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esonates and re-shapes itself to match your teacher. You
instantly experience the energy pattern which allows you
to talk directly to Nature's mind. This normally opens a
deeper ability to communicate with other human minds.
Sometimes a book or object whose Qi field has been
intentionally imprinted can act as the initiator. Like any
language, the more you hear it spoken, the easier it is to
speak it. Some teachers who initiate claim that they
somehow "own" the Qi or spirits being transmitted.
According to deep language theory, this is untrue. The Qi
field belongs to the Dao. We could say that ultimately
there is only one lineage, the direct lineage to the original
teacher, Nature's Qi field.
Daoist Cosmology as Nature's
Deep G rammar
Dao gives birth to unity,
Unity gives birth to polarity,
Polarity gives birth to trinity.
Trinity gives birth to the myriad creatures.
Dao De Jing, v. 42 (11)
If alchemical meditation is the actual practice of
speaking a deep cosmic language, Daoist cosmology
should reveal the foundational grammar of that language.
All religions have a deep language structure buried
within their cosmologies, but the priesthood may keep it
secret, and teach out only the surface language to the
religious followers as beliefs, sacred images and statues,
or holy writings of some deity. This level of language can
be acquired by anyone, i.e. a Buddhist can convert to
Catholicism and immerse themselves in the Catholic
religious language/imagery/belief. The surface religious
language may spontaneously trigger a "mystical"
communication with Nature, as it arises from a deep
language structure. The experience is likely to be shaped
by the surface language of the believer as that religion
has patterned it (a Christian will see Jesus, a Buddhist
will receive proof of Buddhist doctrine, etc.).
Daoist teachings typically have no dogma or
theology; aligning with the cosmological cycles of nature
is its salvational process. In One Cloud's alchemy
formulas, there are no deities named. Instead you are
given a map of personal "deity hood" (immortality) and
the energetic language skills that allow one to converse
intelligently with all deities/entities, whether invisible or
in natural form as humans, planets, stars, etc. The
alchemy adept is not asked to believe anything other than
to accept the possibility of re-growing their Original Self
in the physical plane by deep communication with the
Dao. The assumption is that all deities must
communicate through the same Qi field of Nature; if you
merge with that Qi field, you know what those deities
know. What follows is my interpretation of Daoist
cosmology, shaped by study with many teachers and
texts, but mostly clarified by practice of the first six of
One Cloud's seven alchemical formulas for immortality.
The Dao is the indefinable, unknowable organic
wholeness of everything. It embraces non-being and all
dimensions of space, time, & intelligence. From its
womb, the Supreme Unknown (wuji), three heavens are
birthed. The first to birth is chaos (hun dun), the Heaven
of Primordial Origin. There is no need for
communication in the dark ocean inside this cosmic egg,
as there are no separate aspects to communicate with
each other. The cosmic egg is also depicted as a gourd
filled with yin-yang elixir in Daoist art and myth (12).
The cosmic egg hatches, a kind of spiritual big bang
marked by thunder, and the wheels of creation begin
turning. As order crystallizes out of the unbounded chaos
of oneness, the Dao communicates with itself through a
field of Original Energy (yuan Qi). This infinite ocean of
life force holds three potential charges: negative,
positive, and neutral Qi (yin, yang, and yuan). This triune
stream is the core grammar of the deep language of
Nature.
In the unborn primordial ocean of Qi, the triune
stream of the Dao is shaped and evolved by the threefold
intelligence latent within it. As Original Spirit (yuan
shen) shapes Original Energy (yuan Qi), the patterns
formed are encoded in a matrix of Original Essence
(yuan jing). The continuum of this original inseparable
trinity -- yuan jing, Qi and shen -- is the cosmic seed or
potential state of all form, all energy, and all imagination
(yi), will/virtue (de). In Primordial Heaven these three
remain as one.
With the hatching of the cosmic egg/gourd, the
unified ocean of awareness holding this trinity
26 Yang-Sheng (Nurturing Life) Volume 2, Issue No. 1