Introduction to HAC_Saint Mo
April 22nd, 1966 (Bingwu year)
Admonition by Saint Mo：
The Holy Arctic Canon (HAC) states “Admonitions are words of advice.” These advices, when diligently and conscientiously meditated upon, will dawn upon you in relevance to your circumstances. Admonitions are necessarily profound and encompassing. They must be studied with care and in quietude in order to get to the Truth.
The opening chapter summarizes the HAC succinctly. Without further ado, you are invited to examine the impregnability of your will and believe in the cultivation endeavour. Those who waver would slack and finally give up well before they realize the Truth expounded in the HAC.
Those who are determined to strive for the Truth single-heartedly would witness their calls being answered. Single-heartedness is the underlying key to the ultimate embodiment of Dao principles, unity with heaven and earth, holistic comprehension of Dao principles, cultivating those principles and putting them into practice. Please do not equate “calls being answered” to be those of ordinary mundane affairs.
If your given primordial gems are clouded and eventually lost because you failed to safeguard your post-cosmic kun [the true yin life forces of the post-cosmic realm that will activate the true yang forces latent within], i.e. incapable of regaining the spiritual self, this signifies that you are going against the way of the Dao principles. The further you are away from the Dao principles, the more undesirable the consequences. The divine verdict that would be served to you in the final analysis is due to your own hatching, fair and square. Lament not that the divine is intolerant and unforgiving. Own up to your misdeeds.
The Truth in Dao is realized through the four processes of “safeguarding,” “Absolute Quietude,” “Spiritual self transformation” and “Single-heartedness.” Progress in cultivating Dao principles and striving for the Truth happens within the snaps of active-quietude states of deep reflections. Halt all deplorable and heretical thoughts and acts of hypocrisy. Dismiss the treacherous and punish turpitude. Ensuring that these degeneracy traits do not taint your character is how moral perfection may be attained through self-cultivation. After all, self-deliverance begins with purification of the heart-mind. With regard to transforming the corrupted, you would have to go through the Spiritual self-transformation and Single-heartedness processes to be empowered, to guide change and transformation with pre-cosmic energy and creative intelligence. Before that, the Safeguarding process is about keeping to the right path with Dao principles; whereas the Absolute Quietude process is about drawing upon the movements of your life forces to stop the movements of perverse forces.
All these fall back on being impregnable in your will and belief in Dao principles. That will power alone determines the effect of your mitigation effort. That will power alone allows you to be continuously atop of moral perfection where the command of Dao principles is the command of your heart-mind. The prevalence of this gracious energy over perverse forces spreads bliss and bless lives far and wide. That precisely is the “calls being answered” to our Vows in achieving cultivation strength and meritorious deeds, moral perfection, striving for the Truth and deliverance of the masses.
I urge fellow cultivators of Dao principles to delve into the details. You are also reminded to contemplate and mediate on the precepts and the inscriptions, as well as reflecting on the commandments on a regular basis. New comers are advised to make this a daily ritual. Raise questions and seek clarification as you need at weekly meet.