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One is what
One absorbs
An event becomes
An experience through
Personal involvement.
Collecting experiences can be
Helpful with the daily aspects of life,
But it is not
The road to happiness.
It is understood that
Sleep is the desire for
A period of rest
For the body.
It is less understood that
Sleep is the desire for
A period of rest
Away from the body.
At the root,
There is no difference between
Separation and dissatisfaction.
This is so because
Feeling separate and apart is
The primary dissatisfaction.
Nothing is as it seems.
The common view is that
There is a subjective observer
Observing an objective world;
The former separate from
The latter.
Nothing is as it seems.
There is reading
But no reader of this writing
Without an author.
The merger of
The reading and the writing is
Deep insight and understanding.
It is man
Who is in movement
Against the background of immobility.
But who moves the moved?
We are afloat in
The Great River.
All are carried along.
Some swim against the flow.
They, too, are carried along.
Whereas pain is
A physical experience
Suffering is a mental one.
It is the sense that
Things should be
Other than they are.
Its antidote is
Acceptance.
Solitude is not
A condition of the body.
Instead, it is
A condition of the mind.
Solitude may be found
In the busy market or
May be elusive in the forest.
Do no mistake
The five points of a star
For five stars.
All there is
Is a single, unitary
Everything.
In human beings,
There is a need
To create order
Out of what is
Perceived to be chaos.
This ordering mechanism is
The mind.
As such, the mind seeks causes
To explain what it
Doesnt understand.
Is the carrot the cause of the chicken soup
Or is it the chicken
Or is it the broth
Or is it the cook?
With the apperception that
Everything is perfect as it is, that
Everything causes everything else,
The mind, as fixer,
As judge,
As organizer,
Loses its relevance.
A common misconception is
The belief that thinking is
The creation of thought.
Rather, it is
The reception of thought from
A source which has no name and
From a place that cannot be found.
Since one cant decide to think
Nor can one decide
Thoughts contents,
Why does one
Claim their ownership?
Is every sound Wu Hsins because
He can hear them?
Immanence,
Intemporal
Impersonal and
Infinite
Is the canvas
On which the world
Appears and disappears.
Drops on a canvas,
Nothing more is
Man .
Let us go upstream
For a moment
To a place before
You and me;
Before
All yous and all mes.
This place is called
Beginning.
Empty, yet full
Of potential,
It is from here that
All emerges.
For many,
The first step on
A spiritual journey is to
Become lost.
The final step is
Losing ones self.
Life is experienced
As a series of events
Happening to an individual.
Wu Hsin says:
Life is happening.
The individual is merely
One of the series
Of events.
What is natural
Follows no laws nor
Requires any.
Can there be a rule for
The beating of the heart or
The blackness of the raven?
There is a natural rhythm to
The workings of the world.
Some are discernable
While others cannot be discerned.
It is the dance
Between the two that
Creates action.
There is no forest,
There is no cave,
There is no mountaintop
Where one can hide
From oneself.
Man can do
Whatever he wants.
However, he cannot
Will whatever he wants.
To dig a hole,
One employs a shovel.
When the hole is completed,
The grip on the shovel is released.
In order to teach,
Concepts must be used.
Once the teaching is assimilated,
The grip on the concept must be released.
To grow is necessary.
To outgrow is, likewise,
Necessary.
Is the perceiver
Separate from that which
Is perceived?
Tell Wu Hsin:
What is it that sees my knee
When I gaze upon my lap?
What is the world?
The world is the sum of the known
Embraced by the fullness of
The unknown and
Protected by that which is
Unknowable.
The experience of
The Mystery is the banter of fools.
Only objects,
Overt or subtle, are experienced,
While the Mystery is prior
To all objects.
My father is
This-Now-Here;
My mother is
This-Now-Here;
My brother is
This-Now-Here;
My neighbor is
This-Now-Here;
All related.
When each is gone,
What endures?
This-Now-Here.
Thoughts are only
Puffs of smoke
Rising from the chimney of the mind.
Attaching attention to them is
The heart of suffering.
There is no requirement to
Transcend the past.
All that must be done is to
Stop carrying it,
Like a block of stone,
On ones back.
Man is ensnared
In the continuum called Past-Future.
His attention remains fixated there,
Uninterrupted.
To free oneself from the trap,
Even for a single instant,
Return to the point of presence,
Of being.
Of being no thing in particular.
In this moment.
Then, miraculously,
The snare dissolves.
Do not mistake
A mere rearranging of the furniture
For true change.
Know Wu Hsin as
The Untouched.
Unaffected by time or
Space or
People or
Places or
Things,
Wu Hsin is not
While all else is moving.
What is it
That brings people to
The doorstep of Wu Hsin?
It is simply the desire
To know this What.
When Wu Hsin says
This What cannot be known,
Most go away disappointed.
I tell you:
You must open the doors.
You must pull back
The shutters.
How else can light enter into
A darkened house?
What-Is or
You may call it the Truth,
Must be apperceived.
Once one attempts to express it,
It becomes a concept and
Food for discussion.
Then the Truth is lost.
Seekers of Truth must ask:
What distinguishing marks will
Allow one to recognize it?
Do not confuse
Emptying the pot with
Shattering the pot.
A pot that is emptied
Can be refilled whereas
A shattered pot ceases to be.
It is only when
The very idea of changing is seen
As false that
One can perceive the changeless.
There is nothing
For me to tell you
That will make a difference.
There is nothing Wu Hsin can say
That will bring about
Your awakening.
The sound of my own voice
Holds no appeal for me.
Nor should you
Be enamored with it.
Ask Wu Hsin to be quiet
This has much more value.
A viable strategy is to bring about
The end of the questioner.
When there is no questioner,
Then there is no one
Being questioned and
There are no questions.
Within this space
All can be revealed
Most easily.
There is a birth,
A life, and then
A death.
Throughout this cycle of
From the Source - To the Source,
The Source remains ever as it was.
To know the Source is to
Transcend the cycle.
Thinking is so tiresome,
Requiring so much energy
Solely for the purpose
Of reinforcing the notion
Of a thinker.
What a waste!
Stop thinking and
Merely watch
Everything being done
Without your interference.
The marriage of
Full consciousness with
Life
Is the most beautiful union
This world has ever known.
Do not use
Wu Hsins words
As a platform for
Launching new concepts.
Instead, listen deeply,
Apperceive and then
Forget.
Do not store the words away.
Let them penetrate you,
As would an arrow.
Whatever is embraced,
Whatever is clung to, will leave.
Why, then, empower it
By making it important?
What is natural
Requires no study or practice for mastery.
Does one study how to sleep?
To reach what is natural
Merely remove what is not natural.
How glorious is
The purposeless life.
Events occur in
Their natural course and
One need not do anything or
Be anything in particular.
Can there be
A greater freedom than this?
In an instant,
There is awakening and
The world arrives,
Unbeckoned.
In a short time,
It recedes and is
Forgotten until
Its next arising.
