Nei Shi Fa indicates method of inner vision.
The method to reverse vision to look inward has been a secret for thousand years. It is only taught in Taoism and has been lost for the last hundred years. This method uses inner vision to view the inner scene.
We may use inner vision to see our inner view. Inner vision is called inner scene. We may use it to experience outer view, which is called the external scene. There are two books written on this experience: Huang Ting Nei Jing Jing and Huang Ting Wai Jing Jing.
Master Mrs. Wei wrote the Huang Ting Wai Jing Jing and Ling Fei Jing to show techniques for teaching the public. Her technique depends on Eastern Qi for practice. Our inner vision method depends on self only.
Inner vision practice can be individual or within Yin Xiang Fa, Tai Yi Jin Hua Zhong Zhi, San Xian Gong, Nu Dan Xin Fa and Shui Gong.
Body, breathing and mind:
Sit with legs crossed, hands on knees. Shoulder, upper arms, elbows, wrists and hands are relaxed. Keep the spine straight, lips closed and teeth together and tongue on the soft palate behind the front upper teeth.
Use Yin Xian Fa to regulate your body and mind. Let the concentrated Yi and Nian focus on the Lower Dantian. With closed eyes, see the Lower Dantian. Relax the shoulders, arms, wrists and hands, and tuck the chin. Regulate your breathing; breathe slow, long and even breaths.
Stabilize and relax your body. Slow your breathing as you relax your body and mind. Keep your breaths slow and long, inhaling and exhaling evenly.
Continue to relax your body as you slightly raise your head. Let the Qi into your head. Keep your eyes closed and look straight forward, and your concentrated Yi and Nian in front of your eyes. Practice Heaven's eye breathing. In this you inhale from in front the space between your eyebrows into your brain. Follow by exhaling from you brain and through your eyebrows into the in front of you. Inhale with your vision looking into your head and then exhale as you look forward. Take an even and long breath in and look inside your head; exhale and feel your head's pores expand. Inhale and feel the pores contract and let your vision access the cavity in your brain through this meditation. Repeat this process a few times. Let the head pores move as you breathe naturally. Slowly reverse your vision back into the head and look inside your skull; do you see any cavity access in the head? Do you have any brightness inside your head and in front of your eyes? Breathe even and long breaths as you regulate your breathing again. Reverse your vision and look at the crown of head and the Bai Hui (which is located at the highest point on the crow of the head) and the Tian Men (which is the Heaven door and at junction of the frontal and parietal bones). Your brain should be slightly bright. Slightly squeeze your skull and head's pores as you inhale. Exhale and let the pores and skull slightly expand. Inhale and let the pores get smaller and smaller. Exhale and feel the pores getting bigger and bigger.
At this moment, the head should be bright. Inhale and
contract the skull then exhale expand the skull. Pay attention to the head's inner cavity. Inhaling contracts the skull and head's cavity and exhaling expands the skull and head's cavity. Pay attention to the degree of brightness in your
head's cavity.
Inhale and slightly contract the head's pores and skull, and then exhale to slightly expand the pores and skull. Inhaling contracts the head's inner cavity and makes it smaller and smaller. Exhaling expands the head's cavity and makes it bigger and bigger. Repeat this a few times. Breathe naturally. Reverse your vision to look into the head's cavity. Notice the skull's movement and changes inside your head.
Regulate your breathing with long and even breaths as you use inner vision and your Yi and Nian guide both the Sheng Guang (mind and light) and Qi. Slowly descend from the crown of head to the mouth and swallow the Qi or saliva. Descend to the chest cavity and look at the Lungs and Heart. With your Yi and Nian guide the inner vision look into the Lungs. Slightly contract your Lungs when you inhale and slightly expand the Lungs when you exhale. Inhale the Lungs contract to be smaller and smaller and exhale the Lungs are expand to get bigger and bigger. Slow your breathing, making each breath even and gentle sounding as you pay attention to any changes in your Lungs.
Exhale and notice that the body is more relaxed and Sheng Guang and Qi are descending downward. Make your breaths long and light.
Now as the concentrated Yi and Nian are in the Heart, listen to the Heart beating as both eyes look into it. Inhale and
slowly contract the Heart; exhale and slowly expand the Heart in the human body universe.
Your breathing should be slow and even as you Yi and Nian focus on your respirations. Inhale very gently and then exhale very gently several times and then hold your breath for a few seconds while your eyes and ears pay attention to your Heart
beating and body inner pulsing.
Let the heartbeats guide gentle breathing. Relax and count on your heartbeats as you follow the Heart's movements. The beating of your Heart should sound louder than your gentle breathing at this time. Pay attention to your heartbeats and let your breaths be slow, even and long as you relax your body. Reverse your vision to look at the Lungs. As you inhale and exhale the Lungs should move just slightly. Slowly turn the breathing inward naturally. Look at your Lungs, Heart,
and chest as you reverse your hearing to listen to the sound of beating from your Heart, Lungs, and chest. Breathe through your nose into your chest with the breaths quieter than the sound of your chest's movement.
