8.1 The mind in the mind
Selections from the scriptures of Master Guan

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Tao fills the whole world,
Existing wherever people dwell.
Yet people are incapable knowing it.
With the one word understood,
Above, one may explore Heaven;
Below, reach the extremities of Earth;
Circulating about, cover the whole of the nine regions.
What do we mean by understanding it?
This lies in the regulation of the mind. 

When our minds are well regulated,
Our senses are also well regulated.
When our minds are at ease,
Our sense organs are also at ease.
What regulates them is the mind.
What sets them at ease is the mind.
The mind therefore contains a inner mind.
That is to say within the mind there is another mind. 

In that mind of the mind,
The power of awareness comes before sound.
After awareness come forms.
After forms come names.
After names comes putting the mind to use.
After putting the mind to use comes its regulation.
Without proper regulation, there is certain to be confusion.

If there is confusion, there is certain to be death.

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Edited by A.J. den Hond