Musings of Chuang-Tzu
You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog - the creature of a narrower sphere. You
cannot speak of ice to a summer insect - the creature of a season. You cannot speak
of Tao to a pedagogue: his scope is too restricted.
But now that you have emerged from your narrow sphere and have seen the great
ocean, you know your own insignificance, and I can speak to you of great principles.
. . .
Dimensions are limitless; time is endless. Conditions are not invariable;
terms are not final.
There is nothing which is not objective; there is nothing which is not subjective.
But it is impossible to start from the objective. Only from subjective knowledge is it
possible to proceed to objective knowledge. . . .
* The Sayings of Lao-Tzu,
trs. Lionel Giles, London, 1905.
When subjective and objective are both without their correlates, that is the very
axis of Tao.
Tao has its laws and its evidences. It is devoid both of action and of form.
It may be obtained but cannot be seen.
Spiritual beings draw their spirituality therefrom.
To Tao no point in time is long ago.
Tao cannot be existent. If it were existent, it could not be non-existent. The very
name of Tao is only adapted for convenience's sake. Predestination and chance are
limited to material existences. How can they bear upon the infinite?
Tao is something beyond material existences. It cannot be conveyed either by
words or by silence. In that state which is neither speech nor silence, its
transcendental nature may be apprehended.*
In contemporary theosophical literature, two small books stand alone among the
rest:
The Voice of the Silence
by H. P. Blavatsky and
Light on the Path
by Mabel
Collins. Both contain many genuine mystical sensations.
The Voice of the Silence **
He who would hear the voice of the silence, the soundless sound, and comprehend it,
he has to learn the nature of the intense and perfect concentration of the mind upon
some one interior object, accompanied by a complete abstraction from everything
pertaining to the external universe, or the world of the senses.
Having become indifferent to objects of perception, the pupil must seek out the
Raja of the senses, the thought-producer, he who awakes illusion.
The mind is the greater slayer of the Real.
Let the disciple slay the slayer.
For when to himself his form appears unreal, as do on waking all the forms he
sees in dreams; when he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the One - the
inner sound which kills the outer.
Then only, not till then, shall he forsake the region of the false, to come into the
realm of the true.
Before the soul can see, the harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be
rendered blind to all illusion.
Before the soul can hear, the image (man) has to become as deaf to roarings as to
whispers, to cries of bellowing elephants as to the silvery buzzing of the golden fire
fly.
And then to the inner ear will speak
The Voice of the Silence
and
say:
* Musings of a Chinese Mystic,
trs. Lionel Giles, Wisdom of the East Series.
** The
Voice of the Silence, trs.
H. P. Blavatsky, London and New York, Theosophical
Publishing House, 1937.
If thy soul smiles while bathing in the sunlight of thy life; if thy soul sings within
thy chrysalis of flesh and matter; if thy soul weeps inside her castle of illusion; if thy
soul struggles to break the silver thread that binds her to the Master; know, 0
disciple, thy soul is of the earth. . . .
Give up thy life, if thou would'st live. . . .
Learn to discern the real from the false, the everfleeting from the everlasting.
Learn above all to separate head-learning from soul-wisdom, the 'eye' from the 'heart'
doctrine.
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