7. Usually people wind up pursuing objects and come to age in conformity
with life, never once looking back. When their positive energy fades and
disappears, this is the netherworld. Therefore the Heroic March Scripture
says, "Pure thought is flight, pure emotion is fall." When students have little
thought and much emotion, they sink into low ways. Just observe clearly,
and when your breath grows quiet you then become accurately aware. This
is application of the method of reversal.
8. This is what is meant in the Yin Convergence Classic when it says, "The
mechanism is in the eyes," and the Plain Questions of the Yellow Emperor
when it says, "The light rays of the human body all flow upward into the
aperture of space" If you get this, long life is herein, and so is transcendence
of life.
9. This is a practice that pervades the three teachings.
10. The light is neither inside nor outside the self Mountains, rivers, sun,
moon, and the whole earth are all this light, so it is not only in the self. All
the operations of intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom are also this light, so
it is not outside the self. The light of heaven and earth fills the universe; the
light of one individual also naturally extends through the heavens and
covers the earth. Therefore once you turn the light around, everything in the
world is turned around.
11. The light rays are concentrated upward into the eyes; this is the great
key of the human body. You should reflect on this. If you do not sit quietly
