Ph.D. dissertations on Daoism, Ch. E. 2004

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Bai Yu-c^an’s Inner Al-chemical Thought and Practice

p. 304 the 10 poe:ms praesented to Wan-an

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poe:m

1st

Gui-s^an (‘Returning to the Mountain’)

2nd

Cai-yao (‘Gathering Drugs’)

3rd

Lu-din (‘Furnace & Cauldron’)

4th

Huo-hou (‘Heating Process’)

5th

Mu-yu (‘Bathing’)

6th

Wen-yan (‘Worm-Nourishing’)

7th

Tuo-tai (‘Conception’)

8th

Jin-dan (‘Golden Elixir’)

9th

C^on-ju (‘Rising’)

10th

Can-ton (‘Kinship’)

pp. 298-301 the "19 Formulae"

p.

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formula

explanation

298

1st

Cai-yao (‘Collecting Medicine’)

withdrawing & storing s^en & qi

 

2nd

Jie-dan (‘Fabricating the Elixir’)

concentrating qi, collecting s^en

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3rd

Pen-lian (‘Cooking & Refinement’)

golden juice to refine form, jade talisman to praeserve body

 

4th

Gu-ji (‘Firming & Benefiting’)

forgetting form, stopping thinking

 

5th

Wu-huo (‘Martial Fire’)

inspiring jin & s^en

 

6th

Wen-huo (‘Civil Fire’)

concentrating & softening qi

 

7th

Mu-yu (‘Bathing’)

washing mind

 

8th

Dan-s^a (‘Elixir’s Sand’)

intercourse between being & non-being

 

9th

Guo-guan (‘Passing the Gate’)

embryo growing

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10th

Fen-tai (‘Dividing the Embryo’)

hatching, sloughing

 

11th

Wen-yan (‘Warm & Nourishing’)

knowing the white, keeping the black

 

12th

Fan-wei (‘Hindering Danger’)

not even one thought is lost outside

 

13th

Gon-fu (‘Practicing Time’)

collect in morning, gather in evening

 

14th

Jiao-gou (‘Coalition’)

thoughts "are united as one piece"

 

15th

Da-huan (‘Great Regeneration’)

"non-mind" in regard to environment; day and night are as if one

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16th

S^en-tai (‘Holy Embryo’)

s^en is secluded in centre, qi is hidden inside

 

17th

Jiu-z^uan (‘9 Circulation’)

the body appears of itself

 

18th

Huan-din (‘Shifting Crucibles’)

the son gives birth to the grandsons

 

19th

Tai-ji (‘Grand Ultimate’)

form & spirit combine with the Dao

pp. 301-302 there are refinements of :

p.

 

into __

"__ Orbit"

stages

301

jin (‘essence’)

qi

p. 302 Microcosmic

p. 303 1st to 9th

302

qi (‘vital energy’)

s^en

p. 307 Macrocosmic

pp. 308-9 10th to 16th

 

s^en (‘spirit’)

Dao

[p. 310 "Gate of Nine Years"]

pp. 310-1 17th to 19th

pp. 304-311 details of the 19 stages

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stage

304

1st

"regulate ... both body and mind"

 

2nd

 
 

3rd

 

305

4th

"sealing the furnace"

306

5th

"has the qi go quickly and pass the gates"

 

6th

"breathing slowly and softly during the ... descending of the qi."

307

7th

"to "steam" the mind with true Qi."

 

8th

 
 

9th

 

308

10th

 
 

11th

"incubation"

309

12th

 
 

13th

 
 

14th

"Coalition" of the xin (‘nature’) and min (‘life’)

 

15th

 
 

16th

 

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17th

"Red Baby Child" (c^i-zi)

 

18th

"The "embryo" ... can divide itself into numerous transformed copies"

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19th

 

the Thunder Rite

p.

Thunder

327

"the School of Divine Empyrean became a religious trend in the late Northern Song" (during Chr.E. 1101-1125) through Lin Lin-su (from Wen-z^ou in Z^e-jian province) "a magician of the Five Thunder Rite."

328

"the Heavenly Perfected One sent Wolf-teeth Valiant Official Judge Xin of the Thunder Department to give the Book of Overall Heavenly Great Thunder Rite to" C^en Cui-xu (C^en nan).

329

C^en Nan received the Di-tian Da-lei S^u (‘Book of Overall Heavenly Great Thunder Rite’) "from the Commander-in-Chief Perfected Wang ..., who transmitted the book to Judge Xin on behalf of the Jade Purity True Monarch".

p. 328 parampara (according to the Jin-yu Xuan-wen ‘Abstruse Inquiry into Tranquility’ – DT 1240)

Z^an Bu-duan

S^i Tai

Xue Dao-guan

C^en Nan

Bai Yu-c^an

p. 331 parampara of the Thunder Rite (according to Z^an Yu-c^u)

Wan Wen-qin

S^an-guan (W. W.-q.’s sister’s son)

Zuo Tie-bi [contemporary with Bai Yu-c^an]

Mo Yue-din [during Yuan dynasty]

Wan Wei-yi [commentator on Bai Yu-c^an]

Wan Wen-qin

p. 332

Wan Wen-qin (although Assistant to the Throne) was accused by being inebriated by Bai Yu-c^an

p. 333

the Thunder Rite promulgated by Wan Wen-qin "was based on ancient Jade Pivot Three Marshals."

pp. 338-339 sets of Thunder-deities (compiled by Bai Yu-c^an) from various sources

p. 338

p. 339

"__ Thunder"

"__ Thunder"

"__ Thunder"

 

1. Heaven

   

