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event type discourse
date & time 23 Aug 1978 am
location Buddha Hall, Poona
language English
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shorttitle SOS113
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Reader of the sutra: Sw Ananda Teertha.
The sutra
Master Lu-tsu said: The decision must be carried out with a collected heart and not seeking success; success will then come of itself. In the first period of release there are chiefly two mistakes: indolence and distraction. But that can be remedied; the heart must not enter into the breathing too completely. Breathing comes from the heart. What comes out of the heart is breath. As soon as the heart stirs there develops breath-energy. Breath-energy is originally transformed activity of the heart. When our ideas go very fast they imperceptibly pass into fantasies which are always accompanied by the drawing of a breath, because this inner and outer breathing hangs together like tone and echo. Daily we draw innumerable breaths and have an equal number of fantasies. And thus the clarity of the spirit ebbs away as wood dries out and ashes die.
So then should a man have no imagining in his mind? One cannot be without imaginings. Should one not breathe? One cannot be without breathing. The best way is to make a medicine of the illness. Since heart and breath are mutually dependent the circulation of the light must be united with the rhythm of breathing. For this light of the ear is above all necessary. There is a light of the eye and a light of the ear. The light of the eye is the united light of the sun and moon outside. The light of the ear is the united seed of sun and moon within. The seed is thus the light in crystallized form. Both have the same origin and are different only in name therefore understanding (ear) and clarity (eye) are one and the same effective light.
In sitting down after lowering the lids one uses the eyes to establish a plumb-line and then shifts the light downward. But if the transposition downward is not successful then the heart is directed towards listening to the breathing. One should not be able to hear with the ear the outgoing and intaking of the breath. What one hears is that it has no tone. As soon as it has no tone the breathing is rough and superficial and does not penetrate into the open. Then the heart must be made quite light and insignificant. The more it is released the less it becomes; the less it is, the quieter. All at once it becomes so quiet that it stops. Then the true breathing is manifested and the form of the heart come to consciouses. If the heart is light, the breathing is light, for every movement of the heart affects breath-energy. If breathing is light, the heart is light, for every movement of the breath-energy affects the heart. In order to steady the heart, one begins by taking care of the breath-energy. The heart cannot be influenced directly. Therefore the breath-energy is used as a handle, and this is what is called maintenance of the concentrated breath-energy.
Children do you not understand the nature of movement? Movement can be produced by outside means. It is only another name for mastery. One can make the heart move merely by running. Should one not also be able to bring it to rest by concentrated quietness? The great holy one. Who knew how the heart and breath-energy mutually influence one another have thought out an easier procedure in order to help posterity.
The hen can hatch her eggs because her heart is always listening. That is an important magic spell. The hen can hatch the eggs because of the energy of the heat. But the energy of the heat can only warm the shells; it cannot penetrate into the interior. Therefore she conducts this energy inward with her heart. This she does with her hearing. In this way she concentrates her whole heart. When the heart penetrates, the energy penetrates, and the chick receives the energy of the heat and begins to live. Therefore a hen, even when at times she leaves her eggs, always has the attitude of listening with bent ear. Thus the concentration of the spirit is not interrupted. Because the concentration of the spirit suffers no interruption, neither does the energy of heat suffer interruption day or night, and the spirit awakens to life. The awakening of the spirit is accomplished because the heart has first died. When a man can let his heart die, then the primal spirit wakes to life. To kill the heart does not mean to let it dry and wither away, but it means that it has to become undivided and gathered into one.


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