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I had one of my peak experiences last night. I got a good hit of the “Big Yin”. I finally understand what Bruce was describing in the Double Palm Change. He couldn’t have said this any clearer or simpler: “There are only two forces in the universe: the force that goes out and the force that let’s it all in.”
This has nothing to do with whether a hand or foot is moving away or toward your body. The big yin is just the mind allowing it all in. The quality of the mind is very different than the state of mind you use to make it go out. Neither have any inertia. Neither require effort. They are effortless. You just shift your state of mind and it happens. Tell your body to do it and it does.
In the double-palm change, the hands are always interacting because the forces are allowed to interact, to come in. So, the forces coming into the left hand are allowed to connect to the right and vice versa. In fact, everything is interacting with everything else. The more you relax into this the more interactions you are able to be aware of simultaneously. This is true throughout the entire sphere in and around the body.
This is the real beginning of opening and closing. This is what allows you to project or absorb energy from any place in the physical or etheric bodies. There are natural places to do this from like the lower tan tien, the spine, and the internal organs. But once you have access to absorbing and projecting energies, these seem like specific applications, details, rather than the objective. For example, you can go back to yin-yang lengthening and apply it. You sort of tune the yang side to the expansive energy and the yin side to the force that allows it in.
The more you get it, the more you still inside and it just gets easier to do because with stillness comes clarity.
Could you say that yin energy is just relaxation?
No. You have to relax at a very deep internal level just to have a chance of experiencing this, but it isn’t relaxation. As Bruce said: “It is the force that let’s it all in.” I can’t say it any clearer than this.
I’ll contrast Yin with Heaven. If you recall, I posted a bit from my conversation with Bruce. He showed me how Heaven can expand out, go inward, simultaneously expand out and in, and finally how it can disperse from a point throughout the entire field. Although the dispersing mode was the most interesting to me, the mode of yang going in was the biggest surprise. I had always thought this was Yin. It isn’t.
The real distinction is the mind you use to create the inward motion. When you are in a Yang frame of mind, you actively drive the energy inward. You are using exactly the same method as generating your outward expansion, but you direct it inward. You are just pointing an outward expansion inward.
When you do this with the Yin mind that the double palm change embodies, the mind simply allows the energy to go in. It is like creating a black hole inside. But it doesn’t have to be a single point. The Yin can function in exactly the same 4 ways that Yang functions. It can go in, out, in and out, and it can slip into all of the space simultaneously (opposite of disperse). The quality of your mind is very different. It is the opposite but complement to Yang.
Interestingly, once you get the Yin, it flips: it teaches you how to make the Yang work with the same effortlessness (Is that a word?). That’s what I’m working on now. I’m trying to keep the Yin that I found and use it to develop the Yang better. By continuously going back and forth my mind is relaxing at a deeper level and I begin to experience stillness with varying degrees of success.
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