{"id":7139,"date":"2026-07-09T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrss.webdesignseo.my\/?page_id=7139"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:15:23","slug":"saint-mo-advice-for-cultivators","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wrss.webdesignseo.my\/zh\/dao-cultivation\/saint-mo-advice-for-cultivators\/","title":{"rendered":"\u9ed8\u771f\u4eba\u8a13 \u00b7 \u5b8c\u6574\u8bad\u672c"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Planchette Message From Saint Mo (\u9ed8\u771f\u4eba) \u00b7 Hong Kong Planchette (\u8655\u79d1), Xinyou Year, 21st Day of the 11th Lunar Month (17 November 1981) \u00b7 Recorded by J\u00ecng Hu\u012b \u00b7 \u8655\u79d1\u8a13\u6587, pp. 183\u2013186 Hong Kong Red Swastika Society <\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Complete Message <\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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For a new cultivator\/disciple, the first goal in seeking cultivation is this: doing good is the greatest joy; goodness is to be treasured. From ancient times to the present there has been repeated proof of this maxim – for Heaven shows no favoritism, but constantly accompanies the good. Auspicious energy descends upon goodness; calamitous energy descends upon evil – this is nothing other than the response summoned by one’s own single heart\/mind. Yet there is genuine goodness, and there is that which merely resembles goodness but is not. Therefore, in doing good, one must also seek cultivation – seeking out where the true principle actually lies, and correcting the impure delusions that pass for it.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u7687\u5929\u7121\u89aa\uff0c\u5e38\u8207\u5584\u4eba<\/em> draws on two classical formulas at once – <\/em>\u7687\u5929\u7121\u89aa\uff0c\u60df\u5fb7\u662f\u8f14<\/em> (Shangshu) and <\/em>\u5929\u9053\u7121\u89aa\uff0c\u5e38\u8207\u5584\u4eba<\/em> (Laozi 79) – conflated here as a single well-known proverb.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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2. Purifying the Mind and Lessening Desire – the First Goal <\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Yet cultivation lies in the single heart-mind.\u00a0 Why, then, must one also sit in stillness? If the heart-mind is not still, it is not clear; if it is not clear, it is not bright; and if it is not bright, the dregs within it cannot be dissolved. The first goal, then, is to purify the heart-mind and lessen desire [<\/em>\u6e05\u5fc3\u5be1\u6b32<\/em>]. Why must one do this? Before seeking cultivation, one has not yet learned to sit in stillness and does not yet know how great a bearing the purifying of the mind and the lessening of desire has upon human life and the body.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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People simply follow whatever factors their present circumstances and occupations, acting as they please, believing that this is simply what life is. Everyone follows a similar path in this, and no one knows how to nurture their own body and mind. The results each person obtains, however, differ. Most people, only after passing age forty, start to notice that body and mind feel somewhat different from before.\u00a0 Yet not knowing the reason why, they seek out medicines and health tonics, hoping to restore their former condition.\u00a0 And most cannot get what they wish for. When told that this is bodily and mental decline, and that signs of gradual ageing will follow, most do not believe it, saying instead: \u2018This is merely a passing, minor discomfort – everyone experiences such things; apart from this one point, I feel nothing else out of order, and it will resolve itself within a few days.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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When a person has the affinity to seek cultivation and to practice sitting meditation, he would gradually come to know its benefits and gradually come to know the effects of purifying the mind and lessening desire. At the same time he realizes that his thinking before this had not had a single moment – not even a second – of stillness, and that the fatigue he had felt came from the wrongful use of stimulants to relieve it. Once a person has reached this stage of purifying the mind and lessening desire, and gradually wishes to progress further, he becomes curious, from many angles, about what comes after – how, having purified the mind and lessened desire, one’s very temperament [<\/em>\u6c23\u8cea<\/em>] is transformed.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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He may take up the study of scriptures or of the transmitted instructions or seek out others with whom to exchange and refine his knowledge – not realizing that once the work of purifying the mind and lessening desire has continued long enough, the change of temperament comes about of itself. How can this be verified? By examining oneself carefully: the things one used to be fond of, the matters one used to delight in – why has one’s interest in them now diminished? And why has sitting in stillness come to feel like eating one’s daily meals – such that, if one does not sit, it feels as though some task has been left undone, as though a meal has been missed?