Taoist Internal Alchemy (Neidan): Water and Fire (Wang Jie)

Reproduced from:

Wang Jie, Commentary on the Mirror for Compounding the Medicine: A Fourteenth-Century Work on Taoist Internal Alchemy

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Water is True Water,

Fire is True Fire.

Water and Fire conjoin:

you will never grow old.

Commentary

Water and Fire are divided between above and below. How can they be conjoined? You must avail yourself of the True Soil of wu and jiTwo emblems of the Center. in order to seize and control the True Fire and the True Water, and to apply pressure on them. Thus you can cause them to ascend and descend, and to return together to the Earthenware Crucible.

After Water and Fire have been balanced, they coalesce and form the Golden Elixir, which is the Pure Yang of the One Breath and is as longevous as Heaven.

Verses quoted from the Ruyao jing (Mirror for Compounding the Medicine) — Commentary by Wang Jie (14th century)

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