Understanding the stage on which
This play is performed is
The way out of it.
Beyond what?
Beyond where?
Beyond when?
Beyond whom?
This beyond
Is not outside yourself,
But is the vast,
Limitless expanse
Within.
It is not knowable
Nor does it reside
Within the space of the known.
Stop running toward
Positive states.
Stop running from
Negative states.
Stop.
Take whatever comes
As it comes;
Without judgment,
Without embellishment.
Then, watch it pass until
Whatever is to be
Next appears.
I am sorry
To disappoint you.
But Wu Hsin has no teaching
For you.
No method,
No way,
No system.
Simply be as you are and
All will be right.
Do not accept
Any of the words of Wu Hsin
As the truth.
Investigate for yourself.
This willingness to investigate,
To deeply inquire into
My words, into
Your assumptions, is
The front door to
The house of illumination.
Your hope
For the future is that it will
Bring salvation,
A completion or
A satisfactory conclusion to
Your unsatisfactory past and
The unsatisfactory present.
Wu Hsin tells you that
You are mistaken.
So many aspirants
Seeking understanding from
Magicians,
Meditators,
Representatives of hearsay,
Intellectuals and
World renouncers.
Who amongst these can reveal
The shadow of the Formless?
Do not allow
Your progress in understanding
To become a concept.
See it as a ladder,
Reaching into the Infinite.
Ladders are not for discussion,
They are for climbing.
It will help you to
Climb to the place
That contains your world,
Yet is beyond it.
Do not divide
Do not label or categorize.
Rather than seeing the many
Within the One,
See the One
Inherent in the many.
Every effort
Births more effort.
What has been built
Must be maintained.
What was acquired
Must be protected against loss.
Seeing clearly is
Not mistaking imagination
For reality.
A life seen clearly is
A life without conflict.
Wu Hsins motivation is
Easy to understand.
It is the same as
The birds motivation
To sing.
Four questions:
How many more failed strategies
Will you undertake
To gain what you want?
What do you want?
What will getting what you want
Give you?
Who wants to know this?
Just sitting;
Without a goal,
Without a schedule,
Without an intention,
Without form and
Without deliberateness.
The seed opens into the fruit.
Just sitting.
There is no scripture
That can take you
Beyond the world.
Nor is any meditation or
Ritual the modality.
Wu Hsin counsels that
You stop deceiving yourself.
Man is a part
Of the Largeness
Called Nature.
One part in an infinity of parts.
None higher,
None lower.
Each has value and
Fulfills its purpose.
Do not interfere.
Emergence is
The realization of
Potentiality.
Things appear,
Stay and ultimately depart.
Grace appears
In the world
Like a giant cloud
Pouring refreshment
On the parched and
On the thirsty.
The closed ones
Fail to partake
Fail to benefit
Because they are
Otherwise engaged.
What comes
Will go.
Only the permanent is beyond
Coming and going.
How much time is left,
One minute or fifty years?
Why squander it on
The transient?
Believing oneself to be
The author of ones life is
No different than being
The piglet of a barren sow.
Desirousness is
A bottomless well
The only route
To its bottom is
Through desirelessness
When your feet touch
Solid ground
Then you are free.
Being aware of
The sound of the bell
Does not mean that
The bell belongs to you.
Likewise, being aware of thoughts
Does not mean that
The thoughts belong to you.
What is a name?
What is a form?
Are they not the symbols
Of someone who
Regards himself as separate?
The name.
Is it not merely
The name of an ego?
But the Nameless has no name.
Wu Hsin asks:
Where does one end
And the other begin?
This morning
I take my pen in hand
To write
But who or what
Is it that writes?
Is it the pen?
Is it Wu Hsin?
Is it both
Or neither?
Wu Hsin moves the pen
But what is it
That moves Wu Hsin?
My friends come to me
And speak of acquiring merit
Through good deeds
Wu Hsin asks Why?
They tell me
It is the way to Heaven.
Yet when Wu Hsin asks
What is it that goes to Heaven?
All fall silent.
Who dies
When the body dies?
What dies?
In this inquiry,
The sun burns away the fog and
The mists lift.
Awakening occurs
Not when there is no more
To be added
But instead,
When there is no more
To be taken away.
I am a shadow,
A reflection mistaken for its image,
An echo mistaken for its voice,
A ghost mistaken for its substance.
My true substance
Is found in
Every Moment
Of Being
Present
Now.
Involvement is the
Father of happiness and the
Mother of sorrow.
In the absence of involvement,
The pendulum stops swinging and
Peace and balance prevail.
Being clean is
Its own reward.
It is the same with
Being free from
That which is false.
The play is
An illusion;
The stage is not.
In the absence of
A distinct seer and
A distinct seen
All that remains is
The seeing.
Every being is
An object
To every other being
Which considers itself to be
The subjective.
This misunderstanding explains
The reason men believe
They can act in a manner
That is counter to what is natural.
But this is only a belief and
Wu Hsin tells you that
Most of what you believe is wrong.
Mo Hua,
The wise old man from Li Jiang.
Daily rode in his horse-drawn cart.
Although it took him
Wherever he wanted to go,
He never mistook
His cart for himself.
Personal freedom is
Nothing more than
Freedom from the personal.
As such, personal freedom is
Not available to any body.
The mind,
The body and
The world are not separate.
They arise together,
They set together.
Upon apperceiving this,
Methods are seen as useless.
Inside a cloud,
The vision is limited.
Outside the cloud,
The cloud is seen.
Other clouds are seen.
The sun is seen.
The sky is seen and
The moon and the stars.
This is Wu Hsins invitation:
Step out of the cloud.
All goals,
All getting,
Serve to only strengthen the ego.
The recognition
That there is nothing
To be gained or attained,
That everything is already
Here and now, is wisdom.
All conflict
Between friends, lovers,
Family or states
Begins as conflict inside yourself.
Freeing yourself from conflict
Frees the world of conflict.
Long ago,
Wu Hsin used to be somebody.
Now, he is in all things and
All things are in him and
He has become
No body in particular.
Being in the Way, that is,
Alignment with Divine Intention
Means simply not to
Be in the way.
Morality is an illusion;
Who can stop
The movement of the world?
Who can improve upon the sacred?
What follows is
A listing of things
One must do
To attain Oneness:
Memory is undependable.
Selective,
Sporadic,
Exaggerating and
Distorting,
It is an unreliable storehouse.
That which is unreliable
Must not be empowered.
My method has
No method.
You need only to stop.
Stop clinging,
Stop scheming,
Stop praying,
Stop seeking,
Stop analyzing,
Stop all your strategies and lastly,
Stop giving your thoughts
The authority to define
Who you are.
Simply allow what remains to
Reveal Itself.
What is realization?
Realization is the understanding
That there is no one to be realized.
Nothing else.
It is only through
Losing ones mind that
One may come to
Ones senses.
All else is like
Trying to smooth water.
Identification is bondage.
