【回光活法第七】
7.The Living Manner of the Circulation of the Light
吕祖曰：回光循循然行去，不要废弃正业。古人云：“事来要应过，物来要识破。”子以正念治事，即光不为物转，光即自回。此时时无相之回光也，尚可行之，而况有真正著相回光乎。
Master Lu-tsu said, When there is a gradual success in producing the circulation of the light, a man must not give up his ordinary occupation in doing it.The ancients said, When occupations come to us, we must accept them; when things come to us, we must understand them from the ground up.If the occupations are properly handled by correct thoughts, the light is not scattered by outside things, but circulates according to its own law.Even the still invisible circulation of the light get started this way; how much more, then, is it the case with the true circulation of the light which has already manifested itself clearly.
日用间，能刻刻随事返照，不著一毫人我相，便是随地回光，此第一妙用。
When in ordinary life one has the ability always to react to things by reflexes only, without any admixture of a thought of others or of oneself, that is a circulation of the light arising out of circumstances.This is the first secret.
清晨能遣尽诸缘，静坐一二时最妙。凡应事接物，只用返照法，便一刻无间断。如此行之，三月两月，天上诸真，必来印证矣。
If, early in the morning, one can rid oneself of all entanglements and meditate from one to two double hours, and then can orientate oneself all activities and outside things in a purely objective, reflex way, and if this can be continued without any interruption, then after two or three months all the perfected ones come from heaven and approve such behavior.
前章言工夫既已造入佳乡，此章正应使学者工夫日渐精进，以期丹药早得。而祖师此时反云“不要废弃正业”，何哉?读者至此，必疑祖师不欲学者金丹早得乎?识者曰：非也。盖祖师恐学者俗愿未了，故作是语也。然工夫既已造入佳境，则心如水镜相似，物来则现，物去则神气自相翕敛，不为外物所牵。即祖师所谓“不著一毫人我之相”矣。学者若能使真意常得住于炁穴，则不回光而光自回矣。光回则药物自产，无妨兼顾人事。非若初坐之时，神气散乱，若不扫除人事，寻觅静处，专攻煅炼，以避俗务之扰，必至朝勤夕惰，何时方能得其玄奥乎?故曰：初用工之时，宜抛弃家务。倘若不能，亦须托人照理，以便专意勤修。若工夫造到玄微，则不妨再行兼理正务，以了俗愿，是谓回光活法。昔紫阳真人有言曰：“修行混俗且和光，圆即圆兮方即方。显微逆从人莫测，教他怎能见行藏。”盖回光活法，即和光混俗之义也。
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