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A Daoist Glossary: Letters A - C

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The first letter of the Siddam alphabet which stands for the uncreated. It has seven meanings:
  1. Bodhi mind.
  2. #2: Dharma,
  3. #3: non-duality,
  4. #4: Dhurmadhatu,
  5. #5: Dharmata, or Dharma-nature,
  6. #6: Sovereignty,
  7. #7: Dharmakaya, or essential body
Abhaya:
Fearlessness.
Abhidarma:
Sanskrit:Lun-zang.
Abhimukh¡:
Appearance of the absolute;
The sixth of the ten stages of Mahayana Bodhisattva development.
Acala:
State of immutability in the midst of changing phenomena.
The eighth of the ten stages of Mahayana Bodhisattva development.
Achillea Millefolium
Millfoil. The western version of Chinese Yarrow. Usually used for casting hexagrams, in the West.
Achillea Sibirica
True Chinese Yarrow. Related to achilleas milefolium. This is the plant that is usually found on graves of sages in China.
Ajatasatru:
king of Magadha who killed his father to ascend to the throne. At first hostile to Buddha, later he was converted and became noted for his liberality.
Ajnata:
Sanskrit.
Thorough Knowledge.
Name given by the Buddha to his disciple Kaundinya after attainment of arhatship.
Akasagarbha:
Sanskrit:
The Womb of Space
The central Bodhisattva, guardian of the treasury of all wisdom and attainment.
Aksobhya Buddha:
One of the five dhyani-Buddhas, also called the Immutable Buddha.
Alaya-vijñana:
The store of Consciousness, also called the eighth consciousness.
Alaya Vijnana:
Sanskrit.
CF: A-le-ye-shi.
A-le-ye-shi:
Sanskrit is Alaya Vijnana.

The 'eight consciousness' or 'store consciousness', so called because it is held to contain the seeds of all dharmas, physical and mental. As such, it occupies an ambivalent role in Buddhist psychology. Whilst screened by inborn and discriminative attachments it is the source of delusion, but when these are eradicated, it is the source of enlightenment.

CF: The Surangama Sutra .
Alchemical agents, The three:
  1. The microcosmic outer alchemical agent is produced by outer fresh air breathed in and out to restore the generative force which has drained away in order to purify and transmute it into vitality.
  2. The microcosmic inner alchemical agent is produced by the inner vital breath in the body which transmutes vitality into spirit.
  3. The macrocosmic alchemical agent is gathered to break through the original cavity of spirit in the brain for the mortal man to become immortal, ie: for the integration of microcosm into macrocosm.
Alchemical agener, The three components of:
Alchemical process, The four phases of:

The element of fire in the generative force, vitality and spirit moves from A to D ( for cleansing ) and then to G where it stays for a while and is called ascending positive fire; and subsequently re-starts from G to J ( for purification ) and then stops at A ( see figure 2 ) and is called the descending negative fire.

Alchemy:
One of the major streams which fed into, and was fed by Daoism. It refers as often to sexual practices, as it does to chemical research, and herbal preparations. CF: Alchemy, Daoist.
Alchemy, Daoist:
An ancient science which teaches the stopping of the flow of the generative force inherent in every man so that instead of being discharged to procreate offspring or to waste away, it is retained in the body for the purification and transmutation into positive vitality to restore original spirit which existed before the world came into being and so that it can return to its primal immortal state.
Alchemy, Sexual:
Sexual practices that lead to immortality. Probably the most prominent of the sexual alchemical schools was that of White Tiger, Green Dragon which emphasized the use of fourteen ounces of unsmelted silver.
Ambrosia ( Kan Lu ):
The Sublimation of the generative force, vitality and spirit in the brain produces the ambrosia which, flowing in the mouth, becomes a liquid ( saliva ) which, when swallows, makes sounds in the abdomen. This ambrosia produces and natures the immortal seed in the lower tan t'ien whence it radiates, lighting up the heart to reveal the formation of the immortal seed. See Kan Lu and Sweet dew.
Amitabha Buddha:
Sanskrit.
The Buddha of Infinite Light of the Western Paradise of Bliss.
