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A review by cotaluck
The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life by Richard Wilhelm
4.0
Very nice book, I probably shouldn't have read it before reading any Jung and familiarizing myself with his language, however. I learnt some things about Taoism, and more about the light (yang) and the dark (yin). It states that the ego partakes of the 'fruits of its good or bad deeds in heaven or hells, which, however, are not external, but purely inner states. The Tao was described as the unity of life and consciousness.
"All holy men have bequeathed this to one another: nothing is possible without contemplation. When Confucius says 'perceiving brings one to the goal', or when the Buddha calls it: 'The vision of the heart'; or Lae-tse says: 'inner vision', it is all the same."
- On the importance of self-reflection and contemplation.
There are instructions here on meditation: "Look with both eyes at the tip of the nose, to lower the lids, to look within, sit quietly with upright body, and fix the heart on the centre in the midst of conditions." I also liked the way the ideal state while meditating is described as "body like dry wood, the heart like cooled ashes."
I also found out about the concept of mandalas for the first time, images that I would have recognized but wouldn't have been able to put a name on, or explain what they are. They are circular figures representing the universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism. The oldest known to Jung seems to be the sun wheel in Rhodesia.
"All holy men have bequeathed this to one another: nothing is possible without contemplation. When Confucius says 'perceiving brings one to the goal', or when the Buddha calls it: 'The vision of the heart'; or Lae-tse says: 'inner vision', it is all the same."
- On the importance of self-reflection and contemplation.
There are instructions here on meditation: "Look with both eyes at the tip of the nose, to lower the lids, to look within, sit quietly with upright body, and fix the heart on the centre in the midst of conditions." I also liked the way the ideal state while meditating is described as "body like dry wood, the heart like cooled ashes."
I also found out about the concept of mandalas for the first time, images that I would have recognized but wouldn't have been able to put a name on, or explain what they are. They are circular figures representing the universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism. The oldest known to Jung seems to be the sun wheel in Rhodesia.