Whether it is identification
With a thought
With a feeling
Or with an object
It matters not.
Only identification with the Limitless is
Freedom.
If it may be so called,
My Concept is the
Concept of no concepts,
My Practice is the
Practice of non-practice and,
The Method of meditation is
By non-meditation,
This results in the Mind of no mind,
The Thought of no thought and,
The Action of no action.
In summation,
It is The Presence of the
Absence of volition,
Which is awakening.
Nothingness:
Wanting nothing
Getting nothing
Having nothing
Needing nothing
Doing nothing
Being nothing
Being no thing.
This is Freedom.
This is Fullness.
Life is
Its own purpose.
There is nothing
That needs to be done and
There is no one to do it.
In every instant
There is change.
Nothing is constant.
Where can one find
Security in this?
One cannot,
So why use so much energy
Attempting to do so?
No one is humble
There is only
Humility
No one is compassionate
There is only
Compassion
Removing the one
Reveals the One.
How do you
Describe color
To a man
Blind from birth?
All this talking,
Why?
Let the Stillness
Speak
And all questions are answered.
In an instant,
An entire world is created
When you dream.
The dreamer merely watches,
Having no control over what
The dreamed characters are doing.
Then you awaken.
In an instant,
An entire world is created.
My shadow is real
Because it can be observed;
It is unreal
Because it cannot exist
Independent of me.
I am real
Because I can be observed;
I am unreal
Because I cannot exist
Independent of That
Which supports and preceded me.
Only an object
Can manifest
The effect of a cause
But an object
Cannot know the effect.
The subject
Knows the effect.
Suffering arises
When the supposed subject
Mistakes itself
For the object.
The end of suffering
Is the end
Of objectification
By the supposed subject.
In the beginning,
There were no others.
Then I arrived,
You arrived,
They arrived
And peace departed.
What is required
To keep your problems alive?
The answer to this is your
Meditation on your suffering.
Freedom from pain
Freedom from suffering is only
Freedom from my pain
Freedom from my suffering.
True freedom is
Freedom from my.
At all times,
There have been
Good people
Doing what they thought
They should do.
At all times,
There have been
Evil people
Doing what they thought
They should do.
This is the nature of the world.
There is no such thing
As a one sided coin.
My dear children,
You are not
What you think you are
This what-you-think-you-are is
A shadow of
What you are,
Just as the moon
Reflecting on the lake water is
Not the moon.
Desiring nothing,
Disdaining nothing,
One cannot be impacted and is unassailable.
I am dying
You are dying
It has been this way
Since birth.
To be free from death
Wu Hsin says
Look to what you were
Before this birth.
To be,
No past or future is required.
These are requirements to be
Some thing in particular.
Giving up the lesser
Gains the greater.
Do not deem
Wu Hsin to be insane
Simply because you cannot hear
The music he dances to.
Man is the one who is insane:
His solution to his
Need for security is to
Lock himself away in a prison.
What could be more secure than
A prison?
He passes his time
In a solitary cell labeled me.
Believing he is now safe and that
No other can harm him,
He has exchanged freedom
For security.
What is outside
The walls of the prison is the unknown,
Possibly not secure,
Not safe,
Alien, at times hostile, and
Not at all predictable.
Yet what sane man would choose
Prison over freedom?
Man is the one who is insane:
He trades the experience of life,
Here and now,
For time and attention spent
On regretting the past,
Wishing for a better past and
Hoping for a brighter future,
For a future that will right
What is now deemed not right.
The fragrance of the apple blossoms,
The laughter of a child,
The blueness of the sky,
All sacrificed on the altar of
Mental preoccupations.
What a waste!
Man is the one who is insane:
Yet, quite normal
Within societal boundaries.
Numerous methods may lead one to
Being more comfortable.
But that is all you get:
One who is more comfortable in their prison,
Not one freed from their prison.
Nothing gets a person out of their prison
Because the person is the prison.
Perfect archery
Has no archer.
No amount of study,
No attendance in any school
Can teach one to be oneself.
Being is everything,
Being any thing in particular is
An illusion.
The background is
The father to the foreground.
Everything emanates from it and
Returns to it.
Lacking in qualities,
It cannot be described.
To be nobody is to
Have no body.
That which is prior to
Name and form is
What one truly is.
Whatever it is called, when called
It does not reply.
A return to wholeness is
An end of division.
No seer,
No seen,
Only seeing.
Clear seeing is
The end of rushing.
One realizes ones
Perfect alignment in time,
In space.
One is where
One is supposed to be
In the time
One is supposed to be there.
Nothing to be reached.
Nothing to be gained.
Nothing to be added.
That which is sought is
Here and now.
Does one speak of space
Entering a room?
Identity is difference.
A centipede controls
Its one hundred legs at once by
Not thinking about it.
All intention is the beating of
A skinless drum.
Wu Hsin arrived
Just prior to the world.
I am, therefore,
The world is.
To be attached to something,
Be it person, place, object or idea,
Is to be shackled to it.
How can the shackled one
Realize their freedom
Without the breaking of the shackle?
Following rainbows is
The end result of clear insight into
A black-and-white world.
Just watching.
Not trying to get anything.
Not expecting anything.
Not seeking anything.
Not hoping or praying.
Not commenting or judging.
Not intending to relax or breathe correctly.
Purposelessly, just watching.
Do not ask Wu Hsin to describe
What happens next.
How can he?
Then, it would be watched for.
Those in alignment
Follow the order of What-Is, they
Follow the way of What-Is, they
Follow the timing of What-Is and they
Follow the design of What-Is.
They are calm;
They are clear;
They are real.
Having arrived at the root,
They are never confused by the branches.
It is easy to become
Wet in a fog.
The dry ones are those who have
Escaped the trance of
Self and other.
To be eternal is to
Stand outside of the process of
Becoming and
The field of time.
Upon the clear perception that
There is nothing to become and
No time in which to achieve it,
Eternity is realized.
Rejecting illumination
The way is dark.
How easy it is
To become lost.
There is no separateness.
There can be
The appearance of separateness,
The experience of separateness, yet
There is no separateness.
Because the spaces that
Serve as connectors are not perceived,
Separateness is assumed.
When space is perceived and
The things spaces connect are perceived
Unity is perceived.
Caught between
Memory and expectation,
Xin Shu was enslaved by
His mind.
He freed himself by
Putting one foot
In front of the other.
An excellent carpenter
Never makes his work more difficult by
Standing in his own light.
To return to that
Which is prior to this and that,
Requires the undoing of oneself.
Yet, it is the very same one
Who cannot do this
Anymore than
The teeth can bite themselves.
As such, if the undoing is to occur,
It occurs of its own accord;
All seeming effort
At the undoing is
A mere illusion.
Problems are created when
The impersonal is made personal.
When an event becomes,
An experience,
Trouble ensues.
The dropping of
Its leaves in autumn
Does not affect
The root of the tree.
Likewise, essence is not affected
When forms dissolve.
