Your Inner Palace (Yuán Chén Gōng 元辰宮) and the Akashic Records – benebell wen

The Akashic Data may be very a lot a Western conception, proper? The Theosophists of the nineteenth century formulated a mash-up of Japanese and Western esoteric traditions and from that mash-up got here its hottest legacy– the Akashic Data.

Most of us get that it was impressed by the akasha, a fifth factor or essence present in varied Asian traditions, related to the sky, area, aether, and in Buddhism, even a frame of mind.

The Akashagarbha 虛空藏菩薩 is the Buddha/bodhisattva related to the akasha, the bodhisattva of infinite sky and area, whose magical powers are boundless, wielding a sky jewel and a flaming sword of reality and information. Akashagarbha additionally presents by 5 manifestations of the Akashagarbha, that are in flip directional emanations of the 5 Knowledge Buddhas.

If the Akashagarbha is the Buddhist divine manifestation of the Akasha, then the 5 Emanations of Akashagarbha within the 5 instructions conveys 5 functions of accessing the Akasha, 5 of its key attributes:

1. It’s the nothingness, and due to this fact equated to the Taoist Realm of Nothingness.
2. It’s a mirror of information, as expressed within the magical bronze mirror one finds within the Internal Palace.
3. You possibly can entry the Akasha to heal and treatment struggling.
4. It’s Mild.
5. And it’s a reservoir of all reminiscence imprints of the universe, an accounting of the universe’s karma.

The Internal Palace (元辰宮, Yuán Chén Gōng) is the legacy of the Palace of Mysteries 玄宮 (xuán gōng) referenced in Zhuangzi, Baopuzi, and different canonical Taoist texts. Per these texts, it’s located within the Mysterious, Numinous Void 玄空 (xuán kōng), which equates to the Buddhist idea of Akasha is 虛空 (xū kōng). The markers describing these realms match up throughout a number of texts over a whole lot, now 1000’s, of years.

Maybe the Palace of Mysteries is a broader umbrella time period utilized in Taoist mysticism, whereas the Yuán Chén Gōng, which I’m referring to because the Internal Palace, is a designation particular to the Lushan 閭山派 lineaged Taoist traditions of the south. These traditions blended Taoism and esoteric Buddhism with the shamanistic witchcraft of the Min-Yue folks (閩越巫法), circa 300 to 100 BC.

Per normal consensus, there are 5 fundamental areas of the Internal Palace you’d need to discover, the place key gadgets are positioned:

The premise of Internal Palace readings is on symbolic content material. The supplies you see your internal palace constructed of, the furnishings, the temperature of the room, the quantity of sunshine and darkish, all of it’s interpreted as that means one thing particular about your life.

The folks perception is that the Internal Palace exists on an astral airplane, and that astral airplane is constructed of sunshine and power. The astral airplane is a religious parallel to the bodily universe, and simply as our bodily our bodies navigate the fabric world, psychological states inside are how we navigate the religious/astral world.

I ponder if, in modern-day psychological phrases, that’s simply saying that meditation practices are triggering symbolic content material to rise from our unconscious frame of mind to our aware state, and that every of those visible cues characterize one thing about what’s taking place in our life that we have to take care of. Thus, the “Internal Palace studying” is only a methodology for realizing that which we’d have in any other case been beforehand unaware of.

The Huangdi Neijing (Internal Canons of the Yellow Emperor)

What’s so outstanding concerning the Internal Canons is that effectively over 2,000 years later, two millennia, this textual content stays related in trendy acupuncture, qi gong, Taoist therapeutic cultivation, and medical idea.

The overarching philosophical premise of the textual content is that what you eat, your way of life, your feelings and frame of mind, your surroundings, and your life experiences will decide your bodily well being. And people components will be calculated out of your start chart, your innate born lucks and fortunes, for higher and for worse.

