Shangqing Practice Guide 上清司命茅真君修行指迷诀
Paul PengShangqing Practice Guide
The author of this text is unknown.
Roughly compiled between the The Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, it is included in the Methods Category of the The Dongshen Section in The Daozang.
Shangqing Practice Guide
The text consists of two parts:
- Cultivation and Tempering Secrets for Superior Practitioners: Details Qi -tempering techniques such as gargling and swallowing saliva, as well as regulated inhalation and exhalation.
- The Heavenly Elder’s Scripture of the Ten Heavenly Stems: The Ten-Month Cultivation Method: Describes the physiological reactions of grain abstinence and qi absorption, along with qi circulation practices. The content of this part is essentially identical to The Twelve-Month Qi Cultivation Method recorded in Volume 61 of Yunji Qiqian (Seven Bamboo Slips of the Cloudy Satchel).
