1. Introduction to "Hearts and Minds, Dading Vacuum".
Mr. Chen Xuanning once pointed out that "keeping the middle and holding one, and the heart is dependent on each other, which is the essence of the Chen Xiyi (Chen Tuo) school" ("Taoism and Health").
Zhang Sanfeng also said: "Concentrating on pranayama, pranayama and concentrating, the eight words are the next hand, and they must be done one piece, and it is possible to continue to divide them into levels" ("Tao Yan Shallow Saying").
Li Hanxu, the first ancestor of the Western School, inherited the lineage of Chen Shu and Zhang Sanfeng's Wenshi School (Hidden Immortal School), so the gist of the Western School Danfa is the eight words of "heart and soul, great vacuum", and concentrating on breathing in the other family's "outer void".
Li Hanxu said in "Tao Talk": "The method of pranayama begins with the regulation of the mind, and the method of contemplation begins with pranayama.
Wang Dongting said in "The Great Completion of Taoism": "The dual cultivation of life is only to teach people to depend on each other, and they must not be separated from each other."
Xu Songyao (Haiyinzi) also said in "Tianle Collection": "In the past, I had to meet Master Wang (Wang Dongting) by karma, and instructed my heart to follow the law, so that I knew that Xuanzong did have a true tradition."
He also said: "Master Meng has repeatedly taught that the essence of the Western School is to 'set the vacuum', and the rest of the return mantras and fire conditions are subtle, and they are all the details of the vacuum."
The secret of "interdependence and vacuum" is not only the essence of Lu Zu (Lu Dongbin), Chen Shu (Xiyi), Zhang Sanfeng, Li Hanxu, Wang Dongting and Xu Songyao, but also the center of the Dan method of all schools.
Zhang Ziyang of the Southern School said in "Qinghua Secret Text": "Walk in silence and wait for the fire, and return the Dan in the Dingli."
He also said: "Only alchemy can be made, and if it is uncertain, the yang will not be born; After Yang Sheng, it is uncertain and Dan does not end" ("Qinghua Secret Text: Rendezvous Theory").
Bai Yuchan also said in "Crane Forest Asking the Dao": "The heart is dependent on each other, and the heart is quiet."
In the "Secret Theory of the Entrance", it is also said: "Take the spirit as medicine, and take the stillness as fire." With the fire of tranquility, and refining the medicine of the spirit, it will become a great return of gold and liquid."
Li Daochun, a middle-of-the-roader, also said in the "Neutralization Collection": "The spirit and spirit are in harmony with the spirit of life, and the heart is dependent on each other to form the holy womb; Penetrate the news inside, and open the three levels and nine tricks together" ("Zhonghe Collection: Shu Gongfu").
Wu Chongxu of the Longmen sect said in the "Quotations of the Immortal Buddha Hezong": "If the heart can rely on the rest, then all laws will be one."
He also said, "The heart will rest, and then it will be able to depart from the earth, be liberated and see nature."
In the "Theory of Heavenly Immortals' Righteousness and Righteousness", it is also said: "There will be a return to the yuan, and once it reaches the true great determination and can always be fixed in the wonderful realm of nothingness, it will transcend the gods, and the way of soaring and ascending will be exhausted."
Wang Dongting, a real mountain man, said: "Danfa is a 'fixed' word, and the so-called simple and easy way is also" ("Tizhen Shanren Danjue Quotations").
Therefore, the eight-character mantra of "heart and mind, vacuum" should not be taken lightly, and it is indeed the core key that runs through the entire Danfa.
Second, the first method of entry, the essence of "refining".
1.Introduce the importance of "refinement".
Mr. Hu Fuchen, a well-known scholar, once asserted that all Danfa "all take 'refining the heart' as the whole effort, and 'the heart is interdependent' as the starting method" (Hu Fuchen, "Taoism and Taoist Culture").
Wang Dongting said: "For those who are just getting started, the most important thing is the first thing, and it is nothing more than 'refining oneself'. It is important to know that 'refining oneself' means 'interdependence'. Those who depend on each other, the heart depends on the rest, and the rest also depends on the heart" ("Daotong Dacheng Female Danjue").
2.Introduction "The heart depends on the rest".
