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The Inner Sage Affirmations
The Basic Affirmations
Great Unity is roughly English for the Chinese Taiyi a concept which in this case could be taken as “the whole”, as the overriding unity that unites parts into a whole. In the Cosmic sense it is the unity that unites all of the Cosmos into a single linked entity, however on another level it can be taken as ones personal unity, that over arching power that maintains the unity of body, mind and soul just as Taiyi preserves the unity of Heaven, Earth and Man.
It is the existence of this unity, both in the greater world of the Cosmos and also in the lesser world of the individual human being that is affirmed and actualized here.
Affirmation of the Inner Sage in the Central Room
Inner Sage Tao has two poles, an inner one where individual attention is focused completely in the mind and imagination represented by the Central Room and an outer pole in which the
focus is on the Inner Sage within the body and as a source of harmony and peace originating in the middle tan, roughly the area of the chest and including the solar plexus. This affirmation deals with the first pole and the next one with the second.
Affirmation of the Golden Light of Bright Virtue
Both of these affirmations taken together reinforce the fundamental nature of the Inner Sage, but whereas the previous on focuses on in internal mental state, this one concentrates on becoming a center on peace and harmony within an expanding world of connectedness. In this case the Inner Sage is specifically placed in the body, in what in Esoteric Chinese Meditation is called the Middle Tan (the area of the Chest and Solar Plexus) because the Middle Tan is considered to be the generator of chi or vital energy (the Lower Tan well known from the more exoteric meditation disciplines of the martial arts is roughly the abdomen is associated with ching or “essence”, in a sense physiological substance), by focusing the Inner Sage here the chi field is filled with the unifying power of Mingte or bright virtue, manifesting as a Golden Light.