Internal Canons outlined the discourse on yin and yang medical idea. The Wu Xing 5 Actions are expressed on this textual content because the 5 Carriers, Wǔ Yùn, and the Six Classifications of Qi (Wǔ yùn liù qì, 五運六氣), that are based mostly on the Ten Heavenly Stems. I’ve a video on the Wu Xing. As for the Six Classifications, they’re: wind, chilly, warmth, dampness, dryness, and hearth. In Conventional East Asian epidemiology, all ailments, diseases, and physiological weaknesses will be sourced again, ultimately to the 5 and the Six.

There’s a refined, hid, xuan that means to the Internal Canons, which reveals its occult teachings. The textual content reads: “The Mysteries xuan gave start to the gods shen. The aim of the numinous and infinite sky is to assist the Mysteries and the gods. The gods dwelling within the heavens set forth the winds.”

Implicit inside the subtext of that passage is that wind, the primary of the Six Classifications of Qi, is what varieties the trigram Wind from the Ba Gua eight trigrams.

Enjoyable background. Initially all these things concerning the Akashic Data, first returning it to Japanese traditions rooted supply materials, after which how one may acquire entry  to the Internal Palace or anyplace else within the Realm of Numinous Void (aka Akashic Data) was a complete devoted chapter in I Ching, The Oracle.

You know the way Akashagarbha manifests because the 5 directional Akasha safety divinities to type the mandala illustration of the astral realm, and the I Ching is a mandala so you need to use the I Ching to entry the Akasha and all websites within the realm that’s the Akasha?

In that chapter I famous that the Akasha, xū kōng 虛空 is the numinous nothingness that’s Wújí 無極 per Taoist cosmology. Wújí is the supreme final that’s Tàijí 太極, from which come up the 4 faces of god, from which come up the eight trigrams, the basic constructing blocks of all life… and of the I Ching.

So… If xū kōng 虛空 is Wújí 無極 and Tàijí 太極, and Wújí 無極 and Tàijí 太極 are the totality of the Yi, the E book of Adjustments, then by fundamental syllogisms, xū kōng 虛空 is the Yi, as within the I Ching, the E book of Adjustments.

The I Ching is a manifestation of the idea of the Akashic Data, a condensed codex that diagrams the Akasha. The E book of Adjustments is the cardboard catalog system that registers all that’s the Akasha.

The idea of the Akashic Data is because the thoughts of god, and by god, if we’re speaking concerning the I Ching, then I’m referring to the Tao. Shangdi. The sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching is sort of a card catalog system that helps us navigate the labyrinth that’s god’s thoughts.

And thus when you subscribe to the idea of an Akashic Data, then that might be the I Ching. Or at the very least entry to the Akashic Data is by means of the I Ching.

Yeah, that’s kinda the place I used to be going with that chapter. However in the end I made the editorial choice to take it out. So as an alternative, right here’s a video and weblog put up on the topic. =P

Texts Referenced:

• 475 – 9 BC: Internal Canons of the Yellow Emperor (黃帝內經, Huángdì Nèijīng) – on the akasha 虛空, the aether inside and the various internal meridians of the akasha; and on the that means and implications of shen 神 [Link: Scan of the Inner Canons from the Jin dynasty: Huang di nei jing su wen 黃帝內經素問 (1115 – 1234 AD), Library of Congress]
• 350 – 250 BC: Zhuangzi 莊子, Internal Chapters, 大宗師 – on the Palace of Mysteries 玄宮 within the north, past the area of the Mysterious Waters 玄水; that Palace is located within the Land of Nothingness 無何有之宮; Taoist idea of the Land of Nothingness 無何有, an astral dream realm, akin to a utopia
• 33 – 18 BC: E book of Supreme Mysteries (太玄經, Tài Xuán Jīng) – on the Golden Imperial Palace 黃宮 and the Palace of Mysteries 玄宮
• 196 – 220 AD: Shēn Jiàn 申鑑, Chapter 3, Sú Xián 俗嫌, by Xun Yue 荀悅 – on making use of knowledge and restraint when using strategies in Taoist sorcery
• 283 – 364 AD: Bàopǔzi 抱樸子 by Ge Hong 葛洪 – on the Palace within the Land of Nothingness 无之宫也, the home of the gods, within the picture of the gods, and a type established by spirit