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(from Immortal Sisters)

10. The Buddhist meditation manual known as Small Stopping and Seeing

was mentioned earlier. This passage refers to a more complete manual by

the same author known as Great Stopping and Seeing.

11. "When people drink water, they know for themselves whether it is cool

or warm" is a common Chan Buddhist expression used to illustrate the fact

that there is no way to communicate or understand realization of spiritual

awakening except by one's own personal experience.

12. "A grain, and then another grain, from vagueness to clarity" is an often-

quoted line from Four Hundred Words on the Gold Elixir, a short work by

the founder of the Southern School of Completely Real Taoism, Zhang

Boduan (Chang Po-tuan). Liu 1-ming explains, "'Grain after grain' means

that when the basis is established, the path develops and the positive energy

gradually grows. It does not literally mean there is the form of grains" (The

Inner Teachings of Taoism).

13. In his classic Understanding Reality, Chang Po-tuan also writes, "Truly

it is said of a grain of the gold elixir that a snake that swallows it is

immediately transformed into a dragon and a chicken that eats it is then

changed into a phoenix, flying into the pure realm of true yang " Liu I-ming

explains, "When yin and yang combine into one, the celestial order is

clearly revealed; the innate knowledge and capacity which had been about

to fade away in people is round and bright, clean and bare. A bead of gold

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