Xiuzhen houbian 修真後辨

Attribution

Liu Yiming 劉一明.

Prefaces and Postfaces

Preface by Liu Yiming, undated.

Description

Arranged into 26 chapters concerned with doctrines and principles of Taoism and Neidan.

Contents

• 1 Precelestial Essence, Breath, and Spirit (Xiantian jing qi shen 先天精氣神)
• 2 Postcelestial Essence, Breath, and Spirit (Houtian jing qi shen 後天精氣神)
• 3 Precelestial Breath of True Unity (Xiantian zhenyi zhi qi 先天真一之氣)
• 4 True and False Body and Mind (Zhenjia shenxin 真假身心)
• 5 True and False Nature and Existence (Zhenjia xingming 真假性命)
• 6 Precelestial and Postcelestial Yin and Yang (Xianhou tian yinyang 先後天陰陽)
• 7 Internal and External Five Agents (Neiwai wuxing 內外五行)
• 8 Internal Medicine and External Medicine (Neiwai yaowu 內外藥物)
• 9 Great and Small Reverted Elixir (Daxiao huandan 大小還丹)
• 10 The Operation of the Auspicious and the Inauspicious (Yunyong jixiong 運用吉凶)
• 11 Furnace and Tripod in the Initial and the Final Stages (Qianhou luding 前後爐鼎)
• 12 Internal and External Fire Phases (Neiwai huohou 內外火候)
• 13 The Other House and My House (Tajia wojia 他家我家)
• 14 The True Initial Flow (Zhenzheng shoujing 真正首經)
• 15 Refining the Nine Tripods (Fulian jiuding 伏煉九鼎)
• 16 The One Opening of the Mysterious Barrier (Xuanguan yiqiao 玄關一竅)
• 17 The Ebb and Flow of Celestial Net (Tiangang xiaoxi 天罡消息)
• 18 Giving and Taking Life, Punishment and Virtue (Shengsha xingde 生殺刑德)
• 19 Superior Virtue and Inferior Virtue (Shangde xiade 上德下德)
• 20 Doing and Non-Doing (Youwei wuwei 有為無為)
• 21 Zi, Wu, Mao, You (Ziwu maoyou 子午卯酉)
• 22 Life and Death, Being and Non-Being (Shengsi youwu 生死有無)
• 23 Precelestial and Postcelestial Kan and Li (Xianhou kanli 先後坎離)
• 24 Laying the Foundations for Refining Oneself (Lianji zhuji 煉己築基)
• 25 Internal and External Companions (Neiwai lüban 內外侶伴)
• 26 Exerting One’s Mind to Inquire into the Principles (Jinxin qiongli 盡心窮理)

Commentaries

• Min Yide 閔一得 published this work with his own notes — not an actual commentary — under the title Xiuzhen biannan houbian canzheng 修真辨難後編參證.

Digital Text

• WikiSource

Translations

• Pregadio, Fabrizio. Liu Yiming: Cultivating the Tao.Taoism and Internal Alchemy. Mountain View: Golden Elixir Press, 2013.

Bibliography

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