CF: Amito-fo.
Amito-fo:
Sanskrit is Amitabha Buddha.
The Buddha of Boundless Light of the Western Pure Land or Sukhavati, the central figure of the Pure land tradition. Appears in sutras and mandala groups with Avalokitesvara on his left and Mahasthamaprapta on his right. He vowed to bring all sentient beings to his "Pure Land" and adherents of this school recite his name in order to be reborn there.
CF: The Surtra of Amitabha .
CF: The Sutra of Amitayus .
Anagamin:
A non-coming or non-returning arhat who will not be reborn. The third stage of the path.
A-nan:
Sanskrit is Ananda.
Young brother of Devadatta and cousin of the Buddha. Said to have accompanied the Buddha for twenty years. Famous for his keen learning and memory. Regarded as the Second Indian Chan Patriarch by Chinese Buddhists.
Ananda:
Sanskrit.
A cousin of the Buddha. He was noted as the most learned disciple of the Buddha, and famed for hearing and remembering his teaching. He was a compiler of sutras and the Second Patriarch of the Ch'an sect.
CF: A-nan.
Anastrave:
Sanskrit.
No leak, outside the passion-stream as contrasted with astrava, leaking or worldly cause.
Aniruddha:
A disciple of the the Buddha, noted for his divine sight.
Antara-kalpa:
Sanskrit.
A small aeon.
Anubodhi:
Sanskrit.
CF: A-nu-lo-san-miao-san-pu-ti.
A nu duo no la san miao san pu ti:
Sanskrit
is Anuttara-Samyak-Sambhodi:
Supreme and unexcelled enlightenment.
A-nu-duo-lo-san-miao-san-pu-ti:
Sanskrit
is Anuttara-Samyak-Sambhodi:
Supreme and unexcelled enlightenment.
Anutpattika-dharma-ksanti:
Rest in the imperturbable reality which is beyond birth and
death and requires a very patient endurance. The
prahnaparamitasastra defines it as the unflinching faith and imperturbed abiding in the underlying reality of all things, which is beyond creation and destruction. It must be realized before the attainment of Buddhahood.
Anuttara-Samyak-Sambhodi:
Sanskrit.
Short form is Anubodhi.
CF: A-nu-duo-lo-san-miao-san-pu-ti:
Arcismati:
Glowing Wisdom.
The fourth of the ten stages of Mahayana Bodhisattva development.
Arhat:
Sanskrit.
A saintly man, the highest type or ideal in Hinanyana in contrast with a Bodhisattva as the saint in Mahayana.
CF: Lohan.
Arya:
Sanskrit.
CF: Sheng.
Asaiksa:
No longer learning, beyond study, the state of arhatship. the fourth of the sravaka stages; the preceding three stages requiring study. When an arhat is free from all illusions, he has nothing more to study.
Asankhya:
Innumerable kalpas or aeons.
Ascent and descent of inner fire in the microcosmic orbit:
When breathing in, the heart, spirit and thought should rise together in the channel of control from the cardinal point A at the base of the penis to the cardinal point G on the top of the head, and when breathing out, the heart, spirit and thought should together go Down in the channel of function from the cardinal point G to A ( see figure 2 ). The ascent is positive and the descent is negative.
Asrava:
Worldy or "leaking" cause; inside the passion stream, as contrasted with anasrava, outside the passsion stream.
Astavinmoksa:
The eight stages of meditation leading to deliverance:
  1. When there is attachment to form by examination of form and realization of its filthiness;
  2. there is no attachment to form, by examination of form and realization of its filthiness -- these two are deliverance by meditation on impurity.
  3. By meditation on purity and realization of a state free from desire --- deliverance by meditation on impurity.
  4. By realization of boundless immateriality.
  5. By realization of boundless knowledge.
  6. By realization of nothingness.
  7. By realization of the state wherein there is neither thought nor absence of thought.
  8. by realization of the state wherein the aggregates, feeling ( vedana ) and ideation ( sanjna ) are entirely eliminated.
Asvaghosa:
A Brahmin converted to Buddhism, who became the Twelth Patriarch of the Ch'an Sect. Author of The Awakening of Faith .
