Shangqing Taiji True Person’s Scripture of Immortals (Shangqing Taiji Zhenren Shenxian Jing), author unknown.
Judging from its content and wording, it was probably compiled by Taoist priests of the Shangqing School during the Southern and Northern Dynasties or the Sui-Tang dynasties.
It consists of one scroll and is included in the Zhengyi Bu (Orthodox Oneness Section) of the Daozang (Taoist Canon).
This text compiles the essential methods and secrets from several Shangqing classics of the Six Dynasties period.
The main included works are:
- Taiji True Person’s Supreme Method of Immortality by Ingesting the Cloud Teeth of the Four Poles (Taiji Zhenren Fu Siji Yunya Shenxian Shangfang);
- Clear Spirit True Person’s Exposition of the Scripture of Divine Treasures (Qingling Zhenren Shuo Shenbao Jing);
- Supreme Scripture of the Mysterious Truth from the Heavenly Hall (Taishang Mingtang Xuanzhen Shangjing);
- Purple Text of the Spiritual Book by the Shangqing Jade Tower Emperor Lord (Shangqing Jinque Dijun Lingshu Ziwen);
- Secret of the Three Yuans True Scripture (Sanyuan Zhenjing Jue);
- Oral Instructions on the True Unity Scripture (Zhenyi Jing Koujue).
The essential methods and formulas from the above scriptures cover Taoist practices such as contemplating deities and inhaling vital energy (qi), reciting incantations and swallowing talismans, restraining the soul and controlling the ethereal soul, ingesting the essence of the sun and moon, and massage and bathing. All these are cultivation techniques of the early Shangqing School, aiming to summon true beings and attract spiritual powers, thereby ascending to become an immortal.
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