Wednesday, December 12, 2018

The Emptiness is the Yuan Qi as Formless Awareness, the 5th dimension

alchemy is an eternal process of fire under water which then increases and inverts in the pineal gland (copulation of yin and yang qi) and goes back down as water into fire. When the center chakras open up then the Yuan Qi is activated - which is nondual formless awareness - neither inside nor outside - it is the 5th dimension. Now let us review this fundamental formless awareness of the Universe.

The last part you wrote is incorrect though. Sorry! haha.
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Yuan Qi transforms into Yuan Shen. Yuan Shen transmutes to the Void and the Void goes to the Tao.
I'll find a bunch of quotes to disprove this.
 
2015 - ‎Religion
In fact, the “mysterious" is water and the “female" is the mother. People of this world mutually ... Spirit is the child of qi, and qi is the mother of spirit. Spirit and ...
Stephen Eskildsen - 2015 - ‎Religion
to perceive a connection between the subtle qi that forms the “womb” and the ... and qi by saying that “spirit is the child of qi, and qi is the mother of spirit”神爲炁/ ...
Louis Komjathy - 2007 - ‎History
[21a] When practicing exercises, spirit and qi revolve.351 Qi follows intention (yi จ). When practicing ... Spirit is the child of qi, and qi is the mother of spirit” (1.1b).
 
OK first let's get back to the OP of the thread. The key here is instead of Westernized mumbo-jumbo - we want specifics of the training based on psychophysiology.
 
 Tai Chi Chüan: Harmonizing Taoist Belief and Practice - Jeaneane D. Fowler, Shifu Keith Ewers: 
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The triagram Li is fire and predominantly yang, but the important middle line is yin, and so the Dragon is female. It is the yin essence in the yang, water in fire, the female in the male, the moon in the sun. It is referred to as Green Dragon....It is water that rises, being heated, and is therefore fiery but yielding, rising to Heaven.      The triagram K'an/Kan is Water and predominantly yin and female. But the middle line is yang and alchemically it is the yang in the yin, the White Tiger, ....its function is to descend to Earth when fire reacts with it. It is the fire in the water. ...the Yang within the Yin of saliva-lead to go downward... downwards they strengthened the primary chi [yuan qi].....
 
So is that clear enough for you - the way to increase yuan qi is from AFTER the dragon and tiger "copulate" in the third eye and then the saliva (amrita - cerebrospinal fluid) goes down the front, is swallowed). The Yuan qi is then absorbed back into the small intestines.
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The self-cultivation of the divine Immortals only consists in collecting the precelestial One Breath and using it as the Mother of the Elixir....The precelestial Breath (qi) is the One Breath of the Dao.
 
So that is the Yuan Qi.
http://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan/ruyao_jing_1.html

 
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.  


General Discussion of the Medicine Collecting Method.  excerpted from The True Transmission of Ba Gua Zhang 八卦拳真传 Ba Gua Zhang Zhen Chuan by Sun Xi Kun 孙锡 堃
https://www.internalartsinternational.com/free/sun-xi-kun-daoism-part-iv-general-discussion-medicine-collecting-method-2/
 
See how it says "spirit...enter the qi." - it does not say "spirit transmutes to the void."
 
Let's get more details:
 
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What do you mean by ‘driving the fire’? Answer It is the positive fire as will be explained in Chapter 6. Chapter 4 has already dealt with gathering the microcosmic outer alchemical agent in order to return it to the stove (in the lower abdomen); since this agent is still not yet sublimated by fire, it can drain away like tea poured continuously into a cup which overflows and spreads outside. This positive fire can transmute the agent in the stove into vitality (in order to stop its overflow).
 
The shen increases the yuan qi!!
 
