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Being is: the essential qualities of the individual evolved through the conscious process of individuation and differentiation from our common racial unconscious spiritual heritage.
The healthy urge to become something is a positive process:
To live, to expand, combating the restrictive environment.
A POSITIVE PROCESS: THE FIVE ELEMENTS ARE AN AFFIRMATION OF THE POSITIVE THRUST OF NATURE
TOWARDS LIFE AND RENEWAL.
Negative Emotions are Distortions of the process of becoming:
Negative emotions are always the secondary expression of some failure in the realization of a primary positive emotional force or need.
As practitioners, “ we are needed to recognize the positive quest for contact beneath the negative emotion.”
Anger is the emotion of the Soul or spiritual faculties in self urge or birth and growth of ego: The healthy urge to become something
JARRETT:
De ( Virtue): The original endowment of nature prior to moral distinctions and conscious effort
Ming ( Destiny)- Our contract with Heaven, conferred by Heaven upon man; “ Our movement through Life is powered by a wave of destiny that we are given the choice to either fulfill or repudiate with every heart beat.
Jing ( Essence) – Our inherited endowment; the seed of all being, and the wellspring of life’s manifestations. Jing holds the potential for the manifestation of Heaven’s will as it exists uniquely within each human being.
Shen (Spirit); The heavenly brightness emanating from the heart which is the active impulse from heaven to ignite our inborn potential.
Ling ( Spirit)- The substrate of that potential. Pure potential. Together with Shen, it creates a spiritually potent force to live our destiny
FIVE ELEMENTS
WOOD HUN/ ANGER/ BENEVOLENCE
Color is green- Spring, youth, vigor, flexibility
Season is Spring- Beginning of Life. Life begins after dormancy of winter, “ The natural violence of seeds ( Hammer), “ The violence proper to all beginnings,”
( Larre, Seven Emotions)
Hun is Spirit of Liver, “ Ethereal Soul” according to Maciocia, aggressive for experience, amoral, childlike.; moves Mind and vision out into the world and back into self. Eyes create duality. A flexible HUN integrates Inner and Outer Vision. The Qi of the Mind
Boundaries, Flexibility, inner vision, decision-making, judgment (GB)
EMOTION: ANGER- the female slave under the hand of the master
Energy necessary to push through obstruction, frustration.
Aggressive energy, protective: Qualities necessary for a good general: anger, aggression, but flexible and under control
Also: Belligerence, resentment, rigidity, arrogance, determination ( Excess)
Timidity, indecision, flaccidity, humility, impotence,
VIRTUE: BENEVOLENCE; mutual benefit; grow according to your own nature and allow others to grow according to theirs.
Also: Discernment, Flexibility, Esteem, Patience
Wood is the fuel for Heart Fire/ The Liver and the Heart together create the emotional states.
FIRE SHEN/JOY/PROPRIETY- The Emperor/Empress/ Sovereign/ Ruler
Season: Summer, peak of life cycle, yang of Yang
Climate: Heat, warmth; fire made useful by limitations; naturally kinetic, expansive, dynamic. Bonding, passion, desire
Natural tendency for these things to rise; Must be descended to Kidney, bring Fire to Water, Shen to Jing, emotions to wisdom
The Heart must remain open to provide a suitable resting place for Shen;
The original nature of Heart, serene accepting open
EMOTION: JOY- “Joy makes the Heart Larger.” ( Maciocia)
“Appropriate Joy- e.g., contentment, appropriate to Heart, like sweet taste to the spleen; easy to overdo it. Excessive joy and emotionality deplete the heart and lead to sadness.
Speech: “ When you first attain a little insight, if you are delighted and talk too much, your shen leaks out and there is no spiritual refreshment of the light of the body.” ( Taoist Meditation).
VIRTUE: PROPRIETY ( Ceremony/ritual)
Alignment with the Tao allow heavenly spirits to guide from within.
Coming from the Heart.
If you need rules to be kind and just, if you merely act virtuous, this is a sure sign that virtue is missing.
