Saturday, August 22, 2020

Using the Black to see the Red: The SFQ practice image is Daoist Neidan as explained by Wang Mu Foundation of Internal Alchemy

 To quote Wang Mu

Foundations of Internal Alchemy

that quotes Xing ming guizhi

Circulate the Metal found within the Water in the northern direction, in order to control the Wood found within the Fire in the southern direction. This is called "using the black to see the red."

So the water is the black tiger while the fire is the red dragon.  

p. 25

Then coagulate your Spirit in the Summit of Qian and you will achieve the Elixir.

So as the Yuan Qi develops then based on alchemical reversal what was Water is now Heaven in the North (the lower body). Hence "coagulate the Spirit." see https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/08/why-wud-yang-shen-have-yin-qi-in-it.html

The reference explains

Black and red are the colors associated with the North (Water) and the South (Fire), respectively. The Summit of Qian is the upper Cinnabar Field. 

p. 24

The key here is that the Wood and Fire are lowered down by the Water and Metal going down the front - thereby controlling and reversing their direction.

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So then to go back to the SFQ logo:

The Intention (yi) is the operation of Spirit; the so-called True Intention means that the thought activity issues from the Spirit.... 

Intention is also called...Intention-Soil...Therefore the alchemical texts also call it the Yellow Dame: "Yellow" indicates it pertains to the central agent Soil and "dame" means that it is the "matchmaker", a metaphor for the intermediary that allows the joining of Yin and Yang."
So this is why the "sine-wave" is yellow for the SFQ logo that joins the red and black.

p. 40

Awakening to Reality attributes a great importance to the Intention-Soil, considering that the True Intention operates throughout the entire alchemical process: Metal, Wood, Water, and Fire achieve completion by means of the True Intention (zhenyi).

Wood stands for the Original Spirit and Fire stands for the postcelestial spirit.

So again alchemically the yin qi of wood with the fire as shen must be turned around (go down through meditation) - so the Yang Shen guides the qi internally so wood combines with metal in the water, to access the Yuan Shen manifesting from the Yuan Qi. The water-metal then goes down the front after the wood-fire goes up the back!

Intention (yi) guides the Breath and the Breath journeys through the Function and Control vessels....When one enters the state of quiescence, it is said that "the Intention follows the turning of Breath."
p. 42

So that is the paradox of nondualism, at first the spirit guides the qi, then the qi guides the spirit!

ji means the Ji-Soil since Ji is contained within the trigram Li, [fire] it means the Original Spirit [yuan shen] (also called... True Intention)

By refining the Ji-Soil you obtain the Mercury within Li, the Sun. By refining the Wu-Soil you obtain the Lead within the Kan, the Moon. The Ji-Soil rises, the Wu-Soil descends.

Others call it "using the kidneys to replenish the heart"

p. 55

So most qigong just teaches sublimation without the Reversal of the Elixir - meaning the WuSoil descends down the front (not down the back as its normal course). The Ji-Soil rises up the back (not up the front, it's normal course).

 The yin shen (moon) and yang shen (sun) combine with the yin qi (wood) and yang qi (metal) to create the Wuji as the Soil or Yellow Light of the Yuan Shen enlightenment. This is considered the first half of Enlightenment and the initial step to Lay the Foundation.

 "Time in Chinese Alchemy." In Vivienne Lo and Michael Stanley-Baker, eds., Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine. London: Routledge. Scheduled for publication in 2019. [PDF (Draft)]

http://fabriziopregadio.com/files/PREGADIO_Time_in_Chinese_Alchemy.pdf

 

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