Is qi that rises up the du channel yang fire?
How can it be yang if the lower part of the body is yin and the upper part of the body is yang? It would make more sense (when you visualise the hexagrams) that the lowest part of the body is fully yin, and that which rises up the du channel from it is still yin, with increasing amounts of yang?
Yes it is confusing. I was researching this yesterday - rereading Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality. I did a blog post on it.
http://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/06/how-quick-fire-activates-positive-fire.html
Only I called it "positive fire" - as the book calls it - meaning Yang Fire.
How Quick Fire activates Positive Fire (positive vitality) or Yuan Qi that is the secret of the small universe meditation
So the Yang Fire does go up the governing or control channel in the spine but it first has to be CREATED alchemically.
For the positive yang cannot accumulate without aid from the negative yin; hence vitality should join the generative force to become fire.
Only the eyes are positive whereas the rest of the body is negative. It is these positive eyes which will overcome the whole negative body so that gradually the positive principle (yang) will develop daily while the negative principle (yin) will decrease correspondingly. As time passes the whole body will become positive. This is what the saying means by: ‘If the negative principle is not entirely wiped out immortality cannot be achieved.’ This also is the retreat of negative fire.
For the cultivation of nature alone ensures only the descent of positive fire [yang qi as yuan qi]
The upper body is yang as Heaven - while the lower body is Yin as Earth.
This is called the four yin-yang with the Heart as yang and Heaven and the Kidneys as yin and Earth.
But alchemically - the Fire of the Heart as Yang is the Yuan Shen from the Yuan Qi of the middle tan t'ien.
O.K. so alchemically this is the eternal process of putting the Shen as Fire into the Earth to turn the Water into Air (qi).
So the alchemical meditation starts with the yang of the upper body and it has to "descend" - But just as importantly the Water has to be raised above the fire - and this is what the Quick Fire breathing does. So you use the Post-Natal fire (breathing) to activate the pre-natal fire as Heaven.
So the Lower Tan T'ien contains the alchemical pill as the shen under the jing - which creates yuan qi.
But the lower body, as was pointed out in this thread, is the Yin Qi - and so for the golden Yang Shen to develop - then this Yin Qi emanates a golden light as the yin qi is increasingly converted to yang or yuan qi.
So first you have to restore the yin qi so it fills the body - and so you have the energy of a 16 year old full of generative force. Most people never even achieve this first step. That then means the lower tan t'ien is fully activated with the fire but - now the Cauldron as the Middle Tan t'ien is activated as the Yuan Qi.
So you have to maintain celibacy - which is difficult - because everyone is going to want your energy. So the Eyes are the only positive Yang aspect of the body - which means the eyes constantly send out the yang qi (the yuan qi) from the heart. But with the Eyes open - then Heaven and Earth are SEPARATED - and so the Heart and Kidneys are also not mixed alchemically. So by closing the eyes and rotating them - the left eye is the yin qi of the liver and the right eye is the yang qi of the lungs - this is the dragon and tiger.
So then only by using Quick Fire as deep strong breathing and rotating the eyes - do you then "cure" or bake the bricks - or turn the lead and mercury into gold - meaning turn yin and yang qi into yuan qi of the heart.
So Yuan Qi is "undivided yin-yang qi." If there is impurity - then the lower tan t'ien is deconverted back with the separation of yin and yang. Yang qi has substance and so is the real lead of the white tiger. Yin qi does not have substance and so it is the mercury. Yang qi is the ionized lecithin - and so is the fluid within the vapor. Yin qi is in the blood and so is the vapor in the fluid. So the alchemical pill is a mixture but the Qi itself is Pressure Energy - and so creates a strong "basketball" anti-gravity pressure force.
So when Yuan Qi is activated then the Yuan Shen manifests - and so the Yang Fire is both the Yuan Qi and the Yuan Shen. Then Yuan Shen is yellow light that is seen externally - and so it is the Yellow Sprouts as the Middle Tan T'ien.
But to fully open the third eye - then you have to keep building up the Yuan Qi by building up the yin qi - and so any lower emotional energy as yin qi has to be cleansed and purified back into yuan qi - constantly. You can not leak energy either physically or psychically.
And... so the Yuan Qi is the "one" - meaning it is also the Emptiness as the source of the Shen. So the Yuan Qi actually guides the Shen - from the Future. This was referred to in this thread - meaning that when you build up a Yang Shen you are also restoring the Yuan Jing - and this is called "yin matter" (alchemically) - and it is actually from the future - virtual quasi-matter. So to convert the yin qi into yuan qi means to have the Shen or Light get turned around - and this is the relativistic mass of light from the future - the virtual photons that turn matter into mass.
So this process is eternal - as listening - the formless awareness - also called Fa Shen - or the Absolute Void that radiates light.
