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21 septembre 2015

Taoïsme, suite et fin

Puisque les études tibétaines progressent d’année en année (disons que les traductions deviennent un peu plus rigoureuses), je me suis dit qu’il devait en être de même pour les études taoïstes, dont l’état était vraiment ridicule il y a 20 ans. De fait, j’ai trouvé un traducteur qui fait du bon travail. Mais en creusant un peu, j’ai vu qu’il était inutile d’aller plus loin. En effet, son travail est loin d’être avancé, pour le moment je dirais plutôt qu’il consiste à mettre par terre tout celui des autres sans rien construire. Par la traduction de quelques vieux traités, il montre (sans le faire exprès à mon avis, puisque comme tout le monde, il ne s’intéresse qu’à son propre travail) que l’édifice actuel ne tient pas débout. Un édifice déjà très élaboré – finances obligent -. Le réseau de profs de chi-qong, de taichi et de médecins chinois étant déjà très dense, il n’y a aucune chance que les véritables informations fassent surface alors que le bizness a tout envahi. Les véritables informations, il y en a peu, de toutes façons, et se résument simplement : les termes alchimiques n’ont pas le même sens que les termes médicaux. Par exemple, en médecine, l’Essence se situe dans les reins car il s’agit d’essence post-céleste. En alchimie, on parle d’essence pré-céleste, et ce n’est pas la même : elle est dans toutes les cellules, comme une sorte de vapeur. De ce fait, les chercheurs d’immortalité ayant pris tous les termes post-célestes pour définir leurs pratiques, on se retrouve à faire croître un embryon hypothétique dans le ventre, où on aurait mélangé du « feu » avec de « l’eau » pour l’obtenir. Mais, comme le remarque finement ce traducteur, en alchimie, le feu désigne l’esprit alors que l’eau désigne l’essence (celle qui est partout). Et l’endroit où cela se mélange, c’est un endroit qui à la fois est physique et à la fois ne l’est pas, qui est petit de l’extérieur et grand de l’intérieur (tel le vaisseau du Dr Who), et on y entre uniquement par la méditation sur la vacuité. Le gagnant est donc : le chakra du coeur. Il y a quelques termes qui sont ainsi redéfini dans un tout autre sens que celui qui est généralement admis, et j’ai assez confiance en l’auteur car son travail est extensif. Il donne à peu près 30 synonymes pour le Kan et le Li, et il explique tous les processus de transformation, comme le yin qui contient le vrai yang, le yang qui contient le vrai yin, et on se rend compte qu’en fonction de l’endroit où l’on se situe dans le processus, tout se retrouve inversé. Les auteurs (à peu près tous les autres) qui ont définit les choses en disant : « ceci est ceci, cela est cela » ont tout bonnement ignoré que toute la philosophie chinoise est basée sur ces processus de transformation. On peut donc tout jeter au panier, du moins si l’objectif est l’alchimie. De même, le grande circulation n’est pas la petite circulation améliorée, la grande médecine n’est pas la petite médecine améliorée etc… Bref, ce qu’on va finir par retrouver entre les lignes, c’est simplement le processus de formation du corps illusoire décrit dans les tantras tibétains. Mais l’information a été tellement déformée à cause du passage par la médecine chinoise qu’elle a été complètement perdue. Et comme je l’ai dit plus haut, nous pouvons faire confiance à ceux qui tiennent le marché pour qu’elle ne soit jamais retrouvée. De fait, c’est vraiment pratique de faire des stages où on fait imaginer des tas de trucs aux gens, par exemple une sorte d’embryon d’immortalité qu’ils déplaceraient ici et là, tout ça en échange d’espèces sonnantes et trébuchantes qui permettent de se payer des vraies villas… Vraiment tout le monde y trouve son compte, alors que dans la vraie solution, il n’y a ni argent ni immortalité, parce qu’on n’a vraiment pas le niveau. Reste la médecine chinoise et les arts externes (waidan) qui je pense ont des vues intéressantes sur la meilleure façon de rester en bonne santé. De moins c’est un début.

Extraits : 1. The Mysterious Barrier. The One Opening of the Mysterious Barrier (xuanguan yiqiao) is the spaceless and non-material center of the human being. Liu Yiming agrees with earlier Neidan masters in saying that this center is neither in the body nor in the mind. The One Opening harbors the Precelestial Breath of True Unity. With the shift from the precelestial to the postcelestial, the precelestial True Yang becomes concealed within the postcelestial Yin, and the recognition of the spaceless center is lost. In the images of the Yijing (Book of Changes), True Yang becomes the solid line (⚊) found within Kan ☵, surrounded by two broken Yin lines. The purpose of Neidan consists in recovering the Yang within Kan ☵ and in using it to replace the Yin within Li ☲. This allows Qian ☰ (True Yang) and Kun ☷ (True Yin) to be reconstituted and then newly joined to one another. Their conjunction occurs in the One Opening of the Mysterious Barrier.

