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Originally Posted by Legrand

I am curious from what author? I like the version of the secret of the Golden Flower by Thomas Cleary. He corrects in it some of the translation from the version Jung always had near his bed.

"When one uses this technique (returning the Light) for the first time, one has the impression of a non-being in the being. But once the work is done, when you have a body beyond the body, you have the impression of a being in the non-being."

Chapter III Paragraph 2

Antoine

Having the impression of nonbeing within being is just the light of impersonal awareness in spontaneous activity by virtue of the person (as a situationally karmic element). Enlightening activity commences by virtue of the person assuming itself within the contet of the situation's potential as an "inert element" facilitating impersonal adaption.

This constitutes a profound "reversal" in that where once the psychological (the personality's self-reifying psychological apparatus) obscured the spiritual (nonpsychological) function, and now, the psychological has reverted to its proper relationship in service to the spiritual (function) to assist and facilitate selfless influence in terms of situational potential (the essence of the real which is inherent in the karmic).

As the work progresses over a long period of time, one suddenly discovers for oneself, in terms of the nonoriginated, selfless aware absolute nature of reality that the "body beyond the body" has no origination, (the immaterial body)being awareness prior to creation. Obviously this is nonbeing, yet the body of knowledge is seen to "hover auspiciously in silence in the dim void of space." This is the Absolute. The absolute is what reality looks like from the other side. Delusion is what reality looks like from this side. In reality, they are the same. All prior illuminates know this and function transcendentally by virtue of the knowledge. This is the secret of the golden flower awakening.

When one uses this technique (returning the Light) for the first time, one has the impression of a non-being in the being,

This means one is operating in the midst of delusional (ordinary) situations by virtue of its (the situation's) transcendent potential alone. This is why I say it is to be carried out in broad daylight without anyone knowing. In all truth, there is nothing (oneself) to know. One's adaption is "spiritual" in that there is no reification of the person in terms of the psychological apparatus of the being tht is going to die. I hesitate to call this "selfless" adaption due to the preconceptions western culture has posited on the term "selfless."

At any rate, using selfless awareness (selflessly— that is, void of intellectualization relative to the knower, thinker and liver of life), in the midst of karmic evolution, one's acts have no relative investment in terms of creation, therefore transcendence in the midst of the creative's karmic energy is as natural as the immaterial body of awareness hovering silently in the midst of the void. Using selfless awareness selflessly (as opposed to selfishly as ordinary people do) is the meaning of "turning the light around." It's not mystical at all.

Some people feel compelled to make this all out to be something "beyond the personal mind." I say BUNK. Reality IS your mind right now, whether you know it or not. Even people who experience sudden enlightenment are not immune to confusion in this regard. Enlightening activity does not depend on sudden enlightenment. Why? Because enlightenment is already your own mind right now.

This is the meaning of the saying,

"Even if you know, if you cannot act on the knowledge, it is the same as if you are ignorant.

Sudden enlightenment does not confer buddhahood. It can only be termed as "planting the seed of buddhahood in the homeland of nothing whatsoever." Therefore those who are content to sit in silent illumination void of anticipatory consciousness in cloistered venues without ever doing actual work of gradual refinement of real potential from within the midst of delusional (karmic) realms will only be refining yin, not yang. It is necessary to refine both yin and yang as one, to end up with the result of unified non-originated non-differentiated complete reality.

As mind is one, seeing reality (impersonal unified situational potential) instead of as things being other vis-a-vis the false self (in terms of situational karmic momentum) is the natural aspect of spiritual transformation in the midst of (and by virtue of) karma.

Why? Karma (creation/delusion/dualistic conscious functionality) and reality (nonorigination/selfless awareness/unified nonpsychological functionality) are not essentially different. They are essentially the same, in terms of potential.

Ordinary people see self and other in the light of creation, while enlightening beings see reality (potential) by the light of nonorigination. One is bondage to birth and death, while one is naturally transcendent in the midst of objects.

The whole point of "practice" per se, is in transcendent transformation in the midst of creation without going along with the laws of karma. Doing so or not is a matter of seeing alone.

"Practicing" turning the light around in formal silent sitting meditation is a weak, selfish (personal) method of temporary liberation. Some find it necessary and useful in the beginning of self-refining activity. Eventually, one must enter the "marketplace" and practice the Science of Life to gather real, living potential. That is, to steal the pearl of immortality from within the dragon's lair.

Taoism calls this "taking over Creation and stealing its potential."