Shenshi bafa 神室八法

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Main Data

Title: Eight Methods for the Chamber of Spirit.

Attribution: Liu Yiming 劉一明.

Date: 1798.

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

Description

Divided into eight sections concerned with principles (rather than actual methods) that Liu Yiming places at the basis of self-cultivation. The shenshi 神室 in Liu Yiming's Neidan is the heart or the mind as the residence of Spirit.

Contents

• (1) Firmness (“Gang” 剛)
• (2) Yieldingness (“Rou” 柔)
• (3) Sincerity (“Cheng” 誠)
• (4) Truthfulness (“Xin” 信)
• (5) Harmony (“He” 和)
• (6) Quiescence (“Jing” 靜)
• (7) Emptiness (“Xu” 虛)
• (8) Numinosity (“Ling” 靈)

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For the abbreviations, see the page on the edition.

• 道書十二種 DS12 7.8　　[repr. DSJC 43; ZWDS 8; DZJH 2/6 (JH 102)]

• See also:
  • Kanseki database

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