Audible vibration at the back of the head:
It reveals the strength of fire in the generative force, vitality and spirit. It differs from the wrong type of fire which causes buzzing in the ear.
Avalokitesvara
Sanskrit.
CF: Guan-yin.
Avatamsaka Sutra:
Sanskrit.
The first long sutra expounded by the Buddha after his enlightenment.
CF: Hua-Yan Jing.
Avici Hell.
The last and deepest of the eight hells, where sinners suffer, die and are instantly reborn to suffer without redemption.
Avidya:
Sanskrit.
CF: Wu-Ming.
Avyakrita:
Sanskrit.
CF: Wu-Ji
Awakening of Faith Shastra:
A famous commentary attributed to Ashvagosha. Its sanskrit title is the Mahayana-sraddhotpada-shastra . It explains the Mahayana viewpoint in relation to universal enlightenment. The sanskrit original has been lost but Chinese translations are attributed to Paramartha ( 554 ) and Siksananda ( 695-700). This Shastra has exerted extensive influence upon Far Eastern Buddhism, including all the Mahayana schools, such as the Chan, Pure Land and Tian-tai.
CF: Da-cheng-qi-xin-lun.
Ayatana, The Twelve:
The twelve entrances, that is the six organs and six sense data the enter for discrimination.
Bai-Zhang » Bai-Zhang Hui-Hai. died 814 «
Successor to Ma-zu Dao-yi, teacher of Gui-shan and Huang-bo., Famous for his Treatise on the Essential Gateway to the Truth by Means of Instantaneous Awakening. His templewas on Mount Bai-zhang in Hung-zhou, the modern-day nanchang, not far from Mount Lu in Jiangxi Province.
Bellows ( T'o Yo):
The mechanism of ventilation in the body caused by in and out breathing to kindle the psychic fire in the lower abdomen like a bellows used for blowing a fire.
Bhadrapala:
A Disciple of the Buddha with an awe-inspiring voice, who realized enlightenment by means of meditation on touch.
Bhaisajya-raja:
The elder of the two brothers, who was the first to decide on his career as Bodhisattva of healing, and led his younger brother to adopt the same course.
Bhaisjya-samudgata:
The Bodhisattva of healing, whose office is to heal the sick;
the younger brother of Bhaisajya-raja.
Bhiksu:
Sanskrit.
Buddhist monk.
CF: Bi-qiun.
Bhiksuni:
Sanskrit.
Buddhist nun. CF: Bi-qiu-ni
Bhisma-garjita-ghosa-svara-raja:
The King with awe-inspiring voice, the name of countless Buddhas successively appearing during the kalpa or aeon called "the kalpa free from the calamities of decadence, famine, epidemics, etc."
Bhutatathata:
Sanskrit:
CF Zhen-se
Bigrams:
The two lines that are created when one as trying to determine the line whilst casting a hexagram of the Yi Jing.
Bimbisara:
A king of Magadha, converted by the Buddha, to whom he gave the Venuvana park; imprisoned and dethroned by his son, Ajatasatru.
Bin/Zhu:
CF: Guest/host.
Bi-qiun:
Sanskrit is Bhiksu.
CF Bi Qui Ni
Bi Qui Ni
Sanskrit is Bhiksu.
Romanov-Pinyin transliteration.
Female disciples who observe at least the Ten Precepts as monks or nuns, but frequently have many more rules and commandments besides.
Black Hats:
One of the two major sects of Daoism. This side tends to follow the strict canonical rules, literary documents and ritual alchemy. These are the orthodox religious priests.
Blazing fire in the lower tan t'ien:
It shows the fullness of the generative force and vitality from which it arises.
Blessed Isles:
Islands that are where one could obtain the mushroom that "prevented death." Popularly believed to have been in the Yellow Sea, several emperors launched full scale searches for them, to no avail. They are, in fact, a reference to a level attainment of self-cultivation, in the process of becoming an immortal. » Incidentally, the closest that Daoism ever came to being a fundamentalist religion was when these expeditions were sent out. «
CF: P'eng Lai.
Bodhi:
Sanskrit.
