Xiuzhen jiuyao 修真九要

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Main Data

Title: Nine Essentials for the Cultivation of Reality.

Attribution: Liu Yiming 劉一明.

Date: 1798.

Prefaces and Postfaces: Preface by Liu Yiming, dated 1798.

Description

Nine principles of self-cultivation are arranged here into an ideal sequence that begins one’s operation (xing 行) in the human world and is concluded with sections concerned with Neidan.

Contents

• (1) Looking through Worldly Pursuits (“Kanpo shishi” 勘破世事)
• (2) Accumulating Virtue and Cultivating the Operation (“Jide xiuxing” 積德修行)
• (3) Exerting the Mind to Inquire into the Principles (“Jinxin qiongli” 盡心窮理)
• (4) Seeking a True Master (“Fangqiu zhenshi” 訪求真師)
• (5) Laying the Foundation for Refining Oneself (“Lianji zhuji” 煉己築基)
• (6) Conjoining Yin and Yang (“Hehe yinyang” 和合陰陽)
• (7) Comprehending the Fire Phases (“Shenming huohou” 審明火候)
• (8) Fulfilling Destiny through the External Medicine (“Waiyao liaoming” 外藥了命)
• (9) Fulfilling Nature through the Internal Medicine (“Neiyao liaoxing” 內藥了性

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Editions and Reprints

For the abbreviations, see the page on the edition.

• 道書十二種 DS12 7.9　　[repr. DSJC 43; DZJH 2/6 (JH 101); ZWDS 8]

• See also:
  • Kanseki database

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