Theosophy - THE CLASSIC OF PURITY
THE
CLASSIC OF PURITY ΔΔ
by
KO HSUAN
The
Supreme TAO is formless, yet It produces and nurtures all things.
The Supreme
TAO has no desires, yet by Its power the Sun and Moon revolve in their orbits.
The Supreme
TAO is nameless, yet It supports all things eternally.
I do not
know its name but for title call It "TAO".
TAO manifests
both the pure and the turbid, both as movement and stillness.
The Universe
is Pure, our World is turbid.
The Universe
moves, our World is still.
The light
is pure, the dark is turbid.
The masculine
is active, the feminine is passive.
Manifesting
in Its Radical Essence, TAO flows even to the last of things, bringing forward
The Universe and our World and all that belongs to them.
The pure
is the cause of the turbid, and movement is the cause of stillness.
When people
attain the power to transcend that which changes, abiding in purity and stillness,
The Universe and our World are united in them.
The Inner
Spirit of people loves purity, but the mind of people is often rebellious. The
mind of people loves stillness, but the desires of people draw them into activity.
When a person is constantly able to govern their desires, their mind becomes
spontaneously still. When the mind is unclouded, the Inner Spirit is seen to
be pure. Then, with certainty the desires will cease to come forward and the
poisons will be eliminated and dissolved.
The reason
people do not possess the ability to achieve this is because their minds are
not clear and their desires are unrestrained.
Those who
have the power to transcend their desires, looking within and contemplating
mind, realizes that in mind, mind is not; looking without contemplating form,
they realize that in form, form is not; looking at things still more remote
and contemplating matter, they realize that in matter, matter is not.
When they
have clearly thought about these three they perceive only a void, and when they
contemplate the void, they realize that the void is also void and has become
nothingness. The void having vanished into nothingness, they realize that the
nothingness of nothing is also nothing, and when the nethermost nothingness
is reached, there is truly to be found a deep and unchanging stillness.
In this
profound stillness how can desires come forward? When desires can no longer
come forward, there is essential and unchanging stillness.
Truth is
essentially unchanging.
All things
in The Universe and in our world are in essence unchanging.
The unfolding
of a person's mind leads them to this unchanging truth.
In unchanging
Stillness, unchanging Purity and Rest are found.
Those who
attain Purity and Stillness enter into the Immutable TAO.
Having entered
the Immutable TAO they are named Possessor of TAO.
Although
they are named Possessor of TAO they know they do not possess it.
Only when
they can transmute all living things can they be truly named Possessor of TAO.
Those who
are able to understand this can lead others to Sacred TAO.
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