Heart-Seal Scripture of the Exalted Jade Sovereign (Gaoshang yuhuang xinyin jing)

An anonymous scripture from Chinese internal alchemy. To understand it, one needs to understand the three treasures:

1. physical sexual matter (ching-ye 精)
2. sexual energy (qi / chi 氣 / 炁)
3. consciousness, divinity (ching-shen 神)

These three are mutually interdependent and interconnected.

As this scripture explains, spiritual awakening depends upon them.

In synthesis, the scripture is closely related to the prajnaparamita literature of Buddhism, which explain that ultimate reality (suchness, Shunyata, the Absolute) is one with form, matter: to perceive this reality, one must master meditation, and to do this, one must have the three treasures united within.

高上玉皇心印妙经 Gaoshang yuhuang xinyin jing
Heart-Seal Scripture of the Exalted Jade Sovereign

上药三品
The supreme medicine has three qualities

神与炁精
Shen [consciousness / spirit], qi [energy] and jing [sexual matter]

恍恍惚惚
Abstract, indistinct

杳杳冥冥
Far, profound

存无守有
Preserve 无 [wu] non-being, guard being

顷刻而成
Accomplishing in an instant

回风混合
Return on the wind, blend and unify

百日功灵
One hundred days of spiritual practice

默朝上帝
Silently worship the Supreme Sovereign

一纪飞升
One discipline to ascension

知者易悟
Those who know it easily awaken

昧者难行
Those who ignore it hardly carry it out

履践天光
Realisation of the light of heaven

呼吸育清
The breath cultivates purity

出玄入牝
Exit the mystery, enter the female

若亡若存
As dead, as alive

绵绵不绝
Continuously, uninterruptedly

固蒂深根
Solid stem, deep roots

人各有精
Each person has Jing [sexual matter]

精合其神
Jing [preserved sexual matter] unifies with Shen [consciousness / spirit]

神合其气
Shen [consciousness / spirit] unifies with Qi [sexual energy]

气合其真
Qi [sexual energy] unifies with the reality of suchness [the Absolute, shunyata]

不得其真
Without attaining the reality of suchness

皆是强名
Everything is forced

神能入石
Shen [consciousness / spirit] can enter stone

神能飞形
Shen [consciousness / spirit] can physically fly

入水不溺
Entering water, it does not drown

入火不焚
Entering fire, it does not burn

神依形生
Shen depends on form to live

精依气盈
Jing depends on Qi to abound

不凋不残
Neither withered nor injured

松柏青青
Pine and juniper, evergreen

三品一理
Three qualities, one principle

妙不可听
Wonder that can not be heard

其聚则有
As they gather [retained, transmuted], there is existence

其散则零
As they disperse, there is nothingness [death]

七窍相通
Seven orifices interconnected

窍窍光明
Wild open, radiant light

圣日圣月
Sacred sun, sacred moon [male-female]

照耀金庭
Illuminate the golden court

一得永得
Attain the one [unity], attain the eternal

自然身轻
Naturally the body is light

太和充溢
Great harmony overflowing

骨化寒琼
The bones transform into cold jade

得丹则灵
To obtain the elixir is to attain Spirit

不得则倾
Not to obtain it results in decline

丹在身中
The elixir is at the center of the body

非白非青
Neither white nor green

诵持万遍
Recite and maintain ten thousand times

妙理自明
The wonderful principle becomes evidence

高上玉皇心印妙经
The Supreme Jade Emperor Wonderful Scripture of the Seal of the Heart