A presentation of the "Mi Yingchan," a Daoist practice manual
known as "Secret of the Shining Toad."
Imagine China, late Warring States circa 250 BCE. Loose-knit
associations of spiritual virtuosi have emerged from the evenfall
of unwritten history possessing an archetypal understanding of
nature and human potential. Their influence is felt reverberating
through many social spheres including religion, government, arts,
literature, and ethics, and they are becoming renowned for their
contributions to the sciences, especially medicine, cosmology, and
natural correspondence. Inspiring this remarkable historic movement
are masters and adepts of the Way revered as shenxian - spiritual
transcendents whose acutely insightful culture stands at the
genesis of Daoist aspirations. Interestingly however, these
fascinating luminaries, many of whom will be remembered as
legendary immortals, have somehow managed to step into history
unnamed.
In this study, these ancestral wayfarers are referred to as Yin
Hejia, or Silver River people. By meticulously piecing together
their legacy from fragments of attestations scattered among classic
literature such as "Zhuangzi," "Baopuzi," and "Shenxian zhuang" to
name only a few, we discover clear precedence for a well-defined
praxis. Not surprisingly however, the systematic approach through
which they cultivated spiritual transcendency remains disorganized
in modern perceptions, split up as it is among so many different
sources. Organizing and empowering this knowledge is particularly
important now, as indigenous constructions of Daoism are absorbed
into a global context and diligence in practicing orthodox methods
aimed at profound levels of attainment has become virtually unheard
of.
Here, for the first time, is a complete cultivation manual
addressed to contemporary practitioners who are interested in
shenxian arts as recorded and handed down by great adepts from the
past. Presented in traditional style and divided into a series of
time-honored graduations, the text is fully annotated and set to a
rigorous standard of scholarly range. Distinguished in terms of
accessibility and utility, in all it conveys a powerful overture to
venerating the Dao through accommodating exquisite dimensions of
human potential.
First Edition released May 2014.
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