Three souls and seven spirits is a Taoist medical term for the human soul, which means that the human body has three souls and seven spirits. The three souls are fetal light, refreshing spirit, and ghost spirit; The seven are corpse dogs, fuya, finch yin, swallowing thieves, non-poisonous, defiled, and smelly lungs.
What are the three souls
"The Seven Signatures of the Cloud" cloud: "The light of the fetus belongs to the heavens, and if you always want to be pure, and if you live in the human body for a long time, you can live forever; Refreshing spirit, belonging to the five elements, often desires man and machine to seek all things, makes people's hearts work hard, and produces many misfortunes, disasters, decay, and punishment; The spirit belongs to the earth, often lustful and lustful, making people messy and dim, delaying sleep, the essence is exhausted and the famous black book is ghostly. ”
First Soul: Fetal Light
As the name suggests, people radiate the radiance of life when they are mothers. Fetal light belongs to heaven, it wants people to keep their minds pure and clear, and if it can exist in the human body for a long time, it will help people live long.
Fetal light is a congenital "flame", and people have a sense of life because of "flame". The light of the fetus is the foundation of human life and the source of human spirituality. The light of the fetus dissipates, that is, the life disappears.
Second Soul: Refreshing Spirit
Refreshing spirit belongs to the five elements, which often guide people to think about everything and transform the world, but if it is overactive, it will easily lead to excessive mental fatigue and cause various disasters and blessings.
Man is the spirit of all things, and shuang in ancient texts often means satisfaction, joy, comfort, etc. In another way, refreshing the spirit is the soul. "Shuwen" pointed out: "Xi, Sheng Ye. Whether it is the meaning of prosperity or the meaning of coolness, the ancients compared people's inner psychology and wisdom to this very subtle.
Shuang Ling is a human innate endowment, which carries the energy of the five elements from the beginning of conception, and the energy of the five elements of the birthday determines its talent. All things under the world are different, and people are very different and unique at the beginning of life, which is the beauty of the creation of heaven and earth.
Third Soul: Ghost Spirit
The spirit belongs to the earth, which often triggers people's pursuit of lust, makes people indulge in lust, leads to the exhaustion of spirit, produces various sins and dark acts, and is finally recorded by heaven and earth in the black book and ghost record. In ancient texts, the meaning of darkness, concealment, tranquility, etc., combined with "jing", can be understood but cannot be said.
The spirit is also a symbol of human desire, seven emotions and six desires. On the positive side, human emotions are different from animals, humans have more colorful emotions, and emotions are the bridge between human beings. In the historical development of human civilization, people have created literary and artistic works like bright stars, such as fine arts, music, poetry and so on, through the burst of emotions. In addition, human desire is also the driving force for the development of human civilization and science and technology.
But on the negative side, if you indulge in non-moral and unethical emotions for many years, it will not only make people lose their souls, but also lead to wrong behavior, regardless of whether they are punished by law or not, their people will be subject to karma. In addition, if human desires do not stop at destroying the way of nature, they will be condemned by heaven and earth, and the source is human desire, which manifests itself in the catastrophe of heaven and earth.
Therefore, looking at the "Seven Signatures of Yungu" again, "it is also said that there are three souls, one main fate, one main calamity, and one main wealth", and the fate of people is determined by the "three souls".
What is Qilu
The seven famous corpse dogs, fuya, finch yin, swallowing thieves, non-poisonous, defiled, smelly lungs, are born of ghost spirits, can also be said to be born of human desire, if the human body disappears, the seven spirits also disappear. The name Qilu comes from the ancient people's image metaphor for the human spirit and human function.
The first one: corpse dogs
When a person falls asleep, the ups and downs of the body's breathing become weak, like a stationary corpse. In ancient times, people figuratively composed "corpses" and "dogs" into the first spirit of man. Although people seem to lose consciousness when sleeping, like dogs, people's subconscious will still remain alert.
