Friday, April 6, 2018

The Mother of the Elixir: Returning back to Foundations of Internal Alchemy by Wang Mu

So now that I discovered, a week ago the:
link between the Ming Dynasty text entitled ‘Xingming Gui Zhi’ (性命圭旨) – or the ‘Principles of Inner Essence and Longevity’ – By Yin Zhen Ren (尹真人) and Zhao Bichen’s (赵避尘) famous manual entitled ‘Xingming Fa Jue Ming Zhi’ (性命法诀明指) – or ‘The Secret Cultivation of Essential Nature and Eternal Life’.
Then suddenly I was able to better understand the switching of the Sun and Moon from chapter six and seven that previously - for the past 18 years - had caused a wall of confusion for me. haha. The Moon is the liver as the green dragon as the right eye with the Kidney also as the Moon as the Water tiger. The Lung is the Sun as the left eye while the lungs are the Sun as the White Tiger with the heart also the Sun.

So even now I have to review all this. And so when I noticed last night that the book "Foundations of Internal Alchemy: The Taoist Practice of Neidan" by Wang Mu is actually based on Awakening to Reality - which is actually the source of the quote,"right hand grabs the white tiger, left hand grabs the green dragon."....

So then I knew that this book by Wang Mu, first published in a journal in 1982 and then as a book in 1990, would have a lot more details. Sure enough there is more details on the small universe as based on the I Ching. There is too much to get into - and again all the details have to be studied - in connection with the other two books.

The "original breath" or yuan qi of the Yuan Jing is called the "mother of the Elixir" - that is good enough for me for now. haha.  sample pdf

slide show overview of the book

yes the left/right is east/west based on facing south while the lower body is north and upper body is south.

So then for males the left hand is yang and right hand is yin since the hands are considered the lower body as they hand below the belly.

The left leg is yang and so should be "embracing" or above the right leg - in full lotus and this then activates the liver energy more on the right side of the body.

The right kidney is also activated more as the yuan qi.

The left eye is the lung but as the sun while the heart is the sun and the right eye is the liver as the moon while the kidney is the moon.

So the interaction is much more complicated than Western views.

So you can not separate left and right from top and bottom - and the meanings change based on the level of practice you are at.

You can study the books, "Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality" and "Foundations of Internal Alchemy" by Wang Mu and then the 1615 text, ‘Xingming Gui Zhi’ (性命圭旨) – or the ‘Principles of Inner Essence and Longevity’ – By Yin Zhen Ren (尹真人) 

If we study these three texts then the details of the alchemy training are revealed. But it is quite complicated.

For example I was confused by the change from chapter 6 to chapter 7 in the book Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality.

In chapter 6 the Sun is the left eye as the lungs and the Moon is the right eye - and so the Sun is also the heart is negative qi or yin qi of the liver which is the moon as the right eye.

So if you study the eye movements for example - when you rotate the eye to the right you do this on the back - at the kidneys - during the small universe meditation - and this is then the green light as the liver energy of the green dragon. Whereas on the heart you rotate the eyes to the left as the lung energy of the white tiger. So even though the white tiger is the West as the right side of the body it is moving to the east and vice versa.

That is the secret of how the water tiger is turned into the white tiger and the fire dragon is turned into the green dragon.

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