A simple man
Can enjoy music without
Knowing who wrote it.
He can relish the fragrance without
Naming the flower and can
Laugh with a child without knowing why.
A simple man is also lighter on his feet,
Lighter in his gait.
He is lacking in
All those concepts,
All those beliefs,
All those labels to carry around.
He is complete despite
All the things he lacks.
He is the most
Ordinary of ordinaries.
Tell Wu Hsin:
How many have been killed
Pursuing desires?
Now tell me,
How many have been killed
Pursuing desirelessness?
To be early or
To be late
Makes no difference
To one who is out of time.
I am this or
I am that is
A translation by the mind of
The sense of presence.
This presence is prior to
Any thing that can be
Referenced as this or that and is
The inherent nature of the cosmos.
This must become evident.
The sun need not proclaim
I am shining.
To end strife,
One must end opposition,
The root of which is mind.
Right and wrong,
Good and bad,
Past and future,
Joy and sorrow,
Desire and aversion are all
Created by this thought factory.
Taking the attention away from mind is
A movement toward peace.
All experience,
All perceptions are outside of
That which experiences and perceives.
Remember only this and
Identification with the local will end.
Never confuse
Rest as a state of mind with
Rest as a state of being.
The former comes and goes
Like dew on grass
Whereas the latter is
The source of all activity.
Living consciously is
Lifes only purpose.
All desire is
The urge to fill that which is
Deemed to be not full.
When the sun of clear sight
Burns this cloud away,
Striving comes to an end.
Wanting life to be
Other than it is is like
Wanting a river to
Flow uphill or
A cat to bark.
What is natural is
Always for the best as
Naturalness is the
Epitome of equilibrium.
Peace that is
Dependent on circumstances is not
Peace.
Happiness that depends on people or things is not
Happiness.
True peace, true happiness is
Independent of the world.
Each definition
Limits one further.
Each limitation
Defines what one
Appears to be.
The person is only an appearance,
Like the space in the pot
Appears to have the shape of the pot.
The sense of separation
Results in fear.
This fear produces
A sense of further separation.
This toxic circle is broken upon
The recognition of
The inherent oneness of
Self and other.
Be no one in particular.
What could be
A greater sign of a fool than
His continuous antagonism
To the present moment?
He thrives on conflict,
Defines himself in conflict.
In the absence of conflict,
What is he?
He is a former fool.
Diving in is
The only way out.
There is no place where
Wu Hsin will send you to because
All there is, is here.
To see things clearly is to understand that
The world is exactly as it should be.
As such, there can be no mistakes.
All so-called mistakes are personal,
Labeled by a person as
Not right, not acceptable or not desired.
What is death?
The candle is gone.
The flame is gone.
The smoke is gone.
The sky remains.
Division is contrary to
The nature of things.
Good and bad,
Better or worse, are merely
Personal judgments
Lacking in basis.
Learning is inevitable.
One either learns from
Wu Hsins words or from
Ones own mistakes.
Wu Hsin says
One is never alone.
The closest friend,
The life force, is always there.
When the actor walks off of the stage,
When the life force departs,
One is said to have departed.
This identification,
This individuality,
This self-consciousness is
The least refined.
Transcended, it is
Pure consciousness,
The perceiver of all things.
This consciousness arises from Awareness,
The knower of no things,
Pure potentiality.
This is the highest to which
One must return.
It is of less importance to
Try to change the course of events.
It is of greater importance to change
Ones attitude toward them.
To discriminate between
The important and the unimportant
Facilitates the arrival of wisdom.
No action is wasted;
Everything tills the field for
What ensues.
Recognizing an illusion
As an illusion
Does not make it disappear;
It makes it transparent.
Wholeness is simply
The perception of the
Non-existence of any parts.
Under a rock,
There is always darkness,
Regardless of how bright the sun.
To see matters rightly is only
To emerge from under the rock of
Identification with the personal.
I is a false notion,
Merely an idea of a thinker, a doer.
There are none.
There is only thinking and doing
With no one to refer to either.
Wu Hsin is a fragrance,
One of millions of fragrances,
Emitted from the flower of being.
If change is necessary,
Change will occur.
A wise man never worries about
Improving what-is.
A common impediment to
Securing what is everlasting is
The pursuit of
What is momentary.
To live in a world of
Right and wrong,
Should and shouldnt, is to
Live in prison.
Those who are free
Naturally know what to do
In every moment.
The heart beats
Without a beater.
The hair grows
Without a grower.
Actions occur
Without an actor.
To live as a personality is
To live in restriction.
The fullness of life cannot be
Constrained to the confines of a jar.
Life is,
Existence is,
Before it can be name
Before it can be labeled.
This is the Ground from which
All else emerges.
To return to the Ground,
To go Home, is merely to
Go back the way one came.
The extinguishing of
The sense of individuality is
A most worthwhile endeavor.
But, who is there
To do it?
What-Is is
Perceived without evaluation,
Through attention without effort.
When it is seen clearly,
Old modes are dropped
Like hot stones.
All searching is
A movement away from
What-Is.
This What-Is is already present,
Already manifest.
Where need one go
To search for what is
Already there?
The notion of
A thinker of thoughts is
No more valid than
The notion of a digester of food.
Both are mechanical acts,
Absent any doership.
Those who apperceive this
Never lay claim to
Any thought as mine.
When there is identification with thought,
This very identification is
The impediment to understanding.
Any rumination on
The words of Wu Hsin is
A movement away from
What they point to.
The seed is planted,
The soil is ready,
There is nothing to do.
The reconciliation of
The feeling of separateness with
The reality of unity is
The enlightened view.
That which provided
The feeling of separateness
Takes it away.
There is nothing to be done.
Being natural is
Being sacred.
Movement away from there is
Movement toward unhappiness.
The position is quite simple:
The One manifests as
The Many.
The water taken from the river is of
The same quality as
The water in the river although
It may appear in
A different vessel.
If one sees oneself as
The center of everything with
The power to shape things
To suit ones desires, then
One has become
Ones god.
Deep understanding,
True understanding is permanent.
The pickle never
Returns to being a cucumber.
In ancient times,
Before there were individuals,
There were no problems.
Then, the individuals
Turned this against that and
Problems arose.
Identification with a body is
Merely a habit,
Taught to the child
Early in its life.
Breaking this habit is like
A chick breaking its shell.
What a wondrous world awaits.
To depart from a vast no-thing
To become a small some-thing is
The pinnacle of foolishness.
Living spontaneously leaves
No time to think.
This is true living.
Choice is an illusion.
The individual having choice or
Not having choice is
Also an illusion.
What is an illusion?
It is when things are not
As they seem.
Once a realignment occurs,
One watches
What is happening
Without believing that
One is making it happen.
The body does what it chooses;
It wakes without permission,
Gets ill without permission.
Dies without permission.
All of this is to say,
A role is played;
Nothing more.
Devotion to a teacher is
Far less important than
Devotion to a teaching.
