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TAOIST INTERNAL ALCHEMY
An Anthology of Neidan Texts
Translation by Fabrizio Pregadio
Golden Elixir Press
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16 important works into one "Neidan" = Internal Alchemy. Foundation from The Seal of Unity of The Three, Mirror of Compounding the Medicine, The Book of The Hidden Agreement. Dao to Zhongli. Quan to Li, Nanzong, Awakening to Reality, 400 Years of Golden Elixir, Harmony of The Center, Essentials of the Goden Elixir, Neidan lineage, Rectifying Errors of the Seekers of The Golden Elixir, Principles of Conjoined Cultivation of Nature and Existence, Secret of The Golden Flower, Lu Dongbin, Taoist Immortal, Discrimination in the Difficult Points in Cultivating Reality. (Pp vii).
4word: 16 important works. NEIDAN. foundational works. Realm of Unity of The Three. Mirror of Compounding the Medicine. Awakening in Reality. Transmission of The Dao. Essential of The Golden Elixir. Secret of the Golden Flower. Cultivating reality. Rectifying Errors of The Seekers of The Golden Elixir. Difficulty Points of Reality Cultivation. Confucianism and Confucianism. Origins. Discriminations. 15 Essays by WangChongYang. Language. "Adapting to the tatse of the western reader..." Many ways to translate all of which may be ciorrect. Xiaokun. (Pregadio, 2019).
SOURCES: Realm of The Unity of The Three, Hidden Agreement, Mirror for Compounding Medicine, Cultivation of Reality, 400 words on Golden Elixir, Pointers to Mystery, 10 books for Reality Cultivation, Secret Essentials of Three Vehicles, Establishing the Teaching, The Harmony of The Center, The Great Essentials, Rectifying Errors of The Seekers, Principles of Conjoined Cultivation of Nature and Existence, Secret of The Golden Flower, Discrimination of the Difficult Points on Cultivation of Reality.
THE SEAL OF THE UNITY of THE THREE : The Book of Changes. Neidan. Zhejiang. Chinese Alchemical Tradition. 1. Relation of The Cosmos to The Dao. 2. ShenGren - Saintly Consciousness (Daodejing and Wuwei) 3. Alchemy that leads to The Dao and the state of Sainthood.
THE SEAL OF THE UNITY of THE THREE : The Book of Changes. Neidan. Zhejiang. Chinese Alchemical Tradition. 1. Relation of The Cosmos to The Dao. 2. ShenGren - Saintly Consciousness (Daodejing and Wuwei) 3. Alchemy that leads to The Dao and the state of Sainthood.
The Seal of The Unity of The Three. Cantong Qi. Dao and Cosmos, Realization, Alchemical Practice. Qian and Kun merge to beget Kan and Li. Mother and Father of Hexagrams. The conjunction of Qian and Kin, active and passive, births all change. Qian entrusts generative potential to Kun, and becomes Li therefore. Kun receives the essence Qian and takes it to fruition and becomes Kan. TRUE YANG AND TRUE YIN.
The Gate of Change. Book of Changes. Qian is Father Heaven, Kun is Earth Mother. Kan and Li Inner and Lower/Upper wall lines. Quan and Kun which shape as joined semicircles. The central hub is the emptiness from which ALL springs. The axle of the hub is Qian and Kun holds the wheels together. The wheels are the compass of space time cycles. Functions as The Way and Virtue. What is there is the Benefit, and what is not there is the Function. The 30 spokes share one hub. Quan and Li are empty and bring the function with their breathe. Always pouring when moving, always empty is never exhausted. Daodejing. Like the "Bellows?"
7 Sun and Moon. Wu in Kan Essence of Moon. Li is Radiance of The Sun. Sun/Moon make change. The firm and the yielding in match. Soil rules the 4 Seasons. Green, Red, Black, and White. CENTRAL PALACE. The Efficacy of Wu and Li. Kan and Li Moon and Sun. Kan (Yin) encloses a Yang and Li (Yang) encloses a Yin. Fulfillment of The One. Essence Jing of The Moon, Radiance Guang of The Sun. The alternation of Sun and Moon causes Change. Ri Yue. Images and forms change but this is not "philology." TRUE YANG Qian and TRUE YIN Kun are We and Li. The One. The One Breath in all Four directions is from the Soil. They are 4 agents of The One breath which are Wood, Fire, Water, and Metal. Unity of Qian and Kun, and Wu and Ji. The SOIL guarantees the conjunction of the world of The Absolute with the world of multiplicity.
