Quan-z^en commentary on the Yellow Emperor’s Scripture of Hidden Contracts

Quan-z^en commentary on the Yellow Emperor’s Scripture of Hidden Contracts

p. 34 poe:m by Wan C^on-yan the founding patriarch from the west, inspired by handwriting on the wall {cf. the Zen Platform Scripture}

*The __*	*of the __*
moon	pine-tree
snow	bamboo
immortal officers	elm-trees

p. 34 commentator Liu’s names

*personal name*	C^an-s^en (‘long life’)
*Daoist name of honor*	C^u-xuan
*style-name*	Ton-miao

p. 38, fn. 35 visit by Lu: Don-bin to the imprisoned Liu C^u-xuan at Wu-guan (according to the Gan-s^ui Xian-yuan Lu 2.3b)

"Riding an azure unicorn, he descended from the green clouds and entered the cell. ... He taught him the practice of writing, and then ... When he left, the writing ink [displayed] the greatest mystery and took the shape of dragon and snake flying together."

pp. 40-41 activities of C^an-s^en

p.	*activity*
40	"He wandered with the vermilion clouds and traveled below in the corners of the green-blue sea. He joined the congregation at the origin of Heaven ... He understood the hundred passes, he communicated with the nine sources and rode the four beasts. He plowed the three [cinnabar] fields ... at ... Luoyang. He chiseled a well into the Cloud Brooks Cave, and he mixed the white snow in order to produce a powder. He cooked the dark frost ... His glory illuminated the golden lotus ...
41	Thereafter, his bones and his flesh dissolved, and he roamed in the eight cardinal celestial heights." [fn. 47 : "The Palace of the Sun has pools of the seven treasures. *The eight heights arise from there." (Yun-ji Qi-qian* [[= DZ 1032]] 23:1b)**

"thievery" as metaphor for complete perfection

p.	*source*	*metaphorical "thievery"*
42	Z^uan-zi, cap. 29	the thief Z^i said that Confucianism "cannot [become] complete perfection."
51	*Yin-fu Ji*	"Heaven has five bandits" (also p. 80, citing DZ 122:2a-b)
51, fn. 10	BL, pp. 30-1	*a mr. Guo explained : "I rob __*	*of __."*
		heaven and earth	their seasonal benefits
		clouds and rain	their irrigating floods
		mountains and marshes	their products

		*"I steal __*	*from __."*
		birds and animals	the land
		fish and turtles	the water."

BL = A. C. Graham (tr.) : The Book of Lieh-tzu. London : John Murray, 1960. [of eastern Jin dynasty]

p. 50 discovery of the Yin-fu Jin according to Du Guan-tin: S^en-xian Gan-yu Z^uan (‘Spirit-Immortals’ Encounter Tales’) [= DZ 298] 1:11a

discovery by "Li Quan, styled Guanzi" : "When he arrived at the Tiger Mouth Rock of Mount Song, he discovered The Yellow Emperor’s Hidden Contracts. It was written on white silk cloths with red lacquer marks serving as chapter headings. The heading on the jade case containing the text says : ‘On the seventh day of the seventh month ... of the Great Wei, the Highest Clarity Daoist Kou Qianzhi buried this book in this mountain. He hoped that it would be found by an equally worthy person.’ "

"the Daoist Kou Qianzhi ... (386-534) ... initiated the ... movement of the Zhengyi-Daoism during the Northern Wei-dynasty."

