Glossary
Mu yu 沐浴
"Bathing". The periods in the firing schedule when the fire is deliberately withdrawn and the work is left alone. Every commentary insists on them: an embryo attended to constantly is described as an embryo destroyed.
Where this term appears
- LevelLevel 37: Conception
- LevelLevel 38: Nourishing the Embryo
- LevelLevel 39: The Bathing
- LevelLevel 40: Quickening
- LevelLevel 41: The Second Consciousness
- LevelLevel 42: Feeding on Spirit
- LevelLevel 43: The Aperture at the Crown
- LevelLevel 44: First Emergence
- LevelLevel 46: Acting on Matter
- LevelLevel 47: Visibility