The Secret of the Golden Flower = The Golden Elixir of Immortality

[deci belle]

The I Ching says to refine the self by mastering the mind; mastering the mind is turning the attention around to gaze inward.

 

How is this any different than Wenshi's saying to turn the light around to illumine its source?

 

The Secret of the Golden Flower is the same as the alchemy of the Gold Pill, the immaterial elixir of immortality. There is no need to get excited about it. All one need do is to seek the source correctly.

 

The correctness of turning the light around to discover its source is in Governing the Home. The home is the self.

 

Refining this self is refining yin. What is yin? Yin is the human mentality.

 

When one learns to turn the light around, the human mentality turns into the mind of tao, and one unconsciously follows the will of God; follows one's desires without ever stepping over the line.

 

 

 

 

ed note: change "follows the will" to "unconsciously follows the will" in the last paragraph

Edited December 12, 2012 by deci belle

[suninmyeyes]

Hey Deci,

Nice .

 

edit: I was asking something but figured it out just now.

Edited December 12, 2012 by suninmyeyes

[deci belle]

but figured it out just now.

 

Yay!!❤

[deci belle]

Since things come from the way, they are no different than the way, so it is not a matter of abandoning things to search for the way. Nothing is "given up".

 

For starters, reversal can be expressed and developed simply by not taking it upon oneself to habitually intellectualize arbitrary opinions and feelings towards anything at all whether objects of self or other are internal or external phenomena. Another word for this is not-doing or nondoing. Laotzu used the term, "Like a dunce".

 

Creation is the manifestation of the way. There is nothing else to work with. The only difference between enlightening activity and willingly going along in the matrix of karmic momentum, is turning the light around. There is no other mind and no other light. It is possible to arrive at the beginning and cross over into the unborn mind itself by reversing the light and shining it back onto its source where you are right now. This is the unexcelled method of adepts.

 

Arriving at the solidification of the totality of oneself is entry into the inconceivable. This is sudden enlightenment. Though it is instantaneous realization, the process of self-refinement is carried out in a sustained subtle course of unbroken effort over a long period of time— like a hundred days, a thousand days, ten thousand days— it doesn't matter to those who have the will to enlightening being.

 

The teaching is sublime, but it is people's own habitual selfish ignorance, physical, mental and spiritual laziness and avarice that prevents them from seeing reality as it is, even now in the reading of these words.

 

Just as nothing is gained from sudden enlightenment, nothing is lost in turning the light around. Try it.

 

All the taoist classics speak of return, tell of reversal to arrive at reality, but no one can accomplish this.

 

It is such a pity.

 

As for the Secret of the Golden Flower practiced by ignoramuses— the waterwheel and derivative exercises are discussed in countless other manuals. It is unconscionably perverse to insist that energetics is the import of this transmission.

 

If only for the fact that a few European adventurers who arrived on the scene of a science deeper than science itself (and only a few thousand years late to boot), that there is a wasteful contention that not only overlooks the point of the teaching itself, but (during its European heyday), tried to make it out as a heavily-veiled mystical wonder too good for ordinary people. Oooooooh (Must. Genuflect. At. Jung's. Altar.)!

 

In spite of the shortcomings of Wilhelm's source document and its poor translation, the real benefit of its debut in the West's lexicon was simply that it was discovered at all! An excellent version of an authentic source document has been available in English since 1991: ISBN 0-06-250193-3.

 

It is just that body-based energy work is easy to grasp, while working with the light of consciousness is inconceivable, that people covet their tiny little specks of practice and imagine that a minor subtle-body trick will somehow, eventually transport them to inconceivable realms~ veritable signposts on the way.

 

If you want to arrive at entry into the inconceivable, it is necessary to work with inconceivability from the very start.

 

 

 

 

ed note: add "Like a dunce" in the second paragraph

Edited December 25, 2012 by deci belle

[Friend]

Edited January 24, 2013 by Friend

[deci belle]

Friend's remark…

 

Posted 23 January 2013 - 06:44 PM

 

 

If you want to arrive at entry into the inconceivable, it is necessary to work with inconceivability from the very start.

 

 

ed note: add sentence to Friend's cryptic emoticon quote

Edited January 26, 2013 by deci belle