Huiming Jing, 1794 — Description of the Microcosmic Orbit
Classical texts on energy cultivation — Daoist manuals, Buddhist diagrams, alchemical instructions.
These are not scholarly summaries. They are encounters: moments where ancient texts illuminated what I was already feeling, confused me with symbolic language I couldn’t decode, only made sense years later — or led practitioners into genuinely harmful practices based on literal misreadings of metaphor.
I approach these sources as technical documents, not sacred scriptures. Their value lies in what they reveal about procedure — how to detect, circulate, and refine internal sensation — rather than in their cosmological claims. Where the texts worked, I note it. Where they misled, required reinterpretation, or produced dangerous nonsense when taken literally, I say so.
The goal is practical: to extract what remains useful once metaphysics is set aside.
A rare Daoist-Buddhist synthesis on weaving consciousness and vital energy — and a bold claim about learning without teachers.
Jing, Qi, Shen — decoding biological metaphors without falling into superstition or literalism.
When the standard seven-chakra model didn’t match experience — and what a symbolic reading revealed.
Water and fire, front and back, yin and yang — the same symbol, three distinct practices. How the “fusion of opposites” unfolded across stages.
A classical Zen allegory of awakening — from searching for the ox to returning to the marketplace .
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