道德經 - Dao De Jing》
| [Warring States (475 BC - 221 BC)] |
| Chapter 1 | 道德經: | 名可名，非常名。 無名，天地之始； 有名，萬物之母。 故常無欲，以觀其妙； 常有欲，以觀其徼。 此兩者，同出而異名，同謂之玄。 玄之又玄，衆妙之門。 Any walkable path fails the constant vibration Any conceivable denomination fails the constant resonance Invisible dance, the matrix of cosmos and matter Effectiveness, mother of anything In the beginnings, undesireful constant, thus contemplating its subtleness; Constant with an effective wantedness, hence contemplating its edge. Of these, simultaneously but with estranged ideas, appearing two, the common appellation of its occultness. Profound darkness, the gate of the incompleteness of the myriads. |
Robert Monroe (2014). “The Ultimate Journey”, p.205, Harmony
There is no beginning, there is no end. There is only change.
There is no teacher, there is no student, there is only remembering.
There is no good, there is no evil, there is only expression.
There is no union, there is no sharing, there is only one.
There is no joy, there is no sadness, there is only love.
There is no greater, there is no lesser, there is only balance.
There is no stasis, there is no entropy, there is only motion.
There is no wakefulness, there is no sleep, there is only being.
There is no limit, there is no chance, there is only a plan.
Litany Against Fear
- "I must not fear.
- Fear is the mind-killer.
- Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
- I will face my fear.
- I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
- And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
- Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
- A somewhat different version of this litany was used in the Dune miniseries and Children of Dune miniseries:
- "I will not fear.
- Fear is the mind-killer.
- I will face my fear.
- I will let it pass through me.
- When the fear has gone,
- there shall be nothing.
- Only I will remain."
無門關
- 禪箴
- Following the rules and protecting the regulations is binding oneself without a rope.
- Moving freely vertically and horizontally without obstruction is the way of outsiders and the nightmare army.
- To preserve the heart mind and to purify it by letting impurities settle to the bottom in quiescence is the perverted Zen of silent illumination.
- Neglecting the written records with unrestrained ideas is falling into a deep pit.
- To be awake and not ignorant is to wear chains and shoulder a cangue.
- Thinking good and thinking evil are the halls of heaven and hell.
- A view of Buddha and a view of Dharma are the two enclosing mountains of iron.
- A person who perceives thoughts as they immediately arise is fiddling with spectral consciousness.
- However, being on a high plateau practising samadhi is the stratagem of living in the house of ghosts.
- To advance results in ignoring truth; to retreat results in contradicting the lineage.
- Neither to advance nor to retreat is being a breathing corpse.
- Just say, how will you walk?
- You must work hard to live in the present and, to finish, all the more. I do not advise the unfortunate excess of continual suffering.
