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The book's author remains unknown. These four early Xingming guizhi prefaces all say the text was written down by master Yin Zhenren's (尹真人, "Perfected Yin") gaodi: either literally (高弟, "high-level disciple; senior disciple") or the disciple's proper name Gao Di (高弟 or 高第; compare other Gao Dis). The identities of both this ...
Development of the immortal embryo in the lower dantian of the Daoist cultivator. Neidan, or internal alchemy (traditional Chinese: 內丹術; simplified Chinese: 內丹术; pinyin: nèidān shù), is an array of esoteric doctrines and physical, mental, and spiritual practices that Taoist initiates use to prolong life and create an immortal spiritual body that would survive after death. [1]
The Huangdi Yinfujing (Chinese: 黃帝陰符經; pinyin: Huángdì Yǐnfújīng; Wade–Giles: Huang-ti Yin-fu Ching; lit. 'Yellow Emperor's Hidden Talisman Classic'), or Yinfujing, is a circa 8th century CE Daoist scripture associated with Chinese astrology and Neidan-style Internal alchemy.
Jing is the basis for our physical existence and can be seen as DNA. At the same time, the lower Dan Tian is the place for Yuan qi (元氣) the Qi that has not yet been divided into Yin Qi or Yang Qi. This Qi is much less physical and could be seen as the elemental existence of atoms and electrons before there are molecules.
Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises between the Reigns of Emperor Hui and Emperor Jing: Officials who received marquis titles from 194 to 141 BC 20: 建元以來侯者年表: Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises since the Jianyuan Period: Jianyuan was the reign period of Emperor Wu of Han from 140 to 135 BC 21
Wu yin tu 五音圖. One of the most striking features of this (and the following manuscript) is the size: the 35 extant strips (from 37, originally) of Wu Yin tu average around 19.3 cm, a length that is half of most of the manuscripts in the Tsinghua collection. The writing develops around the 5 edges of a star, which figures at the center.
Central to the book is the search for the "gold pill" ("Jindan", 金丹), which produces spiritual transcendence and immortality. This practice is divided into Weidan (outer medicine) which deals with the physical body, and inner medicine (" Neidan ", 內丹), which includes various forms of mental practices and deals with the spirit.
A rendering of the position of the symbols and counts of No. 1 Yang Dun array for Tai Yi divination. The entire series consists of 72 Yang Dun and 72 Yin Dun arrays for Taiyi. Taiyishenshu is a form of divination originating in China. It is one of the Three Styles (三式; sānshì; 'three styles') of divination.