Book of the Way Book of Nonsense This book is for school of naturalists, School of naturalists are for one, Thus this book is for everyone. 1. To find the way The way is everywhere but you can find it nowhere. If you know where to look, you’ll find nothing. You won’t attain it by meditating, You won’t find it in the temples, You won’t learn it from the priests. To find the way, Go to the low places, It will find you. 2. The way of the way The way is before, The way is after, The way is always. The way is birth, The way is death, The way is life. The way is female, The way is male, The way is human. The way is one, The way is many, The way is all. The way is flow, The way is balance, The way is flow of balance. The way is not is, The way is are, The way is the way things are. 3. On nonsense What is nonsense? The knowledge of everything. Nonsense is the names used to convey meaning of things. The meaning is not the name, the name is not the thing. What is nonsense within nonsense? Everything and nothing. When there is nonsense within nonsense, (darkness within darkness) The nonsense can be compared and contrasted with the other. 4. The way of the void For the universe, The way is the void, The void is filled with darkness. Darkness within darkness, The gateway of all things. For the earth, The way is the Mother, The Mother is filled with life. Life within life, The source of all being. For one, The ego is the void, The void is filled with knowledge. Nonsense within nonsense, The source of ones reason. Thus to understand the way, Know the male yet keep to the female. Know the white yet keep to the black. 5. The way things are not is the way things are The way is not something one constructs, It is the way one is deconstructed. It is not something that builds up, It is to ‘take things away’ in order to understand. To understand the ways that things are not, Is to understand the way things are. It is the only way that always remains, Hence ‘the way’. 6. The procession of progression The way is the way that needs no goodness, morality or ritual. When the way is lost, there is goodness. (virtue) When goodness is lost, there is morality. (religion) When morality is lost, there is ritual. (root of religion) Ritual is the beginning of chaos. 7. The way of ego For one, the ego is the ‘form’ of the void, The void is filled with knowledge. Nonsense within nonsense, The source of ones reason. If your ego is big, you contain much nonsense. The nonsense is yours and there is no room for more nonsense. No nonsense within nonsense, no more reason. If your ego is small, you will contain some nonsense. The nonsense is yours and there is no room for more nonsense. No nonsense within nonsense, no more reason. Those who understand don’t compare sizes. To understand is to have an ‘open ego’ and thus 'no ego'. This way all the nonsense of the universe can come and go, Your way (ego) becomes like the way (void) of the universe. You are left with nothing, only the understanding of everything. 8. Taoism is not dao Taoism is for the way, What bricks are to mud. The way is formless and full of possibility. Taoism is the useful thing that is probable, Based on what people want or need to understand, Relevant for a time, relative to a place. Therefore to understand the way, Know what bricks are but play in the mud. 9. Talking nonsense It doesn’t matter what you are talking about, As long as you are talking about what matters. 10. Orphic dao To understand the mysteries, Die and come into being. Remember, do not forget, Drink not of Lethe. 11. The way of fanaa Die before you die, Annihilate the self, Then you understand. The way is within all things, The way is within all religions. Remember and do not grow arrogant, For it is only a glimpse of what is relevant. 12. Love is the way To explain the way is like explaining love. When someone asks why do you love me? What words are sufficient to convey it? Which example won’t lessen the whole meaning? 13. The way of nothing To show the way, Is like teaching zero to those without it. They say, How is this nonsense useful? 14. Be useless Where people are useless, Be useful. Where people are selfish, Be selfless. Where people are fake, Be real. When selfish fake people act useful, B e useless. 15. Beware Those who want to end all violence, Are the violent. Those who want to end all insanity, Are the insane. Those who want to end all pestilence, Are the pests. Those who want to end all death, Are the death of all. They think they know things, They don’t understand. 16. The way breaks you The way is not pretty pictures or feelgood quotes. The way is understanding. To understand is to yield regardless of the cost. To yield is to sacrifice self for all, To sacrifice knowledge for the way things are, To sacrifice doing for the way of being. To sacrifice every one thing for no one thing. The way breaks you to understand the whole. Once it does then nothing can break you again, When there is nothing left to break then you understand. When you understand everything is easy and effortless. 17. Darkness within darkness There is ‘dark matter’, There is ‘dark energy’. There is matter, There is energy. There is ‘strong interaction’, There is ‘weak interaction’. There is gravity, There is electromagnetism. There is the ‘yin within the yang’, There is the ‘yang within the yin’. There is the yang, There is the yin. 18 Schools of thought If there are a hundred schools of thought, They can be summed up as four, The four are two, the two are one. Those who know are the ‘school of naturalists’, Righteous are the ‘school of law’, Virtuous are the ‘school of scholars’, Those who understand are ‘school of the way’. Schools of thought are the fundamentals of the human mind, Like guanine, thymine, cytosine and adenine are for the body.