NOURISHING INNER NATURE. "Innerly" nourishment of the self. Quiescence. "Empty non Being." "NUMINOUS TRUNK." Illuminate within. Huiguang Neizhao." "Reversing the Light to illuminate within." "Realized person." The Inner Being becomes constantly illuminated. The "Three Luminaries" "Three treasures" Ears, eyes, mouth. Nothing passes them...and Illumination becomes. They "sink into the ground" which "nourishes" the Pearl. Quiescence to Emptiness.DaodeJing. The "ten thousand things" of the "luminous" "Destiny." Close the gates, shut the openings...achieve effortless joy. Without this closing, Salvation will not occur. INVISIBLE, INAUDIBLE, & IMPERCEPTABLE. "Non-doing," All entities and phenomena are observed. Nurture of The Pearl. The pre celestial "One Breath." The Dao is actually nearby and easy to seek... although it is... "INVISIBLE, INAUDIBLE, & IMPERCEPTABLE."
The Superior Virtue and the Inferior Virtue. In the Superior, there is no "doing" to achieve...because the precelestail Oneness (Xiantian) presides. ShangDe. In the Inferior Virtues, the post celestial state of Houlian and the Inferior Virtuous state,"Xiade." The Way of Not Doing (Superior) and the Way of Doing (Inferior) Wuwen and WeoZhi. The exterior and interior differentiations ...are within the inferior virtues only.
VIRTUE- INFERIOR & SUPERIOR. Superior has nothing to do, Inferior seeks and examines. In this, inferior receives no rest. PRINCIPLES OF ALCHEMY. Realization. ShangDe and Xiade. Unity is the precelestial state, Xiantian Yiqi. Absolute, emptiness, constancy is is post celestial Boulian, the world of change. The Interior Virtue then seeks the Superior One Breathe within the post celestial state. Superior - The way of Non Doing. Interior...The Way of Doing. Wi Shi. Alchemy in Inferior Virtue. PRINCIPLES OF ALCHEMY. Know the white and keep the black. Numinous Light follows naturally. White is Metal Essence, Black is Water. Water is the Axis of the Dao. The number is ...1.The Yellow Sprout is Mystery... which rules the 5 metals. The River Chariot is Northerly direction. LEAD is black on the outside, White is metal. Golden Flower within is cherished. BE A MOLD FOR THE WORLD and the constant virtue will not leave. Returns one to The Ultimateless. White may be thought of as True Lead within the Black. Mercury, silver, and gold. White is always the Authenticity within the black. TRUE YANG WITHIN YIN. TRUE LEAD. MERCURY AND LEAD ARE OPPOSED. The 5 metals are GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, IRON, & LEAD. Since TRUE YANG is present within within the ONE BREATHE ..it can represent THE GOLDEN ELIXIR. 5 agents. Water is The ruler of The 5 Metals. Circulation of Breathe...Qi... vessels front and back body, are the same as The One Breathe. Neidan river is The One Breathe in circulation as analogous to the process of timespace cycle-compass. THE GOLDEN FLOWER WITHIN IS LIKE THE MAN WHO WEARS ROUGH HEWN CLOTHES BUT CARRIES JADE BY HIS CHEST. Alchemy births and is hidden within the COSMIC MANIFESTATION. TRUE LEAD WITHIN THE BLACK LEAD. "Native Lead." The Numinous Light is The Elixir. The Precelestial breathe is to be found within the water. Water has primordial axis of the cosmos. Ascent/Descent within the Cosmos by Water. Yellow Sprout Hidden Principle is Yellow sprout. Essence of Metal which is found within Water ... Soil. THE AUTHENTIC PRINCIPLE IS HIDDEN WITHIN THE DARKNESS OF THE WORLD ... JUST AS THE THE SAINTLY MAN DISGUISES HIMSELF AS A COMMON MORTAL. The True One Breathe is Understood by the few, just as the rough hewn man cherishes the jade in his breast pocket.
