1. One of the Mind Seal scriptures says, "the returning wind mixes together,
the hundred days' work is effective" On the whole, to set up the foundation
requires a hundred days before you have real light. As you are, you are still
working with the light of the eyes, not the fire of spirit, not the fire of
essence, not the torch of wisdom.
2. Turn it around for a hundred days, and the vital energy will naturally be
sufficient for true yang to rise spontaneously, so that there is true fire
naturally existing in water. If you carry on the practice this way, you will
naturally achieve intercourse and formation of the embryo. You are then in
the heaven of unknowing, and the child thus develops. If you entertain any
conceptual view at all, this is immediately a misleading path.
3. A hundred days setting up the foundation is not a hundred days; one day
setting up the foundation is not one day. One breath setting up the
foundation does not refer to respiration. Breath is one's own mind; one's
own mind is the breath's original spirit, original energy, and original
vitality: rising and descending, parting and joining, all arise from mind;
being and nonbeing, emptiness and fullness, are all in the thoughts. One
