The "true fire gathering on the top" mentioned in the Literati Road is the so-called "three flowers gathering on the top", also called three fires gathering on the top. It is the three-light area of the human body that we mentioned earlier, that is, the magic lamp on the top of the head, the magic lamp on the left shoulder and the ghost lamp on the right shoulder. When training overhead, this three-light area realized the "five elements and three lines", that is, the five elements of water, gold, fire, wood and earth were transformed into three elements of wood, fire and earth.

Why do you want to achieve the "five elements return to three" without gold and water?

Because wood, fire and earth correspond to human will, spirit and soul respectively, which is the goal of cultivation; Gold and water, on the other hand, are spirit and essence, respectively corresponding to human flesh and blood and body fluid, and will eventually be abandoned.

There is another saying in India that in Indian culture, fire represents wisdom. The sages of ancient practice saw that dry stones can make a fire, but wet stones can't, so they tried to dry the human body by practicing without eating or drinking, and wisdom was born.