Circulating the Light
The Secret of the Golden Flower
From the TaiShang, Taoist lineage. Translations by Thomas Cleary or Xon Leighton.
The Golden Flower is the light; when the light is made to circulate, the energies of heaven and earth crystallize.
— The Secret of the Golden Flower
Why it belongs
A Taoist manual of inner light and the circulation of attention—the witness as a practice of turning the gaze inward until it shines.
Echoes across the paths
The same structure, carried in other images—one tradition's metaphor mapping onto another's.