【天心第一】
1.Heavenly Consciousness(The Heart)
吕祖曰：自然曰道。道名无相，一性而已，一元神而已。性命不可见，寄之天光；天光不可见，寄之两目。古来仙真，口口相传，传一得一。自太上见化，东华递传某，以及南北两宗，全真可谓极盛。盛者，盛其徒众；衰者，衰于心传。以至今日，滥泛极矣，凌替极矣。极则返，故蒙净明许祖，垂慈普度，特立教外别传之旨，接引上根。闻者千劫难逢，受者一时法会。皆当仰体许祖苦心，必于人伦日用间，立定脚跟，方可修真悟性。我今叨为度师，先以太乙金华宗旨发明，然后细为开说。
Master Lu-tsu said, That which exists through itself is called the Way(Tao).Tao has neither name nor shape.It is the one essence [Hsing], the one primal spirit.Essence and life cannot be seen.They are contained in the light of heaven.The light of heaven cannot be seen.It is contained in the two eyes.Today I will be your guide and will first reveal to you the secret of the Golden Flower of the great One, and starting from that, I will explain the rest in detail.
太乙者，无上之谓。丹诀总假有为而臻无为，非一超直入之旨。所传宗旨，直提性功，不落第二法门，所以为妙。
The great One is the term given to that which has nothing above it.The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action.One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.The maxim handed down to us is to take in hand the work on human nature(hsing).In doing this is importance not to take any wrong path.
金华，即光也，光是何色？取象于金华，亦秘一光字在内，是先天太乙之真炁，“水乡铅，只一位”者，此也。(夫天一生水，即太乙之真炁。人得一则生，失一则死。然人仗炁而生，人不见炁；鱼仗水而活，鱼不见水。人无气则死，鱼离水则亡。故仙人教人抱元守一者，即回光守中，守此真炁则可以延年也。然后用法锻炼，则造成不死之躯矣。)
The Golden Flower is the light.What color is the light? One uses the Golden Flower as a symbol.It is the true energy of the translucent great one.The phrase “The lead of the water-region has but one taste” refers to it.[Heaven created water through the One(Hsing).That is the true energy of the Great One.If man attains this One he becomes alive; if he loses it he dies.But even if man lives in the energy(vital breath, prana) he does not see the energy(prana), just as fishes live in water but do not see the water.Man dies when he has no vital breath, just as fishes perish when deprived of water.Therefore the adepts have taught people to holdfast to the primal, and to guard the One; it is the circulation of the light and the maintaining of the center.If one guards this true energy, one can prolong the span of life, and can then apply the method of creating an immortal body by “melting and mixing”.]
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