If people are able
to humbly lower themselves,
to be yielding, plain, and sincere,
not wasting energy but always nurturing energy,
then they will be full of energy. If people can be free from
cogitation and rumination, not belabor their spirit
but always maintain their spirit,
then their spirit will be
complete.
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The first
integration of yin and yang
is the union of seed and egg within the womb.
The second integration of yin and yang is the sexual union
of the mature male and female. Both of these are
concerned with flesh and blood, and all
that is conceived in this realm must
one day disintegrate
and pass
away.
It is only
the third integration
which gives birth to something immortal.
In this integration, a highly evolved individual joins
the subtle inner energies of yin and yang under the light of spiritual
understanding. Through the practices of the Integral Way he refines his
gross, heavy energy into something ethereal and light. This divine
light has the capability of penetrating into the mighty
ocean of spiritual energy and complete
wisdom that is
the Tao.
The new life
created by the final integration
is self-aware yet without ego, capable of
inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided
by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole
and virtuous, it can
never die.
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I will walk down to a marina
on a hot day and not go out to sea.
I will go to bed and get up early,
and carry too much cash in my wallet.
On Memorial Day I will visit the graves
of all those who died in my novels.
If I have become famous I’ll wear a green
janitor’s suit and row a wooden boat.
From a key ring on my belt will hang
thirty-three keys that open no doors.
Perhaps I’ll take all of my grandchildren
to Disneyland in a camper but probably not.
One day standing in a river with my fly rod
I’ll have the courage to admit my life.
In a one-room cabin at night I’ll consign
photos, all tentative memories to the fire.
And you my loves, few as there have been, let’s lie
and say it could never have been otherwise.
So that: we may glide off in peace, not howling
like orphans in this endless century of war.
The teaching
of the Integral Way will go on
as long as there is a Tao and someone who
wishes to embody it; what is painted in
these scrolls today will appear in
different forms in many
generations to
come.
These things,
however, will never change:
Those who wish to attain oneness must
practice undiscriminating virtue. They must
dissolve all ideas of duality: good and bad, beautiful
and ugly, high and low. They will be obliged to abandon
any mental bias born of cultural or religious belief.
Indeed, they should hold their minds free
of any thought which interferes with
their understanding of the
universe as a harmonious
oneness.
The
beginning
of these practices is
the beginning of
liberation.
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The flute
of interior time is played
whether we hear it or not. What we
mean by “love” is its sound coming in.
When love hits the farthest edge of excess, it
reaches a wisdom. And the fragrance of that knowledge!
It penetrates our thick bodies, it goes through walls —
Its network of notes has a structure as if a
million suns were arranged inside.
This tune has truth in it. Where
else have you heard a
sound like this?