The heart depends on the breath, and the divine will is set in the "void outside the body" (the entrance hall), then the two families are formed, the internal and external medicines are divided, and the way of the guest and the host is established.
The heart is for me, the true meaning of my body, and it always governs my words and deeds, so it is the "Lord" of my body;
"Breath" is the opportunity for the breath outside my body, which promotes the flow of the veins and qi and blood of the whole body, whether it is under the control of intentional or unintentional breathing, it does not stop for a moment, and is not restrained by me, so it is the "other" of my body.
The heart is restless, the breath is rapid and uneven, disturbing the body and mind can not get a moment of peace, and the "heart breath" is also known as the "dragon and tiger" in the Danjing. God has no shadow, qi is formless, so God is invisible, and it is placed in the heart; You can't get it, so you can ask for it. The spirit dwells in the heart, and the heart breath is the abode of the spirit. Therefore, "Xinqi" is "Shenqi", "Shenqi" is "Dragon Tiger", and "Dragon Tiger" is also "Xinqi".
The so-called "dragon nature is lingering, tiger nature is hideous", which is just a metaphor for the restlessness of the "heart".
The so-called "subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger" is to subdue the "breath of the heart", and its trick is nothing more than "the rest of the heart is interdependent", then the body and mind are pure and not restless!
Xu Songyao said in "Tianle Collection": "Descending the dragon is lowering the interest rate, and the tiger is the subduing qi, and the magic lies in the interdependence ......of the heart and mind outside the body."Therefore, those who are dependent on each other will descend the dragon and subdue the tiger; Those who set the vacuum, the gradual stage of subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger; The nature is cheerful, and the dragon and tiger are nowhere to be seen, which is the ultimate in descending the dragon and subduing the tiger" ("Tianle Collection: Descending the Dragon and the Tiger").
It is said that those who "drive the dragon and the tiger" are dependent on the "heart" and the "rest". The tiger (breath) is ruthless, and the dragon (heart) is intentional, and it is legal to use the affectionate and intentional "heart" to take the initiative to intersect with the ruthless and unintentional "breath".
As Weng Baoguang said in the "Commentary on the Enlightenment of the Truth": "If a person who cultivates Dan wants to cherish the dragon's breath with a tiger, he must pioneer the dragon and the tiger, and then the two things are mixed, the two feelings are combined, and the essence of the true one is naturally condensed."
Song Xue Daoguang said in "Returning Dan to Restore Life": "In the past, when you met the teacher's own formula, as long as you concentrate on the air pocket; Refining the gas and gasifying the gods, refining the yellow buds and white snow".
Concentrate on the air pocket", that is, the work of "heart and soul".
"Concentrating" is "heart"; "Air pockets" are the "breath" (or "true breath"). Shen (Xin)" takes "Qi (Xi)" as the "acupoint" and the hole dwells in the middle of the ear (this "acupoint" does not refer to the acupuncture point of Chinese medicine and acupuncture), that is, the "qi" is the "acupoint" and the "god" is condensed.
Zhang Sanfeng said in "Tao Yan Shallow Sayings": "Those who have air pockets, the gods (hearts) enter the qi (breath), if they are in the deep holes, the gods and qi are in love (the hearts and breaths depend on each other), then the body of the entrance has been established".
According to the mantra taught by the teacher, the so-called "air pocket" is the one who is united with the true god and the true qi in the stillness, that is, the mantra of "the heart is dependent on each other, and the spirit and qi are united". ）
3.The legal principle of "interdependence" is explained
The "heart" is controlled by the "breath", and the "breath" is subdued by the "heart", the body and mind gradually tend to be peaceful, and the mind and breath become more and more harmonious, until the quiet realm of the "great vacuum" is realized, and it is natural to attract "innate qi from nothingness".
Li Hanxu said in "Tao Talk": "Those who have a quiet heart are also easy to adjust." The finer the heart, the more subtle the breath. The breath is the return of the spirit, and then the mind is calmed down and condensed in the air pocket" ("Straight Theory of the Heart").
