The Elder Lord said:
The Great Tao, being formless, creates heavens and earths;
The Great Tao, being emotionless, runs the sun and the moon;
The Great Tao, being nameless, eternally nurtures all beings.
I do not know its name, and artificially call it "Tao".
For things belong to Tao, some are pure, some are turbid; some are
dynamic, and some are static. Heavens are pure, and earths are
turbid; heavens are dynamic, and earths are static; the male are
pure, and the female are turbid; the male are dynamic, and the
female are static. It falls from the source and flows to the
branches, therefore all things are produced.
The pure is the origin of the turbid; the dynamic is the base of
the static. If one can always be pure and tranquil, the whole
universe will return (to its origin).
A person's divinity likes to be pure, but his heart disturbs it; a
person's heart likes to be tranquil, but his desires draw it away.
If one can constantly dispel his desires, his heart will of itself
become tranquil; if he also can make his heart limpid, his divinity
will of itself become pure, then naturally, the six desires will
not be produced and the three poisons will be cleansed. If one
cannot achieve that, it is because his heart is not yet limpid, and
his desires are not yet dispelled.
For a person who can achieve that, when he observes inward onto his
heart, there is no heart; when he observes outward onto his body,
there is no body; and when he observes remote things, there is no
thing.
Since these three kinds of things have been understood by his heart
of true self, he sees only the emptiness. Observe the emptiness by
using the emptiness, the emptiness is not emptied. Since that which
can be emptied does not exist, the inexistence of inexistence does
not exist either; since the inexistence of inexistence does not
exist, there comes the pellucid, bright, and everlasting
tranquility. When it is tranquil but there is nothing that is made
tranquil, how can desires be produced? Since no desire can be
produced, that is the true tranquility -- the Reality.
The Reality always corresponds to, and reflects all things; the
Reality always stays in its nature. Always reflect in such a way,
yet remain tranquil constantly, then it is the Constant Purity and
Tranquility.
By keeping such purity and tranquility, one will gradually enter
into the true Tao. When the true Tao is entered, that is called the
Achievement of Tao. Though it is called the Achievement of Tao,
there is actually nothing to achieve, just in order to enlighten
living beings, it is called the Achievement of Tao. To those who
can understand this with the heart of their true self, the
sacrosanct Tao can be imparted.
The Elder Lord said:
A superior person does not compete, an inferior person loves to
compete; the superior virtue is free from virtue, and the inferior
virtue clings to virtue. Those who cling to anything do not
understand Tao and Virtue.
The reason why living beings do not achieve the true Tao is because
their hearts are deluded; their hearts being deluded, their
divinities are perturbed; their divinities being perturbed, they
are attached to myriads of things; being attached to myriads of
things, greed and desires are produced; greed and desires being
produced, worrying and afflictions also come. Worrying,
afflictions, and illusionary consciousnesses torture their bodies
and their hearts, and make them profaned by defilements and
turbidities, wander among births and deaths, immersed in the ocean
of afflictions constantly, and forever lose the true Tao.
The true and eternal Tao can be achieved naturally by those who
understand it with the heart of their true self; and those who
understand Tao with the heart of their true self, can constantly be
pure and tranquil.
The Immortal Elder Gok said:
I had achieved the true Tao. Formerly I had recited this scripture
ten thousand times. This scripture was studied and practiced by
heavenly gods, and was not taught to inferior persons. I received
it from Eastern Glory Heavenly Emperor, Eastern Glory Heavenly
Emperor received it from Golden Gate Heavenly Emperor, Golden Gate
Heavenly Emperor received it from Western Royal Mother. As for the
direct line of Western Royal Mother's disciples, they imparted it
only by word of mouth, and never wrote down the words. Now for the
world, I have recorded it by writing it down. A superior person,
who understands it with his heart of true self, will ascend high
and become a heavenly Immortal; a middling person, who practices
it, will get his position in Southern Heavenly Palace; an inferior
person, who gets it, will live in the world for a long time, and
then roam through the three realms, and ascend into the Golden
Gate.
Tzaw-Profoundness Real Person said:
For a person who studies Tao, if he recites and holds this
scripture, he will be guarded by virtuous gods of the ten heavens,
and then his divinity will be protected by the Jade Seal, his body
will be refined by the Golden Liquid, then both his body and his
divinity (sublimed souls) will become miraculously beautiful, and
he will dissolve in Tao as the Reality.
Midmost One Real Person said:
If a family has this scripture and they truly understand it, no
misfortune or obstruction will interfere with them, hosts of sages
will guard their door, and their divinities will ascend to the high
realm to worship lofty Real Persons in the present of them. When
their merits are sufficient and their virtues are completed, the
Heavenly Emperor will respond them, and by reciting and holding
this scripture without retrogression, they will fly upward riding
the clouds of purple light.
(End of Translation)
(Translated into English by Silfong Tsun)
(Last Revised: Jun/23/2007)