Recognizing true lead

[deci belle]

In order to learn to recognize the true lead, one must know there are two aspects to temporal aware being.

 

Intellectual conscious knowledge is what we come to habitually use to create illusion and form views relative to, and in support of, our personal identification, or personality. Originally a functional aspect of the conscious self, when it over-rides its proper function and takes over control of conscious awareness, self-conscious characteristics of the ego-driven human mentality suppress the totality of awareness and potential of real human being.

 

Conscious knowledge then becomes insecure, unstable, flighty and so is symbolized by mercury or quick-silver.

 

The temporal totality of awareness and potential of real human being includes the flexible capacity of real consciousness and firm, unequivocal real knowledge, symbolized by lead.

 

Lead is metal; dense and heavy, which easily sinks. If not buoyed warmly, held securely and intimately nurtured by real consciousness, real knowledge sinks and becomes unavailable to human awareness and so the totality of awareness and potential fragments. This is why ego is insecure— but it is not the fault of anyone else.

 

Real consciousness then loses its real function and becomes conscious knowledge. When true lead, real knowledge, separates from the totality of awareness and potential, it becomes the tiger which runs off and hurts one's neighbors as errant feeling. Since it stays in the province of other, the first task of alchemy is to call it back.

 

But in order to call errant feeling back and thereby restore the true lead, one must first find the center. So the way to return the self to sane energy is to gradually build up the will by lessening self-importance and exercising unbending intent.

 

The true intent of the human body has no location, so it is not a matter of focusing on any point in the body. As I have stated often, no aspect of alchemy is outside the realm of adapting to everyday ordinary situations. It is not found in quiet meditation nor in grafting or energy-work. The medicines are immaterial, the furnace and crucible are immaterial, and the elixir of the gold pill is immaterial. Though this center is immaterial, it is not found outside one's real body.

 

Because it contains the impulse of life within it, it is called the center, the yellow woman, because it is responsible for joining the medicines, it is called the go-between. This is symbolized by earth, which is still and stable.

 

The inherent capacity to realize and maintain the unity of the totality of one's being is the true intent of the immaterial human body. Not a person, it is the vessel of inherent enlightening being used to secure and refine conscious knowledge and real knowledge.

 

When one knows to follow the purpose of perception independent of personality and intends the realization of the totality of one's being, unbending intent is then used to dismiss personal histories, stop the internal dialog and lose self-importance in order to forget feelings, cultivate sane energy and abandon the habitual states of one's conditioned personality.

 

When the feelings are forgotten, true lead returns to conscious awareness and selfish reasoning loses its influence over the human mentality, enabling one to avoid self-generated trouble.

 

The true lead, real knowledge, is the knowledge of absolute certainty, which is the absence of confusion. This is then the initial return of real knowledge, independent of reason— which is the seed of sane energy of the real body. Nurture this with conscious knowledge using subtle concentration twenty-four hours a day warm in the vessel of the earth pot, true intent.

 

In the first arising of yang within yin, it will not do to use it. In terms of the medicines, this is restored metal in water, symbolized by the trigram Water. In terms of Yang potential of the firing process of spiritual alchemy, this is symbolized by the 24th hexagram, Return.

 

When one achieves the return of certainty of the living potential, what is necessary is to not act on it. Just nurture this single vague yang consciously in the stillness of Earth, until it is replete.

 

 

 

 

ed note: add ", until it is replete.", in the last paragraph

Edited December 1, 2012 by deci belle

[XieJia]

As always,

love your articles.

 

have a nice weekend.

 

the true is always

[deci belle]

Oh, thank you, XieJia!!❤

[deci belle]

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