Cultivate Vita-Vapor of Great
Unification(1)
In lower elixir field there are two orifices, of which most people don't know. The external one is the source of yin and yang, the chamber in which congenital vita-vapor takes residence, the origin of the breathing of a foetus and acquired breathing, while the internal one is the apartment in which to halt all acquired breathing, and the source of the constant standstill to which the practitioners should come.
When you have brought down the vita-vapor of great unification you gathered by revolving two eyes to the lower elixir field, the false heart is close to death, and the true heart begins to appear little by little. Only when the heart of greediness has passed away, the congenital nature can be offered with the chance to prevail with its pure light brightening up everywhere.
The
proper way practitioners should take is to fix the mind-will upon the
lower elixir field with no forceful exertions, so as to let the mind-will
touch nothing. So long time have you fallen back into the emptiness and
stillness, and been kept aloft from any stray thoughts that yin congenital
mind-will will be "evaporated"and melt away, and the boundless
tract of the heart will be purged of anything that is subject to the control
by greediness.
With the state continuing for you don't know how long time the Mysterious Pass will show its presence and the psychical rays, pure and solitary, will hang above in the emptiness of the heart. Yet when perceiving the psychical rays are going to steal away you should embark on the revolving of two eyes to gather the vita-vapor of great unification, and then bring it down into the lower elixir field. This done, and rumbling sound have heard, you should gaze upon the lower elixir field till you feel a wave of heat is surging up continuously. On perceiving this you should let the mind-will lead this wave of heat upward from lower elixir field to ascend middle elixir field, then conduct it down into lower elixir field again---all should be done slowly and gently and evenly. Then repeat this process one time after another. When the heat wave coming up and going down continues for some time you will perceive, all of a sudden, this heat wave will go downwards into the internal orifice of lower elixir field. This phenomenon is due to the intercourse between the vita-vapor of heart and vita-vapor of kidney, and is also called "going back to womb for creation of a new set of the heaven and the earth."
All sights and scenes are created by the heart. Some people may be doubtful of this conclusion. Yet once you reach the phase of going back to womb for creation of a new set of the heaven and the earth you will understand its true meaning. During our lifetimes we are always conscious of our existence. When we are decrepit and going to die, we begin to be conscious of our nonexistence. So Lao Tzi commented that Heaven and Earth cannot be called benevolent in letting all things emerge or perish of themselves, and cannot be called benevolent in letting all people live or die by themselves.
One of my fellow-disciples once asked, "Would you please give us a detailed account of cultivating the vita-vapor of great unification in the internal orifice of lower elixir field? "
My master observed, 'To successfully cultivate the vita-vapor of great unification we should gaze and hear inwardly rather than outwardly, and make this effort persistently rather than fervently. The more efforts made in this way the more tranquil your heart will become, and thus more congenital mind-will will converge and more yang vita-vapor will gather up. The vita-vapor cannot be gathered up constantly without your uncompromising unmindful inward gaze upon it and your mind-will settling unmindfully in it yet resting upon emptiness. Generally speaking, Buddhism always preaches disciplining heart but little or hardly advocates cultivating the life force. The vita-vapor doesn't go away from the congenital mind-will while the congenital mind-will sometimes does.'
'How strongly the desire for eternity is! Yet the eternity of form and image are under no circumstances possible, then what eternity you are preaching you may ask? The perpetualness of my congenital nature and congenital mind-will without the encumbrance of form I can tell you! There is another saying in Buddhism of taking advantage of the falsity of the form to acquire the true self. Here I must have one point to add that ultimate acquiring Tao must be carried out before your death, because you could not get something to be depended upon for your pursuit of Tao after the death, otherwise it will be a great lie.'
'How to take advantage of the form to fulfill the
aspiration for eternity? To recover all your obscured congenital mind-will
and all your dimmed congenital nature, and then reunite both again, that
is the way. By this means you can some day obtain the environment in which
the nonexistence can be set up based upon the form of existence. Then
that will lead to a change from that of exertion first the award second
to that of doing nothing at all yet all things having been done. Therefore
in the case of the life force being long time preserved, the longevity
of form is taken for granted. '
' On the contrary, the congenital mind-will straying away will lead to
the diffusing of vita-vapor which, in its turn, will result in its conversing
to fertilizing fluid which, if exhausted, is bound to invite the death
angel to take away the life force. Man is born on account of nothing but
covetousness and is bound to perish.on account covetousness As I remarked
before, the congenital nature and the congenital life force are united
with each other before umbilical cord is scissored off. So, we called
this state the congenitalness. The subsequent alienation between them
and their unrestrictive consumption of fertilizing fluid and of indulgence
in desires and emotions is destined to sentence you death penalty without
any reason for amnesty. Hence, we understand that our forms will eventually
decay and pass away, nothing but the congenital nature and congenital
life force are that we can depend upon for eternity.'
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