Requisites for a Functioning Cauldron

practical descriptions

 

 

1. Open Space.

2. Ability to draw medicines into the open space.

3. Complementary medicines drawn in to produce a balanced blend.

4. Transformation into Light within the deep-center/s.

5. All happening in a tan tien.

 

 

A tan tien ("medicine field") is a functional interplay of substance, space, and Light.

 

 

Under the steady application of awareness, layers of work:

1. Physical (tissues, fluids, physical exercise)

2. Chinese Medical (acupoints, channels, etc.)

3. Esoteric (individual integration with the transpersonal)

 

 

 

Carrying vitality and consciousness,
 embracing them as one,
 can you keep them from parting?


 Concentrating energy,
 making it supple,
 can you be like an infant?


 Purifying hidden perception,
 can you make it flawless?

 

- Tao-te Ching (Ch.10)

pg 12 of Vitality, Energy, Spirit