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forget all bodily form ; you may forget your personality; you may forget that you are forgetting.'
'All this,' says Lî Hsi-yueh, 'is the achievement of vacuity, an illustration of the freedom from purpose which is characteristic of the Tâo. Compare par. 14 in the sixth Book of Kwang-gze.
3. 'He who has taken the first steps towards (the knowledge of) the Tâo knows where to stop; he who maintains the Tâo in himself knows how to be diligently vigilant; he who employs It knows what is most subtle.
When one knows what is most subtle, the light of intelligence grows (around him); when he can know how to be diligently vigilant, his sage wisdom becomes complete; when he knows where to stop, he is grandly composed and restful.
When he is grandly composed and restful, his sage wisdom becomes complete; when his sage wisdom becomes complete, the light of intelligence grows (around him); when the light of intelligence grows around him, he is one with the Tào.
"This is the condition which is styled the True Forgetfulness ;-a forgetting which does not forget; a forgetting of what cannot be forgotten.
"That which cannot be forgotten is the True Tâo. The Tâo is in heaven and earth, but heaven and earth are not conscious of It. Whether It seem to have feelings or to be without them, It is (always) one and the same.'
4. The Heaven-honoured One says, 'While I am in this world, what shall I do to benefit life? I occupy myself with this subtle and precious Treatise for the good of you, Heaven-endowed men. Those
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