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堅固交遘而不休息。感應圓道成。名精行仙。
這種的仙在這個山裏邊「堅固交遘」，存一種堅固心來交遘。這個交遘，普通是男女有一種性行為，這叫交遘。可是在這兒並不是有這個男女的性行為，這是自己本身的，他們叫嬰兒奼女。這不是向外邊去找的，是每一人的自己本身上有嬰兒奼女。什麼叫嬰兒呢？這個就是說這個坎離，這講的這個中國的卦爻上。離卦，離中虛；坎卦，坎中滿。坎卦，就是奼女；離卦，就是嬰兒。
這個八卦：乾、坎、坤、離、震、艮、巽、兌。最初是乾卦；乾卦是乾三連－－三橫是連著的。坤，乾為大父，坤為大母。坤卦就變成坤六斷了；那個三連就斷成了六斷。男子到十六歲的時候，這乾卦滿了；滿了就會損。損了變什麼呢？乾卦就變了離中虛。那這離中虛這個離，離卦中間這一點陽，到什麼地方去了呢？就到那個坤六斷那個中間去了，所以就變成坎、離兩卦了。乾卦一變，就變成一個離中虛；坤卦一變，就變了坎中滿。
這個離中虛就叫它叫嬰兒；坎中滿就叫它叫奼女。離中虛就是屬於心；坎中滿就屬於腎。這個交遘，就是心腎交遘；心腎交遘，也就拿它比方這個男女性行為一樣的，所以叫交遘；這個交遘是自己本身的。離是屬陽的，但是陽中有陰；坎是屬陰的，但是陰中有陽。離卦，怎麼說它屬陽，陽中有陰呢？因為它離中虛了，陽中有陰。那個坎卦，它怎麼說陰中有陽？就是它坎中滿，中間那一橫連上了那叫屬陽的。所以這也就比方嬰兒奼女。道教講嬰兒奼女，「嬰兒并奼女，相逢在黃庭。」黃庭是什麼？就是意。就是第六意識那個「意」。意屬於哪一經呢？就屬於脾經，脾臟意的。所以這個道理要往詳細了講，那多得不得了。我的時間太不夠了所以我沒有法子講那麼多，這是道教。這一個就是修這個交遘的這個法門。
趕一般邪知邪見的人看見這個《楞嚴經》上說講交遘，就以為男女在一起胡混也可以修道呢！也就亂來起來了，一點戒律也不守了，就因為這個。唉，不要講太多了。
「感應道成」：這感應也就是那個交遘，這個交遘道就成了。「名精行仙」：這個名字就叫精行仙。
堅固變化而不休息。覺悟圓成。名絕行仙。
「堅固變化」：這個修道的人以這種堅固的心來研究這種種的法術，把種種的法術研究成了，有一種功效了。他有一種功效所以這種修行功夫已經成就了；功夫成就了所以他就覺悟這種造化的道理，圓成了。
什麼造化的道理呢？這種的仙能移山倒海，可以把北邊的山搬到南邊去，南邊的山又搬到北邊去；把東海搬到西海去，西海搬到東海，互相調換位置。他有移山倒海，變易四時的這種能力。
怎麼樣變易四時呢？冬天冷的地方本來沒有東西生，他隨時可以叫所種的東西生出來，在這冷的地方而凍不死。最冷的地方，他可以把它變成最熱的地方；最熱的地方，又可以把它變成最冷的地方。也就是春天他可以把它變成冬天；夏天最熱了，他可以把它變成冬天。春天是萬物發生的時候，他可以把這個春天變成秋天，變成萬物枯槁的一個時候。變易四時，他能把四時都給變化了。他為什麼能這樣子呢？他就覺悟了造化的道理，能奪天地造化的功用。把造化的這種功能，他都可以作為他自己的本能，這叫絕行仙。
阿難。是等皆於人中練心。不修正覺。別得生理。壽千萬歲。休止深山或大海島。絕於人境。
阿難！你要知道「是等皆於人中練心」：這一些個仙都是作人的時候，他鍛練這個身心。「不修正覺」：他不修這個不生滅的如來藏性；這個楞嚴的定，不修這種正覺。「別得生理」：他得這種特別的養生道理。什麼特別的呢？就是前邊他修那種種的法門，也是以外道的這個仙傳給他這個外道的法去修行他這個養生，得這種的養生的道理了。他壽命可以活到或者一千歲，或者一萬歲，或者更多的年紀。「休止深山」：他住在深山穹谷裏邊，人所不能到的那個地方。「或大海島」：或者住到一個大海的海島上。「絕於人」：人不容易到的那個地方。在七金山有須彌山這個世界；須彌山外邊有七金山；七金山又有七重香水海，過了這個七金山和香水海之外又有這個弱水三千。怎麼叫弱水呢？就是軟弱的那個「弱」；因為這種水，就是鳥毛放到那都要沉到底下去。本來小鳥的毛放到水上它是漂著的，浮但是這種水，叫弱水，軟弱沒有托浮的力量，所以就這個鳥毛放裏頭，它也沉底的。
待續
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Sutra:
Some of these beings with unflagging resolution make themselves strong through internal union. When they have perfected the response, they are known as immortals whose practice involves essential energy.