True stillness,
Stillness without someone
Trying to be still, is
The solvent in which
All individual conditioning
Can be dissolved.
What remains is a neutrality,
An acceptance of What-Is.
All there is is
This manifestation and
Its perception.
This is the soup with
All the water boiled off.
Any identification with objects
Cuts off access to subjectivity, that is,
To the perceiving of
The wholeness that is inherent.
To the blind,
The world is darkness.
To the deaf,
The world is silence.
The world is therefore
What the senses make it.
In turn,
What is sensed is
Filtered by the mind and, as such, is
What the mind interprets.
Being is irrefutable;
None can make the claim
I am not.
Do not remain
A prisoner of imagination and hearsay.
Inquire into
The validity of your beliefs and
Realize the foundation of all things.
The separate self is
Only a function,
Similar in this regard to digestion.
Wu Hsin asks:
Why identify with it and
Live as a fraction of fullness instead of
Fullness itself?
Awareness is
The Source of the world.
In its absence,
Who is aware of what?
Objects are dependent upon this awareness
For their existence.
Awareness depends on nothing.
It is self-sustaining, primal and
The underlying foundation of all things.
The quality of knowing to which
Wu Hsin speaks is demonstrated by
The answer to the question
Are you alive?
No thought,
No thinker is required.
The response is spontaneous.
What one is
Is without direction.
Therefore, all going
Takes one away from it.
In the absence of all movement,
In stillness,
It arises of its own.
Where is the world
In the absence of
That which observes it?
Taking away,
Taking away.
When everything has been
Taken away,
What remains is
The Ground that supports
The totality.
Seeing the Ground is
Being the Ground.
Man is ensnared by
What he does no clearly see.
He becomes like the waterwheel,
Spinning, turning,
Purely mechanical.
See yourself as that in which
Worlds arise and set.
You are the unmovable background in which
All movement is perceived,
The weaver of all tapestries.
What can exist without you?
Answer this and
All other questions are finished.
To be fully accepting of
What-Is in every moment,
Eliminates fear and anxiety,
Expectation and desire.
This is the natural way to
Set all things right.
Digestion is a process.
Thinking is a process.
Just as there is no digester, likewise
There is no thinker.
Thoughts appear.
Inquire onto what
Do they appear.
Being, expressed through the mind, is
I am.
This is the undeniable root.
Anything added to I am is
A movement away from It.
To understand that
Ones true nature is
Imperceivable and inconceivable, is
The deepest understanding.
One who achieves this
Does not seek the good nor
Shun the evil.
What comes, comes; and
Sees clearly that, in time,
Everything comes.
There is no one choosing to hear.
There is no one choosing to smell.
There is no one choosing to think.
There is no one choosing to choose.
Relinquish everything
That has been acquired and
Return to that state that existed
Prior to the first acquisition.
Now, tell Wu Hsin:
Who are you?
In the single instant,
Absent any thought,
There is the clear revelation that
Nothing is wrong.
The return of thoughts herald
The return of problems.
To live in unity,
There cannot be any one who is
Separate from any other.
All else is deception.
In the beginning,
There was Potential.
When the Potential,
By its very nature,
Becomes the actual,
Space is born.
Time is born.
Duality is born.
The world is born.
One is born.
This is the crux of
Unitive understanding.
To be open to discover this,
One must relinquish
One's death-grip on
All mental possessions.
Each being is
Moving toward the intended outcome of
Their inherent nature.
There is action
But no actor.
There is no greater misfortune than
Misunderstanding.
To perceive That which makes the tongue speak but
Cannot be spoken by the tongue, is
The great good luck.
There is no greater fortune than
Understanding.
What-Is is needless as
It already contains everything.
The mind cannot know any thing
Any more than the ear
Can know the heard.
Whatever comes,
Must go.
What-Is is permanent,
Beyond all comings and goings.
Whereas you are focused on the structure,
Wu Hsin is concerned
Solely with the foundation.
Whereas structures rise and fall,
Foundations remain.
Whereas all experience is transient,
The ground of experience is
Immovable and permanent.
To be what one is
Requires no practice.
The mind cannot discern
What is beyond the mind.
However, what is beyond the mind
Knows the mind intimately and
Supports it in the same way as
Silence is the support of all sound.
Understand fear to be
Estrangement from the Source.
Understand desire to be
Longing for the Source.
One can then see how
Returning to the Source is
The elimination of fear and
The satisfaction of desire.
And what is returning to the Source?
It is the recognition that
One is the sun and not
The clouds that obscure it.
Movement is inherent in
The very nature of the mind.
That is to say,
Thoughts appear.
To believe that
One can stop thought is
Tantamount to believing that
One can make a tiger bleat.
Clear seeing is
Understanding that one is not
A fragment of the whole;
Nothing more and
Nothing less.
Once freed from all opposing pairs
Such as good and bad,
Desirable and undesirable,
What one does
Can never be wrong.
To be what one is
Requires no effort.
One is present,
One is aware,
Therefore, one is.
No authority,
No teacher,
Can give one
What one already is.
It is correct to say
I am nowhere.
Likewise, it is correct to say
I am now here.
To arrive at the taste of the mouth,
Requires the elimination of
All tastes in the mouth.
Likewise, to know what one is
Requires the elimination of
All that one is not.
A central misunderstanding of
Those who visit Wu Hsin is that
They believe that
There is something to attain to.
How can one attain to
What one already is?
To live naturally,
To be in that Natural state,
Requires no effort.
Effort is only required
To be something in particular.
Do not become
More enamored with the path
Than with the goal.
The desire to
Acquire some esoteric knowledge
Can hold great power.
But esoteric knowledge will never
Take one to the place that is
The support of all knowledge.
Such support does not
Reside in the unknown.
Rather, it resides in the unknowable.
All manifestation is in
The realm of the opposites:
Good and bad,
Hot and cold,
Beautiful and ugly.
Before these arise is
Ones natural Home.
Understanding is everything.
When the cause of the problem falls away,
The effects of the problem do likewise.
Light is there,
Darkness is there.
What holds them?
In what do they reside?
The solution to this mystery is
The solution to your own mystery.
The personal is
Merely an appearance.
What the person perceives is
Also an appearance.
The perceived and the perceiver are
Not separate;
They are the flavor of perception.
There is a primal
Source of light by which
Everything is seen.
Those who have understood, know that
They are That.
The salt is
Already in the sea water.
The core of what the individual is,
Is in place before the individual arrives.
That which is impersonal
Appears as the personal.
The central fixation
Must be dropped:
There is no individual.
I am is a translation of
The sense of pure being.
It is distorted when
It becomes personal.
One cannot stand solidly on
Ones own feet until
Ones crutches are discarded.
It is only
The sense of a separate me
That is born.
The dissolution of this sense is
Its very death.
One need not die
To achieve this.
Life pulsates.
Everything is happening but
There is no one to
Whom it is happening.
What-Is is.
It has always been.
It will always be.
There is nothing that
Needs to be done.
