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Daoist Cultivation, Book 21: Xìng Mìng Guīzhǐ Touchstone of Xìng and Mìng: A Daoist Inner Alchemy Classic - Yuán Collection - Translation an

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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798266420670
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 344
  • Original Price: GBP 18.04
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 459 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): I Ching

A landmark of Daoist inner alchemy, X�ng M�ng Guīzhǐ-full title 《性命雙修萬神圭旨》-sets out a clear, authoritative standard ("Touchstone") for the dual cultivation of X�ng and M�ng.

X�ng M�ng Guīzhǐ is arranged in four parts named after the four virtues of the Qi�n hexagram (元亨利貞):
Yu�n Collection (元集 Original / Prime) - Book 21
Hēng Collection (亨集 Flourishing / Pervasive) - Book 22
L� Collection (利集 Beneficial / Advantageous) - Book 23
Zhēn Collection (貞集 Correct / Constant / Persevering) - Book 24

This volume presents the complete translation of the Yuan (Original/Prime) Collection, the foundation of the work's fourfold sequence (元-Yuan, 亨-Heng, 利-Li, 貞-Zhen). It includes the classic diagrams and programmatic chapters that made the text central to Daoist internal alchemy while harmonizing Confucian ethics and Buddhist mind-training.

What's inside

  • Four historical front texts: Preface to the Essential Principles of X�ng and M�ng (two versions), On the Occasion of Carving the Essential Principles, Inscription for Perfected Yǐn's Complete Book
  • The Yuan Collection in full, featuring: Diagram of Universal Illumination, Turning the Light Around, Timed Illumination, Inner Illumination, T�ij� Elaboration, Center Diagram, etc-plus chapters such as Nine-Turn Refining of the Heart, Fire-Dragon & Water-Tiger, Sun-Crow & Moon-Rabbit, Five Q� Paying Court to the Origin, Returning the Eight Consciousnesses to the Origin, On Ascending in Flight, and more.

How this edition reads

Technical key terms are kept in pīnyīn (e.g., X�ng, M�ng, Kǎn, L�, dānti�n, Niw�n, Guānyu�n) with first-mention glosses-preserving doctrinal precision without flattening meanings.

The translation highlights the text's unity of the Three Teachings: Confucian d�/x�ng (virtue/conduct) as the furnace, Daoist Lead-Mercury / Dragon-Tiger method and cosmology (T�ij�, Five Phases, Heavenly Stems), and Buddhist Eight Consciousnesses / ālaya-vij�āna as a psychology of release.

Diagrams are treated as practical maps that show where to begin (front and rear Three Passes, R�n and Dū vessels, timing of q�), while doctrinal chapters braid cosmology, physiology, and soteriology into one line of work ruled by the Center (Yellow Court).

Who this book is for

Practitioners of neidan/Daoist meditation, students of Chinese religion and philosophy, Chan/Zen readers curious about alchemical counterparts, and anyone seeking a rigorous, jargon-clear doorway into the classic project of reuniting X�ng and M�ng.
Bottom line: The Yuan Collection gives you the compass. Fewer extremes, more constancy; less chasing of phenomena, more fidelity to the Middle-the Touchstone by which all later work in the series is measured.

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