【元神识神第二】
2.The Primal Spirit and the Conscious Spirit
吕祖曰：天地视人如蜉蝣(蜉蝣，水虫也，朝生而暮死。)大道视天地亦泡影。惟元神真性，则超元会而上之。(按一万八百年为一会，世所谓天关于子会而闭于亥会。略言之，十二会为一元，即十二万九千六百年，天地当合闭也。此言惟炼成真性，能超出天地轮回之外。)
Master Lu-tsu said, “In comparison with heaven and earth, man is like a mayfly.But compared to the great Way, heaven and earth, too, are like a bubble and a shadow.Only the primal spirit and the true nature overcome time and space”.
其精气则随天地而败坏矣。然有元神在，即无极也，生天生地，皆由此矣。学人但能守护元神，则超生在阴阳之外，不在三界之中，此惟见性方可，所谓本来面目也。
The energy of the seed, like heaven and earth, is transitory, but the primal spirit is beyond the polar differences.Here is the place whence heaven and earth derive their being.When students understand how to grasp the primal spirit they overcome the polar opposites of light and darkness and tarry no longer in the three worlds.But only he who has envisioned human nature's original face is able to do this.
凡人投胎时，元神居方寸，而识神则居下心。下面血肉心，形如大桃，有肺以覆翼之，肝佐之，大小肠承之，假如一日不食，心上便大不自在，至闻惊而跳，闻怒而闷，见死亡则悲，见美色则眩。头上天心何尝微微些动也。问：天心不能动乎？方寸中之真意，如何能动。到动时便不妙，然亦最妙。凡人死时方动，此为不妙。最妙者，光已凝结为法身，渐渐通灵欲动矣，此千古不传之秘也。
When men are set free from the womb, the primal spirit dwells in the square inch(between the eyes), but the conscious spirit dwells below in the heart.This lower fleshly heart has the shape of a large peach: it is covered by the wings of the lungs, supported by the liver, and served by the bowels.This heart is dependent on the outside world.If a man does not eat for one day even, it feels extremely uncomfortable.If it hears something terrifying it throbs; if it hears something enraging it stops; if it is faced with death it becomes sad; if it sees something beautiful it is dazzled.But the heavenly heart in the head, when would it have moved in the least? Dost thou ask: Can the heavenly heart not move? Then I answer: How can the true thought in the square inch move! If it really moves, that is not good.For when ordinary men die, then it moves, but that is not good.It is best indeed if the light has already solidified into a spirit-body and its life-energy gradually penetrated the instincts and movements.But that is a secret which has not been revealed for thousands of years.
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