Thursday, August 16, 2018

Lights of inner water and fire and the Pupils of the Eyes as Kidney, water

Copulation of Dragon and Tiger (yin qi and yang qi), Sun and Moon (left eye and right eye), Heart and Lower Tan t'ien (Sun and Moon as dragon and tiger). - there is a very fascinating double reversal going on that I have commented on before. This is what Stuart Alve Olson misidentified in his commentary. I too was confused about this before.

the female 
element of wood is the moon.
So this is liver yin qi.
If the outer sun and moon 
do not mingle their lights the inner water and fire do not 
‘copulate’ and prenatal true vitality [yuan qi] cannot manifest.
Outer sun and moon, meaning the light of left and right eyes.
Their "lights of inner water and fire" means the light of yang qi (the right eye as water, the tiger) and the light of yin qi (the sun, left eye as fire, dragon).

So the Moon is yin qi as Wood but the light of the yang qi (moon as right eye, yin shen) is the "Sun" hidden within the Moon of the lower tan t'ien.

yes this is very fascinating. So when the "generative force" is replenished - the yin qi - then the light of the yang qi manifests as the yin shen.

Since is it the light of the Lower Tan T'ien as yin qi restored - then it is still the light of the Moon as yin shen even though it is from the hidden yang qi within the water.
In the same way unless the 
generative force has been fully restored to its strength at 
puberty it cannot produce the light of vitality which is 
white like moonlight. 
So at first this light of the yang qi is seen just internally as the relative void but only when the yin qi is fully restored does the yuan qi manifest - the light is then seen externally as well.
nature-vitality which is negative
 So Nature-Vitality is one half of the prenatal vitality - and so it is Earth or Yin, negative, it is activated when the yin qi is restored.
prenatal true nature-vitality in (essential) 
nature whose light is like moonlight

 So this is the Moon hidden within the Sun of the heart and the Sun hidden within the Moon of the lower tan t'ien (water).

A white light from the heart illuminates all 
Things

It's quite fascinating that "inner water" is used only once in the Taoist Yoga book but "inner fire" is used 33 times!
In other words the "inner water" is the "fuel" that is close to the fire.

When (essential) nature and (eternal) life unite in the 
confused state in the cavity of vitality (under the navel) the 
least carelessness on the part of the practiser may cause his 
failure to keep them together there; spirit will then leave this 
centre and the most precious thing will drain away at night. 
This is the most critical moment when he will either preserve 
or injure (eternal) life.... 
When the practiser first achieves the state of stillness he 
realises only minor serenity which lasts one day in which 
dullness and confusion cause him to be unconscious, like 
a dying man who is breathless.
This is as far as I got in the training!
in the first phase heaven begets the element of 
water in the pupils of the eyes which are linked with the 
kidneys;
by drawing the pupils of the eyes close to each other 
in order to bring the cavity of vitality (under the navel) into focus
Both heart (house of fire) and breath should 
be frozen in the lower tan t’ien; although the (vital) breath 
may leave it occasionally, the heart should never stray from 
it. The heart and the pupils of the eyes should always con¬ 
centrate on that centre until the postnatal (vital) breaths 
return and stay there to sustain prenatal vitality which will 
nurture and develop the seed that causes the light of the 
elixir to manifest.
that is the original cavity of spirit 
(yuan shen shih or the ancestral cavity, tsu ch’iao); its 
left and right sides are linked with the pupils of the eyes by 
two (psychic) channels; and it is also connected with the 
heart. 1 Hence it is said that essential nature is (in) the heart 
which manifests through the two eyes.
 So the pupil of the eyes are the "inner water" as kidney qi - yin and yang - brought together as "true" generative force - yuan qi - hidden in the water (ambrosia, elixir of light).
This negative state comes from an interruption of the inner (vital) breath which 
stops giving support to spirit fixed in the cavity of vitality 
(below the navel) thereby cooling the inner fire in the lower 
tan t’ien and preventing the light of the elixir from mani¬ 
festing.
He should then concentrate on spirit 
(between and behind the eyes) and drive it down into the 
cavity of vitality (under the navel) where spirit and vitality 
become inseparable,
So we have heart, spirit, fire, yin qi (left eye pupil), yang shen, Sun
Lower abdomen, water, yuan qi, and yang qi (right eye pupil), yin shen, Moon

From the centre of the brain the channel of function 
(jen mo which has joined the tu mo in the brain) descends 
in the medulla oblongata to link with the hsuan ying cavity 
(the mysterious bridle behind the heavenly pool in the palate) 
which is connected by a fork with the upper jawbone where 
true vitality (see note 4 page 6) can (easily) find an outlet 
to disperse. Under the hsuan ying cavity is the throat by 
which the channel of function goes down in the pulmonary 
artery, the right ventricle of the heart, the hepatic artery 
under the diaphragm where is a cavity called chiang 
kung (or the solar plexus) which is under the heart, thence 
down to the cavity of vitality (or the lower tan t’ien below 
the navel) before reaching the testicles from which it 
returns to the cavity of mortality (at the root of the penis).
 True nature is prenatal vitality [Yuan Qi] in its cell (ch’i pao) on the top of the medulla oblongata. ...In nocturnal emissions the generative fluid carries with it (some) vitality which thus leaves its vibrating cell in the centre of the brain to pass into the spine and then reach its base to drain away. It is this vitality which animates spermatozoa which, in its absence, become lifeless and non-reproductive. This cell is linked with the brain above it, the base of the spine below and the whole nervous system in the body and is the source of the vital energy of life.
So "into the spine" should be the Governing Channel while the channel of function is in FRONT of the spine.

So there are the "two" channels that go down - the yin and yang qi - after splitting from the pineal gland - just as they "split" to go to the two eyes.
‘Freezing the fire’ means that both eyes in unison look 
down into the cavity of vitality (the lower tan t’ien under 
the navel) which is called the gate to life (ming men) which 
is below and behind the navel and below and before the 
kidneys,
 Fire - yuan Shen= yin qi moon
Water - Yuan Qi = tiger

This is prenatal vitality in the prenatal state which in fact is wholly positive vitality, or positive spirit

When life-vitality meets nature-spirit they 
unite and stay in the same cavity
 Yuan Qi and Yuan shen -

This rolling of the eyes will cause spirit and vitality to 
unite into one single gem which is called the prenatal true 
seed (hsien t’ien chen chung). 
 So the Yang Qi of the Yin shen (yuan shen, right eye Moon, water) and the yin qi of the yang shen (left eye Sun, fre)

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