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Setting Up the Foundation in a Hundred Days

1.  One of the Mind Seal scriptures says, "the returning
wind mixes together, the hundred days' work is effec-
tive." On the whole, to set up the foundation requires
a hundred days before you have real light. As you are,
you are still working with the light of the eyes, not
the fire of spirit, not the fire of essence, not the torch
of wisdom.

2.  Turn it around for a hundred days, and the vital
energy will naturally be sufficient for true yang to rise
spontaneously, so that there is true fire naturally
existing in water. If you carry on the practice this
way you will naturally achieve intercourse and for-
mation of the embryo. You are then in the heaven
of unknowing, and the child thus develops. If you
entertain any conceptual view at all, this is immedi-
ately a misleading path.

3.  A hundred das setting up the foundation is
not a hundred days; one day setting up the foundation is
not one day.  One breath setting up the foundation
does not refer to respiration. Breath is one's own
mind; one's own mind is the breath's original spirit,
original energy: and original vitality: rising and
descending, parting and joining, all arise from mind;
being and nonbeing, emptiness and fullness, are all in
the thoughts. One breath is held for a lifetime, not
only a hundred days; so a hundred days is also a
single breath.

4.  The hundred days is just a matter of empowerment:
gain power in the daytime, and you use it at night;
gain power at night, and you use it in the daytime.

5.  The hundred days setting up the foundation is a pre-
cious teaching. The sayings of the advanced realized
ones all relate to the human body; the sayings of true
teachers all relate to students. This is the mystery of
mysteries, which is inscrutable. When you see
essence, you then know why students must seek
the direction of a true teacher. Everything that
emerges naturally from essence is tested.