Gleanings from Wuzhen Pian 紫阳真人悟真篇拾遗
Paul PengGleanings from Wuzhen Pian
This work, with the subtitle Chan Sect Poems, Odes, and Miscellaneous Verses, was originally an appendix to Zhang Boduan’s Wu Zhen Pian (Awakening to Truth).
Included in the Jade Commentaries Category of the The Dongzhen Section within the Taoist Canon (The Daozang), it was later reissued as an independent one-scroll text.
Gleanings from Wuzhen Pian
It contains thirty-two poems, odes, and miscellaneous verses, elaborating on the essence of cultivating nature in Internal Alchemy (Neidan) by drawing on the Chan Sect’s theory of sudden enlightenment.
