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Door VII · Part Two · The Night: Of the Tunnel of Yellow Light

«The garment becomes light. The body unclothes itself without shame to enter the space where there are no longer two».

Double wooden door in an arch of wooden voussoirs; open, it gives onto the sea at sunrise, with the sun appearing and its golden reflection on the water

Touch the door to open it.

Here the door continues off the page: its practice, its gesture for the day, and a place to write.

Practice

The Golden Leopard Trains Its Claws

From the Eighteen Lohan Arts

The book describes this form step by step. The description accompanies learning with an instructor and, afterwards, helps you remember the movements.

«I have decided not to teach these arts to anyone under eighteen». Common Guide to the Practices.

Opening: Sense, soften, and smile from the heart.
Repetitions: The choice, frequency and repetitions of each form are learned with the instructor.
Closing: When both sides are done, gather the Chi to harvest and to flow. Let that time open into stillness, and finish with the common closing at the lower Dantian and the facial massage.
Care: If a movement causes pain or dizziness, stop.

Read the common guide to the practices

To carry into the day

«Gracias»

A personal gesture for this door, independent of the school’s exercise:

Sit with your back upright and loose.
Breathe naturally and let your inner self whisper AVVA, without forcing the word into a rhythm. AVVA is the word I use; if you have another, use your own.
If a color or an image appears, let it pass. If nothing appears, the gesture keeps its meaning.
To close, touch the ground with your fingers and say: “Gracias.”

The challenge of the week

Seven days

Each day, make the gesture with your word and close it by touching the ground. Then mark the day.

0 of 7 days

«If something does not serve you, let it go». What you mark stays on this device.

The question

Write from there

You write from the question

If you can, write on white paper with a graphite pencil. If you don’t have them at hand, write here and then print your notebook.

Your notebook

What you write here is neither sent nor saved: it is erased when you close the site or reload the page. Print it before you leave, and read your journal again often.

Library

More about this door

«En la noche dichosa,en secreto, que nadie me veía,ni yo miraba cosa,sin otra luz y guíasino la que en el corazón ardía».

St. John of the Cross, The Dark Night, stanza 3

With no other light than the one burning in the heart. John sings of the passage through the night, the house at rest. Mine was not sought.

The voice

St. John of the Cross · Dark Night of the Soul · Ascent of Mount Carmel · Spiritual Canticle · Sayings of Light and Love

St. John of the Cross in the book

AVVA: A name that first came to the author during a meditation with Dr. Li, in Santa Marta, in October 2012. It is kept in the form in which he remembers it; see Door VII.
Metanoia: A deep change of mind and attitude. Jung links metanoia with spiritual rebirth (“The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future),” § 536) and, in another passage, speaks of a change of mind that recognizes the whole human being (“Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth,” § 719). Both texts appear in Civilization in Transition, Collected Works, vol. 10. In Doors II and VII, the author links it with his experience of inner transformation, whose path he discovers by walking it. That personal description is not a technical definition of Jung’s. The author also describes it as “that other inner space where, for me, two plus two can open onto the infinite.” This image, together with those in the entries “Orthonoia” and “Paranoia,” expresses his personal way of telling what happens to him.
Trance: The author uses the word in a personal sense: an entry into immensity, “where all is nothing and nothing is all,” and a descent into the depths of the unconscious to approach wounds, fears learned in childhood, and painful experiences gathered since; that learned programming he calls the programming of the mind. “Cleansing,” when he says it, means recognizing and working with those wounds; not erasing memories or promising a cure. The book does not teach how to induce it.
Jing, Chi, Shen: The three treasures of the Chinese tradition, as taught in the author’s school: Jing, essence, the dimension of the body; Chi (Qi), vital energy; Shen, spirit, mind, and consciousness. They are related dimensions of one life, not separate compartments or medical quantities.
Eighteen Lohan Arts: A series of the Shaolin Wahnam school, distinct from the Eighteen Hands; from it come the exercises the author chose for Doors VI, VII, IX, and XIII (Open the Window and Gaze at the Moon, The Golden Leopard Trains Its Claws, The Great Bird Spreads Its Wings, Father and Son Together).
Bardo Thodol: A Tibetan Buddhist text known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead. In Door VII, the author tells of working with it alongside Dr. Li, in Santa Marta, in January 2013.

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The next door · VIII

Of the Face That Inclines

«Surrender is not upward, but inward».

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«You can read one door a week, or stay longer in the one that asks for it».

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