"A Dharma Image projects one's own method upon heaven and earth, forming an image of celestial being."
"The method is one's own method; the image is the image of one's true self."
"With one's own method, illuminate one's own Dao; with one's own actions, engrave one's own body. Thus water and fire complete yin and yang, yin and yang give rise to creation, creation nurtures the true self, and the true self attains celestial being..."
On the mountaintop, beneath a pine tree, Jiang Sheng's clear voice rose and fell as he expounded the Dao, echoing through the mountains.
This was not merely Jiang Sheng explaining cultivation to the others. It was also another opportunity for him to put his own Yin-Yang Calamity Three-Transformation Five-Element Method in order.
Three years of expounding the Dao encompassed the sun, moon, and three stars; wind, rain, thunder, and lightning; metal, wood, water, fire, and earth; as well as the three calamities of yin and yang and the four manifestations of the five elements. Three years of demonstrating methods encompassed sabers, spears, swords, and halberds; pills, formations, talismans, and artifacts; the zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting; as well as the natural world, laws, and the Great Dao.
The sword protected the Dao, the method carried the Dao, the body bore the Dao, and the spirit nurtured the Dao. Thus myriad methods were opened to complete the true self.
"A method imbued with spirit can nurture creation. Spiritual patterns and traces, cloud restrictions and magical restrictions, are all manifestations of laws. Linking the two gives rise to profound mysteries, allowing one to glimpse the gate to the Great Dao."
"Among the myriad methods of all heavens, rules lie within the substance of the Dao, and methods within its manifestations. I once demonstrated yin and yang and