There is no place to go.
There is nothing to get.
Clarity is not about adding;
It is about taking away.
Seekers of Oneness,
Ignoring the obvious:
Wu Hsin newly presents that which is
Infinitely ancient.
Be still and understand this.
To trust in
What one thinks one knows
Leads one astray.
To trust in
The source of knowing is
The course to be taken.
True freedom is
The absence of all agendas.
There is no need to
See,
Get,
Realize or
Find out any so-called truth.
Must one see,
Get,
Realize or
Find out that one is?
That one is, is
The primal truth.
Right here,
Right now, is
All that there is.
Everything else is
A creation of the mind.
Giving up a little,
One gets a little.
Giving up a lot,
One gets a lot.
Giving up everything,
One gets everything.
Nothing is to be gained by
The study of shadows.
To discern the substance
Underlying the shadow is wisdom.
The world appears simultaneously with
The one who sees it.
The former cannot be,
In the absence of the latter.
There is no chaos.
It is only thought that
So names it.
Prior to naming,
Prior to labeling,
Where is the problem?
To know that
The mind is empty is good.
To know the knower of
The empty mind is better.
There is breathing.
There is seeing.
There is functioning.
Where is the need
For a me to allow all that?
Having no aspirations is
The gateway to freedom.
To relinquish control over
Ones experiences,
To allow them to be
Just as they are, is
The invitation.
Using concepts as
One uses a net,
To capture ideas, can never
Produce the ultimate understanding.
To realize that which cannot be captured,
That which cannot be contained, is itself
The ultimate understanding.
The unexpected is
Bound to happen.
That which is anticipated
May never arrive.
Who is to say?
All is solely because
One is.
Yes,
This too.
As a young boy,
Wu Hsin would often travel in
The back of the oxcart.
In the heat of the afternoon,
He would often see
What appeared to be water on the roadway.
As he drew closer to it,
It vanished and
He therefore understood it
To be merely an illusion.
To this day, when traveling,
Wu Hsin still sees
The water on the road.
But knowing it to be an illusion,
It has no power and
Garners no attention.
If It cannot be found
Where one already is,
Where does one have to
Go to secure it?
The body is
The screen on which
All images,
All sensations,
Appear and disappear.
One is not the screen.
One is the Knowing of the screen.
To believe that
Thoughts have power,
To believe that
Thoughts are true is the source of suffering.
The only power in thought is
The power one assigns to it.
True knowledge is not
Derived from thought.
It is derived from
The inner wellspring that one is.
One is not a
Part of the whole.
One is
The Source of the whole.
As the sky is
The unchanging context
For the weather.
Silent emptiness is the
Foundation of all things.
To be perfect is
To see the Perfection.
It is this Perfection in which
The body, the mind and the world
Arise, linger and set.
In seeing,
Both the seer and the seen are experienced.
Identification with the seer is
An error of the mind.
It is only by
Removing all of the water-plants that
The full scope and majesty of
The water can be discerned.
The impediment is
The preoccupation with the plants.
Everything is merely
Perceived.
It is only later that
The perceiver stakes his claim and
Labels, categorizes, and judges.
First there is existence and presence.
It is only later that
My existence and presence arrives.
Since one cannot be
What one perceives,
What is one really?
Seeing oneself to be
The knowing of all things and
The source of all things,
Upon which all things depend,
What is the further use of ones gods?
Being is one.
Ways of being are infinite.
It is said that
Those with integral vision are
Filled with emptiness.
Those with dust in their eyes
Cannot see this.
Isnt it humorous that
People spend their entire lives
Trying to become a better story?
When the story is recognized to be
Just a story,
The energy directed toward
Maintaining the story dissipates.
Then, there is nothing that
Can be pointed to and claimed:
This is what I am.
There is no owner;
No one to claim:
My body or
My thoughts.
There is no owner of consciousness.
Consciousness owns everything.
What is sought is
Directly in front of the eyes, and
Directly behind the eyes.
There is nowhere it is not.
When the false boundaries called
In front and behind are
Seen as false,
Life loses all difficulty.
Certainty is finite;
If everyone claims it,
No one can have it.
Fullness is
The purpose of emptiness.
The great gift is to see that
One is not a thing among things, but
The space in which all things are contained and
From where they emerge.
Do not confuse
A man who is tired of sleeping with
One who is awake.
Wu Hsins potion is
Comprised of equal parts of
Perceiving everything and
Identifying with nothing.
To pursue depth is to
Desire the infinite.
To pursue width is to be
Ensnared in the world.
Loneliness is the
Byproduct of feeling separate.
Those who see that
They are not separate,
Never experience loneliness.
Afterward
While reading the writings of Wu Hsin, there may arise the tendency to process them through ones mind..thinking about them, so to speak.
Wu Hsin makes it repeatedly clear that the mind is the wrong instrument to use for the discovery of What-Is.
Instead, treat this content as a singular, cohesive planting of the seeds, the shining of the sun and the falling of the rain. Simply leave it alone and allow the working to
occur.
No study or discussion groups need to be formed. No opinions need to be exchanged. Within the backdrop of silence, there is nothing that needs to be done by
any one.
Volume Four: Recognition of the Obvious
Forward
Trying to grasp the teachings of Wu Hsin is like trying to grasp the wind in the palm of your hand. While they are as refreshing and fragrant as a fresh breeze, they
can also be as devastating as a wildfire.
Wu Hsin doesnt provide answers to the questions of life because life is its own answer. It is what-is. It moves, it flows, it breathes itself into and through
everything.
Instead, the writings of Wu Hsin expose, without compromise, the fundamental misconception that there is something called an individual that needs to find
something else outside of itself. Admittedly, the sense of being a separate individual feels very real and affects every part of that apparent experience. Wu Hsin makes it
abundantly clear; however, that this is a state of contracted energy, a sense of having lost something unnamable.
It would therefore seem that the source of all unhappiness is the individual not getting/finding what it wants. Yet, this is not the problem. Wu Hsin ponders:
All suffering is personal.
In the absence of the person,
Where can suffering alight?
No amount of effort can ever bring anything other than more me searching for that which the me doesnt have, the end result only serving to reinforce the reference
center: me.
In Volume Four, Recognition of the Obvious, Wu Hsin illuminates that all hopes of attainment, all efforts at becoming, ultimately avoid that which me most fears
its own absence.
This message is so simple it totally confounds the mind. Almost instantaneously, the mind says Yes, butwhat about this, what about that?
There is no 'yes, but'. You can't say 'yes' and continue with 'but'. If the 'yes' is a real 'yes', that releases the thing into nothingness and it is finished. If you say 'but',
you are giving continuity to that dead structure of thought, past experience and future hope.
Wu Hsin puts it this way:
What is keeping one from being in ones natural state?
One is constantly moving way from oneself.
One wants to be happy;
One is dissatisfied with ones experiences of life.
One wants new ones.
One wants to perfect oneself,
To change oneself.
