I take all my information from the James Legge translation from 1891. I prefer this because he does not try to tell you what the language means, he translates it first. Then in his footnotes he makes his personal comments.
Part1 chapter 3.
"Always without desire we must be found,
If its deep mystery we would sound;
But if desire always within us be,
Its outer fringe is all we shall see."
Right up front he lays it out for us. Desire is a human brain generated concept feeling. So how do we plum the depths of our being; in order, to uncover the desires we are not conscious of? When we do uncover them, become aware of them, how do we remove them from our being?
I see this as the inner journey to find our center. Peeling our onion in modern words. Shifting our consciousness and seizing those moments to shift our perception when we do. over and over and over again.....
"Still if you practice observation with a mind attached to projected reality, you will never be aware of bad feelings in yourself. Only when your mind is utterly detached from projected reality can you observe the phenomenal world and truly understand right and wrong. In fact, you are just like a sobered man. Freshly awakened, he can now see the evil he did while he was drunk, deeds of which he was completely unconscious before." Life of Sima Chengzhen: Sima Chengzhen (AD 647-735) was a renowned Daoist priest of the Tang dynasty.
Brian
Part1 chapter 3.
"Always without desire we must be found,
If its deep mystery we would sound;
But if desire always within us be,
Its outer fringe is all we shall see."
Right up front he lays it out for us. Desire is a human brain generated concept feeling. So how do we plum the depths of our being; in order, to uncover the desires we are not conscious of? When we do uncover them, become aware of them, how do we remove them from our being?
I see this as the inner journey to find our center. Peeling our onion in modern words. Shifting our consciousness and seizing those moments to shift our perception when we do. over and over and over again.....
"Still if you practice observation with a mind attached to projected reality, you will never be aware of bad feelings in yourself. Only when your mind is utterly detached from projected reality can you observe the phenomenal world and truly understand right and wrong. In fact, you are just like a sobered man. Freshly awakened, he can now see the evil he did while he was drunk, deeds of which he was completely unconscious before." Life of Sima Chengzhen: Sima Chengzhen (AD 647-735) was a renowned Daoist priest of the Tang dynasty.
Brian
