Shen Yi Zhi Dao

[林愛偉]

Greetings Every One,

 

I would like to share with you some chapters of a manuscript for cultivation I have written. It is made up of 3 sections, but for now I would like to present chapters from the 1st section, for discussion, and for your personal use in cultivation.

 

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To be still and moving is simple.

Being simple becomes complicated at first.

In center, of extreme or not,

There is another center.

In this place, there is yet another.

 

Slow movement is not slow enough to

stop time, and yet

time is only perception,

but exists not in conclusion of itself.

 

Be conscious of what perception you are using

to experience being still and moving,

simple and complicated,

extreme and center.

 

Experience is the key,

and accumulates over time.

 

What manner is used to perceive of time?

Who is experiencing？

[forestofsouls]

My current lesson is more along the lines of this verse:

 

To change

to let go,

receive nothing and see the beauty

of Nature.

 

It's amazing how synchronicity works. The cosmos seems to speak in a whisper, but if we're in tune we can here it. In the course of the past few weeks, this is what is being whispered to me:

 

Invest in loss.

 

Enjoy your practice.

 

Forget your goals.

 

Let go and follow nature.

 

I'm finally beginning to realize on a deeper level the meaning to these simple phrases. It is one thing to understand them intellectually, to agree on a mental level. But to incorporate it into my being, this is much slower. Just now, I was practicing my tai chi. My mind kept thinking of the next form, or another form, and it didn't enjoy the form here and now. Only when it enjoys the form here and now, then there is tai chi. As with tai chi, so with life.

[林愛偉]

My current lesson is more along the lines of this verse:

 

To change

to let go,

receive nothing and see the beauty

of Nature.

 

It's amazing how synchronicity works. The cosmos seems to speak in a whisper, but if we're in tune we can here it. In the course of the past few weeks, this is what is being whispered to me:

 

Invest in loss.

 

Enjoy your practice.

 

Forget your goals.

 

Let go and follow nature.

 

I'm finally beginning to realize on a deeper level the meaning to these simple phrases. It is one thing to understand them intellectually, to agree on a mental level. But to incorporate it into my being, this is much slower. Just now, I was practicing my tai chi. My mind kept thinking of the next form, or another form, and it didn't enjoy the form here and now. Only when it enjoys the form here and now, then there is tai chi. As with tai chi, so with life.

 

The first part to one of the chapters in the manuscript fits for your place at this moment.

Good stuff.

 

Peace,

Aiwei

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To change

to let go,

receive nothing and see the beauty

of Nature.

We grow accustomed to things.

Things do not change, but mind does,

naturally.

 

When the mind is fixated to accept things

as a conclusive reality,

then the mind is forced to perceive

one expression of creation.

 

Freedom can not be achieved by these means.

How can one exist freely if their

mind is chained to fixed expressions

of things, reality, freedom and non-freedom

Edited December 4, 2006 by 林愛偉

[Smile]

Nice. A different facet of Dao De Jing.

[林愛偉]

Nice. A different facet of Dao De Jing.

 

 

Though it didn't derive from the Daode Jing,....

 

 

Peace and Happiness,

Edited December 4, 2006 by 林愛偉

[Smile]

The translation is very beautiful and has nice energy to it. I compared it to DDJ to show my appreciation, that's all.

[林愛偉]

The translation is very beautiful and has nice energy to it. I compared it to DDJ to show my appreciation, that's all.

 

 

[林愛偉]

[林愛偉]

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Absence is the key to enlightenment.

Enlightenment is the key to all being.

In the consciousness of Being all,

absence does not exist.

There is no separation, hence,

there is no superiority.

 

Know that the Being who is

all knows nothing.

and one who knows nothing

knows all.

 

Therefore, one must realize but

Drop perception.

 

To perceive to know

is to conclude in the moment.

To perceive to know for that moment

and release conclusion is progress.

Edited December 25, 2006 by 林愛偉

[Spectrum]

Thank you. Beautifully expressed.

[林愛偉]

Thank you. Beautifully expressed.