This is why people often say "the sixth sense is not right, it seems that something has happened!" That's why your corpse dog is warning you about what bad things might happen to you. Man is a spiritual animal, whether awake or asleep, our body and subconscious mind are still functioning. Self-preservation is an innate human instinct that exists not only when we are awake, but also when we are asleep.
The second one: Fuya
Fuya, an arrow that lies on a bow. If you want to shoot a bow and arrow, you must bend the bow and arrow, prepare for the attack, and when you let go of the arrow, the arrow will rush straight out. It can be said that Fuya is a metaphor for accumulating energy, representing energy storage, and it is also a continuous refining of one's own strength and ability. Because people have the ability to accumulate energy, both physically and psychologically.
Physiologically, people consume energy through diet, nourish energy during sleep, and enhance energy during exercise. Psychological savings are more related to personal cultivation and achievement. Psychologically, it can be compared to forbearance and burden, ready to go, and if it is not sound, it has become a blockbuster.
The third one: the finch yin
In ancient poetry, women are often compared to birds such as peacocks, parrots, orioles, cuckoos, etc., to express the beauty and elegance of women, and to combine the candlelight night of the cave house with beautiful love.
The origin of the bird yin can be traced back to the ancient marriage custom, which combines the three elements of woman, night and bird to express the marriage of men and women and pass on the lineage.
Fourth: Swallowing thieves
Chinese medicine says that people are injured internally by the seven emotions of "joy, anger, sorrow, sorrow and fear", and externally injured by the six emotions of "wind, cold, summer, humidity, and fire". "Thief" is compared to disease, and swallowing thief is a vivid metaphor for the principle of "disease enters from the mouth". But the meaning of swallowing a thief is not only a disease that refers to the mouth of the mouth, but the human body will passively accept the invasion of the disease, and the disease is like a thief sneaking and unconscious.
Fifth: Non-toxic
Diseases come from the outside like thieves, and when they enter the human body, they can be called poison. The meaning of non is to deny, why deny the virus after it enters? The imagination and metaphors of the ancients were very subtle, because non-poison refers to the human immune system, which can fight off disease. The cause of fever is that under the regulation of the immune system, the temperature of the human body rises, which increases the difficulty of pathogen survival.
Sixth: defilement
The original meaning of the word "filth" in ancient Chinese means dirty, filthy, unclean, etc. In ancient texts, "filth" is often used to describe the unclean and unclean condition of objects, the environment, and the human body.
"Only if you do not get rid of filth, you will not be able to make a home", which means that only by removing filth can we build a clean and peaceful family. "Filth" is also often used to describe the corruption of the time, such as "the parallel bribery, unfair punishment, sacrifice and filth, and the suffering of the people", emphasizing the importance of social governance.
Psychologically speaking, it is like what people often say "discovery of conscience" and "abandonment of evil and good"; Physiologically, it's the things people do when they go to the toilet.
Seventh: Stinky lungs
Smelly lung refers to the human respiratory system. The ancients in China vividly called the gas emitted by people "smelly". Because breathing is necessary to maintain normal life activities of the human body, oxygen is transported to various organs and tissues of the body, and carbon dioxide is excreted from the body.
If people stop breathing, oxygen cannot enter the body, carbon dioxide cannot be excreted, the oxygen supply in the body will gradually decrease, and the concentration of carbon dioxide will gradually increase, eventually leading to damage and death of tissues and organs in the body. Therefore, people must breathe "qi" at all times.
Qiao is the basic energy for the operation of the universe and an important energy for maintaining the operation of everything in the universe. And "oxygen" is the source of human breathing.
The Tang Dynasty Taoist book "Taishang Removal of Three Corpses and Nine Worms to Protect Life" describes the method of "refining the yang soul and making yin", and said that those who learn the Tao, should follow the soul to make the corpse, use the yang to eliminate the yin, so that the soul is refining, and the yin gradually decreases, which is the way to eternal life.