<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Yet during this period, although there is some small progress, the desire for profound attainment and doctrine also intensifies. Take the study of scripture as an example: during this period one is very easily led astray – hindered by the literal text, or, because one’s level of attainment has not yet arrived, guessing wildly, so that even when the guess is right, one does not know it. At times one grows confused again, the sense of it feels wrong and unclear, and one tries this or that in hope of stumbling onto understanding – but this approach is not a good one. For, upon inspection, The Holy Arctic Canon is not always so profound as it may appear; one may think there is something further to pursue, but such pursuit lies entirely in genuine realization [<\/em>\u5584\u609f<\/em>] – taking one’s own immediate body and mind, and all the affairs of daily life, as the evidence to test it against, and reaching realization through actual cultivation, actual meditation. This is far more effective. One should not be so fond of the lofty, so eager for the profound, as to chase after innate pre-cosmic [<\/em>\u5148\u5929<\/em>] attainment; one must understand that innate attainment, and the degree to which it is reached, are both won through effort done in one’s ordinary, acquired post-cosmic [<\/em>\u5f8c\u5929<\/em>] body and mind. Why should this all rest upon silent realization [<\/em>\u9ed8\u609f<\/em>]?<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Take, for example, the ability constantly to preserve the essence, and the instruction<\/em>\uff1a<\/em> \u201cregulate the fire, guide the water\u201d [<\/em>\u5206\u706b\u5c0e\u6c34<\/em>]. For a newly cultivating disciple, one should not chase after innate pre-cosmic work, but ask instead: how does one naturally preserve the essence? How does one naturally regulate fire and water? How can I do these naturally? In a single sentence: most simply do not know where to even begin. Speaking in plainer, <\/em>post-cosmic<\/em> [<\/em>\u5f8c\u5929<\/em>] terms: essence refers to the essence within one’s own body’s essence, vital energy, and spirit [<\/em>\u7cbe\u6c23\u795e<\/em>]; when essence is consolidated, energy stabilized, and spirit condensed, this essence – spoken of in its post-cosmic sense – is the very essence capable of begetting children, and is the refined quintessence of the five viscera and six organs. If one does not know how to preserve and nourish it, then even before the age of twenty or thirty, one may already show every kind of sign of weakness and decline and may even develop illnesses beyond cure.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u7cbe\u6c23\u795e<\/em> (essence, vital energy, and spirit) is the standard inner cultivation; <\/em>\u5148\u5929<\/em>\/<\/em>\u5f8c\u5929<\/em> (innate\/pre-cosmicl vs. acquired\/post-cosmic) is likewise a pair of distinguishing primordial endowment from ordinary bodily effort.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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During the years of youthful development, everything in the body is at its most vigorous – yet one does not realize that youth carries with it ailments one is unwilling to disclose to others; and once these have persisted a long time, they become difficult to treat. There are those whose lifelong happiness is affected because of this: arising from the impulses of adolescent development, and from not understanding the principle of preserving the essence, it becomes an affliction one can no longer control. Tuberculosis is, in many cases, preceded by this kind of weakening, which then allows the tubercle bacillus to invade and take hold – and there are a great many such cases of which friends and relatives know nothing, and of which even parents remain unaware.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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9. Sources of Injury to the Essence – Delighting in the Thing Without Seeing the Harm <\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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All this shows how important the preserving of essence is, even at the post-cosmic level. <\/em>Beyond this, there are other favored pursuits that likewise injure the essence: staying up day and night hoping to guess correctly the winning numbers of the lottery [<\/em>\u516d\u5408\u5f69<\/em>], or playing the game of mahjong – winning is tense, and losing is no less tense; drinking alcohol to excess, smoking tobacco to excess, harbouring wrongful thoughts until right and wrong become confused and reversed, a single muddle from beginning to end – all of these are sources of injury to the essence. In the midst of all this, one delights in the thing without recognizing its harm, takes pleasure in it without guarding against its poison.