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)]
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