So we store the Yuan Qi in the lower Tan T'ien but originally it was united - pre-natally or pre-heaven - through the heart. And so through the heart again we access the formless awareness of the Cosmic Qi - that is also Yuan Qi - when the body is filled with the yin qi and the yuan qi is activated.
So just as dragon and tiger "copulate" or mix - then since Light does not experience space and time - the Light has zero rest mass - and so it is eternally being guided by the Yuan Qi as formless awareness. This is called Shen-Qi. So as I quote on my blog:
In Daoist meditation the trigram Kan represents the Kidneys and Dantian. Kan is full in the middle (it has a solid yang line in the middle). The yang line in the center indicates that there is a true yang-fire within yin-water. Li represents the heart and chest. Li is empty in the middle. This symbolizes the hidden true yin-water within yang-fire. Normally, fire is light and rises to the chest and water is heavy and sinks to Dantian. This is the post-heaven state whose trigram configuration moves temporally from birth to death. However if fire is brought beneath water, they mutually restrain each other and interact. This creates steam and condensation which is a rarefied energy. Then the middle lines of the trigrams switch places and the Qian trigram and Kun trigrams (Hexagram 11: Tai) are formed creating the original pre-heaven state, which in Daoist beliefs leads to stopping of the temporal movement and therefore “immortality”....It is known that the two nostrils under the nose are for respiration. This is because they can correctly grasp Heaven and Earth. In exhalation one’s own internal Yuan Qi exits. In inhalation, Heaven and Earth’s correct (positive) qi from outside, enters. When the body is strong and healthy, it is possible to take in this correct qi of Heaven and Earth, so that one’s lifespan can be lengthened. If the Jing Qi is week and feeble, the correct qi of Heaven and Earth will disperse and escape with exhalation, the body’s Yuan Qi (Original Qi) will not return and instead will be taken by Heaven and Earth. Everyone fails to understand that qi is the true medicine for prolonging life and cannot find the gate to enter....In the Wu Ji state, the nose develops first, and then the two eyes. The spiritual qi of the eyes comes from the brain. The manifestation of intelligence in the brain comes is generated by the heart.... If the body and form are uneasy and the heart-mind moves, then the spirit will not enter the qi and the body’s qi will be consumed and dispersed. Then one’s nature will be confused and will lack understanding. Therefore it is said that the body’s spirit must not exit.
https://www.internalartsinternational.com/free/sun-xi-kun-daoism-part-iv-general-discussion-medicine-collecting-method-2/
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The gate of the Mysterious-Female is called the root of Heaven and Earth. It is unceasing and continuous, and its operation never wears out.
So why is it called the Mysterious-Female if is it Yang Qi as Yuan Qi?
Because alchemically the Positive Fire as Yang Qi has an inner "Female" that must descend while the Earth as yin has an inner "male" that must ascend.
It can be said that the ancestral cavity is the mysterious entrance that humanity must pass through during self-cultivation, but the mysterious entrance is not inside the body, and the ancestral cavity is not outside the body.
http://qianfengdaoismuk.weebly.com/daoist-meditation-stills-and-calms-the-mind.html
You must unify your will (concentrate yourself). Do not listen to it with your ears but rather listen to it with your mind. Do not listen to it with your mind, but rather listen to it with your qi. ...Qi however is something that is empty and waits for things. Only the Dao gathers where it is empty.
The heart is called Yi because when intent moves, spirit is agitated; qi is dispersed. Qi is the Mother of spirit; Spirit is the child of qi.
So Yang Shen creates yuan jing. Yin qi creates yang qi - also called "positive generative force" or "positive vitality" or positive fire or prenatal vitality (yuan qi). Yuan qi activates Yuan Shen which is still a Yin Shen. The yin qi also has yin shen. So the Hun Soul of the liver is a yin shen and the Po Soul of the lungs is a yin shen.
So the spirit of the Earth is a Yin spirit but as the yin qi is converted to yuan qi - then white-yellow light of the Moon becomes Golden as the Yang shen.
Yin qi has no substance while Yang qi has substance as the alchemical pill since it creates yuan jing or original essence. This is why celibacy has to be maintained and purification and cleansing has to keep occurring.... And also if a person does create a yang shen - then it will not want to enter back into this body, once it leaves the body. So it has to be "trained" to enter back into the body - since there is still some demonic yin qi left in the body, even though the yang shen has been created. And so the Yuan Qi is what guides this whole process and then in the end the Yang Shen still vaporizes back into Yuan Qi. The Yuan Qi decides if the Yang Shen will manifest again - as a golden immortal body.
So the paradox being that the more immortal a person becomes, the less of an individual person or mind they have. It is an impersonal process of energy transformation. The Emptiness does the healing and transformations.
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