Let your chest move naturally. Listen and watch the Heart and Lungs pulse. Looking at the chest, notice that the breath sounds are quieter than the sound of the chest's movement. As you listen and look at changes to the chest, let your breaths be slow and natural.
Use your concentrated Yi and Nian and inner vision and slowly descend from the chest to the abdomen. The Yi and Nian descend first with the Qi and Shen following. Look at your Liver, Gall Bladder, Stomach and Spleen. Then descend down to look at your Large Intestine, Kidneys and Urinary Bladder. See the genital region; this is the prostate, perineum and anus for males and the uterus, ovaries, perineum and anus for females. As you scan through the genital region, prostate, perineum and anus for male, and ovaries, uterus, perineum and anus for female, you're Yi and Nian are at the lowest point on the human body.
For females, inhaling contracts the genital region while exhaling expands it. Inhale contracts your genital area,
bringing it up to the Lower Dantian. Exhale expands your genital area. During the inhalation you may experience sensations from the genital area, uterus or ovaries, notice where the sensations come from.
For males, the testicles are contracted on inhalation and on exhalation the testicles expand and drop. Inhale contracts and pulls testicles up. Exhale descends testicles down. Repeat this process a few times. On inhaling as you experience a warm sensation in the testicles, notice where the heat comes from. For both sexes, during inhalation and exhalation relax the body and let your breathing become natural with even, long and slow respirations.
The Yi and Nian focus in the Lower Dantian. Relax and turn your attention inward the changing of the Lower Dantian; is there brightness in front of your eyes? Reverse this brightness to the Lower Dantian, relax, and then bring the brightness inward. After the brightness arrives in the Lower Dantian, inhale gently and move it to below the navel. Exhale and move the area below the navel outward gently. With focus still on the Lower Dantian, watch it, and notice if there is a pulsing sensation.
Pay close attention to the related actions of the Heart and Lungs with the Lower Dantian. Breathe through your nose a few times. Sense the Lower Dantian's movement and use your breathing to regulate the Lower Dantian's movement. If the Lower Dantian moves too fast, slow down.
As you breathe more quickly through your nose, check to see if your Lower Dantian follows. Inhale and notice the Lower Dantian's contracting; exhale and sense the Lower Dantian expanding. Hold your breath as you listen to the Lower Dantian and watch its movement.
Now let your breathing follow the Lower Dantian's movement. Your breathing sound should be lower than the Lower Dantian movement sound.
Let the Lower Dantian's movement be greater, and let the Lower Dantian's sound be stronger than that of your breathing. Let you're breathing become slow and gentle as you listen to and watch the Lower Dantian's movement. Let the concentrated Yi and Nian into the Lower Dantian; let the Shen in, too. Inhale and contract the Lower Dantian, then exhale and expand it as you slowly let your breathing become natural.
Now the Shen is in the inner body and Yi and Nian are in the Lower Dantian. Pay attention to the inner change. Your breaths should be long, even and gentle. The Shen is still in the inner body. Inhale gently and focus on the area below your navel. Tighten your genital, perineum and anal areas and then exhale and relax those same areas. Repeat this a few times.
Inhale and contract the three cavities (head, chest and abdominal); exhale and expand the three cavities in the human body universe. This is inner breathing (not outer breathing). Inhaling contracts all the body's cavities and exhaling expands the cavities in the human body universe. Inhale and squeeze the inner cavities; and exhale and expand them. Inhalation squeezes the inner cavities until they are like a thin bottle; exhalation expands the inner cavities into a normal bottle. Inhale and contract the inner body bottle; exhale and expand to the normal bottle. Inhale and contract the inner body bottle into smaller and smaller; exhale and expand the inner body bottle to bigger and bigger. Repeat this a few times. Then let your breathing become natural with long, deep and even respirations as you see the changes in
your inner body.
Now your Yi and Nian are in the Lower Dantian. Relax your body; stabilize the Lower Dantian and the three Dantians. Slowly stabilize your mind and body. Breathe naturally. Reverse your vision and sit for while.
Chapter Eight: Jin Yang Huo and Tui Yin Fu (Turning up the Yang Fire and Bringing down the Yin Fu) After one has become adept at practicing the Yin Xian Fa, Tai Yi Jin Hua Zhong Zhi and the first section of San Xian Gong, before starting turning up the Yang fire and bringing down the Yin Fu (symbol has substance) training and in order to practice turning up the Yang fire and bring down the Yin Fu one needs to understand the synchronicity of the Tao and be taught by a Master with an understanding of this discipline. One has well basic skills suddenly there will be a strong flow of Qi from the Lower Dantian to the Sheng Si Qiao, the life of death orifice. This orifice in a male is located where urine and sperm exit, and for a female the location is in the cervical region.
