The Master Embracing Simplicity

Gold and Cinnabar

...The first cinnabar is known as the Flowers of cinnabar. It is begun by preparing some "tin oxide". From several dozen pounds each of realgar solution, kalinite solution, Turkestan salt, lake salt, arsenolite, oyster shells, red bole, soapstone, and white lead, prepare Six-One cement, with which to cover both caly crucibles inside and out. The crucibles are then dried slowly in the sun for ten days. The cinnabar will be ready after being fired for thirty-six days, and if you take it for seven days you will become a genie...


The Ultimate System

...They (the immortals) chew and inhale breath to bathe their inner gods in Paradise.
They disregard astrology (the five celestial bodies) and concentrate on preserving within themselves the nine essentials.
They affix a lock to the sperm in the lower abdomen; keep their eyes on the pole of the universe.
Drawing the light of sun, moon, and dipper to within their foreheads, they enter trances in order to confine their bodies.
Gathering their life-giving exudate from the golden beams of Paradise, they slow down the race toward old age and retain their youth.
They maintain immutable the transparency natural to the centers within their heads, chests, and abdomens, and conduct their salive to the lungs, heart, spleen, liver, and kidneys.
As they tend the fire below the bubbling crucible, multicolored birds are inspired to liik up toward them and chirp.
When they pluck the best products from the brew, a unicorn sounds its note.
Then, cherishing both sun and moon in their hearts, they conceal the gathered light within their own heads.
After their stomachs have been filled, the effects show in their faces; the nose becoming drenched, the effects pass to the blood vessels.
Imbued with heavenly contentment, they summon the Six-Ting gods to sit or lie in their hearts and chew upon the juices there.
Flourishing become their inner working parts: showing flowerings of vermilion and shoots of blue. Clear white becomes their fat: oozing and dripping.
Thus, hunger controlled and thirst ended, no illnesses burgeon in them.
Spleens completely at ease, they enjoy tranquility and peace.
Their inner spirits under firm control, their bones become filled, but their whole frames remain light...