The Invisible Current

Look, it cannot be seen—it is beyond form.
Listen, it cannot be heard—it is beyond sound.
Grasp, it cannot be held—it is intangible.
These three are indefinable; therefore they are joined in one.

From above it is not bright;
from below it is not dark:
an unbroken thread beyond description.
It returns to nothingness.

Form of the formless,
image of the imageless,
it is called indefinable and beyond imagination.

Stand before it and there is no beginning.
Follow it and there is no end.
Stay with the ancient flow
to master the things that are here and now.
To know the ancient beginning
is the essence of wisdom.