“ He moves in Harmony with the present moment always knowing the truth of just what to do.” Being in the right place at the right time knowing just what to do.
EARTH YI/INTENT / WORRY, OVERTHINKING/ INTEGRITY
Time of Life: Childhood, nourishment
Climate: Earth must be Moist for fruits to ripen
Earth nourishes everyone generously; Earth is what we stand on, our “Bottom Line”, our Integrity
Nourishes Potential into being
Yi procures nourishment for the Mind, just as spleen provides nourishment for the body; This nourishment contains Heart Fire and manages Heart Shen. The Link between Heart and Spleen is the link between inspiration and intention.
Intellect, clarity of thought, concentration, evaluation and storage of data.
Generation of ideas, sustained intention.
Intent, idea, thought, opinion, meaning, intention, taste and tendency
( Larre)
Ability to nurture self and others
POST-Heaven Qi and Blood are the physiological basis for the Intellect
EMOTION: WORRY, OVERTHINKING
Worry creates stagnation, draws too much Qi to the spirit, without intention; worry is part of a self-perpetuating vicious cycle ( just like dampness)
Brooding, obsessive thoughts
VIRTUE: INTEGRITY
Authenticity of Speech ( Spleen governs the mouth); the extent to which our words conform to the truth in our heart.
“ Clever words, an ingratiating demeanor, and excessive respect…I am ashamed of them.” - Confucius
RECIPROCITY
Heaven bestows on great and small alike; reciprocity of nurturance between heaven and earth, meeting the needs of others; symbiosis, nature
METAL PO ( ANIMAL SPIRIT)/ SADNESS/ RIGHTEOUSNESS
Most Yin of the elements, most dense, slowest to change
Po is coming and going of Essences
Hard, permanent; highly-organized, crystalline minerals, can be cast and re-cast, but will maintain molecular identity
Direction- West, setting sun, end of life cycle
Fall- end of growth cycle
Harvest what is valuable, store it, let the rest go fallow during winter
Middle Age, maturity
Metal functions- somatic intelligence; homeostasis, senses, instincts, identity, individuality; Autonomic nervous system; purely somatic
PO is the Animal Spirit/Corporeal Soul
Breathing is the direct manifestation of the corporeal soul
Somatic manifestation of the Soul
EMOTION/ Grief; Sadness
Po reacts to life with sensations and emotions, stores reactions, Hun should raise this information to the Shen, or else it will stay in Po and create disease.
Pain of Loss; deepest, most primal yin emotion; This implies lack of understanding and faith in the Tao, because the only constant in life is loss
Grief comes from attachment to loss or gain;
Lack of understanding of inspiration/exhalation of Life ( Righteousness)
VIRTUE/ RIGHTEOUSNESS
Understanding and accepting the righteousness of the Tao: cycles of gain and loss, inspiration and exhalation, growth and harvest.
The rhythym of the Lungs empowers a broader connection to the breath of the Tao
WATER ZHI/FEAR/WISDOM
“For water benefits all things and goes against none of them. It provides for all people and even cleanses the places a man is loath to go. In this way it is just like the Tao.” TTC 8
“ Nothing in this world is as soft and yielding as water, yet for attacking the hard and the strong none can triumph so easily. It is soft, yet none can damage it. It is yielding, yet none can wear it away.” TTC 78
- Surrendering to your destiny is powerful
Water is a subtle, tenacious force which can dissolve any barrier over time
River flowing to the sea is a return to the origin
Destiny/ Birth and death and rebirth; MING
WINTER- Dissolution, decomposition, hibernation, gestation
The moment when Yin reaches its extremity and spontaneously transforms into yang
BLACK.BLUE/ Color of night of death
EMOTION: FEAR
Discomfort with the unknown, Lacking the “healthy sense of awe.”
Not understanding the nature of death
ZHI- WILL Potency in the mental, physical and spiritual spheres.
Potential, ability and power to manifest
When Intent becomes permanent we speak of the will
WISDOM- accrued through the cycles of life and death
- aligning our will with Heaven’s. Knowing our MING ( destiny)
- Integrating experience into consciousness
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