rom the DaoDe Jing ..."they" do not understand me which is why when the few do, I AM greatly Honored. Metal is Water's Mother ... The Saint wears rough hewn clothing and cherishes a piece of Jade worn on the chest. The Mother is hidden in the embryo of her son. First is ASCENT from Postcelestial ... to the Precelestial ... Houtian to Xantian. Pre = Metal Post = Water . INVERSION OF THE GENERATIVE SEQUENCE... of the 5 AGENTS ... Metal Mother generates water Son. Relative to Absolute. The Pre. Descent from Pre to Post. Alchemy is only the fomer and is a Inferior Virtue. The ASCENT is performed by the second virtue. Water and Black Lead make True Lead. = Metal. The MOTHER IS HIDDEN IN THE EMBTYO OF THE SON. generative sequence. THE FINAL DESCENT IS NOT BACK TO A NEW SHIFT FROM PRE TO POST...BUT TO RECOGNITION OF BOTH AS ONE IN UNITY.
INCORRECT PRACTICES: " This is not the method of passing through the viscera, of inner contemplation and having a point of concentration; of treading the dipper and pacing the asterisms, using the 6 JIA as markers of time; the 6 JIA are the 6 days of the sexagesimal cycle marked of sating your self with the 9 and 1 in The Way of Yin... meddling and tampering with the original womb; of ingesting breathe till it chirps in your stomach, exhaling the pure and inhaling the evil without. Day and night you go without slumber, month after month, you never take rest. From exhaustion...your body grows weak. You may be vague and indistinct but look like a fool. Your hundred vessel stir and seethe like a cauldron...unable to settle and clear. Amassing soil you set up space for an altar and at day break and sunset you worship in awe. Demonic creatures reveal their shapes at whose sight in your dreams you sigh with emotion. Rejoiced in your Heart, pleased in your thoughts, you tell yourself, surely, your life will grow long. But death unexpected comes ahead of its time and you forsake your body to rot. Your deeds have rebounded for you were defiant and let slip the hinge. The arts of so many for each thousand there are ten thousand more. Their torturous routes run against the yellow Emperor and the old Master, "
Celestial Stem. Cantong Qi. Shu = Art. Cosmological science. Divination, Physiological and Psychophysiological technique, Alchemy, doctrine, methodology. "Winding courses" that do not. The Nine Capitals. Comprehending the 9 Capitals. forbidden worships and practices. Inner Contemplation, Inner Observation. Pacing the Celestial Net. Talismans of 6 decades. irony from Canton Qi The Pure is to be found firstly within. Breathe ingested. exhaling old, Ingesting New. Warrior exhales purity, inhales evil Pure is founfd within fiorstly. The Winding Courses with crouchings and bending , Unproductive pursuits and practices with vague Divine connection if at all..in fact, can be opposite. Constant Naturalness can be destroyed by wrong stance in practice and belief. Jiudu - Nine Capitals. Fengdu - Subterranean realm of the dead. Heaven kills the adept that practices incorrectly.
CANTON QI. Effect varies poorly when the goal is just longer life and better body for the practitioner. true Taoist teachings of The Old Master, Laozi. COMPOUNDING THE ELIXIR. Making dikes with METAL because water will enter and drift freely. METAL is the number 15. So is WATER. Scruples and ounces. TWO BECOME TRUE. The other elements are not used here but FIRE is attached to them. Then the three become as One, This transformation process for them shapes them in their Divine Design. GREAT YANG lies beneath... which instantly streams and subdues. It liquifies then coagulates. aka THE TELLOW CARRIAGE. When its time has come, it also subdues itself. Appearance: Ash and/or Soil. "Like dust on a luminous window..." Pregadio.
COMPOUNDING continued. The instructions for the COMPOUND are several fold. 1. The Yellow Carriage. 2. Reverted elixir. Both Neidan and Waidan. METAL & WATER. Metal as TRUE LEAD, and Water as TRUE MERCURY. they swirl and raise at different temperatures. They are given a symbolic weight of 15 ounces = 30 as in Lunar Month. 5 and 10 are the generation number. The ACCOMPLISHMENT number of SOIL. Lead & Mercury as SOIL. Yang within Kan - True Lead- Active, Yin within Li - True Mercury- Passive. SOIL PLAYS THE MEDIATING ROLE BETWEEN LEAD AND MERCURY IN TRUE FORMS WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO "CONJOIN."
