Behind the Mind: The Short Discourses of Wu Hsin
The Short Discourses, Part One
The Master entered the Great Hall and began the season’s discourses with these words:
Wu Hsin has not visited the abode of truth. Its address is unknown even to him.
Therefore, the focus here is neither on seeking nor finding the truth. Rather, it is weeding out the lies. The discovery of truth is in the discernment of the false.
Wu Hsin is helpless before you in that he cannot transform you into what you already are. In this sense, Wu Hsin bestows the greatest gift to you by informing you that you are not what you seem to be.
This is nothing new; instead, it is the most ancient, transmitted through the silence. Silence is the most powerful instruction. It is the global solvent in which all doubts and questions dissolve. It is the silence that is
eloquent.
Wu Hsin's speaking is an interruption to the silence. The silence speaks far louder than any of his words
As such, most of our time together is spent in this silence. For those not yet able to discern from the silence, Wu Hsin will offer a few words daily.
However, be forewarned. Words consistently fail to express the ineffable. Every word approaches it and is then repelled back. More words fail further. Words produce concepts; many words produce many concepts.
In that regard, Wu Hsin speaks minimally, making a point and leaving it up to the listener to allow the words to bask in silence and, in so doing, discern the deeper meaning.
Don't attempt to understand. Don't deal with my words with the intellect; do not commit them to memory. Let the words pass through you, piercing through the mind and through the intellect and returning to their true source.
Wu Hsin is not speaking person to person. Personage is not welcome in this hall. There is no transmission, there is no transmitter, and there is no receiver. You came here as an individual. If you leave as an individual, then you have gotten nothing.
There is some thing which truly is no thing from which every thing is its expression.
I am I, formless, yet appearing as me, with form.
The body, its sensing systems, and the mind are all referenced via "I", that is, I act, I see, I think. These are Its agent, Its instrument.
It is That which exists in and of itself, dependent on nothing, requiring nothing.
It manifests as polarity.
It is Noumenon and phenomena, the One and the Many, the eternal, unchanging, unconditioned juxtaposed with the time bound, changeful, conditioned.
This is the framework which we will develop beginning tomorrow.
With that, he rose and left the Hall.
The Short Discourses, Part One
The Master entered the Great Hall and began the season’s discourses with these words:
Wu Hsin has not visited the abode of truth. Its address is unknown even to him.
Therefore, the focus here is neither on seeking nor finding the truth. Rather, it is weeding out the lies. The discovery of truth is in the discernment of the false.
Wu Hsin is helpless before you in that he cannot transform you into what you already are. In this sense, Wu Hsin bestows the greatest gift to you by informing you that you are not what you seem to be.
This is nothing new; instead, it is the most ancient, transmitted through the silence. Silence is the most powerful instruction. It is the global solvent in which all doubts and questions dissolve. It is the silence that is
eloquent.
Wu Hsin's speaking is an interruption to the silence. The silence speaks far louder than any of his words
As such, most of our time together is spent in this silence. For those not yet able to discern from the silence, Wu Hsin will offer a few words daily.
However, be forewarned. Words consistently fail to express the ineffable. Every word approaches it and is then repelled back. More words fail further. Words produce concepts; many words produce many concepts.
In that regard, Wu Hsin speaks minimally, making a point and leaving it up to the listener to allow the words to bask in silence and, in so doing, discern the deeper meaning.
Don't attempt to understand. Don't deal with my words with the intellect; do not commit them to memory. Let the words pass through you, piercing through the mind and through the intellect and returning to their true source.
Wu Hsin is not speaking person to person. Personage is not welcome in this hall. There is no transmission, there is no transmitter, and there is no receiver. You came here as an individual. If you leave as an individual, then you have gotten nothing.
There is some thing which truly is no thing from which every thing is its expression.
I am I, formless, yet appearing as me, with form.
The body, its sensing systems, and the mind are all referenced via "I", that is, I act, I see, I think. These are Its agent, Its instrument.
It is That which exists in and of itself, dependent on nothing, requiring nothing.
It manifests as polarity.
It is Noumenon and phenomena, the One and the Many, the eternal, unchanging, unconditioned juxtaposed with the time bound, changeful, conditioned.
This is the framework which we will develop beginning tomorrow.
With that, he rose and left the Hall.
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