Heart 6: The Whirlpool of Peace and Emptiness

HT 6 YIN XI

In the point name HT 6 YIN XI, the YIN is exactly what it sounds like: YIN as in yin-and-yang. It is interesting that HT 6 YIN XI is the only point on an arm meridian with character YIN in its name.

In my notes from a lecture given by Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée back in 1997 in Maryland: “XI means a little crack, which means an opportunity to penetrate somewhere or have access somewhere. And when we have , we can go at leisure. The YIN relates to the idea of the quietness which avoids agitation. The root of the spirit is yin, to provide for the action of the yang. There is a very deep relying on the yin in the Fire element. This point is not for the expansion of the Fire itself; it is for the universal reception of energy. We will not find an analogous point on the Pericardium meridian.”

THE PRESERVATION OF EMPTINESS

The Xi Cleft points in general are like an emergency call for help on their meridian. The Xi Cleft point for the Heart answers the immediate need for the expansion of the aspect of the Heart that is void. If a person’s consciousness is overly caught up with the constant worldly business of “doing,” s/he may loose touch with the emptiness of the Heart. When the Heart is a chaotic jumble of a thousand sensory images from outside coming in and a million words and articulations and descriptions of the entire universe all passing through, it can feel like there’s just no room for the Emperor in there.

We are now past HT 5, the junction of the Heart and the Small Intestine. From this point onward, the keeping the balance of internal and external reality becomes vitally important. Here are so many words and perceptions coming from the outside, which can overwhelm the sovereignty of our own Heart awareness from the inside. We need to be able to receive from the outside with enough space to avoid any sense of chaos or overwhelm on the inside. Can I hold Heart void space within which to meet the perceptions? Can I recognize what is going on externally, and receive it in spaciousness rather than drown in it? With the opening up the void of the Heart, all these of perceptions can come streaming in, and as the light from the outside meets the light from the inside, the light from the inside is great enough and empty enough that we are not overwhelmed.

HT 6 YIN XI helps support the awareness that the Emperor really is bigger than the data stream. It is a point that I would love to do on every person who works in an Emergency Room, and every Fire type whose life often feels like an Emergency Room. These days, that might qualify everyone!

Within that sense of chaos everywhere, within the sense of trying to restore order and control, HT 6 YIN XI supports the immediate expansion of the radiant void, so as to be able to have an inner ‘open space’ within all the activity, a whirlpool of peace in the midst of daily life. Can I read an article or watch a video, think about what it is telling me, while holding an open Heart void of peace within?

The distinctive function of the Xi Cleft of the Heart becomes even more clear when we compare it with the Xi Cleft of the Heart Mediator. The Heart Mediator regulates the entire circulatory system. The circulatory system is all about is being able to swirl and change, to go easily from being a little more open to being a little more closed, and back again… As Xi Cleft of the Heart Mediator, HM 4 XI MEN is all about supporting and enhancing the circulatory system’s incredible capacity for immediate responsiveness and change within the swirling chong.

The Xi Cleft of the Heart is not about the swirling chong; it’s about the whirlpool in the middle of all that the chong. It’s about more fully opening that whirlpool. How big can we make this void in the midst of chong? Can we make the void even wider? Can we make it even wider? That’s the Xi Cleft of the Heart.

HT 6 YIN XI is certainly a point I would consider before doing HT 3

or HT 2, which are also points having to do with the restoration of yin in the Heart.

HT 6 YIN XI specifically restores the aspect of yin that is silent and spacious.

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