Yellow Emperor's Scripture on the Hidden Fitness
In Cantonese:
Worng Daee Yarm Full Ging
In Mandarin:
Huang Di Yin Fu Jing
The beginning chapter -- the supernatural person is holding The ONE and preaching the Tao
Watch the heaven's Way(Tao), and adhere to the heaven's movement, that is all.
(* "heaven" is translated from the Chinese character "Tin", which means not only "heaven", but also "sky", "nature", "the upper part of universe", etc.)
In the heaven there are five thieves, one who sees them will be flourishing. The five thieves dwell in the heart, and command through the heaven, the universe is in the hands, and myriads of creations happen within the body.
The nature of heaven is in human, the heart of human is the key. Stand upon the heaven's Way(Tao), to dominate the human.
When the key occasion of killing arises in the heaven, the stars and the constellations move; when the key occasion of killing arises in the earth, the dragons and the snakes rise from the land; when the key occasion of killing arises in the human, the heaven and the earth reverse. When the heaven and the human launch it together, the base of myriads of changes is set up.
The nature has both dexterity and clumsiness, and can be hidden. The leaking from the nine holes (*), is due to the three pivots. It can be dynamic or static.
(* The nine holes of human body: the two eyes, two ear holes, two nostrils, mouth, the outlet of sex organ, and the anus)
The Fire(*) is created from the Wood, when the misfortune arises, it must be overcome. When the evils appear in the nation, advance and they will be defeated. One who knows these and cultivates and refines himself is called a saintly person. The heaven creates, and the heaven kills, this is the principle of Tao.
(* The five basic element: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth)
The middle chapter -- Preaches the Law on enriching the nation and pacifying the people
The heaven and the earth are the thieves of all beings, all being are the thieves of human beings, and human beings are the thieves of all beings. If these three kinds of thieves are fit, the three talents are pacified.
Therefore it is said: eat at The Time, and the body with hundreds of bones will be in good condition; advance at the key time, and the myriads of creatures will be pacified. One may regards his spirit as the divinity, and the divinity, being unknown and different to the spirit, is therefore called the divinity.
There is a calculation related to the sun and the moon, and a certain number about the Great and the Small. After that, the saintly merits will be produced, and the luminous divinity will come out. The stealing at the key time, is unable to be known, and unable to be seen by anyone of the mundane world. If a superior one gets it, he will reinforce his body; if an inferior one gets it, he will impair his life.
The last chapter -- Preaches the Method on strengthening the army and getting the victory
A blind one is good at hearing; a deaf one is good at seeing. Cut off one outflow and the army will be ten times stronger; if The-Three return day and night, the army will be ten thousand times stronger. The heart is born from materials and dies in materials, the key is at the eye.
The heaven is not kind, so that the great kindness come. The impetuous thunder and the strong gale are both dynamic. The ultimate bliss has the nature of surplus, and the ultimate tranquility has the nature of honesty.
The ultimate privacy of the heaven is most impartial and is used universally. Grab it, and control the prime energy. Birth is the root of death, and death is the root of birth. The kindness comes in the harm, and the harm comes in the kindness.
The fools regard the written theories about the universe as the sanctity, I discern the times and the creations to become sagacious; people are fooled by their guess, I abandon such foolishness to become saintly; people think that the sages are weird, I do not think that the sages are weird.
Thus, drown the Water in the Fire, the vanishing by itself will occur. The natural Tao(Way) is tranquil, thereupon the heaven, the earth, and myriads of beings are created. The Tao of the heaven and the earth is a gradual immersion, thus the Yarm(yin: the female energy) and the Yeong(yang: the male energy) are superior. The Yarm and the Yeong are arranged, then the transformations and creations come orderly.
Thus, knowing that the natural Tao can not be violated, a saintly person holds it back. The ultimate tranquil Tao is unable to be matched by calendars. Then there is a wonderful container, inside which myriads of phenomena emerge, including the eight GWAs, the cycles of sixty years, the extensions of gods, the hiding of ghosts, and so forth. The method of the superior Yarm and Yeong, is now so obvious for transcending the material realm!
(End of Translation)
(Translated into English by Silfong Tsun)
(Dec/19/2007)
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