Enlightenment.
CF: Pu-ti.
Bodhidharma:
Sanskrit:
The twenty-eight Patriarch who came to China in 520 to teach Ch'an; He was the First Patriarch of China and died in 528 CE.
Body, Essential ( Fa Shen )::
Spiritual body of an immortal.
Bramajala Sutra:
Sanskrit.
CF: Fan-Wang-Jing
Bramalokas:
Sanskrit.
CF: Fan-tian.
The eighteen Brahmalokas of the rupadhatu or form realms. Divided into four dhyana-heavens,
Brass:
An alloy of copper and zinc. Also used as a reference for the unpurified body.
Breath:
The vital aspect. CF: Breath, Vital.
Breath, Vital:
  1. To breathe correctly is to be breath itself.
  2. Breath of life which keeps the heart, stomach, liver, lungs and lower abdomen functioning, and without which the body perishes. When the white and golden lights unite, concentration in the head of these five vital breaths produces the macrocosmic alchemical agent which should be gathered for the final breakdown thereby causing the practitioner to leap over the worldly to the saintly state, and so leaving the state of serenity to appear in countless transformation bodies in the macrocosm.
Breathing, Foetal:
Breathing of a fetus in the womb through the two channels of control and function of the microcosmic orbit, ceasing to function when the umbilical cord is cut at birth and being replaced by breathing through the nostrils.
Breathing, Fourfold:
A full fourfold breathing consists of in and out breaths with the corresponding ascent and descent of inner fire in the microcosmic orbit which contributes to the immortal breath.
Breathing, Immortal:
It rises in the heel pathway, from the heels to the brain and, and descends to the trunk pathway, from the brain to the mortal gate. It is also called the self-winding wheel of the law, ie: the macrocosmic orbit through which the vital breath goes up and down to restore the profound foetal breathing, thereby wiping out all postnatal conditions so that prenatal vitality can be transmuted into a bright pearl that illuminates the brain where an ambrosia produces and natures the immortal seed in the lower tan t'ien, in which it radiates, lighting up the heart heralding the formation of this immortal seed, when breathing appears to cease and the pulses seem to stop beating in the condition of complete serenity.
See Self-winding wheel of the law
Bronze:
An alloy of copper and tin.
Buddha:
Enlightened One; The first of the Triple Gem, the second being Dharma, and the third, Sangha.
Candala:
Sanskrit:
An outcast, a bad and despicable man.
Candadkadipa:
CF Candra-surya-pradipa Buddha
Candra-surya-pradipa Buddha:
Sanskrit:
A Bodhisattva who attained enlightenment by meditating on the element water.
Cardinal Points of the microcosmic orbit, The Four:
  1. North ( Tzu ) at the base of the penis.
  2. South ( Wu ) at the top of the head.
  3. East ( Mao ) on the back.
  4. West ( Yu ) in front of the body.
Catvariarya-satyani:
The four dogmas:
  1. suffering ( duhkha )
  2. its cause ( samudaya )
  3. its ending ( nirodha )
  4. the way thereto ( marga )

They are the doctrines first preached by the Buddha to his five former ascetic companions, and also those who accepted them in the sravaka stage.
Cauldron:
Cavity in which the process of alchemical transmutes the generative force into vitality and vitality into spirit. It changes place rising from the lower t'ien under the navel to the middle tan t'ien in the solar plexus to transmute the generative force into vitality, and then to the upper tan t'ien in the brain, called the precious cauldron, to transmute vitality into spirit.
Cavity of True Vitality ( Chen Ch'i Hsueh ):
The lower tan t'ien under the navel where true vitality manifests.
See Chen ch'i Hsueh
Cavity of vitality:
The lower tan t'ien under the navel; Also called Ocean of Vitality ( Ch'i Hai ) and Gate to Life ( Ming Men ).