Turning up the Yang fire and the Yin Fu will descend to the Lower Dantian, there the Qi and Jing (essence) in processing to Dan (golden pill), the refined Jing through into the Xiao Zhu Tian to nourish the brain, from the upper Yu Ye (Jade fluid) returns to the Dan; Jin Ye (golden fluid) returns to the Dan. But if someone without enough Qi and Jing of substance to turn up the Yang fire will burn out the inner pot of Ding. There are two methods for turning up the Yang fire and bringing down the Yin Fu.
When your Lower Dantian has filled with Qi and Jing and moving downward, take an inhale, below the navel move in and exhale, below the navel move out and push the Qi and Jing to Sheng Si Qiao; inhale the Yi and Nain guide the Qi flow to the sacrum, upwards to the mid back and to the occiput and the crown of the head.
junction of the frontal and parietal bones) to between the eyebrows, nose, mouth, chest to lower abdomen and finally to the Sheng Si Qiao. This is one complete cycle. Repeat this cycle. After you finish this exercise, the Qi and Jing are
deposited in the Lower Dantian. The first method is used by a regular practitioner.
Illustration for first method:
The second method is for one who wishes to reach the immortal level, and is called Duan Ling Gen (stop the sexual lust's root) and is meant for a full time practitioner who stays in the temple and wants to stop sexual lust and reverse the Jing back to the source. This method should be used with caution by anyone who wishes to have children.
When the Lower Dantian has filled with Qi and Jing moving downward, take an inhale, below the navel move in and exhale, below the navel move out and push the Qi and Jing to
Sheng Si Qiao.
Inhale, the Yi and Nian guide the Qi to the sacrum, to the mid back, to occipital region and to the crown of the head. Exhale to the Tian Men, to between the eyebrows, nose, mouth to chest and finally to the level of the Lower Dantian, inhale, the Qi and Jing to the Lower Dantian and exhale, from the Lower Dantian to the Sheng Si Qiao. Inhale, to the sacrum, to the mid back, to occipital region and to the crown of the head. Repeat this cycle. After you finish this exercise, the Qi and Jing have reached the Lower Dantian.
Illustration for the second method:
Required eyeball movements:
During this practice one tracks the flow of Qi and Jing with the eyes, looking down and then rotating eyes to look at the sacrum, mid back, the crown of the head and back down the front of the body to the Lower Dantian and to the Sheng Si
Qiao. Breathing:
A longer inhale turns the Yang fire; a longer exhale causes the Yin Fu to descend.
Turning up the Yang fire requires a longer inhale and a
shorter exhale from 12 a.m. to 12 p.m., and requires nine times of longer inhale with shorter exhale each circle practice, up to thirty six times. Or you can practice turning the Yang fire nine times each and up to four times a day.
Bringing down the Yin Fu requires a longer exhale and a shorter inhale from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m., requires six times of longer exhale with shorter inhale each circle practice. Or you may do this up to twenty four times. Or you can practice bringing down the Yin Fu six times each for up to four times a day.
There are a few ways to practice the Yang fire and the Yin Fu, practice turning up the Yang fire and two hours later practice the bringing down the Yin Fu in either morning or afternoon. Or turning up the Yang fire nine times with bring down the Yin Fu six times. Or turning up the Yang fire thirty six times with bringing down the Yin Fu twenty four times. Or turning* up the Yang fire one hundred sixteen times with one hundred forty four times for bring down the Yin Fu. Which depending on the practitioner's inner fire.
All above regulation is not formulaic; it depends on the timing of one's live Zi Shi Qi flow.
Illustration of the flow of Qi in the body:
Bringing down the Yin Fu requires longer exhale and a shorter inhale from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. Wu: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Front You: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Back A Mao: 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. Zi: 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Turning up the Yang fire requires a longer inhale and a shorter exhale from 12.a.m. to 12 p.m.
If one practices turning up Yang fire and bring down the Yin Fu use nine longer inhales to turn up the Yang fire and shorter exhale for bringing down the Yin Fu six times. This is the Niu Che (slow ox vehicle). If you have enough Qi and Jing to transform, you do the turning up the Yang fire practice thirty six times and twenty four times for bring down the Yin Fu. This is called Yang Che (the goat vehicle and faster than an ox). And one hundred sixteen times turning up the Yang fire and one hundreci forty four times for bringing down the Yin Fu. This is called Lu Che (fast deer vehicle).
If one's Qi flows from the back and is not in a line, or the Qi and Jing falling in front are not in line or are suddenly dropping, that person needs to practice the basics more. If after turning up the Yang fire and bring down the Yin Fu practice, one's Qi and Jing are stable in the Lower Dantian where the Qi starts to flow again, into either the five elements
movement or to the Upper Dantian, it is time for An Shen Zhu Qiao practice.
For a female, if her Qi flowing to the Ru Xi (between the breasts), it is time to practice the Jin Mu Guan Xin (Golden mother watching the Heart) of Niu Dan Xin Fa.