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. |
# |
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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299 |
3rd |
Pen-lian (‘Cooking & Refinement’) |
golden juice to refine form, jade talisman to praeserve body |
4th |
Gu-ji (‘Firming & Benefiting’) |
forgetting form, stopping thinking |
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5th |
Wu-huo (‘Martial Fire’) |
inspiring jin & s^en |
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6th |
Wen-huo (‘Civil Fire’) |
concentrating & softening qi |
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7th |
Mu-yu (‘Bathing’) |
washing mind |
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8th |
Dan-s^a (‘Elixir’s Sand’) |
intercourse between being & non-being |
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9th |
Guo-guan (‘Passing the Gate’) |
embryo growing |
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300 |
10th |
Fen-tai (‘Dividing the Embryo’) |
hatching, sloughing |
11th |
Wen-yan (‘Warm & Nourishing’) |
knowing the white, keeping the black |
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12th |
Fan-wei (‘Hindering Danger’) |
not even one thought is lost outside |
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13th |
Gon-fu (‘Practicing Time’) |
collect in morning, gather in evening |
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14th |
Jiao-gou (‘Coalition’) |
thoughts "are united as one piece" |
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15th |
Da-huan (‘Great Regeneration’) |
"non-mind" in regard to environment; day and night are as if one |
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301 |
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 |
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18th |
Huan-din (‘Shifting Crucibles’) |
the son gives birth to the grandsons |
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19th |
Tai-ji (‘Grand Ultimate’) |
form & spirit combine with the Dao |
pp. 301-302 there are refinements of :
p. |
into __ |
"__ Orbit" |
stages |
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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
p. |
# |
stage |
304 |
1st |
"regulate ... both body and mind" |
2nd |
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3rd |
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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." |
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307 |
7th |
"to "steam" the mind with true Qi." |
8th |
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9th |
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308 |
10th |
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11th |
"incubation" |
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309 |
12th |
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13th |
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14th |
"Coalition" of the xin (‘nature’) and min (‘life’) |
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15th |
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16th |
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310 |
17th |
"Red Baby Child" (c^i-zi) |
18th |
"The "embryo" ... can divide itself into numerous transformed copies" |
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311 |
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 |
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"__ Thunder" |
"__ Thunder" |
"__ Thunder" |
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1. Heaven |
1. Tian ‘Heavenly’ |
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2. Divine Empyrean |
3. Divinity |
4. S^en ‘Divine’ |
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5. Earth |
2. Earth |
2. Di ‘Earthly’ |
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3. Water office |
4. Water |
3. S^ui ‘Water’ |
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4. Dragon |
1. Dragon |
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5. Supernatural |
5. Yao ‘Supernatural’ |
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5. Soil-god |
3. Mountain |
4. Soil-god |
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2. Fire |
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1. Wind |
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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
p. |
# |
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 ...)." |
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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 |
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366 |
"pray to the Supreme Monarch" (S^an-di) |
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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". |
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"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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368 |
the __ constellation |
rideth a __ cloud |
and entereth through the __ |
into one’s __ |
Lou |
black |
ears |
kidneys |
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Gui |
white |
nose |
lungs |
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Kui |
red |
mouth |
heart |
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Fan |
blue |
eyen |
liver |
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Ji |
yellow |
top of head |
yellow court |
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"Then ... the five stars ... let them out ... to call the divinities of the five ministries." |
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"exert the rituals of "Purifying the Altar" ..., "Pinching Fingers and Reciting incantations" ..., "Pacing the Big Dipper" ... ." |
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"call "Gods of the Year" [Nian-s^en], "Generals of the Month" [Yue-jian], and |
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369 |
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.