The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life

And not to hold on, not to deny, not to try to shape anything.

Actually, there's a book called The Secret of the Golden Flower that goes into that pretty well about the grasping mind and how spirit actually evades that.

And spirit actually can't allow that because spirit is always in a state of infinite freedom.

And it doesn't allow for any grasping or any grasp to it that would in any way deflect that or diminish that.

So I really like Jung's idea about insoluble problems, and it relates to this myth of closure.

In The Secret of the Golden Flower, Jung wrote, I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble.

They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system.

They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

The Tay Show is selected and interpreted by Ilana, scribe for Daily Zen.

The title of this Tay Show is The Living Method of Turning the Light Around, excerpted from The Secret of the Golden Flower, translated by Thomas Cleary.

As you go along practicing turning the light around, you need not give up your normal occupation.

An ancient said, When matters come up, one should respond.

The emptiness is not true emptiness.

It is just a ghost cave.

Lu Yan, 829-874 The Secret of the Golden Flower is a lay manual of Buddhist and Taoist methods for clarifying the mind, a distillation of the inner psychoactive elements in ancient spiritual classics.

It describes a natural way to mental freedom practiced in China for many centuries.

I have this.

both hands open there it was yeah for young who looks for deep unconscious connections across religions alchemy is similar to the tibetan buddhist and yogic mandala young was interested in how alchemy spanned western and eastern tradition the missionary richard ricard wilhelm obtained a text called the secret of the golden flower which included reflections on Chinese alchemy.

Wilhelm was a friend of Jung's, and Jung was interested in the three-step meditation technique designed to turn the light around and bring heaven down to earth.

What does that mean to you? Turn the light around, bring heaven down to earth.