the calm light from the spirit

nothing in particular

 

Do not

do anything (good or bad)

and do not even do this not-doing;

then straightaway one reaches that place where

there is no concern for external affairs, that

vast and peaceful place where there

are absolutely no obstructing

thoughts.

 

There,

all thoughts of the past

are extinguished, all thoughts of

the future do not arise, and

all present thoughts

are void.

 

Nevertheless,

this void-ness is also not

to be maintained. This non-maintenance

(of the void) is also to be forgotten, and this forgetting

is also not to be legitimized; further, free your­self from this

non-legitimizing. At the time when even the idea of

getting free is not preserved, only the alert

yet calm light from the spirit will

appear prominently before

oneself.

 

T’aego Pou

 

a cool pile of ashes in the corner

nps

 

The present

moment is the source of

everything. As long as you have

resentments about the past or ideas

about the future, you cannot

genuinely be in the

present.

 

You owe it

to your future self, and

to the rest of us, to be completely

absorbed here and now. Make all

notions of past and future a

cool pile of ashes in

the corner.

 

Wei wu Wei Ching, Chapter 30

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