The Secret of the Golden Flower ~ A Synthesis ~ Inner Alchemy
This reading is a synthesis of the teachings found in the text, The Secret of the Golden Flower, translated by Thomas Clearly. According to Cleary, this text is a lay manual of Buddhist and Taoist methods for clarifying the mind. A distillation of the inner psycho-active elements in ancient spiritual classics, it describes a natural way to mental freedom practiced in China for many centuries. The golden flower symbolizes the quintessence of the paths of Buddhism and Taoism. Gold stands for light, the light of the mind itself; the flower represents the blossoming, or opening up, of the light of the mind. Thus the expression is emblematic of the basic awakening of the real self and its hidden potential.
The text was written by means of the spirit-writing (fuji) technique, through two groups, in 1688 and 1692. After publication of the translation by Richard Wilhelm, with commentary by Carl Gustav Jung, it became modernly popularized among Westerners as a Chinese "religious classic", and is read in psychological circles for analytical and transpersonal psychology considerations of Taoist meditations.
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@imod7646
3 ай бұрын
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@fygg1
3 ай бұрын
Cleary :) and this channel and the podcast are gems of gems. Thank you ❤🔥
@MissTeaq
2 ай бұрын
With the utmost gratitude… Thanks for the love and peace you offer to existence 💐🤲🏽🙏🏽
This channel is such a wonderful gem. This particular sharing is very powerful. 💚💜🙏
❤ I’m listening now you’re my life line
@stacielivinthedream8510
3 ай бұрын
Mine too!!! ♥️💯🙏
I have read this little book over and over, both translations. SAMANERI you have made my day. May your heart be full of cosmic love.
Just what I needed, right when I needed it 🤓❤️
Thank you so much dear Samaneri for this powerful recitation of very powerful pointings to “The Way Is In the Immediate Presence”. The Way to Water 💦 of Vitality, Fire 🔥 of Spirit & Earth 🌎 of Attention. 🙏🏻✨💫❤️
Omg thank you. I've read it but it's so beautiful like this
As always perfect timing. Inexpressible gratitude. 🌟🌟🌟 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu This pointing seems like all that is needed. Again I listen to this without ears.
Nice ❤ golden 🌼. 😊 time to be an alchemist.
Thank you
Thank you!
Just the light around..this is sublime truth...🎉 Thanks for sharing..
Thank you 🙏❤️
self-possessed is such a good explanation
@user-vk5ws3jl1l
2 ай бұрын
From an egoic perspective its consired egoïstic, selfish and wrong. From a higher perspective there is nothing else, so self realised, fulfilled and in harmony. Like beautiful flowers that grow in manure, we might be born in negative, abusive environments but we can choose to transform it an become pious and beautiful from the inside..
Thank you for sharing this and your beautiful talents, to read to us.
What a treat!!! 🌬❤️
Thsnk you. 💐
Read with heart❤ thank you so much for sharing these words❤🌟🙏
This one seemed to show up exactly at the moment I was ready to hear it.
Surrounding you in Joy as you share such sublime messaging, Samaneri. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this reading. I make incremental steps, and also may have glimpses of the gestalt. The immediate clarity and emptiness is what I will be keeping in mind - and seeking to practice. I hope you are well, and deeply appreciate your grasp of these readings and how you are sharing them. 🙏
Thnku u ...❤ani samaneri jaysara(1st comment!)
This is my first experience with these readings in The Golden Flower and I just wanted to thank you, because they are so wonderful! Feels tailored to what is needed right now. 🙏
Such a brilliant book, the truth this holds is massive
Just perfect. All of it ❤
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Great teaching and reading, Samaneri! Thank you! What does it mean that "The Way is before our eyes, yet what is before our eyes is HARD to understand"?
@SamaneriJayasara
3 ай бұрын
It's subtle. And way beyond the mind or intellect, and is not an experience.
@sonofsophia
3 ай бұрын
😊 your question makes me smile cause it kinda proves the statement itself.
Waiting for the mind to stop is like waiting for the sea to stop breaking on the shore.
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I’m so lucky I get to see God through my living guru Samaneri
as always 🙏
Does "the bright moon in the mid-sky" refer to consciousness/awareness/attention being fixed to the third eye/Ajna?
When you turn the light around to gaze inwards ".... Suddenly one forgets the gazing... You can't even find your own body". Hibernating in the layer of energy" When the mind is clean that is elixir, when the mind is empty that is medicine"
The first sentence is all you need
So what is the practice of turning the light around ? What are the practical steps to it ?
@SamaneriJayasara
3 ай бұрын
Tbc.....
I pray for the opportunities so to do
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the secret of secrets
@imod7646
3 ай бұрын
Yes indeed
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We got the night, to reflekd light.
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Shanti
and the golden flower is consciousness
Thank you