Forgetting Object and Self, Unifying Inside and Out; Breaking the Self, Revealing the Dao Body.

"The Dao of Heaven is vigorous and unceasing, bringing aid to all living beings; therefore the real breaks the false, and what has surplus transforms what is lacking. Once the positions of Heaven and Earth are fixed, the pivot of yin and yang is established; the mechanism of life and death is hidden, and the signs of rise and decline are revealed. Without speaking, it shines together with sun and moon; without being summoned, Heaven and Earth respond of their own accord. Examine its principle, and it is simplicity itself; test its effects, and they are like those of a god. Truly, it is the ancestor of all things and the root of life and fate."

"Qianyuan begins all; pure yang is its root. The Grand Ultimate divides into the Two Modes; yin and yang separate, and Heaven and Earth are born. Yang reaches its extreme at nine; encountering eight, it returns to Taisu. Taisu is the wood virtue of the east, the essence of yang, the source from which light begins."

"The Dao has neither end nor beginning, while things have death and life. Life is not the beginning, death is not the end; it is like a ring without a starting point, like the changing of the four seasons. One who knows end and beginning does not rejoice in life, does not abhor death, follows transformation naturally, and roams together with the Dao. Heaven and Earth themselves cannot endure forever—how much less can man? Only by being together with the Dao can one attain eternity."

Yang Zhengshan carefully browsed through the contents of the Sun True Scripture. The earlier parts were nothing special, all cultivation methods of the Sun True Scripture, but the contents that followed were somewhat strange.

"Only by being together with the Dao can one