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1939 · PDF PAGE 6

Khing Kang King

… HATH TWIN PHASE, WITH THE TEH : THE SILENT AND THE STRESSED. OF MOTION, THOSE ; OF THESE, REPOSE SUBLIMELY MANIFEST. HEAVEN MOVES, PURE SILENCE HE ; EARTH RESTS, BENEATH THE STRAIN ; SHUTTLE AND LOOM, AS WORD AND WOMB, THEIR MYSTERY SUSTAIN. PURE MOTION MAKETH REST AS SILENCE MAKETH STRESS. IF MAN WERE STILL, THEN HEAVEN SHOULD THRILL WITH EARTH TO NOTHINGNESS. SELF LOVETH SILENCE. YEA, BUT MIND DISTRACTETH IT. MIND LOVETH REST ; BUT PASSION’S PEST ALLURES THE TREMBLING WIT.

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1939 · PDF PAGE 8

Khing Kang King

SLAY SPACE ; THEN NAUGHT ABIDES. HOLD NOT THINE HOLY HAND ! WHEN NAUGHT GIVES BACK BEFORE THE ATTACK, SERENE THY SILENCE STAND ! ALL’S REST, DEVOID OF MARK ; HOW SHOULD DESIRES FIX TOOTH ? WHEN THEY ARE PAST, THOU SURELY HAST THE SILENCE OF THE TRUTH FLAWLESS THAT TRUTH AND FIXED YET APT TO EACH APPEAL NATURE AND SENSE TO INFLUENCE— THE MAGNET TO THE STEEL ! OH ! THIS TRUE TOUCH WITH ALL ELASTIC AND EXACT THAT YET ABIDES ABOVE THEIR TIDES— THE SILENCE FREE FROM ACT ! HE THAT HATH THIS SHALL COME LITTLE BY LITTLE, A BREATH, SO FLOWETH HE NOW, TO…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 7

Khing Kang King

IF MAN RESTRAIN DESIRE, HIS MIND WILL CEASE TO ROLL, AND MIND’S RELEASE ALLOW PURE PEACE OF SILENCE TO THE SOUL. THE SENSES WILL NOT SOIL ; THE THOUGHT WILL NOT UPSTRESS ; NOR POISONS (GREED, WRATH, DULNESS) BREED THEIR TRIFORM DEADLINESS. MEN EARN NOT EASE OF TAO FOR THEIR DESIRES’ DISEASE ; BECAUSE THEIR MIND IS NOT REFINED OF THOUGHT BY KILLING THESE IF ONE SHOULD SLAY DESIRES, HIS MIND AND BODY SEEM NO LONGER HIS, BUT PHANTASIES DANCED IN A WANTON’S DREAM. SLAY MIND, SLAY BODY, SLAY THE EXTERNAL : MATTER GOES. THEN SPACE REMAINS ; RENEW THY…

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1939 · PDF PAGE 10

Khing Kang King

…TRESS OF BITTERNESS, AND LOSE THE TAO FOR EVER. THE TRUE, THE ABIDING TAO ! WHO UNDERSTANDETH HATH ; WHO HATH THE TAO IS HERE AND NOW IN SILENCE OF THE PATH.

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