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Chapter One - Celestial Heart |
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The Patriarch Lu
said: |
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Be Natural is said to be Tao. Tao has neither name nor form. It is
only one's born nature, only one's primordial
spirit. |
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Life itself can not be seen. The
celestial light lodges it. The celestial light can not be seen. The
two eyes lodges it. |
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Ancient immortals
and men of reality have passed this on by word of mouth, one to
another. |
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Since the Supreme Lord manifested creation,
the East Flower Lord successively passed this on to me. Up to
the North and South sect, and flourished with the Quanzhen
School. . . .
. . .
Now I
garrulously be your teacher to surpassing. First reveal
the tenet of the Golden Flower of Great
Duality, then explain in detail. |
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The Great
Duality is so called being with nothing beyond
it. Knacks for cultivating the elixir
always make use of purposeful deeds to attain letting go, but never
a tenet for entering transcendence directly.
This tenet I pass
on, directly promote achievement of our true nature, without falling
to secondary approaches. This is why it is
wondrous. |
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The golden flower is namely
light. What form is this light?
It takes the phenomenon of a
golden flower, which also hides the word 'light' in it.
It is the
real prana of
the pre-heavenly Great
Duality, which is what the phrase: "The lead of the
watery hometown is only this one flavour" refers to.
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The work of reverting the light,
is wholly using a reverse method to concentrate and contemplate on
the celestial heart, which lies between the sun and the
moon [i.e., the two eyes].
The "Yellow Court Classic"
says: "In the field of a square inch (in between the eyebrows)
on the house of a square foot, life can be governed". The house
of a square foot is the face. As for the field of a square inch on
the face, what can it be other than the celestial heart?
In the square inch is
possessed the scenery of the splendour on
the tower of the fairyland, and marvel of the heavenly
jade capital and imperial palace, where the God of the utmost
emptiness and supreme spirit
dwells.
The Confucians call it the empty dwelling in the
middle; The Buddhists call it the terrace of the soul; The Taoists
call it the ancestral land, the yellow court, the mysterious pass or
the pre-heavenly aperture. |
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Because the celestial heart is like a house, with light as
its master, so once with light reverted, then prana
of the whole body will all pilgrimage up.
Like when a holy
king establish the capital and found his throne,
then thousand states will approach
with tribute. Or as, when the master is prudent, his
servants and maids will naturally follow his orders, and each handle
their duties.
All of you just revert the light, then there is
supreme wonderful significance. |
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Light easily moves and is
difficult to settle. If reverted long enough, this light
will congeal. That is the natural theurgical body, with the
spirit congealed above the nine skies.
This is what the
"Heart Seal Sutra" called: "Tacitly
attend towards ... ascension." |
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Going by this tenet, there
is no other means for seeking progress, only by pure thoughts
on this.
The "Surangama Sutra" says: "In pure
thoughts, one ascend, will surely born in heaven." The
heaven here is not the grey sky, but body borned at the house
of Qian (where
creation begins).
If long enough, then naturally have a body
outside this body. |
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This golden flower is the golden
elixir . Transformations of the spirit can be leaded by one's own
heart.
The wonderful knack here,
though not to deviate more than a hairsbreadth, yet is
very flexible.
All it needs is brightness and alertness, and also
settleness and tranquillity. People not extremely bright
and alert can not go by it; People not extremely settled and
tranquil can not hold to it. |
