The Way has no name or form;
it is just the essence,
just the primal spirit.
The Secret of the Golden
Flower is a lay manual of Buddhist and Taoist methods for clarifying the
mind. A distillation of the inner psychoactive elements in ancient spiritual
classics, it describes a natural way to mental freedom practiced in China for
many centuries.
The golden flower symbolizes the quintessence of the paths of Buddhism
and Taoism. Gold stands for light; the light of the mind itself; the flower
represents the blossoming, or opening up, of the light of the mind. Thus the
