¹Taemonim one day said of the fourfold repetition of the embracing-heaven-and-caressing-earth prostration,²“This is a prostration to heaven and earth.” She then said, “You must understand how to revere heaven and earth.”

³With this, Taemonim declared, “Behold how I perform the prostration,” and personally demonstrated the prostration to those present, instructing,⁴“Pull upon heaven’s qi and draw it into your body, then pull upon earth’s qi and draw it into your body.”