He also said: "Rest and quiet, the spirit returns, and the method of concentrating on the mind depends on pranayama; God's rule is to rest, and the method of pranayama also depends on contemplation. If it is covered in the void (the void outside the body), then there is internal breath. Therefore the love of God dwells, and God stays according to the rest. If you survive or die, you don't know that God is resting, and breathing is God (this is "the heart is interdependent, and the spirit is one"). The wind (breath) gets the fire (heart) and fantates, the fire gets the wind and burns, and the relationship is interrelated, and I don't know that the wind is the fire, and the fire is the wind (also for "the heart is interdependent, the spirit is one", the so-called "wind and fire are the same work" in the Danshu, it is not enough to say that this realm is not enough). Kung Fu is proficient, and there are really people who can't be described in words" ("Tao Know-how: Divine Breath Revisited").
Wang Dongting also said: "Those who depend on each other, the heart depends on the rest, and the rest also depends on the heart." But the heaviest of them is ...... the word 'and'Gai' and 'not separate', 'in' and 'in', 'in' and 'and', 'in' and '' are one, which is called 'Huang Po'. Huang Po reconciles, then naturally love each other, swallow and vomit, continue, do not forget not to help. Lao Tzu said: 'Single-minded and soft, can be like a baby'. The true 'and' is also the best. When it comes to reality, it is always the spirit that does not depart from the spirit, and the breath does not leave the spirit, that is, the heart does not depart from the breath, and the breath does not detach from the heart. The husband of God is also sexual; Those who are angry are also killed. The scripture says: 'The root of sex is rooted in the heart; The life of the sitting, the stinging of the rest' is also. It is necessary to know (mind) that the two are one, and then there will be creation. Covering the two in one, it is the restoration of two rites and one Taiji, which is called the double cultivation of life."
In this way, "the heart is dependent on each other" is the positive work of "wind and fire in the same palace", the rough qi is subdued and the inner breath is born, the true qi is full, and the living son is born and the medicine is produced.
Xu Songyao said: "The heart depends on the breath and condenses, the breath depends on the heart and is smooth, gradually and gradually harmonious, gradually and subtlely, and even standing still, the heart has no rise and fall, and there is no difference in the breath, then the effect of subduing the dragon and subduing the tiger can be seen."
4.The key to "heart-to-heart" operation
When the heart is interdependent, you can only use the breath to bind the heart, but you can't force the heart to control the rest, and it is only appropriate to use the key of "neutralization".
Because the "heart" in the "main position" in my body is now in the "guest position", and the "breath" that was in the "guest position" in the past is now in the "main position", which is the "immortal law" of "reversing the guest and the host" and "reversing the pill".
If the heart is still the main and the rest is the guest, and the heart is pranayama, it is the "world law" of "shun is ordinary" (according to: the upper root weapon is directly started by the "immortal law", and if the inferior root instrument is the "world law" and gradually perfected the "immortal law", so there are still methods such as "counting breaths", "pranayama", "following breath", etc., which will not be repeated).
Li Hanxu said in "Tao Talk": "When concentrating, we must rely on the rest, not to chase the rest of the gods, not to breathe with the gods, and not to breathe with the gods. If you breathe, your spirit will disperse, and if you breathe, your spirit will shake. As long as the rest is turbulent, let it be natural, let it be natural, and let it be, Si Qishen will become more and more condensed. Moving to the extreme of stillness is the breath of God. It is the beginning of the qi to break through the flood, silent and immovable, and the feeling is passed. A monk is a man of the Path, but he is also promising" ("The Heart Speaks Directly").
Wang Dongting, a person from Tizhen Mountain, said: "Danshu said that there is no one who depends on each other. At first, you need to know the entry and exit of the slight breath, and the melodious in the void outside is like a swimming dragon. After a while, you can let go and let go of it. If there are distracting thoughts, then the heart depends on each other, and then the heart is put down, and the heart will naturally be calm and have the effect of harmony. If you don't know how to let go (mind), you often make it to chase the rest with your heart, and it will be bad" ("Quotations from the Body of the True Shanren").
5.The sages' exposition of "interdependence".
Zhang Sanfeng said in "Tao Yan Near Talk": "To adjust the acquired breathing, you must let him adjust himself, in order to adjust the innate breathing, I can only be empty and quiet." According to this, the foundation can be built, and it does not take 100 days."
