5. Dragon and tiger, water and fire, are metaphors for yin and yang. The
meaning of this passage is not entirely clear, but it seems to refer to
dilettantism.
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6. There are times of interaction and noninteraction of real knowledge
and conscious knowledge as long as their union has not been
stabilized.
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7. A poem entitled "Combining Yin and Yang" in The Book of Balance
and Harmony the Tao is basically not hard; the work lies in
concentration. When yin and yang, above and below, always rise and
descend, the ubiquitous flow of vital sense naturally returns of itself.
At the peak of awareness, reality becomes accessible to consciousness;
in recondite abstraction, nondoing joins with doing. When the clouds
recede and the rain disperses, the spiritual embryo is complete; the
creative principle comes into play, producing a new birth."
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8. Definitions of process and cycle are matters of method; at this point
the means are transcended and there is no conscious fixation on
expedient distinctions. According to Buddhist metaphor, this is like
"leaving the raft behind on reaching the other shore."
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9. This passage reiterates the fundamental continuity of the individual
and the universe, the identity of mind and the world it experiences. The
third patriarch of Chan Buddhism wrote in his famous Poem on
Trusting; Mind, "There is nowhere it is not; the ten directions are right
