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(OP) User ID: 75789441  Australia07/18/2020 11:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the valley is the celestial valley, spirit is the original spirit within each person. the celestial valley harbors creation and transformation and comprises emptiness and void. a valley on earth comprises the ten thousand things and contains mountains and rivers. as the human being shares its endowment with both heaven and earth, it also has a valley. that valley stores true unity and houses original spirit thus the head has nine places, which correspond on high to the nine heavens. the palace in the center is called muddy pellet. it is also called yellow court, mount kunlun, and celestial valley; its names are many. as for the palace in which the original spirit resides, it is as void as a valley. since spirit resides there, it is called spirit of the valley if spirit is preserved, one lives; if it leaves, one dies. during the day, one is attached to objects, and during the night, one is attached to dreams; therefore spirit cannot secure its residence. it is like the dream of the yellow millet that was not yet cooked, or like the dream of nanke. all the glories, disgraces, riches and honors of a whole lifetime, and all the miseries, sorrows, pleasures and joys of a hundred years, are only a continuous single dream. this causes spirit to leave without returning and to wander around without coming back. thus the roads of life and death part from one another, and the paths of obscurity and light are cut off from each other this shows that you cannot live by yourself, it is only spirit that makes you live; and you cannot die by yourself, it is only spirit that makes you die. if spirit resides in that valley and does not die, how could you ever die? however, it is not only owed to the mysterious-female that "the spirit of the valley does not die". the mysterious is yang and heaven; the female is yin and earth.thus the two breaths of the mysterious and the female have a profound meaning the original spirit of the celestial valley: if you are able to guard it, you will become a realised person of your own. this means that within the human being, above there is the muddy pellet of the celestial valley, which is the mansion that stores spirit; in the center there is the crimson palace of the responding valley, which is the mansion that stores breath; and below there is the origin of the barrier of the numinous valley, which is the mansion that stores the essence the celestial valley is the original palace and the chamber of the original spirit. it is what preserves the numinous nature, and is the essential of spirit. the saintly persons are the essential of heaven and earth, the know the origins of transformations. their spirit is guarded in the original palace, and their breath floats in the mansion of the female. when spirit and breath conjoin, one spontaneously attains realisation, becoming one with the Dao and entering the domain where there is no birth and death. the sage operates within the mysterious-female, and creation and transformation occur at the center of the "indistinct and vague" when the breath of the mysterious-female enters its own roots, excessive idleness strays into anxiety, while attending to it strays into agitation. if you want it to be "unceasing and continuous", you should never interrupt it. to let it be continuous, maintain it by complying with its being-as-it-is. after a long time, your spirit of its own becomes peaceful and your breathing of its own becomes stable. your nature enters what-is-as-it-is. in the wondrous operation of non-doing, it will never be wearied or exhausted. therefore, "its operation never wears out" the 3rd shaking |
| Xenophon
(OP) User ID: 75789441 Australia07/19/2020 12:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ones true nature is 'unconditional love' Quoting: Anonymous Coward 79163927 You think a creation of god could not be? You claim the eyes you look from as your own, they're not, you had nothing to do with their creation. Do you think what is looking from gods eyes is flawed or lacking in some way? We are children of god created in perfection. God does not hide these truths, its you who is hiding from truth.8] \7] +++ The war being waged against everything natural and human is a war waged against god All the world shares the same sun. The higher the sun rises, the brighter it grows. The sun needs the earth also, to shine upon. Yet there are those who love the dark. Should the sun stop shining? Everything happens at its own time. What is strong must also be right, for only then will it last. If clouds obscure it, does the sun hurry past them? Clouds will pass. Every day the sun rises again Last Edited by Xenophon on 07/19/2020 12:33 AM the 3rd shaking |
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| Xenophon
(OP) User ID: 77674830 Australia07/21/2020 01:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Finding the light within the darkness and the darkness within the light and reconciling both The Medicine is born in the Mysterious Opening, The fire phases come forth from the Yang Furnace, When DRAGON and TIGER conjoin, The Golden Tripod gives birth to the Mysterious Pearl The Mysterious Opening is the Mysterious-Female. The mysterious is yang, the female is yin. Together they are called "mysterious opening" In the human body, the lower (cinnabar) field is the furnace, the place where spirit lodged. Fire is sent forth from here, therefore it is called "the yang furnace". Above the furnace there is the tripod. When quiescence culminates and there is movement, the medicine is spontaneously born. You should collect it at that time. After you have obtained it, if it is not heated and refined by means of fire phases, it would disperse again. If that happens, how could the mysterious pearl be generated? This is why you must "turn the gear of the barrier in the sinciput" and "steal the pearl under the chin of the black dragon" The medicine is fire, and fire is the medicine. When medicine and fire join as one, dragon and tiger conjoin, and the precious tripod of the suspended womb spontaneously gives birth to the mysterious pearl, sized as a grain of millet. Therefore you can send forth the fire from the yang furnace only after the mysterious opening has generated the medicine. If the right moment has not yet come, and you cause it to grow ahead of time, the external fire would circulate, but the internal response would not be in accord with it. You would set your body on fire Substantially, when spirit and breath harmonize and merge with one another, the mysterious opening spontaneously appears. After the mysterious opening has appeared, the fire phases are spontaneously known. After the fire phases are known, dragon and tiger spontaneously pair with one another. After dragon and tiger have paired with one another, the mysterious pearl is spontaneously formed. The wonder of this lies between "movement" and "quiescence" The mysterious opening does not pertain to being or non being and it does not fall into any category or rule, it lies outside the body and mind, and it emerges from the "vague and distinct". Therefore it is not a common opening the 3rd shaking |
| Xenophon
(OP) User ID: 78057259 Australia07/22/2020 06:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  concerning nature, there are the nature consisting in one's character and the nature consisting in what is bestowed by heaven. concerning existence, there are the existence consisting in one's destiny and the existence consisting in the breath of the dao the nature consisting in one's character and the existence consisting in one's destiny are the postcelestial nature and existence, which are provided with a form. the nature consisting in what is bestowed by heaven and the existence consisting in the breath of the dao are the precelestial nature and existence, which are formless. to cultivate the postcelestial nature and existence, one follows the course of creation and transformation. to cultivate the precelestial nature and existence, one inverts the course of creation and transformation those who practice the great cultivation borrow the postcelestial to return to the precelestial, and cultivate the precelestial to transform the postcelestial. when the precelstial and the postcelestial merge and become one, when nature and existence coagulate with another, this is called "achieving the elixir"  the 3rd shaking |
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