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''Sublime Book of the Mind's Correspondence with the Nine Supreme Essentials'' ( 太上九要心印妙經 Taishang Jiuyao Xinyin Miaojing ), ''Book of the Mind's Correspondence with the Nine Essentials'' for short, is a Daoist book on [[Inner Alchemy ]] ( 內丹 Neidan ) compiled by Zhang Guo of the Tang dynasty. The book divides inner alchemy into three categories and regards the great nine-cycle elixir as the first-rate category. It holds that in the process of making elixirs, each of the nine cycles has its own center, so there are nine essentials.
#The first one is "secret essential of perfect oneness". (Both spirit and vital breath are to be refined, and both spiritual nature and bodily life are to be cultivated.)

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