be able to do something before it exists, sense
something before it becomes active, see something before it sprouts, are three abilities which develop
interdependently. Then nothing is sensed but is comprehended, nothing is undertaken without response,
nowhere does one go without benefit.

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