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I thought I would continue this tread fresh.
Singing Ocean
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(chaos), Xian
Tian (early heaven) and Hou Tian (later heaven – physical plane).
How is Zhen Ren different that Yuan Shen?
Yuan Shen is a formless, undifferentiated process of nature, and therefore very collective and primal, while Zhen Ren is the process of a human that is of necessity, filtered through the five shen (it is part of the process of refinement of the five shen). The human always has a connection with all levels of nature, but may not be adept at communicating with them. Through the process of meditation or inner alchemy, the human uses his/her body mind (the five shen) to communicate with more collective aspects of nature that also necessarily contain more yuan shen.
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Can you offer some clarity. Is Yuan Shen inside each human, as the Five Shen are or is it outside the human and needs some method to communicate with it?
If the Yuan Shen is formless, are you saying it has no form at all? If we unite with it dont we become formless and isnt the purpose of alchemy to retain a form in life after physical death?
If the Yuan Shen is formless then how can there be an individual Yuan Shen for each person?
thanks,
bagua