The specific essentials of "heart-to-heart interdependence" have been elaborated in great detail and do not need to be rapped.
"Heart-to-heart interdependence" kung fu is also compared to "husband and wife double cultivation", "male and female double cultivation" or "yin and yang double cultivation" in the Danjing Taoist book.
Zhang Sanfeng said in "The Rootless Tree": "The daughter of the east family, the west family, cooperate with the husband and wife to enter the cave room." Huang Po advised to drink Daigo wine and get drunk every day. This immortal formula, the soul rejuvenation pulp, resurrection is the king of medicine."
Xue Daoguang (1078 1191) also said in the "Returning Dan Resurrection Chapter": "The husband is a true husband, the woman is a real woman, and when a man is separated from a woman, the void is dustless and the world is dewed."
Li Daochun also said in "Zhonghe Collection": "A husband and a woman are determined to have a relationship, and three men and three women have no place" ("Hug a Song").
Another poem says: "A woman and a husband can work, and three men and three women form a group; The world inside is big, and the void outside is not wide" ("Shu Kung Fu").
Xu Songyao's explanation in "Tianle Collection" is the most profound, saying: "The heart and the breath go hand in hand, the Luan and the phoenix are harmonious, the natural couple, and the man is not wide-clothed, the woman is not untied, the respect is like a god, and the love is like a child."
And he said, "The breath of the heart is a natural spouse, not a contrived one." Xuanzong is in harmony with his heart, his spirit is blended, and the gold and wood are combined, that is, he is even and harmonious."
The Gu Immortals are all detached from this even and harmonious samadhi, and Xun is not false. secular male and female spouses, born in order; This heart is interdependent, yin and yang are wonderfully combined, and it is the reverse to sanctify" ("Heavenly Music Collection: Even Harmony Samadhi").
6.The specific trick of "heart and mind" is elaborated
The specific trick of "interdependence" is to start with the interdependence of the center of the "void outside the body".
Sincerely guard the void of the "void outside the body", look inside the "void outside the body" to breathe back and forth, and listen to the subtle sound of breathing in the "void outside the body".
The trinity of will, eye, and ear all belong to the heart; The breath that goes back and forth in the "void outside the body" is called breath. The mind and breath depend on each other, endlessly, such as the ** of the couple, entwined constantly, so it is called "the heart is interdependent", and the ancient name is "the sun and the moon are combined".
Lu Zu's "Taiyi Jinhua Purpose" said: "The heart is used in the rest, and it must be good at it, and it is not used for it, as long as it is slightly 'listening' to the ear!" What is a photo? That is, the eyes look at themselves, and the eyes only look inward and not outward. Those who do not look out and look at it are inward, that is, they look inward, and they do not really look inside. What is listening? That is, the slap listens to oneself, and the ear only listens inside and not outside. listener, listen to it silently; Those who see see it as invisible. If the eyes do not look outward, and the ears do not hear outside, they will close and want to run inward. However, if you look and listen inward, you will neither be outward, nor inward, and not drowsy. This is the sun and the moon, and the one who intersects with light."
Intention to keep and take care of the inner light is easy to cling to the form, that is, it is illegal to do it (the intention to keep and the inner light is the way to learn, and it is advisable to use the idea slightly and moderately.) The initial intention is slightly stronger, and the lighter the intention after proficiency, the better, until the idea is forgotten, then the "true meaning" is born, and the recipe is "the wonder of nature, save first and then forget". The best part is the trick of "listening."
Lu Zu said: "Be attentive to the breath, and the breath will come in and out, and you should not let the ears hear, but listen to it silently." As soon as there is a sound, it is coarse and superficial but not detailed. When patience, gently and slightly, the more and more slight, the more subtle and quiet, and the slighter and quieter after a long time, suddenly the slightest is broken".
First, listen to the sound of the ups and downs of the breath in the ears to restrain the mind, and gradually listen to nothing, and then listen to the heart, until the "heart forgets", chaos, trance, and gradually enters the true realm and true scene of "Dading Vacuum", which is to "create a tripod outside", which Zhuangzi called "heart fasting".
