Xiangyan poyi 象言破疑
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Note: In the pages on Neidan terms, this text is abbreviated XYPY.
Main Data
Title: Removing Doubts on Symbolic Language.
Attribution: Liu Yiming 劉一明.
Date: 1811.
Prefaces and Postfaces: Preface by Liu Yiming, dated 1811.
Description
In the first chapter, four introductory sections are concerned with the alchemical symbolic language (xiangyan 象言), the concepts of “following the course” and “inverting the course” (shunni 順逆), the Elixir ingredients (yaowu 藥物), and the Fire phases (huohou 火候). These are followed by two parallel series of seven essays. The first series is concerned with the process leading from the precelestial to the postcelestial domains (xiantian 先天 to houtian 後天), and the second one, with the parallel process of ascent from the postcelestial to the Dao
The second chapter contains twenty-six short essays on Neidan. The work is concluded by a series of fifty “Poems for Removing Doubts” (“Poyi shi” 破疑詩); by another essay on the One Opening of the Mysterious Barrier; and by a final short poem entitled “Essential Instructions on the Cultivation of Reality” (“Xiuzhen yaojue” 修真要訣).
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For the abbreviations, see the page on the edition.
- 道書十二種 DS12 3 [repr. DSJC 43; ZWDS 8; DZJH 4/5 (JH 188)]
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Translations
- Cleary, Thomas. The Inner Teachings of Taoism (Boston and London: Shambhala, 1986), 51-118. [Even in its typographic layout, the carefully crafted structure of Liu Yiming’s work is lost in this translation.]
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