Daodejing Poem 54

Singapore time 9.31 am 26th July 2008

Those who are good in construction is not uprooted; those who are good embracing are not left out. Your children and grand children honouring you at the altar will not stop. Cultivating self, your virtue will become genuine; cultivating Tao in the home, its virtue will overflow. Cultivating Tao in the village, its virtue will expand, cultivating Tao in the country, the virtue will flourish. Cultivating Tao in the world, the virtue will be universal. Truly use body to observe body; using family to observe family; use village to observe village; use country to observe country and use the world to observe the world. How do I know the world is like this? By this. (Using index placed at the nose tip, gazing at the nose tip to tell the audience.)

Construction is foundation, good roots, good virtue. Embracing is compassion.

If you have good roots, good virtue and compassion, you will have strings of descendants to honour you. Ancestor worship is Chinese culture. This is what I would like to stop. When you know you yourself is God, how can you pray to the tablets or photographs of your ancestors ? If you are still ignorant, you can be excused. But once you know you are God, you cannot pray to ancestors or idols or any other Gods.

Cultivating in family is your family know what you are doing. Cultivating in the village is the whole village know what you are doing. Cultivating in the country is the country men know what you are doing. Cultivating in the universe is the whole world know what you are doing. This is what I am doing, preaching to the world the TRUTH, Sealing and meditation.

So use one to see the other, one country to compare to the other. So the troubles of the world can be known. How to know the world is like this, by meditation.