A Chinese, a German, a Swiss, an American and the oldest Confucian Classic plus a Daoist manual on meditation for remembering 德 inner power
*Das Geheimnis der Goldenen Blute* which means in English *The Secret of the Golden Flower* is Richard Wilhelm’s (1673-1930) title for 太 乙 金 华 宗 旨 — Taiyi Jinhua Zongzhi — which means in English : …
… *The Ancestor’s Instructions for being the Supreme’s Golden Splendor*
I cannot resist of giving a second translation respecting less the 6 Chinese characters formally speaking but much much closer in spirit to its fundamental meaning :
*The Ancestor’s Instructions for coming forth into the Light*
Richard Wilhelm was a German priest sent to China for utterly transmogrifying the Chinese or at least some of them into house niggers for the Whore of Babylon (ALL the denominations of the Western Christian Church) but he ended up saying with much humor that he has the deep satisfaction of having converted no Chinese to Christianity or as I call it : the grotesque and epistemologically inferior doctrine coming from the Whore of Babylon as created by Saul of Tarsus aka Paul.
●●● RICHARD WILHELM (1873-1930) is also known for having offered to the World the first palatable translation in a Western language (German) of the I Ching (Wade-Giles transliteration) aka the Yi Jing (currently international pin-yin transliteration), the first Confucian Classic.
Richard Wilhelm’s translation of the I Ching was published at Iena in 1924 under the German wording : I Ging.
Wilhelm’s translation of the 太 乙 金 华 宗 旨 as Das Geheimnis der Goldenen Blute — The Secret of the Golden Flower — was published in 1929, a year before his death in 1930.
●●● 劳 乃 宣 LAO NAI XUAN (1843-1921) was the Chinese scholar and the imperial bureaucrat who introduced Richard Wilhelm to the true meanings of both the I Ching and of the Secret of the Golden Flower. LAO is his surname.
●●● CARL GUSTAV JUNG (1875-1961) was the friend of Richard Wilhelm and through him, had the opportunity of closely studying *The Secret of the Golden Flower* and thus deeply enriching Western psychology, metaphysics and epistemology, treading a path which is quite unusual in the West :
LET AWARENESS BE AWARE OF ITSELF
回 光 Hui Guang Turning back the Light
ALSO Turning the Light around
ALSO Circulating the Light
NO ONE HAS TO unconsciously LOSE THE LIGHT
WHAT IS TRULY EXTRAORDINARY IN THIS SHORT VIDEO of 33 minutes long is that its CREATOR perfectly UNDERSTOOD that JUNG WAS TRULY A GENTLEMAN — he resisted the temptation of being a cartoonish guru and paradoxically he became a real Guru — a Sanskrit word which means the Destroyer of Darkness — for those having the epistemological development for seeing it — AND WARNED THAT THE WEST HAS TO earnestly RE-APPROPRIATE THE DAOIST WAY OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER THROUGH ITS OWN intrinsic CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS and NOT USE IT robotically as an abysmally STOOOPID MECHANICAL TECHNIQUE.
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THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS NON GRASPING ALERTNESS, neither forcing, that would kill the Golden Flower nor drifting in daydreaming, that would starve the Golden Flower.
THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS TIMELESS PRESENCE in TIME : TEMPUS radiantly FLOWERING in CHRONOS.
THE GOLDEN FLOWER IS THE DAWN, the Direct Aware Witnessing Presence Now.
YOU CANNOT ACHIEVE THE GOLDEN FLOWER, YOU CAN ONLY STOP right now TRAMPLING IT.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION.
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● Jung as a powerful Western mind has built a wonderful bridge with dazzling concepts as a road to the Golden Flower — THE WHOLENESS AT THE CENTER OF THE PSYCHE — for helping Western people. Jung’s PATH to INDIVIDUATION truly helped many people in the West.
● For me, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) is Nietzsche (1844-1900), also a powerful Western mind, BUT having a friend, Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930), who RIGHTLY introduced him to meditation because Richard Wilhelm learned it with a real meditation master 劳 乃 宣 Lao Nai Xuan (1843-1921).
I have always claimed that Friedrich Nietzsche needed a meditation master. Had Nietzsche been fortunate enough for stumbling upon one, he would not have gone mad.
●●● CARY BAYNES (1883-1977) was Jung’s student and created the first US translation of the I Ching published in !950 (NYC).