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▶ Quoted from  Cultivating the Tao: Taoism and Internal Alchemy , by Liu Yiming, pages 78-79—  Read more about this book Now I will not hesitate to speak, and I will give a true reflection of the spirit our ancestral masters, bringing forth what they did not bring forth and disclosing what they did not disclose. Joining them by means of my Spirit, being one with them by means of my Intention, I say to my companions: This Opening has a shape similar to Penglai: outside it is small, inside it is large, and its depth cannot be fathomed. It is not round and it is not square; within it, "the black and the white tally with each other," (1) and darkness and light pervade one another. Its gate is fifty feet high and four feet wide, and has two panels: once they open, once they close. On its left coils a green dragon, on its right is couched a white tiger, above flies a vermilion sparrow, below rests a black turtle. Vague and indistinct! Dim and obscure! (2) A Tr...

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