
Sanguan (three-step process) may be regular or irregular. When you are in the regular sanguan, your mind will come from consciousness, your willpower from the mind, your emotion from willpower, and your wild fancy from emotion; when you are in the irregular sanguan your wild fan-cy will go back to emotion and your emotion back to willpower so that you can have willpower and mind under control and your mind return to con-sciousness. In other words, when you are distracted from worldly things, you are meeting with the regular sanguan but when your mind is free of all those things, you are having the irregular sanguan.

The regular and irregular sanguan may be explained as follows.
Dao (the mother of nature) produces qi, qi produces yin and yang, yin and yang produce elixir and elixir produces all things in the world. That is called the regular sanguan. Shape transforms into ring, ring into qi, qi into shen, and shen into void, and a Buddha or celestial being comes into the world. That is called the irregular sanguan.
The first step in the irregular sanguan is to transform ring into qi. To fulfill this process, make use of yang as soon as it appears. The second step is to transform qi into shen. In so doing, you can direct the circula-tion of the original qi in the body whilst fire is strong. The third step is to practice shen and then go back to void. For this goal, concentrate on the mind and shen will return to consciousness.