It is very difficult for the practiser to refrain from using
this manifestating vitality (which is tempting). He has to
bury the heart (the seat of the fire of passion) in order to
resurrect (essential) nature;
Consciousness will gradually vanish
while essential nature will develop slowly. Perverse thoughts
will cease to arise giving way to one right thought. The union
of spirit and vitality means the death of consciousness and
the resurrection of essential nature. Heart and thought
which are now neither within nor without become a mass
of serenity which will remain still for a long time before
vibrating again.
At this stage
breath will not (be felt to) enter or leave (the body), the
serenity experienced is full of bliss, and the six senses are
blotted out to reveal one essential nature which is perfect
and radiant with the shining and pervading light of vitality.
When this light manifests, there will be neither day nor
night; this shining and pervading brightness will give the
practiser great comfort and he will acquire all six super¬
natural powers. This is the highest attainment.
It consists of developing the voidness which is
even more void and the emptiness which is even more empty
so that (essential) nature is like empty space and free from
attachment thereto; hence it is called absolute voidness. If
there is clinging to the concept of empty space it will hinder
the realisation of absolute voidness.
when (essential) nature is serene the incorporeal
soul will be hidden and the element of wood moves to the
head;
But at the age of sixteen his consciousness takes over the
control of his life, and his intellect develops gradually.
With inner fire soaring up in his body, his (essential)
nature is replaced by his heart so that desires and passions
fill his being.
So by troubling his heart and body, he dissipates his vitality and causes his (essential)
nature to vacillate.
If (essential) nature is still,
the incorporeal (soul) lies hidden to let the element of wood
If you want to get rid of wrong thoughts you should hold
on to correct awareness and they will cease of themselves
so that your heart will be like the bright moon in space,
immaculate and containing no foreign matter. As the heart
gets used to this condition it will be free from all illusions
culminating in the death of the heart and resurrection of
the spirit. For if spirit is not settled the light of (essential)
nature does not manifest and if intellect is not frozen
passions cannot be cut off.
For the cultivation of nature alone ensures only the descent of
positive fire without the ascent of (vital) breath from below,
the production of post¬natal negative spirit results in consciousness.
If you wrongly search for negative spirit by closing your
eyes to look into the (relative) emptiness of the void it will
lead to (the realm of) birth and death, which is in the pro¬
vince of consciousness;
For the death of the earthly heart exposes the
moonlight of (essential) nature which is always screened by the dust of
passions
so long as the mortal mind is allowed
to exist.
The method consists at the start of collecting spirit to
drive it into the cavity of vitality (under the navel) so that
vitality will envelop spirit until when utter stillness prevails
both will gather and unite into a whole which will slip into
that cavity where it will remain in an unperturbed state
called the immortal (Tao) foetus.
However, if stirrings and thoughts continue to arise and if
your heart (the house of fire) is not settled, spirit will wander
outside and (vital) breath will disperse; the foundation
thus laid will be destroyed.
If spirit wavers causing nocturnal emission
of the ‘most precious thing’ the absence of this light con¬
firms the loss of real positive generative force.
When
the (exhausted) generative force has been fully restored by
the alchemical process, it will have access to the ocean of
(essential) nature (hsin hai); this is the (tsu ch’iao) cavity in
the centre of the brain which is linked with the two eyes
and also with the heart (see pages 9-10).
When
vitality is purified it rises to the ni wan or brain which then
becomes the precious cauldron in which vitality is transmuted
into spirit.
Fire derived from spirit transforms the generative
force into vitality.
it subsequently re-starts from G down to J (for purification)
and then stops at A and is called the descending negative fire
Chapter 1 deals with fixing spirit in its original
cavity' , for man’s body, spirit, intellect, incorporeal (hun) and
corporeal (p’o) souls are all negative (yin) and obey the
heart’s impulses. When the heart is still so are all these
five, but when it moves they all move as well. Self-realisation
consists of transmuting this human heart into an immortal
one; hence the saying: ‘the cultivation of heart to preserve
(essential) nature’.
look at external objects, for there the
spirit wanders thereby harming the incorporeal soul (hun);
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