Reflections on Hua Hu Ching
July 16, 2023
Beyond learning lies all knowledge
The me of the body is limited. Its nature produces in cycles of birth and death. Its basic needs are biological impulses. The me of the body as an organism of nature is limited by survival needs. Union begets life. Life brings about death. The me of the body needs orientation among objects. You are bewildered in the world. You make sense of illusion. Existence stretches beyond your learning. Beyond learning lies all knowledge. Survival stretches beyond the body. Beyond survival lies reality. Do not be limited by your existence. Enter the room within. Touch the eternal. Merge with the whole of the all. To evolve beyond form is to remember twia. To live in separation is to experience cycles of birth and death. This and that lead to the coming and going that is existence.
Birth is the integration of this and that in the natural order of existence. To be born into existence is to experience pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Ignorance and fear drive desire. Expectations arise. Thoughts and emotions are captured in mind. Those acted on form your world. To live fully in the me of the body is to experience death. This is the way of the world. It is preparation for remembering twia. To remember twia is renewed integration of this and that into the whole of the all. The whole of the all is your true nature. To experience the whole of the all is to live in wisdom and joy. Wisdom is being the witness to existence. To live without ignorance to your true nature. Joy is love without fear. To live without attachment in loving-kindness to all.
You are the energy of existence. Release yourself to its flow. Stand back from the me of the body. Be its witness. Do not join in its ways. Submerge yourself in the river. Let wisdom and joy be your path. Ignorance and fear can no longer serve you. Wisdom looks upon the me of the body without attachment. Joy prevails. Follow the way of the path. Enter the room within. Find awareness in twia. To know twia is to touch the eternal.