Commentary:
These immortals dwell in the mountains and make themselves strong through internal union. They have an unflagging resolution to perfect this kind of intercourse. Internal union, intercourse, usually refers to the sexual act between men and women. But that is definitely not the meaning here. Rather, the intercourse takes place within oneself. One anal- gy for this is that of a "young boy and a young girl." No one needs to seek outside; each of us individuals has an internal young boy and young girl. In this analogy, explained from the point of view of the trigrams used in China, the young boy is the trigram
li [The Clinging (brightness, separateness, fire)]; the young girl is the trigram kan [The Abysmal (sinking, water)]. The trigram
li is empty in the middle; the trigram kan is full in the middle.
These are two of the eight major trigrams, which are:
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Qian [The Creative (heaven, male, yang)] |
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Kan [The Abysmal
(sinking, water)] |
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Kun [The Receptive
(earth, female, yin)] |
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Li [The Clinging
(brightness, separateness,
fire)] |
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Zhen [The Arousing
(startling movement)] |
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Ken [Keeping Still
(checking, stopping)] |
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Sun [The Gentle (bending
to enter)] |
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Dui [The Joyous] |
The eight trigrams begin with the trigram
qian [The Creative], which consists of three connected lines.
Qian represents the male element. Kun is six broken lines and represents the female element. In human beings, the
qian trigram is at its peak when a male is sixteen years old. Thereafter it begins to decline and turns into the trigram
li [The Clinging (fire)], which is empty in the middle. Where does the yang connected line in the middle of the
qian trigram go? It moves to the middle of the kun trigram, thus forming the
li and the kan trigrams. When the Qian (yang) trigram changes it becomes
li with an empty (yin) middle. When the Kun (yin) trigram changes, it becomes Kan with a full (yang) middle.
Li with the empty middle is likened to the young boy and
kan with the full middle is likened to the young girl.
Li belongs to the mind; kan belongs to the body. Thus the "internal union" or intercourse referred to occurs between the mind and the body. The analogy for the union of mind and body is that of sexual intercourse between men and women. This intercourse occurs within one's self. The
li is yang, but within the yang is yin. The kan is yin, but within the yin is yang.
Li is described as yang containing yin because of the empty middle line.
Kan is described as the yin containing yang because of the full middle line. The analogy is made to the young boy and young girl:
The young boy and girl meet at the yellow courtyard.
What is the yellow courtyard? It is the mind, the sixth consciousness. The mind belongs to the channel of spleen. The mind is connected to the spleen (according to Chinese medical theory). It would get tremendously involved if we were to go into this doctrine in detail. Time simply does not permit me to explain it further. In any event, the Taoists cultivate the method of using this kind of internal union. When people with deviant knowledge and deviant views see this passage of the Shurangama Sutra, they surmise that it says men and women can use sexual involvement to cultivate the Way, which leads them to promiscuous behavior and a failure to hold the precepts at all.
These immortals use an unflagging resolution in their practice.
When they have perfected the response, meaning their practice of internal union,
they are known as immortals whose practice involves essential energy.
Sutra:
Some of these beings with unflagging resolution make themselves strong through transformations. When they have perfected their awakening, they are known as immortals whose practice has reached an ultimate level.
Commentary:
Some cultivators make themselves strong through transformations. These cultivators,
with unflagging resolution, investigate all kinds of dharma tricks. Succeeding in their investigation, they gain some ability to make them function. Once they can perform these dharma tricks, then their skill in that sort of cultivation is perfected.
When they have perfected their awakening they gain the skill to understand the principle of how things are created. What kind of principle of creation do they under- stand? These immortals can move mountains and switch seas.
They can move a northern mountain to the south; a southern mountain to the north. They can switch the east sea to the west; the west sea to the east. They can switch the locations of such things. That's one sort of skill they have with transformations: moving mountains and switching seas.
They can also change the seasons around. For instance, in the winter in places with such cold climates that nothing can grow, they can grow anything they like and the plants won't freeze to death. They can turn the coldest places into the hottest places; they can turn the hottest places into the coldest places. They can change spring into fall and summer into winter. Spring is the time when the myriad things come to life, but these immortals can change the season to autumn and everything will wither and die. They can change the four seasons around.
Why are they able to do such things? It is because they have awakened to the principle of how things are created. They can take over the function of creation of heaven and earth. They can assume that capability for themselves.
They are known as immortals whose practice has reached an ultimate level.
Sutra:
Ananda, these are people who smelt their minds but do not cultivate Proper Enlightenment. They obtain some special principle of life and can live for thousands or tens of thousands of years. They retire deep into the mountains or onto islands in the sea, cutting themselves off from the human realm.
Commentary:
Ananda, you should know that
these are people who smelt their minds. While these immortals are in the human realm they train and smelt their bodies and minds,
but do not cultivate Proper Enlightenment. They do not cultivate the Shurangama Samadhi of the Treasury of the Tathagata that neither comes into being nor ceases to be. They don't cultivate to reach that proper enlightenment.
They obtain some special principle of life. They discover a special method for nurturing their physical bodies. The special methods refer to the various externalist methods transmitted to these people by immortals of externalist ways. Having realized the principles involved in nurturing their physical bodies, they can
live for thousands or tens of thousands of years or even longer than that.
They retire deep into the mountains. They reside in the deep mountains and isolated valleys, places where people cannot go.
Or they go onto islands in the sea, cutting themselves off from the human realm. These places are not easy for people to reach, beyond the seven golden mountain ranges. This world contains a Mount Sumeru. Surrounding Mount Sumeru are seven golden mountain ranges and seven seas of fragrant waters. Beyond these levels of golden mountains ranges interspersed with seas of fragrant waters are three thousand soft-water ways. This water is so soft that a bird's feather will sink to the bottom. Normally a bird's feather will float on water, but this water is so soft it cannot support anything.
To be continued
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