【回光验证第六】
6.Confirmatory Experiences During the Circulation of the Light
吕祖曰：验证亦多，不可以小根小器承担，必思度尽众生；不可以轻慢心承担，必须请事斯语。
Master Lu-tsu said, There are many kinds of confirmatory experiences.One must not content oneself with small demands but must rise to the thought that all living creatures have to be redeemed.One must not be trivial and irresponsible in heart, but must strive to make deeds prove one's words.
静中绵绵无间，神情豫悦，如醉如浴，此为遍体阳和，金华乍吐也。既而万籁俱寂，皓月中天，觉大地俱是光明境界，此为心地开明，金华正放也。
If, when there is quiet, the spirit has continuously and uninterruptedly a sense of great joy as if intoxicated or freshly bathed, it is a sign that the light-principle is harmonious in the whole body; then the Golden Flower begins to bud.When, furthermore, all openings are quiet, and the silver moon stands in the middle of heaven, and one has the feeling that this great earth is a world of light and brightness, that is a sign that the body of the heart opens itself to clarity.It is a sign that the Golden Flower is opening.
既而遍体充实，不畏风霜，人当之兴味索然者，我遇之精神更旺。黄金起屋，白玉为台，世间腐朽之物，我以真炁呵之立生，红血为乳，七尺肉团，无非金宝，此则金华大凝也。
Furthermore, the whole body feels strong and firm so that it fears neither storm not frost.Things by which other men are displeased, when I meet them, cannot becloud the brightness of the seed of the spirit.Yellow gold fills the house; the steps are of white jade.Rotten and stinking things on earth that come in contact with one breath of the true energy will immediately live again.Red blood becomes milk.The fragile body of the flesh is sheer gold and diamonds.That is a sign that the Golden Flower is crystallized.
第一段，是应《观经》云：“日落大水，行树法象。”日落者，从混沌立基，无极出。上善若水，清而无瑕，此即太极主宰，出震之帝也。震主木，故以行树象焉。七重行树，七窃光明也。西北乾方，移一为坎。日落大水，乾坎之象。坎为子方，冬至雷在地中，隐隐隆隆，至震而阳方出地上矣，行树之象也。余可类推矣。
The Book of Successful Contemplation(Ying-kuan-ching) says: “The sun sinks in the great water and magic pictures of trees in rows arise”.The setting of the sun means that in chaos(in the world before phenomena, that is before the intelligible world) the foundation is laid: that is the nonpolarized condition [ultimateless](wu-chi).Highest good is like water, pure and spotless.It is the ruler of the great polarity, the god who appears in the trigram of shock, Chen.Chen is also symbolized by wood, and soothe image of trees in rows appears.A sevenfold row of trees means the light of the seven body-openings(or heart-openings).The northwest is the direction of the Creative.When it moves on one place further, the Abysmal is there.The sun which sinks on one place further, the Abysmal is there.The sun which sinks into the great water is the image for the Creative and the Abysmal.The Abysmal is the direction of midnight(mouse, tzu, north).At the winter solstice, thunder(Chen) is in the middle of the earth quite hidden and covered up.Only when the trigram Chen is reached does the lightpole appear over the earth again.That is the image represented by the rows of trees.The rest can be correspondingly inferred.
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