Turning the Light Around ~ The Secret of the Golden Flower ~ Inner Alchemy

This reading is from chapter 3 and 4 of the teachings found in
the text, The Secret of the Golden Flower, and explains in detail
the method of 'turning the light around'. Translated by Thomas
Clearly. According to Cleary, this text is 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. The golden flower
symbolizes the quintessence of the paths of Buddhism and Taoism.
Gold stands for light, the light of the mind itself; the flower
represents the blossoming, or opening up, of the light of the
mind. Thus the expression is emblematic of the basic awakening of
the real self and its hidden potential. The text was written by
means of the spirit-writing (fuji) technique, through two groups,
in 1688 and 1692. After publication of the translation by Richard
Wilhelm, with commentary by Carl Gustav Jung, it became modernly
popularized among Westerners as a Chinese "religious classic",
and is read in psychological circles for analytical and
transpersonal psychology considerations of Taoist meditations.


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