Chan:

Often translated into sanskrit as Dhyana in other contexts, but in the 'Transmission of the Mind' or Chan School Proper, it has a wider meaning. Though Chan adherents do indeed cultivate dhyana and prahna or stillness and wisdom, the Chan school understands this in a dynamic and not a static way. Bodhidharma's mission was to 'point directly to the Mind' for cognizance of the Dharmakaya or Buddha-body without passing through the gradual stages mentioned in the teaching school. His Chinese successors also 'pointed to the Mind' without fixed methods and in early times they had only to hint about the presence of this immutable Mind for their disciples to awaken to it without further ado, then understanding the difference between this essentially still Mind and their previous thinking and comparing which alone held them in bondage. For expediency's sake, such direct awakening was called Chan. Eventually, because people found it harder to lay down their false thinking, the Masters were compelled to use strange-seeming tactics such as shouts, blows, etc., with the introduction of the gong-an and hua- tou methods, but all along they had only wished to indicate this mind.

The Chan School has thus specialized in a direct and abrupt awakening, instead of its adherents having to pass through the gradual stages mentioned in the teaching school. Five main Chan schools appeared in Chine, these being the Gui- yang, Lin-ji, Cao-dong, Yun-men and Fa-yan schools.

Ch'an:
Name of mind.
Ch'an being name and mind being substance; wrongly interpreted as meditation, abstraction, or dhyana in sanskrit.
CF: Zen.
Chan-Jan:
The ninth patriarch of the T'ien T'ai School.
Ch'ang Ch'ing:
An emminant Ch'an master, Dharma successor to Shueh Feng. Died in 932 in his seventy ninth year.
Chang Kuo Lau:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
One of the Eight Immortals, he is usually depicted riding his donkey, facing backwards.
Chan-na:
Romanov-Pinyin transliteration.
CF: Dhyana.
CF: Chan.
Chan-ni:
Romanov-Pinyin transliteration.
CF: Chan.
Channel of Control ( Tu Mo ):
A psychic channel in the spine, from its base to the brain. It forms with the channel of function ( Jen Mo ) the microcosmic orbit.
Channel of Function ( Jen MO ):
A channel in front of the body, from the brain to the base of the penis.
Chao Chou:
An emminant Ch'an master, Dharma successor to nan Chuan. Noted for his kung an ( koan ) 'Wu'. Died in 894 in his 120th year.
Chao Pi Ch'en:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
A Daoist master, born in 1860, who wrote the treatise Hsin Ming Fa Chueh Ming Chih or the Secrets of Cultivation of Essential Nature and Eternal Life. » Which book is the source material for Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality . «
Chˆn:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
CF: Zhen.
Chen Chi' Hsueh:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Cavity of real vitality, of the lower tan t'ien 1.3 inches under the navel.
Chen Hsi:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
True Breath.
Chen Hsin:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
True nature.
Chen Jen:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Immortal Man.
CF: Cavity of Vitality.
Cheng Yuan:
The third patriarch of the Lotus Sect. Dies in 802 CE at the age of 91.
Ch'iao:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chia Shan:
An emminant Ch'an Master, disciple of the Boat Monk. Died in 1881.
Ch'ien:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chih Hsih Chih:
A method of meditation which consists in grasping at the mind itself by looking into each rising thought, thereby stopping it and preventing it from following externals.
Chih I:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Also called Chih Che, The Fourth Patriarch of the T'ien T'ai school. Died in 598 CE at the age of sixty.
Chih Kuan:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chih is quieting the active mind and getting rid of discrimination, and kuan is observing, examining, introspecting. When the mind is at rest, it is called chih and when it is seeing clearly, it is kuan. The chief object is the concentration of mind by special methods for the purpose of clear insight into the truth, and to be rid of illusion.
Ch'ueh:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Ch'ung:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chen:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chi:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chia:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chiang:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chiao:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chief:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chih:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
The will. It may denote the heaven's will, or the will of a Superior Man, or the will of a ruler. By implication, it also refers to our individual will, since we are expected to take the Superior Man as our model.
Chin:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chin T'u Tsung:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
The Pure land School of Buddhism.
Its chief tenant is salvation by faith in Amitabha Buddha.
The Daoist Pure Land school differs, in that the Daoists originally searched for the Blessed Isles, on this plane of existance.
Chou:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chu:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chuang:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chun:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chung:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chiang Kung:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
The solar plexus.
CF: Yellow hall.