2. The stage of « refining Breath to transmute it into Spirit » constitutes an advanced stage of the alchemical work, in which one’s practice progresses from « doing » to « non-doing. » The Great Medicine is called Embryo of Sainthood (shengtai) or Infant (ying’er). Both terms are actually metaphors for Spirit and Breath coagulating and coalescing with one another. Wu Shouyang explains the meaning of these terms saying: « Metaphorically it is called ’embryo,’ as if there is truly an embryo. In fact, however, there is no embryo. Why is it so? Because according to the principle of giving birth, one generates the embryo of a child in the womb; and according to the principle of cultivating immortality, one generates an embryo of Spirit in the Heart. The worldly people hear the word ’embryo’ and say that within the womb there is truly an embryo, which then leaves and becomes ‘a body outside the body’ (shen wai shen). This is truly risible. Essentially, the human nature is perfectly empty and perfectly numinous; it is devoid of a form and a body. »

Quoted from Wu Shouyang (1574-1644), Xian Fo hezong yulu (Recorded Sayings on the Common Origin of the Immortals and the Buddhas), with minor omissions and changes

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Enseignements de Rudi

Fear
We have the capacity in our minds to create that which we are most afraid of; in the same way that we bury some ignorance like a grain of sand inside the shell of an oyster and build around it until we come up with the end product, which in this case is not a pearl.

God
It is finally this consciousness that allows a human being to feel God as the constant energy that is absorbed by all of the chakras, filling him with sweetness and joy. Not feeling happy is only the result of not being in tune with this force and not having the consciousness to contain it. For whatever reason we fail in holding onto energy, we must look to ourselves. We cannot blame anybody or anything. It is only our lack of capacity to hold that which is given.

Revelations

In all teachings, the temptations that appear during the revelation period are those things we identify with, that take away the energy or content from the experience. It is the courage to put the bottom on the void, so that the incoming energy is not lost during any experience, that is required. This enables a person to grow endlessly, by surrendering content as fast as it manifests itself.

Seekers
It is a remarkable event when somebody presents a situation that exposes their real need. It is rare when even half the truth is given. Usually a situation is distorted beyond recognition. It is as if somebody is saying to me that if I can dig out the real situation, maybe they will allow me to help them. When a situation occasionally is presented in all its nakedness, it is only because the person is defenseless at a particular moment. As soon as they have one stitch to put on their back, they again retreat into themselves, distorting what they said and what they think you said. The ability to hear and see is rare in this world. It only exists in somebody who truly wishes to grow. This has not, unfortunately, been the attitude of most seekers. So few succeed in reaching their goal that it is safe to assume that there are few who honestly pursue a spiritual life, and even then, very few teachers who cater to anything that brings the realism that allows for enlightenment.

Spirituality

Spirituality is not about being where you think you should be. It is not about being where you want to be. Spirituality is about being on the highest point of an ascending energy that keeps growing and growing.
As this energy grows, it completely destroys every level of truth as you live it. This does not mean the truth that has been destroyed was not real. It was real for the level on which you existed before. With students, I am not interested in how long they are with me; I am just interested in one thing: whether or not they are strong enough to break up the horizontal level and continue growing. For myself, I do not want to limit myself by what I was. I do not think, "I did all this work to get to here." That is baloney. That is making a drama of your life and trying to build an image for yourself. The point is to keep growing. It is to have the courage to keep growing, even if it pulls apart the structure of your life. Then it is freeing you. There is nothing wrong with pulling apart the structure. What is wrong is to build yourself into a coffin and then stay there and try to justify it. Either you are working to live on a higher level all the time and to have a rebirth all the time, or you are trying to find justification for staying the way you are.
The whole point of what we do is to destroy matter, which is this horizontal plane we sit on: the earth. It is to translate this physical and material matter into spiritual force. This is our work.

Surrender
You sit down. Inside you, what is going on? You want to be right. "I'm a nice guy, how could this person do this to do me? How could someone take advantage of me in the business world," or "How can somebody not love me? Don't they understand what I did?" Inside you, these muscles close up; they are protecting you. They are protecting your ego, protecting the image you have of yourself. You sit down to take your breath, and you find that something has robbed you of your heart. What robbed you of your heart ? The need to be right. These muscles do not want to open. They would rather you were safe and secure behind the wall than outside the wall.
Surrendering is opening all the muscles. This is the real test of your surrender in a situation. Can you breathe ? Does the throat open to receive the energy ? Are you free to receive this energy and open and see what your condition really is ? If you find out you are constricted in your heart, you have a pain in your back, or you can't get the air down, what does it mean? It means you are closed. What closed you? It does not matter what closed you, you do not have to find the rational reason, you just have to open. You sit and work, and you breathe. I do not have that problem anymore, but I used to sit and take that breath six hundred times in one day, sometimes, to begin to feel a little crevice start to open. If you are closed, you are dead. You can't be right if you are closed. Can a closed person know what he or she did or did not do ? So, if you find that you are closed, you have to drop the whole issue of whether the other person is or is not right.


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