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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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]
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