Commentary on the Yellow Emperor’s Scripture of the Hidden Contracts

p.
77	the 5 eyen [having beams – p. 78]	*eye of __*
		1. Heaven
		2. intelligence
		3. law
		4. Dao
		5. the spirit
78	"Within Heaven there is yet another Heaven.	It is the Heaven of pure qi ... At its greatest height this heaven reaches up to 84,000 miles."
80	"There are ... bandits in Heaven. ...	But they ... extraordinary bandits ... the correct qi of the five directions ... become the mothers of the spirits."
81	northern Sea	"existence [min (p. 80, fn. 11)] ... is the dark turtle of the northern Sea." ["the dark turtle of the northern sea," ... beihai zhi wugui ..., is ... the kidneys." (p. 81, fn. 23)]
		"The five bandits steal the treasures of the northern Sea."
88	inner nature & mind [cf. also p. 93]	"The inner nature [xin (p. 78, n. 7)] wil be clear as the bright moon, and
		the mind [xin ‘heart’] will be pure like Heaven ten thousand miles without clouds".
91	#s of orifices in minds [‘hearts’] of men of different qualities	*quality of man*				*# of orifices*
		highest				9
		middling				7
		lowest				5
93	kinds of metals & of stones	*substance*				*kinds*
		metals				9
		stones				8
97	#s of bones & of shadows	*numbered*				#
		bones (fn. 90)				100
		shadows				10,000
99	caelestial periodicities in humans	*caelestial : of __*				*human*
		sun				"luminance of wisdom"
		moon				"man’s fate"
100	the spirit : hidden & perceptible	*__ spirit*		*its activity*
		hidden		"roams in the three palaces."
		perceptible		"communicates with the eight cardinal points."
102	true hearing & true seeing	true hearing : "the true echoes arise from the void, and one will be skilled in listening to the sound of the soundless."
		true seeing : "the knocking down of the walls lets the ... light come inside. They observe the immaterial things".
103	effects of reverting to the san-yuan (‘3 Primes’) [= 3 cinnabar fields (fn. 115)]	*__ Prime*	*granteth __*				*when __*
		Upper	"good fortune"				"qi will descend"
		Middle	remission of sins				"the spirits will be uncommonly mighty."
		Lower	dissolving of distress				"existence [min] will communicate"
104, fn. 120	sound of thunder	"cry (like a bird)" {cf. [North American Indian, etc.] mythic Thunder-bird}
105, fn. 123	what "The worldly men are"	" "numbed" or "drugged"." {atheistic materialism is the opiate of the masses}
107	numerics of phoinix & of turtle	"among the one hundred birds the red phoenix from the southern Mountains ... ride the winds and enter the nine clouds." "The three inches of birds are ... mutually connected with the primordial qi".
		*"The turtle inhales qian* [1^st of the 8 trigrams]. The northern sea spits out the light and the pure primordial qi eight hundred and ten zhang afar."**
109	#s of reversions & of regenerations	*the __*			*permit __*
		7 reversions			to "communicate with the numinous."
		9 regenerations			"elixirs to congeal."
	places of the 2 trigrams li & kun	*the __*						*is in the __*
		young girl [= (fn. 136) lungs, acc. to DZ 1158, 1b]						li-palace
		infant-child [= (fn. 137) qi of kidneys, acc. to DZ 244, 1:4a]						kun-window
	quail & dark-warrior	"The vermilion quail walks forward, and thus the dark warrior follows suit."
109-110	golden father & yellow woman	*"The golden father guards geng-xin* [2 caelestial stems], and thus**
		*the yellow woman [= (p. 110, fn. 142) abdomen] associates with jia-ji."*
110	seas & mountains	"Recover from the vast seas, and then
		*chisel jade from the kun-mountains."*
	buds & snow [both of Former Heaven -- fn. 144]	"The yellow buds [huan-ya] grow, and thus
		the white snow [bai-xue] arises."
	pretious blossoms	"The jade-flowers are blooming, and thus the gold-lotus blossoms." [= immortality (fn. 145)]
	beams & treasures	"The three beams illuminate, and thus the seven treasures are shining."

p. 78, fn. 7 -- originals, according to the C^on-yan Z^en-ren S^ou Dan-yan Er-s^i-si Jue (24 Instructions Wan C^on-yan Bestowed to Ma Dan-yan) [= DZ 1158] 1b

__	*is the original __*
xin	spirit [s^en]
min (‘fate’)	qi

[‘fate’ is a better translation than ‘existence’ for /min/]

p. 83, fn. 33 – gold & jade, according to Liu C^u-xuan in the Xian-le Ji [= DZ 1141] 4:13b

__	*are the __*
girls	gold yoke
sentiments of love	jade buttons

p. 88, fn. 52 -- souls

*__-souls*	*reside in the __*	*and are __-spirits*
hun	heart	caelestial
po	kidneys	skeleton

p. 96, fn. 89 – the 4 elements in Heaven & in humans, according to the C^on-yan Z^en-ren S^ou Dan-yan Z^en-ren Er-s^i-si Jue [= DZ 1158] 3a-b

*in Heaven*	*in humans*
3. fire	"the mind is fire,
2. water	the essence is water,
4. wind	the qi are wind and
1. earth	the body is earth."

ASIEN- UND AFRIKA-STUDIEN DER HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITA:T ZU BERLIN, Band 23 = Peter Acker (tr.) : Liu Chuxuan (1147-1203) and his Commentary on the Daoist Scripture Huangdi yinfu jing. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2006.