CF: Huang Ting.
Ch'ien I:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Heavenly oneness, a name given to the great emptiness by the Yi Jing.
Chin Lu:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Golden stove, the lower tan t'ien one and one third inches under the navel.
Chin Tan:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
The golden elixir of immortality.
CF: The Golden Elixir.
Chu:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
A weight equal to the twenty-fourth part of a tael which is the Chinese ounce, equal to one and one third ounces, avoirdupois.
Chuan Tsu:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Succesor to Lao Tzu in the fourth century BCE.
CF: Chuan Tzu.
Chuan Tzu:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Alternative Wade-Giles transliteration for Chuan Tsu.
Ch'un Hsien:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
The genital duct which links the lower tan t'ien to the testicles, which the generative force reaches to change into semen.
Chun Huo:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
Chief fire, or heart's fire which is aroused by evil thoughts and should be avoided by the practitioner.
Ch'ung Mo:
Wade-Giles transliteration.
The 'Bursting' channel, a psychic channel which rises from the perineum, goes up bewteen the jen mo and tu mo and ends in the chest; it connects twenty four psychic centres.
CF: The Eight psychic channels.
Church Daoism:
This is the religious Daoism, that was organized after the Buddhist missionaries came into China, and modelled after those practices. It is the appeal to the native chinese folk religion, and has very little to do with any of the other streams that compose Daoism, other than a reverence for The Dao De Jing . This is the group that erected and ran the Daoist monastaries, based upon what they gleaned of Buddhist Monastory running. So much so, that by the Ch'ing Dynasty, Buddhist Monastaries and Daoist Monastaries were so alike, that monks from one could, and frequently did stay at the other.
Cintamani:
A fabulous gem, responding to every wish.
Circle of Light:
A round light formed by the spiritual vitality that springs from the middle tan t'ien or solar plexus after spirit and vitality have returned to the lower tan t'ien under the navel; it is the manifestation of the real nature of the self.
Cleansing and Purifying ( Mu Yu )
Cleansing the positive ascent and purifying the negative descent during the microcosmic orbiting, for the positive is already pure and needs only some cleaning whereas the negative is corrupt and should be purified to be transmuted into the positive.
Clinging:
Trigram of The Yi Jing
Also referred to as Fire.
Li is the Romanov-Pinyin transliteration.
Coiling up the body into five dragons:
A method which consists of 'composing' one's head ( ie: putting it in a comfortable position), curving and reclining the body on either side, like the coiled length of a sleeping dragon or the curved body of a dog, bending one arm for a pillow, while stretching the other to place a hand on the belly, and straightening one leg while bending the other. Even the heart is immersed in sleep, the pupils of both eyes should be drawn close to each other for pointed concentration on the great emptiness so that in the condition of utter stillness the vital principle returns automatically to its source ( under the navel ), breathing continues normally and so is self-regulated, and the sleeping will banish all dreams and so prevent generative fluids from draining away.
Cold storage technique:
Consists of driving the light of positive spirit manifesting in the brain into the lower abdomen with pointed concentration on vitality there until it vibrates. The practioner should then imagine that this vitality goes up and down in the thrusting channel between the heart and the lower abdomen entail all of a sudden it slips into the lower tan t'ien; this is called entry into the cavity within a cavity and is actual re-entry into the foetus for further creativity.
Components, The Four:
Copulation, Inner ( Nei Chiao Kou ):
By inner copulation of the positive and negative principle is meant the production of the micro-cosmic inner alchemical agent by rolling the eyes from left to right in conjunction with the passing of inner fire through the sublimating phrases at the cardinal points D & J of the microcosmic orbit, for the purpose of transmuting vitality into spirit whose full development causes a bright light, called The mysterious gate ( Hsuan Kuan ) to manifest in the original cavity of spirit between and behind the eyes.
Creative, The:
Trigram of the Yi Jing
Also referred to Heaven.
Xian is the Hanyu Pinyin transliteration.
Creativity, Mechanism of
Way in which the process of creation works to transmute mortality into immortality, what is when generative force, vitality and spirit unite to become one as shown by the circle of light in front of the practioner.

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