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Most translations adapt meaning to help you feel comfortable with the content. Alient cultures can be pretty much alien. But as a result much gets lost in the translation.

These translations want to help you understand the mind of the writers, of the practitioners and the reasons why and how they use(d) these texts. Translations are supposed to immerse you in the culture and wisdom of these people! When you choose to invest in the Guide Shifu at checkout, We jointly curate the content of the translations by taking your ideas and interests at heart.

Prayer is a form of performance magic. For centuries we have battled religion to be able to do prayer in our own language, and I think we did not do that to surrender to another forreign language. These translations offer rituals in English so you can maximize the effect of the prayer through direct understanding and participation.

The core of this project is a several years taking work to translate the cloud coffer of 7 corruptions text. This Late Song early Ming text summarizes the Ming Daoist Canon in an organized manner, allowing us the inititate daoist worldview.

As a wudang Daoist and Zhang Sanfeng follower the translation of specific wudang works as from Zhang Sanfeng himself cannot be excluded. In the translation project is among others the Neidan Taiji Jing explanation of the Golden Flower method, but also other text linking to the great medicine of daoism in harmony with neidan practice, works by Shifu You Xuande on taijiquan etc.

My interest in Daoism was peaked by finding a daodejing in the local library. Its strangeness, its suggestiveness and world of hidden ideas seemed poetic, artistic. My meeting of teacher Liu in my 20's, and later Shiye Wang Guangde from Wudangshan, and Shifu You Xuande, where I took my oaths as a Wudang Daoist Monk, just sealed the deal of where my heart already was. He and others invited me to express my understandings of Daoism in classes and texts, translations.

Purifying heart prayer

Taishang stand-star1

No stop stream dao

Pray out bad spells2

Keep life - guard bod3

clear-up wis-dom4

heart-god quit’ calm

Three Hun5last long

Po6non-death-lean

footnotes:

1As I understand it this is the polar star

2Evil spells or possessions by spirits and ghosts malignantly or accidentally damaging the work of becoming a xian

3For becoming a xian and having a long life you want to guard the long life of the body

4Help recognize the true from the fals in my thoughts and feelings

5The three hun, or cloud-ghosts are the linghun, liver and spleen residing hun, they all belong to the diaphragm. Gan-liver. Linghun tends to wander off when sleepinmg and engage with evil spirits and hungry ghosts when our self care is not good for the work of becoming a xian

6The seven po, white-ghosts reside in the lungs and guard the body and feelings from damage, by day living in the body openings. They are called corpse dog, rotten tooth,swallow thief, mite, toxic, stinky lungs and que yang. They are yin spirits, making the body greedy, appealing to the feelings and moods when we do not protect the long life of the body through bad life decissions and actions

Chapter of Zhang Sanfeng's

Taiji Neidan Jing

All (wan, 1.0000) things are like a confluence of plants and trees, they can still return to their roots, and they can be passed on through the years. Human beings can bethe culminationof all things in Ling, moving towardsdeath, but not as good as vegetation does. Can you be worthy of it? This is the way to go back to the root, and it is not an evil Dao. People in the world put virtue first, yin power as the foundation, observe the opportunities of yin and yang, seek the mystery of the universe, distinguish the two-eight barriers, determine the time of golden flowers, water and moon, exert the power of subduing dragons and tigers, and clarify the place of life and faith. During this period, keep the emptiness and keep the quietude, he births my quest, if the sun and the moon are in conflict, and the self is used, then the Dan- elixer turns into itsopposite.

"Weft of (ex)Changes" said: "Men and women have intercourse, and all things are born." People have this body, and they also get it because of their parents. If there are no parents, whereis the body? Pretending to be the Dao of golden elixir is the same as life. But if you obey, you will be born, and if you go against it, you will become immortal. Between good and bad, heaven and earth are separated. As long as it is used inversely, yin and yang will be achieved naturally, and it is not an evil path.

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