A New English Translation by Akrishi
The Tenet of the Golden Flower of Great
Duality
(The Secret of
the Golden Flower) |
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Chapter Five - Mistakes and Fallacies in Reverting
Light Note - DDB
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The
Patriarch Lu said: |
| 5.1.1 |
Gradually
all of you become adept at the practice. Yet before reaching
the state of being like a withered wood on the cliff, there are
many ups and downs, which I want to begin to point out in
detail. |
| 5.1.2 |
The
tidings here can only be known by direct experience, and this now I
can speak on. |
| 5.1.3 |
My sect is
different from Zen, as we have step by step signs of efficacy.
Let me first speak on the deviations, and then on the signs of
efficacy. |
| 5.2.1 |
When about
to practice the tenet, first make convenience, don't use your
mind too much. Let it be lively, and make prana harmonious, mind in
comfort, then sit in to meditate. |
| 5.2.2 |
In
meditation, need to gain the triggering
mechanism and the aperture, do not sit and do nothing, so
called not to remember emptiness. In putting aside myriad causes, just be wakeful in
oneself. |
| 5.2.3 |
Also should not take enthusiasm. If take it
too serious, then easily have this situation. Not to say don't
take it serious, but real tidings exist in the gap where
existence seems to be and seems to be lost, and this
can only be gained with while without intention. In
wakefulness without gloominess, lay down and be
oneself. |
| 5.3.1 |
Also
should not fall into the realm of skandhas. So called the realm of skandhas,
is where the five dark demons are in power. If in general, in steadiness
of mind during meditation, there is little feeling of warm
Spring coming to earth, but mostly feelings like that of a withered
wood and dead embers, this is falling into the realm of darkness
[i.e. Yin]. Its
prana is cold, and breath
deep, and also with many visions of cold and decay. If for
long time, then fall into stocks and
stones. |
| 5.3.2 |
Also
should not follow the myriad causes. If entering silence, and for no
reason trains of thought suddenly come, and can not get rid of them,
but feel comfortable following them, this is named the master
enslaved by the servant. If for long time, will fall into the
form realm and the desire realm. |
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The superior
ones get born in Heaven, and the inferior ones get born among fox,
e.g. fox spirits are such people. They enjoy sex, flowers and
fruits, jade trees and fairy grasses in famous mountains, for
three or five hundred years, maximium a few thousand
years, and when retribution get exhausted, will reborn in
the various
destinies. |
| 5.3.3 |
These few
are all wrong paths. Knowing the wrong paths, then one can seek
signs of efficacy. |
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