COMPOUNDING continued. The instructions for the COMPOUND are several fold. 1. The Yellow Carriage. 2. Reverted elixir. Both Neidan and Waidan. METAL & WATER. Metal as TRUE LEAD, and Water as TRUE MERCURY. they swirl and raise at different temperatures. They are given a symbolic weight of 15 ounces = 30 as in Lunar Month. 5 and 10 are the generation number. The ACCOMPLISHMENT number of SOIL. Lead & Mercury as SOIL. Yang within Kan - True Lead- Active, Yin within Li - True Mercury- Passive. SOIL PLAYS THE MEDIATING ROLE BETWEEN LEAD AND MERCURY IN TRUE FORMS WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO "CONJOIN."
THE THREE TREASURES: Ears, Eyes, and Mouth. With these shut, nothing passes through. The "True ma" withdraws to the the depths of the abyss... while roaming therein and wheeling around ... watching and listening within ...the opening and closing by accord. This as "lynchpin" ...whereas movement and "quiessence" will never be exhausted. BREATHE OF LI strengthns within... guards there...and the Kan (ears) are closed. Daide Jing - "Openings." Wheeling and "Keeping to the Compass" as "Charioteering the state of "True Man." and "Realized Man.""Two phases of active and inactive condition are as one within a nin dual state. The Innerm,ost Heart senses, the accord will appear in the "Horse's Outward Temperance." One's mind (Xin) is 'dead" and one's spirt lives... one that "severs evil" and "preserves sincerity" ...the opther neither fogets not assists. "Dui" is closed and does not utter... yet the boundless is there to follow in inaudible tones. THREE LUMINARIES. Hearing, Seeing, and Speaking. These treaures should be guarded and used inwardly. This generatesd INTENAL LIGHT. Breath (qi) in conjunction with Li "Fire-Yang" forges the TRIGRAM with the eyes. This is a fundamental premise of the human consrtruct in Taoism. Kan - Ears - Water - Feminine and is palced in correspondence with the "lower cinnebar field" and it holds the ORIGINAL BREATH ... (YUANJING). Eyes are LI- FIRE- YANG-UPPER CINNEBAR FIELD - hOLDING ORIGINAL BREATHE "YOUANQI." The mouth is DUI - METAL - Middle Cinnebar - ORIGINAL SPIRIT ( YuanShen). In this THREE TREAUSRES AALIGNMENT, WATER FLOWS UPHILL... bREAHT DESCENDS, AND INDIVIDUAL TRAITS (Qing) - Attitudes, temperament, personalities... experiences...spring forth as EMOTIONS ... Passions... and emerge as QUALITIES THAT ENABLE SPIRIT ... or ONE'S OWN TRUE NATURE ... to move into operation. TRUE NATURE (Xing) = TRUE MAN - REALIZED MAN ... ...who is withdrawn into Abyss... sunk there ubnto the grounds... TRUE MAN LEADS HIS CARRIAGE. THERE IS NO OBSTRUCTION FOR IT. quiessence and Activity are Equivalent to TrueMan. He enters and exits the world without duistinction. SPEAKING, HEARING, AND SPEAKING... are tunred INWARD. The BOUNDLESS is now heard... seen...and communication is in 'WORDS" that no one can hear...
More subjects covered:
THE HIDDEN AGREEMENT
MIRROR FOR COMPOUNDING THE MEDICINE
TRANSITIONS OF THE DAO
AWAKENING TO REALITY
GOLDEN ELIXIR WORDS
ESTABLISHING THE TEACHINGS
THE HARMONY OF THE CENTER
THE GREAT ESSENTIALS OF THE GOLDEN ELIXIR
SEEKER ERROR RECTIFICATIONS
PRINCIPLES OF THE CONJOINED CULTIVATION OF NATURE AND EXISTENCE
THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER
DISCRIMINATION IN DIFFICULTIES AND REALITY CULTIVATION
Bibliography and References Pp 285
Photo Credits Sources Null
Notes-Maps-Tables Pp 255
Term Index 265
Chinese Character Glossary 271
