Awakening to the Tao by Liu I-Ming

Author:Liu I-Ming [I-Ming, Liu]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2006-04-17T22:00:00+00:00

Midday and the Full Moon

At midday, the sun begins to set; once the moon is full, it begins to wane. This cycle of yin and yang, filling and emptying, waxing and waning, is an established, unchanging pattern.

What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of the cultural and martial processes in cultivating reality.

Before the original basis has been restored, you use intensive effort to summon it, causing it to grow and develop. Then when the original basis has been restored to completeness, it is like the sun at midday, like the full moon—yang energy is complete.

At this point, you should receive the yang energy with yin, immediately employing the path of flexibility to incubate it, getting rid of hard hot energy and preventing danger. Concealing illumination, nurturing it in secret, with undistracted unified attention, seal it tightly and store it away.

Using one part of yin to store each part of yang, do not allow any leakage. This is like the way the sun begins to set after noon, the way the moon begins to wane after the full moon. When the yang fire and yin convergence are both attained, the cycle is completed and begins again, with yang energy being reborn.

This is called the strong, healthy, unadulterated vitality. The spiritual embryo is completely formed, and there is a separate heaven and earth that is not of the human world. This is the primal within the primal. Go on to do advanced work, building up this vitality bit by bit, at first faint, eventually becoming evident, and this becomes the unknowable sanctity that is called spirit.

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