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Daoist Cultivation, Book 41: Recorded Sayings on the Elixir Instructions of the Mountain Recluse Tizhen: Oral Teachings on Returning to the Root in Da

Daoist Cultivation, Book 41: Recorded Sayings on the Elixir Instructions of the Mountain Recluse Tizhen: Oral Teachings on Returning to the Root in Da

Filbert, Vitaly

Paperback

Series: Daoist Cultivation, Book 41

General Eastern ReligionsI ChingTaoism

ISBN13: 9798258630971
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 23 2026
Pages: 702
Weight: 2.42
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
A rare and uncompromising manual of Daoist inner alchemy from the Western Branch (西派, xīpai) tradition

This volume presents the Recorded Sayings of the Mountain Recluse Tizhen, Wang Dongting (1839-1917) - one of the most direct and practically oriented voices in late Daoist inner alchemy. Preserved through private manuscript transmission and long unavailable in print, this text records Wang Dongting's oral teachings on the actual work of cultivation: the Mysterious Pass, mind and breath depending on one another, the fire phases, returning to the root, the child-body, and the recovery of the Precelestial Dao.

Unlike many alchemical works that bury their meaning beneath dense symbolism, Wang Dongting repeatedly strips the tradition back to its living core. Again and again, he insists that the heart of the Great Dao lies not in collecting names, diagrams, or poetic images, but in the real transformation of spirit, breath, and awareness through authentic practice. Here the reader encounters a teaching tradition that is at once subtle, severe, and astonishingly direct.

This book is especially valuable for serious students of Daoist cultivation because it preserves teachings on:

  • the true meaning of the Mysterious Pass
  • the relation of spirit and breath in genuine practice
  • the distinction between Precelestial and Postcelestial work
  • the necessity of settledness, forgetting, and sincerity
  • the meaning and sequencing of the fire phases
  • the danger of mistaking bodily signs and symbolic language for real attainment
  • the practical logic of refining essence, refining qi, and refining spirit

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