In a trance, as for the darkness, suddenly the heavens suddenly appeared, the internal and external senses were connected, there was a scene of "a yang coming and going", "a congenital qi came from nothingness", which was for the "yang sheng medicine", also known as "the living son of yang".
Nine outside the body and gold and wood are combined for the "Qiankun Jiao", and the body is seven times and the water and fire are both for the "Kan Separation", two heaven and earth, four yin and yang roles (Lu Zu's "Finger Xuan Chapter": "Who can match the two heaven and earth, four yin and yang I will row", Li Daochun's "Neutralization Collection": "Stepping through the two news, transcendent and holy is idle". The inside and outside are one, the other and I are the same, Wu Ji Cheng Gui, the five elements and the four elephants gather in the middle palace, Dan does not knot and self-knot, and the leakage does not make up for itself. Replenish the body and take over the life, and return the Dan to the Dan, all of which are completed in the "big vacuum".
Dading vacuum" in "Lao Tzu" said: "to the void, keep quiet", like a door, just see if you can walk in, otherwise you will end up a "layman", has not yet touched the lintel, it is not enough to say "alchemy".
Therefore, it is said that "to the extreme, to keep quiet" ("Dading vacuum") is an "iron threshold" in the practice of Neidan, have you ever crossed it? This is not only the exclusive patent of the Western Pai Dan Method, but also the common general program of the various schools of the Dan Method, all kinds of Dharma effects and effects are in the "Great Vacuum", if it has not reached the true level, there is no qualification to hear the high-level Dharma, so all the Dan Dharma attaches great importance to this.
7.Who is the Purifying Pill Method?
The Pure Pill Method is not only suitable for the cultivation of the innocent body and the young and middle-aged people, but also the miraculous method and unique magic method for the middle-aged and elderly to replenish their bodies and receive their lives.
Wang Dongting, a native of Tizhen Mountain, said: "My generation is old, and the opportunity for rebirth is late, so I have to go to the void to recruit some yang energy to use."
He also said: "A person who breaks his body is yin from top to bottom, so he needs to capture the true yang in the void to continue his life." The heart is dependent on each other to the great time, the void of heaven and earth is my void, and the true yang in the air naturally continues, how not to live forever" ("Quotations of the True Mountain People").
Xu Songyao said: "When the pure Yang True Qi arrives, the whole body feels soft and numb, and the beating is numb, and the whole body can be numb once, that is, the True Qi is fumigated once, that is, once a small Zhoutian." If it is gradually collected, the gas is enough to stop the fire, and it will become a child's body" ("Tianle Collection, Little Big Zhoutian").
Mr. Chen Xuanning also said in the "Lecture Notes of Huang Tingjing": "By borrowing the vitality in the body to attract the spirit of emptiness, then since my lifetime, the spirit lost over the years can be returned to my body, so why worry about old age!" ”
Zhang Sanfeng said: "Since ancient times, the gods have cultivated the method, and people have medicine and medicine."
The key to the Pure Pill Method is to seek it in the "void outside the body", not to bargain for money in people, so it is called "the cause of the void" by Liu Yiming ("Commentary on the Rootless Tree").
8.Directly vent the heavenly opportunity, you cherish it
In the final analysis, the Xipai Danfa is nothing more than the eight words of "heart and mind are interdependent, and the great vacuum is fixed", and it is the simplest and easiest method of "the heart is interdependent, and the eight words of the great vacuum are really the bone marrow of the Dan method, and the Dan method of all families is no exception.
Shi Tai's "Return to the Source" said: "In simple words, not half a sentence; The effect of its verification is only in the moment. ”
Xu Songyao said in "Tianle Collection": "In the past, I had to meet Master Wang (Wang Dongting) and instruct this 'heart-to-heart interdependence' method, so that I knew that Xuanzong did have a true tradition." Today, this mystery, directly revealing the mantra passed down from generation to generation, disclosing the secrets that have not been passed down for 4,000 years, covering the oblivion of the Tao, and willing to be with the good Taoists, fellow practitioners, to obtain the benefits of physical and mental well-being, and the effect of prolonging life" ("Tianle Collection, Heart Dependence").
Therefore, sigh good Dao gentlemen, don't despise it because its trick is too simple!