"To keep the One and illuminate the Way: within the light lies true darkness, clear as one who gazes into water. This is the light of the moon."
"To keep the One and illuminate the Way: darkness fills all four directions, yet the belly shines from within. This is the light of perfect harmony, the way of great accord."
"To keep the One and illuminate the Way: there is darkness without and darkness within, with nothing to hold and nothing to see. Such a person is troubled by evil and disorder. Hasten to aid him with prescriptions and medicine, seek the first seven chapters, and search within."
"To keep the One and illuminate the Way: the old grow young again, white hair turns black, and lost teeth regrow. Keep the One for a month and gain a year of life; for two months, gain two years, and so on."
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"The essence of the moon becomes a turtle and hides in the depths of the source."
Bai Xiaowen kept expending mental energy as he silently recited the final section of the Great Peace Scripture, the Gui section.
Strangely enough, Bai Xiaowen did not fully understand what the scripture meant. Yet as he recited it, his senses sharpened and countless visions sprang up in his mind.
One moment, his body felt strong and light, as though he might float away to become an immortal. The next, he burned all over as if trapped in a furnace. Then cold seized him from head to toe, as though he had fallen into the deepest underworld.
But even as those visions arose, he had to rein in his wandering thoughts and subdue his restless mind. If his mental energy broke off, all the effort he had put into this reading would be wasted.
Bai