Trying to be something other than what one is, is
The going away from oneself.
It is the resistance to What-Is.
The desire to alter this you, is
The only energy that sustains it.
In the absence of this energy,
You cannot continue;
Then, the natural state shines effortlessly.
Appearances notwithstanding, it is really as simple as that. What is unnatural may obscure what is natural. But it doesnt negate it.
When you look at an Escher picture, it may all of a sudden seem to turn inside out. Nothing has changed in the picture, but something has shifted in your perception
of it. At this point you could say everything has changed, or nothing has changed.
To see through these things, requires investigation. This is the real gift of Wu Hsin, the challenge to investigate the validity of all concepts and all beliefs. It is here
that the seeing through takes place and the clarity occurs. Yet, this clarity also has its price:
One cant have a piece of It.
It is all or nothing.
One must make room;
It requires a lot of space.
Everything must go.
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The first thought is I.
It is the root-thought,
The foundation upon which
All else is built and from which
All other thoughts have their origin.
The arrival of the I-thought and
The arrival of the world
Occur simultaneously.
Neither exists without the other.
This is Wu Hsins open secret.
Those that make it their own
Move beyond struggle and strife,
Pleasure and pain.
To discard this is to
Throw away the diamonds with the ice.
All disappointment,
All disillusionment is
An invitation to investigate
Who is disappointed;
Who is disillusioned?
In every experience,
The expression is
The objective part, which is changing.
The background is
The subjective part;
The unchanging field.
To be natural
Requires no learning.
Either one is
Responsible for everything or
One is responsible for nothing.
The end result is the same.
Ignorance is the
Ignoring of what is
Clear, present, and obvious.
If the cloth fits, wear it.
If the person is
Merely an appearance, then
Who cares?
To differentiate between
The guests and the host is to
Understand the distinction between
What comes and goes and
What is permanent.
Looking in at
What is looking out,
Ends all seeking and
The seeker.
In the absence of
The addiction to content,
The mind is restored to
Purity and clarity.
Seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling,
Touching, feeling and thinking
Continue to operate without
Anyone to initiate them.
Natural functioning occurs with ease.
Life continues its flow.
More.
More peace,
More beauty,
More harmony,
More pigs,
More rice,
More.
More is not the answer.
Nowhere to go,
Nothing to do,
Nothing to get.
What could be simpler?
No new systems,
New methods need be created.
Sweeping away the hindrances is enough.
It is then that the awareness of being,
Of being aware,
Radiates and illuminates the landscape.
In open vibrancy,
The sight of a flower is as marvelous as
A vision of a god.
Mu Ding held no ideas about
What perfection was; for him,
Every moment was therefore perfect.
No beginning.
No ending.
No birth.
No death.
No time.
No space.
Nowhere to leave.
Nowhere to arrive.
Home.
With lucidity,
Both the chaos and the randomness
Become quite orderly.
All pursuits,
All searches,
Takes one away from the natural state,
That state in which one always is.
To pursue appearances is to
Ignore the source of appearances.
Let us be clear:
One doesn't know what is good;
One knows only what is good for oneself.
What is bad for the field mouse is
Good for the satiated owl.
It is preferable to
Investigate ones assumptions than it is to
Attempt to solve ones problems.
Everything is falling.
To attach oneself to anything neither
Halts nor slows ones descent.
Call it emptiness or
Call it fullness.
It doesnt matter.
Its achievement rests on
Giving up ones relationship
With ones erroneous viewpoints.
Right here,
Right now, is
All that there is.
Immersed in thought,
One misses it.
Words.
At the spoken level,
They are sounds.
At the subtle level,
They are thoughts.
At the silent level,
They are gone.
It is in this silence,
From this silence, that
All arises.
To be dissatisfied,
One must think about it.
To be unhappy,
One must think about it.
To find out what one truly is,
One must inquire prior to thought.
All unhappiness is
Sourced from unexamined beliefs.
Cling to no method,
No path and,
No teacher.
The rope that rescues one from the raging river
Can also be used to hang oneself.
As the voice requires its distinctive tone,
Being requires a distinctive way of being.
Wu Hsin calls this you.
There is no need to
Go beyond the mind.
Seeing through it will suffice.
Emptiness,
Silence,
Stillness.
This is not a void to be feared but
A sanctuary to be sought.
No action is self-generated.
The source of the action remains unseen,
Cloaked in its mysteriousness.
Observation of it is enough.
Spontaneous living is
Devoid of musts.
Whatever it is:
Happiness or unhappiness,
Joy or sorrow,
Comfort or discomfort,
Let it be.
It arrived without permission and
It will go in like fashion.
To be free,
One must untie oneself from
The seeming independent entity called me.
Nothing to accumulate.
Nothing to acquire.
Nothing to gain.
Remove the non-essential; then
The essential essence itself shines.
Transcendence is not
The disappearance of the transcended.
It is the natural refusal to
Attend to the transcended.
Dont believe in
Anything you are asked to believe in.
Question everything until
All that remains is to
Question the questioner.
Let us be clear;
The mind is merely
The name of a function:
Thinking.
In the absence of thought,
There is no mind.
One perceives objects through the senses.
One perceives the senses through the mind.
One perceives the mind by oneself.
It is only this oneself that is to be sought.
It is not hard to find.
Its fragrance is everywhere and
Pervades every thing.
To attempt to capture
The true essence of Wu Hsin is to
Try to observe the unobservable.
It is here that words fail.
The senses fail.
The Knowing of it is all.
To free oneself
From oneself requires
The investigation into
The reality of this self.
From here arises freedom.
Freedom from this and that,
Freedom from yes and no.
Freedom to be
What one has always been,
Before one was someone.
It is said that
Wu Hsin is greedy.
He gives nothing and
Takes everything.
Completeness cannot be
Improved by adding or
Diminished by removing.
Completeness remains.
Many lamps.
One light.
Empty of everything,
How easy it is to be filled.
Reject thinking.
Reject not thinking.
This is naturalness wherein
The particular becomes the universal.
In true wakefulness,
There is no fear.
The prerequisite of fear is an other;
In wakefulness, this is absent.
The I in I saw,
I remembered,
I felt, is not the person.
It is the voice of
That which moves the person and
Sustains the person.
It is That.
You are That.
In That,
Ones marriage to the me is finished.
The me may remain but
Its falseness is now seen through.
When the false loses its hold,
It becomes like
The ash of a burnt rope;
It is there, but
It has no substance.
A shadow is insubstantial to
The one who casts it.
When it becomes clear that
Any one is merely a shadow,
The attention returns to
The Source and rests there.
Lacking labels,
Lacking definition,
One is boundless.
To reduce oneself to
The span of a lifetime and
The volume of a body is
The summit of ignorance.
Wu Hsins recipe:
Add no thing.
Take away every thing.
Bake until done.
Inadvertence imprisons.
Attention liberates.
There is no goal.
If there is no goal to be attained,
What need one do?
One is and
One knows that one is, without
The need for mentation.
