Tuesday 29 July 2008

Daodejing Poem 52

Singapore time 8.33 am 29th July 2008

The world has a beginning which becomes the world's mother. You have to get to know the mother to know the son. Return by focusing on the mother; leaving a dead body, you are still alive. Stop up your senses; close up your doors; forever you will not be exhausted. Open up your senses; busy over worldly matters; forever you will not be saved. Look at small (Chinese word) is named understanding (see Chinese word); focusing on gentleness is called strong. Using its light, return its brightness to eminence; without losing body in calamity; that is always inert in action.

Shut up your senses (thought) during meditation. Close the 6 doors to outside world namely the ears (hearing), eyes (sight except nasal gaze), nose (smell), mouth (taste), body (touch) and mind (thought). Looking at small is to look at Chinese word for small 小. It has a J with a Chinese 8 八. J is our nose and 8 八 is our 2 eyes.
From the beginning, we thought it was the Mother. To know the Mother in order that we can get to know the son. This is different from Bible which says to know the son then you can know the father. The meaning should be about the same. It is because the Chinese word son. The crossing of strokes is like the crossing of the cross. It is mostly words play in this poem to indicate the Mark on our forehead. The Mark is just like Son in Bible or Mother here. This is the TRUTH.
Focusing on the Mark we will get enlightened and with this Mark Sealed, then we can return. I don't know whether self can open the Mark by oneself. So it is better you seek I-Kuan Tao to Seal the Mark for you.

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