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OTHER HARPER SAN FRANCISCO BOOKS BY THOMAS CLEARY The Essential TtUJ: An Initiation into the Heart of Taoism through the Authentic 1iuJ Te Ching and the Inner Teachings of Chuang Tzu The Essential Confocius: The Heart of Confucius' Teachings in Authentic I Ching Order The Secret of the Golden Flower The Classic Chinese Book of Lifo Translated, with Introduction, Notes, and Commentary by Thomas Cleary , HarperOne A Division ofHarperColiinsPllbluhers
H:uperOne ~ THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER: The Classic Chinese Book of Lift. Copyright © 1991 by Thomas Cleary. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Na part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For informarion address HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. HarperCollins books may be purchased for educarional, business, or sales promotional use. For information please write: Special Markets Department, HarperCollins Publishers, 10 Ease 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. HarperCollins Web site: hrtp:llwww.harpercollins.com HarperCollins®, .0, and HarpcrOneTh! are trademarks of HarperColiins Publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lil, Tung-pin, b. 798 [T'ai i chin hua tsung chih. English] The secret of the golden flower I translated, with introduction, notes, and commentary, by Thomas Cleary. - 1st ed. p. cm. Translation of: T'ai i chin hua tsung chih. ISBN: 978-0-06-250193-6 1. Spiritual life (Taoism) 2. Spiritual life (Buddhism) 1. Cleary, Thomas E, 1949- II. Tide. BL1923.L78 1991 299'.5144-dc20 90-55796 08 09 10 11 11ART 20 19 Contents Introduction 1 The Secret of the Golden Flower 7 Translation Notes 73 1i"anslator's Afterword: Modern Applications of the Golden Flower Method 131 Works Cited 154
Introduction Natumlness is called the Way. The Wayhasnonameorjimn; ;tisjustthe~~ just the primal spirit. he Secret of the Golden Flower 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 ror many centuries. The golden flower symbolizes the quintessence of the paths of Buddhism and Taoism. Gold stands ror light, the light of the mind itself; the flower represents the blossom- ing, 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. In Taoist terms, the first goal of the Way is to restore the original God-given spirit and become a self-realized human being. In Buddhist terms, a realized human being is someone conscious of the original mind, or the real self, as it is in its spontaneous natural state, independent of environmental conditioning. This original spirit is also called the celestial mind, or the natural mind. A mode of awareness subtler and more direct than thought or imagination, it is central to the 1