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The Yang Shen · 陽神 · yang shen
Level 39: The Bathing
Mu yu — periods in which the alchemical fire is deliberately withdrawn.
Description
Mu yu — periods in which the alchemical fire is deliberately withdrawn. Over-application of will is said to destroy what is being grown.
This entry is a reconstruction. The Mo Pai sources do not publish a curriculum for level 39, so what appears above is drawn from classical Taoist internal alchemy and from the shape the Mo Pai literature implies for the "The Yang Shen" 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
- Over-application of will is said to destroy what is being grown.
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- Editorial reconstruction — Written by this archive from the classical material, where the lineage sources do not publish a curriculum.