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The Yin Shen and Separation · 陰神 · yin shen
Level 21: Return
Learning to come back reliably.
Description
Learning to come back reliably. The classical texts consider return, not departure, the difficult half.
This entry is a reconstruction. The Mo Pai sources do not publish a curriculum for level 21, so what appears above is drawn from classical Taoist internal alchemy and from the shape the Mo Pai literature implies for the "The Yin Shen and Separation" band. It is a map of the territory the tradition describes, written by this archive rather than taken from the lineage.
Practice
- Reconstructed. The lineage method for this level is not published.
Signs and effects
- The classical texts consider return, not departure, the difficult half.
How it is tested
Not published. Teacher-verified, as at every level below.
Obstacles
- Unknown.
Sources for this entry
- The classical neidan corpus — Zhong-Lü texts, Wuzhen pian, Longmen commentaries, and the wider internal alchemy literature — the actual technical parent of Mo Pai's methods.
- Editorial reconstruction — Written by this archive from the classical material, where the lineage sources do not publish a curriculum.