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the psychic strength to develop, expand and unite into one whole reaching the core of the brain where it transmutes the (microcosmic) outer alchemical agent (already gathered there) into life-preserving true vitality;
aka yuan qi.
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If the outer sun and moon do not mingle their lights the inner water and fire do not ‘copulate’ and prenatal true vitality cannot manifest.
So the yuan shen BUILDS up the Yuan qi.
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This continual sublimation will result in deeper concealment of the spiritual fire in the light of vitality so that the positive spirit will be kept in its original cavity (tsu ch’iao).
so then as the yuan qi builds up then the yang shen manifests.
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This is prenatal vitality in the prenatal state which in fact is 
wholly positive vitality, or positive spirit created by the five 
kinds of eyes (see below) and six transcendental powers, which is 
visible to others, can speak to them, can pick up objects and 
has the same features as his own body.... The true Tao is 
prenatal 
spirit-vitality.
 
https://archive.org/stream/TaoistYogaAlchemyAndImmortalityLuKuanYCharlesLuk/Taoist Yoga Alchemy and Immortality Lu K’uan Yü (Charles Luk)_djvu.txt

After it has shrunk the practiser should breathe in to drive the generative force into the base of the spine and thence up the backbone to the brain; and out to send it down to the lower tan t’ien centre (under the navel). Quick fire is produced by strong and slow fire by gentle breathing. It is most important that each complete breath should turn the generative force back to the source (below the navel) in order to put an end to the arousal of the penis.
So the key secret is again the fluid has to flow out of the skull and be swallowed down the front. and
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Hence the method of correct breathing to circulate quick fire up and down (in the microcosmic orbit) and so immobilise the generative force causing the genital organ to retract (thus stopping the drain of vitality). This secret of sublimation consists in one word ‘knowledge’,
 and so...
this boundless prenatal vitality [YUAN QI] which is the true essence of the positive and negative principles between heaven and earth, is used to create the immortal foetus which now has shape’. 
This is the union of (positive) 
and (negative) spirits which produces the immortal foetus.
So the Yuan Qi is the essence of the Shen - the "mother" of the shen."
 
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The primal qi (li yuanqi) ....formless
"Since is it the undivided yin-yang it is called the One Vitality."
 
and
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the Taoists elixir of immortality or spiritual light; which all point to the prenatal One True Vitality.

Yuan Shen transmutes to the Void and the Void goes to the Tao.
Let's make sure this point gets cleared up:
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This is the manifestation of positive spirit (yang shen) which will take form when it gathers in one place or will become pure vitality [yuan qi] when it scatters to fill the great emptiness which will be its boundless body.

OK let's make sure we are clear:
 
Chinese Medical Qigong textbook translated by Kevin Chen, written by Tianjun Liu
states:
https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/05/concrete-thinking-and-yuan-qi-part-1.html
see all the quotes there - copy and pasted from the book.
I'll retype a bit since this site no longer allows copy/pasting from pdf.
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"The essence, qi and spirit are all...transformations of original Qi.
Original qi meaning Yuan Qi.


 
Liu Ming's xiuzhen houbian
tl Fabrizio Pregadio in Cultivating the Dao:
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They are different from the precelestial qi of True Unity, which is indestructible for ten thousand kalpas, transcends all things, and is "the only Honored One." Neither life nor death adhere to it, neither Being nor Non-Being are established in it. This qi is the root of the postcelestial jing, qi, and shen, and the ruler of the precelestial jing, qi, and shen.
http://www.academia.edu/6581869/Discriminations_in_Cultivating_the_Tao_Liu_Yiming_1734_1821_and_His_Xiuzhen_houbian
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With “true” Existence, Liu Yiming means that each individual is given life by the One Breath (yiqi) of the Tao, the constant and unchanging state of Unity through which the Tao manifests itself and generates transient and changing forms. Within this broad framework, each individual is nothing but an ephemeral form created by the One Breath; however, just like any other entity of phenomenon, it is supposed to perform its own function as part and parcel of existence as a whole.
Let's try to  make this real clear:
In the Theory on Yuan Qi of Taiji:

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"Taiji refers to the state of integrated yuan qi before the separation of heaven and earth. It is the great beginning and the great one."

The Mind Inside Tai Chi: Sustaining a Joyful Heart

By Henry Zhuang
2015, YMAA 
and
 


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Taiji was initially just one qi, which then separated into yang and yin through motion and rest. ...it was a common view ...to regard Taiji as one qi - before yin and yang are divided.

https://jeelooliu.net/
 
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California State University, FullertonACPA (The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America): President, 2010-2012





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