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Chapter 9: Fusion as a Bridge
The Taoist approach to the body is rooted in the vision that there
is an inner order in the very nature of the universe and all its manifestations.
The outer order is a manifestation and reflection of this
inner order. If the outer order is in harmony with the inner order,
then harmony and peace reign.
As our receptivity and ability to sense and feel ourselves from
within grows, so grows our ability to experience the universe within
ourselves. By looking deeply into ourselves we grow. Our understanding
of our being and body as a microcosmos, and its intrinsic
unity with the universe as a macrocosmos, grows.
From Balance through Resonance to Love
As our body and its chemistry and we ourselves are changing, our
consciousness and perceptions also change and widen. Then a
point will come where we begin to experience ourselves less as
separate and isolated from the universe and more in resonance
and in tune with the universe.
In this process, we grow more aware of the wave-like nature of
our body in and through which the universe pulses within us and
how we pulse in and though our bodies with the energies and forces
of the universe. At the same time our ability to tune in with the
energy of the universe and its frequencies and to absorb and draw
this energy into ourselves will grow.
The Fusion Practices serve an essential function in making our
being more open through the heightened sensitivity of the body, as
our energies become purified and more fine and subtle. The desire
rises within the body to enter into the primordial unity with the
original energy by which it was originated as a living being.
In the ancient Taoist vision this relationship has always been
seen as a love relationship which reveals itself when our body returns
to its inner balance and Yin and Yang enter into balance. The
ability to attract and conduce the energies from the universe into
one body through the network of conduits, represented by the grid
of meridians, is dependent on the quality of the inner work towards
unity between Yin and Yang.
This meeting between Yin and Yang has in the Taoist tradition
been seen as a marriage, born out of love between the opposites,
as they move towards unity. The Fusion Practices play an important
role in the preparation of a state of being which make this
movement towards unity possible.
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