You have been affected by pollution for so long that it is impossible to
become clear all at once. In truth, the matter of life and death is important:
once you turn the light around and recollect the vital spirit to shine stably,
then your own mind is the lamp of enlightenment.
Everyone already has the lamp of mind, but it is necessary to light it so that
it shines; then this is immortality.
Don't let yourselves forget the mind and allow the spirit to be obscured. If
you have no autonomy, your vital spirit diffuses.
Forms are all conditioned. Cognition is a function of mind, empty silence is
the substance of mind. If you fix the mind on anything conditioned, then
temperament is in control, so you cannot govern it completely or
comprehend it thoroughly.
The minor technique of circulating energy can enhance the body so as to
extend the life span, but if you therefore suppose that the great Way requires
work on the physical body, this is a tangential teaching.
External work has no connection to the great Way. The true practice of the
great Way first requires that vitality be transformed into energy. As
alchemical literature has clearly explained, this vitality is not sexual.
Refining energy into spirit means keeping the clear and removing the
polluted.
