Whenever we see
that goodness is lacking,
we may add to it from our own heart
and so complete the nobility of human nature.
This is done by patience, tolerance, kindness, forgiveness.
The lover of goodness loves every little sign of goodness.
He overlooks the faults and fills up the gaps by
pouring out love and supplying that
which is lacking. This is real
nobility of soul.
The way is difficult
and very intricate. Lalla discarded her
books that told about it, and through meditation
saw the truth that never comes to anyone
from reading words.
Things fundamentally
have no origin and presently have
no extinction; there is no more to speak.
As soon as you speak, this is origination;
and if you don’t speak, this
is extinction.
The essence of awareness,
complete and clear, is a formless body.
Don’t mistake far and near based on intellectual opinion.
When thoughts differ, you’re blind to the substance
of the mysteries. When mind diverges,
you’re not neighbor to
the Way.
When subjectively
discriminating myriad things,
you get submerged in the objects before you.
When conscious awareness is fragmented,
you lose the basic reality.
If you understand
such expressions with complete
clarity, you’ll wind up unburdened,
as you were before.
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.