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Xiuzhen houbian 修真後辨

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Note: In the pages on Neidan terms, this text is abbreviated XZHB.

Main Data

Title: Further Discriminations in the Cultivation of Reality.

Attribution: Liu Yiming 劉一明.

Date: Probably 1798 or 1799.

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.

Editions and Reprints

For the abbreviations, see the page on the edition.

Digital Text

• WikiSource

Translations

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

Bibliography

  • Pregadio, Fabrizio. “Discriminations in Cultivating the Tao: Liu Yiming (1734-1821) and his Xiuzhen houbian.” AION (Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”) 37 (2013): 77-103. PDF
  • Pregadio, Fabrizio. “Xiudao zhi bian: Liu Yiming ji qi Xiuzhen houbian”「修道之辨」 —— 劉一明及其《修真後辨》. Hongdao 弘道 87 (2021): 66-80. PDF

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