factuality the mind transcends attachment to emptiness. By realization of
the center, one attains a harmonious unity of freedom and responsibility.
In Tiantai Buddhism the accomplishment of this practice is called "three
insights in one mind"
44. Fire is spirit, water is vitality. Alchemists sometimes say that Buddhism
starts within? while Taoism starts with water.
45. Here "the two eyes" is meant literally. There is a strong tendency to
place great emphasis on the data of sight in everyday life, so the text makes
it clear that all the faculties of sense and perception are channels of
enlightened awareness. The third patriarch of Chan Buddhism wrote, "The
six senses aren't bad, they are the same as true awakening."
46. This means that the true sense of real knowledge, which in ordinary
people falls into abeyance in the unconscious, must be "resurrected" by
consciousness through the exercise of deliberate attention.
47. The darkness in the sun is true yin within true yang, flexibility
within firmness.
48. The white of the moon is true yang within true yin, firmness within
flexibility.
49. A verse in the alchemical classic Understanding Reality says,
