From the author: Reflections on the connection between slang and sacred Taoist knowledge. The word "magic" is associated with paranormal abilities and the violation of religious prohibitions by many people. The connection with evil spirits and subsequent heavenly punishment are frightening. I am not a supporter of dubious practices. However, I understand that the folk wisdom “Trust in God, but don’t make a mistake yourself” is based on deep knowledge, verified by everyday experience. I like the idea that there is an etymological connection between the words “magic” and “can”. Therefore, I am convinced that an action based on correct energy-information exchange with space must necessarily be accompanied by an adequate result. Accordingly, magic in my understanding is knowledge that forms a special picture of the world and allows you to perform actions that lead to the desired outcome. And, as a rule, we receive knowledge in verbal form. I recently discovered that there are certain “magic” words, that is, key concepts of a certain picture of the world that can act as a kind of code. If you unravel their deep meaning, a new level of awareness and perception of reality opens up. It’s as if we are gaining access to completely new possibilities for controlling reality! I want to share with you special words that can become the keys to the safe in which human happiness is hidden. This will be a story about how colloquial speech accidentally records secret knowledge, no matter how incredible it may seem to you. Folk wisdom is a great force! I’ll start with words that have firmly entered into everyday life, but remain elements of colloquial speech, or more precisely, slang. Slang is a kind of jargon, a part of the language that is used by a limited group of people. For example, many native speakers, without noticing it themselves, organically adapt youth words and make them an active part of their speech. Sometimes youth slang impoverishes the speech of an educated person, but sometimes such pearls are born in speech that deserve special attention and respect. I myself often use the expression “I’m filoletovo,” which means “I’m indifferent to this issue.” I would never have thought about the subtlest meaning of the adjective “purple” if I had not been involved in Taoist practices! Almost all ancient philosophical teachings describe a color spectrum corresponding to the human energy field – from red to violet. The rainbow, familiar from childhood, the sequence of colors of which children remember thanks to a funny hint about a hunter who wants to know the location of a pheasant, at a certain stage of spiritual development becomes a metaphor for the formation of spirituality. The red color, dominant in our field, signals “low” radiations associated with the simplest and most natural functions of the body. The color violet becomes a sign of comprehension of higher matters, a symbol of connection with the world of Spirit. During energy sessions with Tao masters, many patients have color spots in their consciousness that resemble mandalas. Some people see pure color, a monochrome picture, while others come up with intricate combinations in their heads. When I first saw a bright purple spot at the end of the session, I was amazed at the new ability of my brain that had opened up. It turned out that this is how the flow of energy is perceived, and the color that we perceive indicates what kind of information we received in the form of color and light. Purple is the color of energy with which Tao masters work. Sometimes a golden glow can be discerned next to the purple. As my mentor said, these are the “right” colors, natural for a state of complete harmony and peace. The violet color brings you closer to Tao - a state of ideal balance of yin and yang energies, in which everything and nothing merge into a single whole. This is a state of supreme pleasure, in which there are no longer separate conscious states. “I’m violet” is a state of Taoist perfection, a complete merging of the inner cosmos and the outer cosmos. Such balanced indifference may seem asocial or evenimmoral from the point of view of the laws of modern society, but the violet mood is just a fruit of our consciousness, and it is what our consciousness is at the moment. For asocial elements, “violet” will be asocial, and for highly spiritual members of society, the same “violet” will become a measure of spiritual progress. Simply put, the state of “violet for me” is a state of elevation above all the other six colors of existence. There is not a drop of pride in him, but there is high dignity and self-respect. Moreover, in accordance with the philosophy of Tao, what is in our consciousness is outside of us. If you want happiness and peace, cultivate happiness and peace within yourself, and then peace will reign in the space around you. Live violetly, and may the Tao be with you! In this same context, the question of indifference as a philosophical category arises. Indifference may be a symptom of apathy or complete indifference, but from the point of view of ancient Chinese science, the absence of division into “bad” and “good,” “external” and “internal,” “mine” and “common” is an indicator of a high degree of awareness. Modern psychological science also relies on the assumption that polarities form the basis of personality, and the internal state determines external conditions. In essence, the inner and outer are one interdependent whole. For Taoists, the highest state of awareness is the understanding of the absence of boundaries between the microcosm and the macrocosm, and at the level of society there is no division into “mine”, “yours” and “ours”. When the distinction between polarities is erased, indifference sets in as the highest state of consciousness. However, such a state has nothing to do with indifference or apathy. A similar “breaking” of stereotypes arises when understanding the term “active rest,” which characterizes the state of a woman’s harmonious interaction with the world. A woman is a Yin principle, this is the fruit-bearing Earth, which rests under the Sky and processes the information received from it. Active rest is a mission in which there is no external movement, but contains tremendous internal work. The same paradox is hidden in the special Taoist indifference - the absence of differences and boundaries between parts of the whole. Everything is in one, and fullness is equivalent to complete emptiness. Everything and nothing make up a single whole. My mentor once noted that the expression “I don’t care” quite accurately characterizes the Taoist state of the internal energy balance of the individual, that is, the yin-yang balance. Only in the minds of native speakers does it mean a certain detachment and unwillingness to consciously stay in every moment “here and now”. To more clearly define Taoist thought, it would be more correct to say “everything is fine with me,” although such an expression from the point of view of the culture of speech may seem illiterate. Surely you have noticed that some women who skillfully and artistically manipulate men, consciously or intuitively use this powerful instrument of influence. They maintain an absolute balance of yin-yang, keeping emotions deep inside, which is why a man who is hooked by such a cunning and experienced fisherman may think that she is indifferent to him. And this yin state causes an immediate “yang” reaction: the man begins to build a strategy to conquer the Snow Queen, although she has long ago made the decision to marry the hero, give birth to a dozen children and die together, on the same day, for example, on the eightieth wedding anniversary. This technique is based on two Taoist tricks at once: on the emission of a state of Yin active peace and on the demonstration of harmony, conventionally called “everything is smooth for me.” Another amazing colloquial word in which considerable Taoist wisdom is hidden is “settle down.” If we say “everything will settle down soon,” we mean that the problems will be solved and some emotional peace will come. Again, if everything has settled down, then it can become all the same or even. For me, as a student of Master Ji, this word began to have another meaning since the master used figurative metaphorical!