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Even in matters of eating, drinking, and daily living – the ordinary affairs of everyday human relations, each and every task – there is a principle by which the essence is either preserved or injured. Cultivation begins from one’s own person, in everything one does; self-examination likewise begins from oneself, in everything one does. Consider, too, the seven emotions, the six sense-faculties and six sense-objects, greed, hatred, delusion, and craving, and arrogance, impulsiveness, partiality, and haste [<\/em>\u77dc\u8e81\u504f\u6025<\/em>] – all of these are matters of a single word, a single deed, the very place where intention and thought first stir; this is where cultivation and the treasuring of what is essential take place. As for all these matters of acquired life, however much we seek to cultivate them, they can never be exhausted – when, then, will we ever finish? And there are still the Four Vows besides, which need not even be mentioned here. As for the character <\/em>\u7a40<\/em> [grain], put simply, it refers to the spleen and stomach. The stomach is the \u201csea of grain\u201d of one’s post-cosmic existence: with a stomach that functions, there is life; without it, there is death – from which its importance can be seen.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Everyone must eat daily; one who goes a whole lifetime without stomach trouble may indeed be said to know how to preserve and nourish himself. Yet most people eat without regularity of time or quantity, injuring themselves through gorging and bingeing, and suddenly flaring into anger, which overcomes the stomach in turn; the spleen, once injured, no longer functions properly, and the stomach, once injured, can no longer take food – developing sores and ulcers, for which even the chance of surgery may be counted a stroke of good fortune.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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This matter of flaring into anger and indulging in lust – a heart crowded with covetous desire – means one is then unable to regulate the fire and guide the water. This regulation is, in itself, something the body can naturally accomplish; but when a person’s own vital energy becomes obstructed, the body is instead injured by it – even to the point of the heart and kidneys failing to communicate [<\/em>\u5fc3\u814e\u4e0d\u4ea4<\/em>], bringing about wasting-thirst and indigestion, and illnesses of sleeplessness and loss of appetite – all of these can come about in this way.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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All of this comes about because the vital energy cannot be calmed, and the mind cannot be brought to silent stillness. On this point alone – how many months and years, how many rounds of sustained effort, are needed before cultivation can succeed? Because vital energy cannot be calmed, people sit in ways that do harm, and the resulting injury means one cannot even attain the first step of post-cosmic accomplishment. Fellow cultivators – I hope you will each apply yourselves more diligently here and give yourselves further to study and inquiry. As it is said: travelling far begins from what is near; ascending the heights begins from what is low [<\/em>\u884c\u9060\u81ea\u9087\uff0c\u767b\u9ad8\u81ea\u5351<\/em>] – one must not skip over the proper stages in seeking the mysteries of the innate. Ha, ha.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u884c\u9060\u81ea\u9087\uff0c\u767b\u9ad8\u81ea\u5351<\/em> draws on Zhongyong 15 (\u201cThe way of the noble person is like travelling far: one must start from what is near; like ascending heights: one must start from low ground\u201d). <\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The First Goal – <\/strong>doing good is the foundation of cultivation, but goodness itself must be cultivated – tested against true principle rather than mere appearance – and this requires \u6e05\u5fc3\u5be1\u6b32 (purifying the mind, lessening desire), reached only through stillness in seated meditation practice.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Guard Against Premature Innate\/pre-cosmic Pursuit – <\/strong>scripture study and the wish for profound attainment can mislead as easily as they help; genuine realization (\u5584\u609f) is tested against one’s own body, mind, and daily affairs, not against clever interpretation of the text.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u5bf6<\/strong>\u7cbe<\/strong> as Both Physiology and Spirit <\/strong>–<\/strong> preserving the vital essence is treated simultaneously as a bodily and a spiritual discipline; its violation – through unchecked youthful impulse, drink, tobacco, gambling, anger, or irregular living – damages both.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Cultivation in the Ordinary and Small <\/strong>–<\/strong> diet, sleep, emotion, and the \u201csingle word, single deed\u201d of daily life are named as the true site of cultivation, not a separate or lesser concern from meditation itself.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Gradual, Not Leapfrogged, Progress <\/strong>–<\/strong> the address closes by invoking Zhongyong\u2019s image of travelling far from what is near: cultivators are warned against skipping foundational, post-cosmic (\u5f8c\u5929) work in pursuit of lofty pre-cosmic (\u5148\u5929) mysteries.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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