It is from this ocean of awareness that
All else emerges.
Whatever arises,
Ones essence is already present to greet it.
Its beginning has never been observed.
When the attention shifts
From what arises to its greeter,
The world view shifts and problems cease.
Peace is here.
Fullness is here.
Knowing is here.
To find problems,
One must leave here and
Go there which is
The source of all problems.
A distinction must be made between
Searching and exploring.
One searches for what is not present.
One explores through what is present.
Ones essential nature never goes anywhere.
It is ever present.
It can never be searched for.
It can only be explored.
A thought appears.
Is there someone thinking or is it
Only the echo of a knock on the door
Reverberating through an empty house?
If one is not
Trying to get to some place,
One cannot become lost.
What distinguishes
A wise man from the common man is that
The wise man does not need tomorrow.
He doesnt even want it;
Now is enough.
It is so near.
It is so obvious.
As to see the sun
Requires no candle,
So it is to see this nearness.
One need not know
What it is to know
That it is.
By that which one knows one is;
One is That.
The parents,
The teachers and the society have
Induced this trance called me.
To be clear of it,
Challenge and inquire into its reality.
A peaceful mind
Brings heaven to earth.
Embracing nothing.
Rejecting nothing.
One stands outside the totality.
Watching, watching.
Wu Hsin declares:
What belongs to me,
I am not.
One is in
Whatever one sees;
The very fabric of the universe.
The source
Of every thing
Cannot be
Any thing.
Why, then, search
For what cannot
Be found?
No actor
Can change his role
On the stage
According to his preferences.
Wu Hsin laughs
When you speak about
Your plans.
My child,
Your very effort
Is the hole you are trying
To climb out of.
Your desire to be free of
All your perceived limitations is
What threw you into it
In the first place.
A thought arises..
I know not where it came from
I only know what it came through.
There is a response to this thought
Because I am
What I am
And then an action occurs.
At what point in this process
Was the notion of my action born?
In every moment
Wu Hsin is doing
Exactly what he is supposed to be
Doing.
He knows this because
He knows that
He is not
Doing anything.
Everything occurs
Exactly as it is intended.
As such,
There are no mistakes.
Why are you seeking
Forgiveness?
Tell me please
Who is it
Who places
All the burdens
Of the Supreme
Onto their own shoulders?
Who is it
Who so distrusts the Supreme
As to believe that
They can handle matters better?
Thank you for bringing
This joke to Wu Hsin.
Up cannot exist
In the absence of down.
Backward cannot exist
Without forward,
Nor beauty without ugliness.
Accepting this as an aspect of
The nature of the world
Allows ones preferences to soften
And for peace to flourish.
Doctrines, dogmas,
Processes and methods that seek
My ultimate understanding
Only worsen matters
As they imply that
You can find
What you have lost.
If you are diligent and
Are willing to sacrifice,
Then you are worthy
Of its return.
Wu Hsin tells you to
Cancel the effort and
Call off the search.
You cannot recover
What you have never lost.
There is nothing to attain
Except the understanding that
There is nothing to attain.
Anxiety is a contraction in
The fabric of being.
If all is one and
There are no others,
What could there be
To be anxious about?
The past is
An impression,
A footprint,
A belief,
A memory.
The future is
A projection,
A presumption,
A conjecture.
Neither can be truly
Accessed or known
With certainty.
Between the two
Lies the splendor of
The present,
Available to all
Who are willing to release
Their preoccupation with
The past and the future.
All there is
Is Everything
Of which man is
A tiny cog.
That this cog
Wishes to understand everything
Provides Wu Hsin with
Endless entertainment.
Arrogance,
Pride,
Greed,
Envy,
Avarice,
Jealousy.
You bring them
To Wu Hsin and ask that
They be taken away.
I cannot.
The only one who
Can take them away
Is the One
Who put them there.
The essential confusion is between happening and doing.
In time, everything is happening.
Yet, there is no individual doer
Doing anything.
It is all
Being done.
It is all happening.
Clear seeing of this is
All that is required.
Desire is a gift.
It causes a noticing of
What is perceived to be lacking.
Noticing is the key to be
Free from desire.
Discarding concepts is
The direct path to the attainment of
Clarity.
When all concepts are gone,
What remains is boundless vision.
A deep dissatisfaction
With things external is
The impetus for the turning away,
The turning within.
Until then,
The mesmerization with the circus goes on.
What is amusing to Wu Hsin is that
The audience fails to understand that
It, too, is part of the circus.
To worship Wu Hsin is
Merely the exchange of one idol
For another.
A transference from
Yourself to myself.
Nothing is accomplished except
The creation of
The illusion that
Something is accomplished.
All beliefs,
That of past and future,
That of me and other,
Pull one away from What-Is.
The investigation of all beliefs
Pushes one back.
What is Wu Hsin?
I am that which remains when
All of what was claimed as mine is removed.
So much of
What seems to be so is only so because
It has not been thoroughly investigated.
All words,
Even Wu Hsins words,
Can be faulted.
Silence is faultless.
Everything is moving on
The surface of the Unmoving.
Does one hold convictions or
Do the convictions exert the hold?
Happiness is lost
Once man succumbs to ideas.
Whereas it is important to
Question the validity of
What is seen,
It is even more important to
Question the authenticity of the seer.
To be conscious of change
Proves the changelessness of consciousness.
Lucid living is
A life in equilibrium.
When the portals of perception are clean,
Infinity is revealed.
Being is Reality.
Being this or that is not.
Wu Hsin closes
In summary:
There is a single source,
The Source or
Another name of your choosing.
This world is a mere
Emanation from the Source,
The potential manifesting from
The pure Potentiality,
An appearance
Comprising tens of thousands of things.
Beings are but one of the
Tens of thousands of things.
Sentient and discriminating
Through whom
The Source functions.
This functioning,
Beings have named
Life.
Each being,
According to its nature
Performs its allotted tasks
During its time.
Ones nature is not chosen, controlled
Nor decided upon.
It is as it is intended to be.
One goes through
Ones life
Choosing between the dualities;
Good and bad
Happy and sad
Loving, hating
Interacting with a seeming other.
This is Life,
Alternating between two banks of
A flowing river.
Believing in their individuality,
Beings suffer as they strive to
Protect themselves from
A world that is in flux every moment.
How can they resist the changes of
The ever-changing?
It is a journey
Doomed to fail.
Embracing change is
Embracing What-is
In every moment.
It is saying yes
To Life,
Not Life as one would have it
But life as it is.
It is understanding that
There is no one
Doing anything
Other than
The Doer
And that each is an actor
On the stage.
The script is written
The sets arranged.
Watch the play,
Enjoy it.
Laugh, cry,
But never make the story
Your own.
Postscript:
Have no worries about
Being apart from Wu Hsin.
Wu Hsin is not leaving.
Wu Hsin is not going away.
Where would Wu Hsin go?
Never not here,
Wu Hsin is Now
Here
Always.