Master Lu's Teachings Blank Imagination Whenever I'm asked what a Taoist eats, I reply: "nothing". In that very
moment an abyss gapes in the mind of my interlocutor, filled up immediately with all kinds of thoughts: "I see, he is a Taoist and he doesn't eat anything for he has reached the ineffable state, the perfection, he doesn't need food anymore!" He/she is fascinated by this thought and continues to embellish on the same subject all kinds of wonders which a Taoist master is ostensibly capable of. But I meant "nothing" not as if I wouldn't eat anything! I wanted to say
that I eat what anybody eats, meaning nothing special, nothing out of the common. Still, the very fact that I was taken for a Taoist and moreover a Master, endowed me with special powers, miracles and acts of fairy tales. And thus appear the legends about immortals, about people passing through solid matter or flying through the air! This is what I call blank imagination. |