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The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin
Volume Five: No Great Future Attainment
(Sample)
The Lost Writings of Wu Hsin
Volume Five : No Great Future Attainment
Translation by Roy Melvyn
Copyright 2010 Roy Melvyn
Forward
There really isn’t anything to add to what I have written in the previous Forwards.
In this final volume, Wu Hsin continues his onslaught on the seemingly known while providing new
insights into the mystery called Awareness.
One aspect that does not receive a lot of attention is that the reader should approach Wu Hsin with
unwavering trust. Set aside all notions of what is already known and evaluate this message on the merits
of its resonance with the reader. The math teacher is not questioned that 2+2 =4; it is taken as a priori.
The same attitude is required here.
Otherwise:
Wu Hsin may talk for years on end.
However, he can never convince a blind man of
The beauty of a rainbow.
Ignorance disguised in new vocabulary does not
Make for understanding.
This life that is taken so seriously,
What is it really?
Is it anything more than that small dash between
The date of birth and
The date of death?
What constitutes the sense of I am this is
Constantly changing while
What constitutes the sense of I am is unmoving.
The shift in the attention from
The former to the latter is
The perfume of lucid sight.
When objectification ceases,
Time ceases,
Space ceases,
The need for these media ceases.
Is life better understood by
Looking at it more closely, or by
Stepping back further from it?
Standing back from the seeming seer is
The distance needed to bring perspective.
A wise man never overcomes adversity.
He circumvents it.
Wu Hsin and you were both present at
The birth of the sky.
He remembers,
You do not.
Anything in time cannot be eternal.
That which stands outside of time is
Eternity itself.
Hearing its call is
The end of time.
A thought appears.
Is there someone thinking or is it
Only the echo of a knock on the door
Reverberating through an empty house?
Despite how it seems.
A rooster’s crowing does not cause
The sun to rise.
Lucidity discriminates between
The apparent and the real.
Bridging the gap between
Your god’s will and your own is
The revelation of What-Is.
Security is the freedom from
The need for security.
Clouds appear and disappear,
The sky remains unfazed.
Individual effort to affect circumstances
Obscures life’s magic.
The one one knows,
One is not.
When the one not-yet-known is known,
No further knowing is required.
The propriety of any action
Exists only in
The mind of the actor.
It may be deemed appropriate by some and
Inappropriate by others.
It may be deemed appropriate today and
Inappropriate tomorrow.
Wu Hsin does not squander his time judging.
There is no going within to
A within that cannot be located.
Imaginations cannot be ended with
More imaginations.
A flawed perspective breeds
A flawed view.
One never sees things as they are.
One sees things as one is.
All beliefs are woven;
True knowledge is bedrock.
Small doubt precedes small clarity.
Great doubt precedes great clarity.
All objects, whether
Physical or mental are
Pointers to that which perceives them.
To see this is to be this.
If one is not
Trying to get to some place,
One cannot become lost.
There is a beginning and an end to
All things objective.
That which perceives them has no beginning
Nor any end.
Being birthless,
It is deathless.
The arrival of clarity is
The losing of
What was never one’s own.
The body is insentient.
No different than a stone.
That which perceives via the body is not
The body.
It is that which enlivens the body.
It is both the witness and
The substance of all experience.
It is That.
Thoughts are not the problem.
Ownership of thoughts is the problem.
The individual and the world are
Co-created moment by moment in imagination.
Appearing together and
Disappearing together in
That which never appears or disappears.
Wu Hsin has no teaching.
Wu Hsin points to what Wu Hsin is,
What one is, and
The absence of difference in the two.
In this, all teachings are contained.
The ones who have been
Seeking for the longest time are
The ones who refuse to
Let go of the seeking.
The power of the ocean is
The support of every wave.
Can there be any wave in
The absence of the ocean?
The vision of the mind is
The vision of the world.
What distinguishes
A wise man from the common man is that
The wise man does not need tomorrow.
He doesn’t even want it;
Now is enough.
The world appears in your light.
With the light in abeyance,
Nothing is.
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