1. Tian ‘Heavenly’

2. Divine Empyrean

 

3. Divinity

4. S^en ‘Divine’

 

5. Earth

2. Earth

2. Di ‘Earthly’

3. Water office

4. Water

 

3. S^ui ‘Water’

4. Dragon

 

1. Dragon

 
   

5. Supernatural

5. Yao ‘Supernatural’

5. Soil-god

3. Mountain

4. Soil-god

 
 

2. Fire

   
 

1. Wind

   
       

Yu-s^u Lei-s^u (‘Jade Pivot Thunder Book’)

S^en-xiao Lei-s^u (‘Divine Empyrean Thunder Book’)

Bei-ji Lei-s^u (‘North Star Thunder Book’)

Jin-xiao Lei-s^u (‘Phosphor Empyrean Thunder Book’) [also p. 341]

p. 340 evils eliminated by the 5 Thunders

by __ Thunder

__ are eliminated

Heavenly

epidemics

Earthly

locusts, mountain-mist, "sins of the dead souls"

Water

drought, jia-lon (‘flood-dragons’), poisonous snakes, evil clams

Divine

mountain-ghosts, the "5 Transmitters"

Superstition

"spirits attached to antique articles, old qi attached to dead corpses"

pp. 341-342 scriptures of the Thunder Rite in the new Divine Empyrean movement

p. 341 Jiu-tian Yin-yuan Lei-s^en Pu-hua Tian-zun Yu-s^u Bao-jin Ji-z^u (‘9-Heavens Response-Primordial Thunder-Voice Universal-Transformation Jade-Pivot Pretious-Scripture Collected-Commentaries’ – DT 99)

pp. 341-2 Wu-s^an Jiu-xiao Yu-qin Da-fan Zi-wei Xuan-du Lei-tin Yu-jin (‘Not-Surpassed 9-Empyreans Jade-Clarity Great-Brahman Purple-Tenuity Mystery-Metropolis Thunderclap Jade-Scripture’ – DT 15)

p. 359 quantities of deities

3,600 Divine Maidens

36,000 divinities

p. 359 emotions inducing advents of major generals from the Thunder Court

if one’s __

then __

intention be sincerity

the Envoy (marshal Z^an) will arrive

liver be angry

marshal Xin will come

fire of heart be raised

the God (marshal Den) of Xu-huo (‘Sudden Fire’) will descend

p. 360 meteorological results from combinations of elements

when __

__ occurreth

water meeteth fire

lightning

gold conquereth wood

thunder

gold produceth water

rain

wood produceth fire

wind

pp. 364-366 exposition, by Bai Yu-c^an, of the 4 steps in the "Skills of Secret Refinement" by master Red Pine

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acc. to Red Pine

exp. by Bai Yu-c^an

alternative name

364

1st

"two eyes watch two kidneys and focus on the region between them"

"there is a bright point between your two kidneys."

"Breaking through the Earth to Summon Thunders"

364-5

2nd

p. 364 "suddenly there is a sound and a thunder bolt penetrates the niwan ... (brain)"

p. 365 "ancestral qi ... passes through the upper gate ... to reach the brain."

"opening the heavenly gateway (Kai tianmen ...)."

 

3rd

"circulate qi again into the dantian ... like honey"

"the flower pool" (hua-c^i)

"opening and closing the bellows (Tuoyue ...)."

365-6

4th

p. 365 "return to the homeland of the immortals"

p. 366 "the ball of golden light will go up to the point between your eyebrows."

"Stamp over the handle of the Big Dipper and the sky gets dark; pull up the Yellow River inversely and the water runs counter-currently".

pp. 366-369 meditative rite of "Sequence of Practice" (DT 1209, juan 104-108)

p.

practice

366

"pray to the Supreme Monarch" (S^an-di)

367

"the "One Numinous Tiune Natural Life-Endowment" [Yi-lin Z^en-xin] can manifest itself ... . ... When the triune qi starts to shake, one should not be rigid".

 

"inside the Yellow Court, ... a perfected being ... is leading

the black qi of the kidneys’ essence,

red qi of the heart’s spirit,

blue qi of the liver’s hun-soul,

white qi of the lungs’ po-soul ...

moving up out from the ears, mouth, eyes, nose and head gates.

When these qi arrive [at] the North West Phosphor Empyrean

they should first call on the heavenly monarch,

then follow the monarch to visit the Yi ... and Zhen ..., two constellations.

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the __ constellation

rideth a __ cloud

and entereth through the __

into one’s __

Lou

black

ears

kidneys

Gui

white

nose

lungs

Kui

red

mouth

heart

Fan

blue

eyen

liver

Ji

yellow

top of head

yellow court

 

"Then ... the five stars ... let them out ... to call the divinities of the five ministries."

 

"exert the rituals of

"Purifying the Altar" ...,

"Pinching Fingers and Reciting incantations" ...,

"Pacing the Big Dipper" ... ."

 

"call

"Gods of the Year" [Nian-s^en],

"Generals of the Month" [Yue-jian], and

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the "Officers of Merit" [Gon-cao}".

pp. 371-372 "Song of Summoning Rain" by Bai Yu-c^an

p.

song

371

"Let me ride the crane falling at the huge mulberry tree (in the place where the sun rises).

Shouting angrily at the weary dragon and chopping him with an ax.

All extreme divinities under the Kui Star

372

Are tied up with iron pricks and sent the count of [Fen-du] (Nether world).

Drive the thunder man and use the lightening woman."

Li Wang : A Daoist Way of Transcendence. PhD thesis, U of IA, 2004.