Hua Hu Ching – Page 2 – Where is Zhenren?

Service

True understanding in a person has two
attributes: awareness and action.
Together they form a natural tai chi.

Who can enjoy enlightenment and remain
indifferent to suffering in this world?
This is not in keeping with the Way.
Only those who increase their service along
with their understanding can be called men
and women of Tao.

Comments: Every way has three goals
• Death
• Rebirth
• Service
We are not here to improve ourselves
for our own gain. We take our place
in the hierarchy and serve humbly.

Two Paths

Do you wish to free yourself of emotional and mental knots and become one with the Tao? If so, there are two paths available to you.

The first is the path of acceptance. Affirm everyone and everything. Freely extend your goodwill and virtue in every direction, regardless of circumstances. Embrace all things as part of the Harmonious Oneness, and then you will begin to perceive it.

The second path is that of denial. Recognize that everything you think and see is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over truth. Peel all the veils away, and you will arrive at the Oneness.

Though these paths are entirely different,they will deliver you to the same place: spontaneous awareness of the Great Oneness. Once you arrive there, remember: it isn’t necessary to struggle to maintain unity with it.

All you have to do is participate in it.

Verse 49

Thinking and talking about the Integral way are
not the same as practicing it.
Who ever became a good rider by talking about
horses?
If you wish to embody the Tao, stop chattering and
start practicing.
Relax your body and quiet your senses.
Return your mind to it’s original clarity.
Forget about being separated from others and
from the Divine source.

As you return to the oneness, do not think about it or
be in awe of it. This is just another way of
separating from it.
Simply merge into truth, and allow it to surround
you.

Comments: Saint Paul said you will be known by
your faith. What he and Hua Hu Ching mean by
faith is the deeds you perform. Faith is not
measured by your beliefs, it is measured by
your actions.

Verse 50

What good is it to spend your life accumulating
material things?
It isn’t in keeping with the Tao.
What benefit in conforming your behavior to
someone’s conventions?
It violates your nature and dissipates your energy.
Why separate your spiritual life and your
practical life?
To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature,
drawing no line between what is spiritual and what
is not.

Ignore time.

Relinquish ideas and concepts.
Embrace the Oneness.
This is the Integral way.