Tozan' forth and fifth rank

You met a woman, felt and thought nothing, but you have a faint memory of that beautiful past somewhere far away in you about this woman. You fail, however, to recognize the obvious. This is the first stage.

You looked at her a minute or so later and saw different woman than you saw before and said to yourself this is not the woman that I want to approach. This is the second stage.


Then you learned Tozan's ranks and thought there is a way In the first rank, so you focused on there, by inquiring more about the faint memory of good old days This is the third stage. This is also kind of follow your bliss thing.



Now, you lock eyes with each other and talk, while simultaneously, you feel or think about each other's unconscious or what have you. This is the fourth stage.

If you remain calm without quitting or withdrawing, then you will enter the fifth stage. Both of you will under go change, if both of you did not quit, you will bloom and thus better you will come out from this engagement.

In symbolic terms fire, generally refers to male, will be reduced to ashes by water, a female. Water in this case will be transformed into steam.

Phoenix will then rise from the ashes. This will explain Tozan's reference to ashes and bloom resulting from blades meeting while neither withdraws.