{"id":12988,"date":"2020-10-04T18:55:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T22:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=12988"},"modified":"2021-10-03T23:47:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T03:47:21","slug":"principle-and-action-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=12988","title":{"rendered":"Principle and Action 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

← Chapter 9<\/a> Chapter 10 →<\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 10<\/h2>\n

\nConserving the One to which spirit and body are joined
\nAnd are no longer separated
\nTo make the fresh and subtle breath circulate (in the body)
\nBegetting the embryo.
\nTo polish the secret mirror excluding every complex thought
\nTo which the mind does not wear itself out
\nIn relations with the others and ruling the State
\nTo follow non-acting
\nThe instability [changeableness] of fortune [the opening and closing of the Gate of Heaven]
\nIs worth developing the receptivity of the soul [= the virtue of the feminine]
\nWith the essential vision that embraces every aspect [the four dimensions]
\nTo eliminate (discursive) knowing [= to seem ignorant]
\nIn order to reach the development
\nTo create without possessing
\nTo act without appropriating
\nTo rise without forcing
\nThis is the Way\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first part of the chapter reflects the ideas of operative Taoism about the elaboration of immortality. The hint about the practice with breathing, vehicle of vital energy that, subtlized, was used as means for the secret unification of the spirit and body in the Origin. Spirit and body,\u00a0hun<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0p\u2019o<\/em>\u00a0(first line) \u2013 technically: yang soul and yin soul, spiritual soul and physical soul. The former is the non-terrestrial luminous principle, the other is the being of life. One could also say: the \u201cbeing\u201d principle and the \u201clife\u201d principle. The privileged condition of immortality is obtained through the union of the two principles, in the sense of a perfect compenetration of the\u00a0po<\/em>\u00a0by the\u00a0hun<\/em>, by \u201clife\u201d, by \u201cbeing\u201d, overwhelmed and occluded from entering into the current of forms. The integration of the two principles of the One is compared to the formation of an embryo \u2013 the embryo of an existence distant from transformation. On these practices, beyond the already cited study of H Maspero, we can see the text also translated into Italian, in the\u00a0Secret of the Golden Flower<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The starting point of such practices is also sketched out: detachment from the environment, the simplification and the calm of the mind, in order to conserve one\u2019s own completely pure and integral nature. In Chuang Tzu<\/strong>, the \u201cabstinence of the heart\u201d:<\/p>\n

\nDo not listen with the ear nor with the heart, but only with the spirit. To block the way of the senses, to keep the mirror of the heart pure. To keep oneself empty. From the outside, do not let things that no longer have names penetrate inside (impressions liberated from mental translations). (IV, 1)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The transcendent Man exercises his intelligence only like a mirror: he knows without following attraction or repulsion, without leaving any traces. In such a way he is superior to everything and impartial in the face of it. (VII, 6)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The heart of the True Man, completely calm, is like a mirror that reflects Heaven, Earth and all beings. (XIII, 1)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All this, by reconnecting to Lao Tzu\u2019s \u201cpolishing the secret mirror\u201d.<\/p>\n

The successive operative developments, liking joining the \u201cdecoagulant\u201d of body and spirit, are attested also in Lieh Tzu (II,3; IV, 6) in these terms:<\/p>\n

\nThe spirit is condensed little by little as the body is dissolved\u201d (one \u201cetherizes\u201d, one \u201crarifies\u201d).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We note the correspondence with the formula\u00a0solve et coagula<\/em>\u00a0of the Western Hermetic-alchemical tradition, which is known also in the formula \u201dFlesh out the spiritual, spiritualize the body, make fixed the volatile and volatilize the fixed\u201d (Part II of\u00a0The Hermetic Tradition<\/em>, #16)<\/p>\n

The second part of the chapter outlines the \u201cnon-acting\u201d behavior of the True Man.<\/p>\n

Chinese text and literal translation<\/h2>\n

Chapter 10 (\u7b2c\u5341\u7ae0)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n
\n\u8f09\u71df\u9b44\u62b1\u4e00\uff0c
\n\u80fd\u7121\u96e2\u4e4e\uff1f
\n\u5c08\u6c23\u81f4\u67d4\uff0c
\n\u80fd\u5b30\u5152\u4e4e\uff1f
\n\u6ecc\u9664\u7384\u89bd\uff0c
\n\u80fd\u7121\u75b5\u4e4e\uff1f
\n\u611b\u6c11\u6cbb\u570b\uff0c
\n\u80fd\u7121\u77e5\u4e4e\uff1f
\n\u5929\u9580\u958b\u95d4\uff0c
\n\u80fd\u70ba\u96cc\u4e4e\uff1f
\n\u660e\u767d\u56db\u9054\uff0c
\n\u80fd\u7121\u7232\u4e4e\uff1f
\n\u751f\u4e4b\u755c\u4e4b\uff0c
\n\u751f\u800c\u4e0d\u6709\uff0c
\n\u70ba\u800c\u4e0d\u6043\uff0c
\n\u9577\u800c\u4e0d\u5bb0\uff0c
\n\u662f\u8b02\u7384\u5fb7 \u3002
\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\n
\nIf soul have been keeping on not being felt by the body,
\n How can the body and the soul not part?
\nTrying lungs to show [they are] delicate,
\n How can they be like babies?
\nClean the mirror of ultimate source,
\n How can they not found their defect?
\nTo love people and to govern the country,
\n How not to appoint the Jih\/Zhi\/wise people?
\nThe gate of the heaven shuts and opens alternately and frequently,
\n How to act like females?
\nHave known all the causes and effects,
\n How to keep doing only the backlog of things?
\nQuicken them, feed them,
\n Produce and do not own.
\n Act and do not claim.
\n Raise and do not rule.
\nThis is called profound virtue.\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do not listen with the ear nor with the heart, but only with the spirit. To block the way of the senses, to keep the mirror of the heart pure. To keep oneself empty. From the outside, do not let things that no longer have names penetrate inside (impressions liberated from mental translations). Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":12826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tao-te-ching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14979,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12988\/revisions\/14979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}