Deputy-Minister: But I am a profane man. I hold an office, how could I study to obtain TAO?
Shen Hui: Very well, Your Excellency, from today I will allow you to work on understanding only. Without practising, only reach understanding, then when you are deeply impregnated with your correct understanding, all the major entanglements and illusory thoughts gradually will subside.
We indicate at once that it is the understanding which is essential, without having recourse to a multitude of texts.
- Shen Hui, Entretiens du Maitre Dhyana Chen-Houei du Ho-Tso (translated by Jacques Gernet).* * *
'O.O.O.' is a signature representing the 'cube-root of zero', the algebraic sign for which is not always readily comprehensible. 'O', symbol of zero, represents the Subject whose objects are all numbers from one to infinity.
- O.O.O. * * *
'Look Who is here!'
- Douglas Harding, On Having No Head.* * *
ABSENT PRESENCE
HERE I am!
NOW I am!
THIS-I-AM!
- WEI WU WEI
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