Reflections on Hua Hu Ching
June 23, 2023
No mystery in the silence
Quiet your mind. Close your mouth. Listen. Know. Find awareness within. Awareness within is your true nature. It knows without end. You do not come and go. You are everywhere at once. Unseparated from the whole of the all.
The me of the body perceives limitations and boundaries where there are none. Its eyes are clouded. Its ears are stuffed. Suffering does not mean there is no joy. The world comes and goes. Joy is eternal. Let go of limitations. Clear your eyes. Unstuff your ears. Live in clarity with twia. In the still silence of the eternal, the room within holds the whole of the all. It is there always. To be aware of this is to know.
In awe of the mystery, sit in the still silence of the room within. In the whole of the all remain silent. Unstuff your ears. Open them to twia. Listen to the candle’s flame flickering. Hear the wafting of incense smoke. Encompass the whole of the all. Remove boundaries between this and that. Know no other than I AM. Absorb fear. Blot it from memory. Find balance in nature. Harmonize with all. You are the one. There is no other than twia. Hear the silence with ears wide open. Do not flinch. Its tune is joy. In joy remain. It is your true nature. Silence is emptiness. It fills the void. Hold to silence without words. Do not consider this and that. There is no separation among particles and the worlds they form. Only names say this and that. You perceive without knowing. You name in ignorance. Reality has no separation. You cannot perceive this. It cannot be known by the me of the body. The body is particles that form and disperse. The particle that is water is the same as the whole of the pool. The whole of the pool is contained in the particle. There is no difference but in perception. Embrace the silence. In its emptiness all is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Without form. Without void. No darkness upon the face of the deep. Listen without bewilderment. There is no mystery in the silence.