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  • ...ial Matter, Vital Breath and Spirit]] fell apart. During his span of life, the division became worse on daily basis, a trend that led to his death. ...( 初關 Chuguan ), which featured its elementary nature in a total process of refinement.
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  • ...f-existence in refinement of Inner Alchemy, or emptiness and void of Vital Breath in human bodies. ...finement of Spirit Back to Emptiness, an important phase in the refinement of Inner Alchemy.
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  • ...reath, and turns every breath back to its origin. These are just the steps of increasing fire.
    1 KB (239 words) - 14:56, 8 September 2009
  • ...ynasties, and bares profound influences on the science of inner alchemy of the Song and Yuan dynasties.
    2 KB (296 words) - 09:57, 29 July 2009
  • ...n ), an indication of the reverse way of thinking in Daoism and a reminder of “Breaking Attachment” ( 破執 Pozhi ), a well-known concept in both Da ...n his mind and the emptiness itself, would his nature come to oneness with the Great Dao.
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  • ...serving the transformations of substance, a man can understand the essence of ghosts and spirits”. ...rfect ‘refined spirit’. Without the interplay between them, ‘refined vital breath’ would be totally lost”.
    4 KB (593 words) - 19:08, 30 December 2009
  • ==The Origin of Refining the Vital Breath== ...irit calms down, the Sea of Vital Breath becomes abundant within. Thus the Spirit is not distracted and longevity is promised.
    4 KB (628 words) - 15:54, 16 October 2009
  • ...conclusion, the art of "nourishing in warmth" varies with the development of Refining Elixirs ( 煉丹 liandan ).
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  • ...from Chendu to his birthplace in the South, and died at the age of 96, in the fifthYuanfeng year. ...ability by attaining Buddhist sublimity. Ultimately, he should get rid of the false and unreal by realizing his Spiritual Nature. He would then return to
    5 KB (702 words) - 10:55, 26 August 2009
  • *[[Refining the Vital Breath]] *[[Formation and Development of Daoist Commandments]]
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  • ...rest". The author argues that Mind controls the movements and functions of Spirit. In this sense, Mind is equal to substance, and Spiritual Nature equal to i ...n popularly mentioned. In the later periods, Daoism borrowed concepts from the book in expounding Purifying Mind and other ideas about Inner Alchemy.
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  • ...he sky spontaneously like petals of golden flowers. This is a good outcome of internal exercise. That’s why “flower” is also “splendor”.
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  • ==Origin of the Rituals of Refinement and Salvation== ...er ( 黃籙 Huanglu ), and they are still performed at present in the mainland of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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  • ...Hall of Meditation, and entitled 'Gentleman of Emptiness in Communion with the Sublime'. ...Heaven. After that, the Divine Heaven sect spread continuously and divided into various branches.
    2 KB (376 words) - 10:53, 22 July 2009
  • ...oped into symbolic images for “male” and “female” separately. As a result, the marriage between a man and a woman used to be known as a relation between a ...runks ( 天干 tiangan ), “Gui” was the emblem of Yin. Accordingly, the “Water of Perfect Oneness” was known as “Yin Tiger”.
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  • ...Perfection Sect ( 洞真部 Dongzhen Bu ) subsection of the [[''Daoist Canon of the Zhengtong Era]]'' ( 正統道藏 Zhengting Daozang ).
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  • ==Lineage of the Five Southern Patriarchs== ...r Formula ( 金液還丹訣 Jinye Huandan Jue ). After that, he attained Dao through refinement and cultivation. Then he passed this formula on to Shi Tai, who imparted it
    2 KB (365 words) - 14:22, 29 August 2009
  • ...ion of inseparable three parts in human beings, namely, the body, mind and spirit.
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  • ...efers to the “elixir” inside the human body as well as the theories on its refinement and production. ...ly, the Theory of Inner Alchemy was gradually incorporated with the Theory of Spiritual Nature and Bodily Life.
    8 KB (1,187 words) - 11:05, 3 September 2009
  • ...ed "Collecting the Spirit and Concentrating the Vital Breath", and "Dao is the Return to Spontaneity". ...ations, which has led to confusion about sectarian lineage. The Romance of the Gods, a famous Chinese novel, was attributed to Lu Xixing by Dr. Liu Chunre
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