Secret of the Golden Flower 2.2: The Primal Spirit
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2016-11-07

This series is classified Vivartha-vāda | Rāja-yoga | Suśupti | Ājñā-cakra
"The primal spirit is beyond the polar differences. Here is the place whence Heaven and Earth derive their being. When students understand how to grasp the primal spirit they overcome the polar opposites of light and darkness and tarry no longer in the three worlds. But only he who has envisioned human nature’s original face is able to do this."

The Flood rises above the tallest Tree. Amidst a rising tide of human folly, the Superior Person retires to higher ground, renouncing his world without looking back. Where to go? Any direction is better than where you now stand.

Like two atoms seeking to occupy the same space, these irresistible forces and immovable objects threaten to ignite a cataclysm that could irreversibly alter your world. Remove yourself from this situation without delay. Find sanctuary. Later you may deal with these concerns on your own terms, from a position of strength.

When the strong are outside and the weak inside, all is well and there is nothing out of balance, nothing extraordinary in the situation. Here, however, the opposite is the case. The situation is like a beam that is thick and heavy in the middle but too weak at the ends. This is a condition that cannot last; it must be changed, must pass, or misfortune will result. 

The ridgepole sags to the breaking point. It furthers one to have somewhere to go. Success.

The weight of the great is excessive. The load is too heavy for the strength of the supports. The ridge-pole on which the whole roof rests, sags to the breaking point, because its supporting ends are too weak for the load they bear. It is an exceptional time and situation; therefore extraordinary measures are demanded. 

It is necessary to find a way of transition as quickly as possible, and to take action. This strategy promises success. For although the strong element is in excess, it is in the middle, that is, at the center of gravity, so that a revolution is not to be feared. 

Nothing is to be achieved by forcible measures. The problem must be solved by gentle penetration to the meaning of the situation; then the change to other conditions will be successful. It demands real superiority; therefore the time when the great preponderates is a momentous time. 

When a man wishes to undertake an enterprise in extraordinary times, he must be extraordinarily cautious, just as when setting a heavy thing down on the floor, one takes care to put rushes under it, so that nothing will break. This caution, though it may seem exaggerated, is not a mistake. Exceptional enterprises cannot succeed unless utmost caution is observed in their beginnings and in the laying of their foundations. 

Your iron will must come to the forefront now. It will take great personal determination to resolve the situation in question. Your adversary would love to force you into an angry display. That would legitimize his opposition to you. Such a berserker rage would drag you down to his level. You must resolutely take a public stand against what he represents, but refuse to engage him. Without compromise, you show others the way to higher ground.

This signifies on the one hand a break-through after a long accumulation of tension, as a swollen river breaks through its dikes, or in the manner of a cloudburst. On the other hand, applied to human conditions, it refers to the time when inferior people gradually begin to disappear. Their influence is on the wane; as a result of resolute action, a change in conditions occurs, a breakthrough.

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