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The Governing vessel 1

NOTES attributed to the Daoist Master Xu Sun of the Jin dynasty.

One chapter of this book describes how Master Xu slayed a
1 Translated by Giovanni Maciocia.
wicked demon hiding in the body of a snake by decapitating
2 Essential Questions Chapter 32. the snake with a magic (ling) sword (jian). The actual
3 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 8. authors of the book were members of the Zhengming School
4 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 54. of Daoism who wrote the book during the Song dynasty at
the end of the 10th century. Passage translated by Heiner
5 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 71.
Fruehauf.
6 Essential Questions Chapter 62.
21 Both from the Classic on the Central Void in the Inner Sphere
7 Essential Questions Chapter 17. (Huangting Neijing Jing). The Huangting Jing is divided into
8 Ten Works on Practice Toward the Attainment of Truth (Xiuzhen the Neijing Jing and the Waijing Jing. Both books were
Shishu), a qigong compendium in 64 volumes from the Qing transmitted by the Jin dynasty (4th century or earlier) Daoist
dynasty; editor and exact date of publication unknown. This scholar and adept Wei Furen. Its origins, however, go back
text combines important Daoist works on qigong practice to Lao Zi. Passages translated by Heiner Fruehauf.
from the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties, including the Classic 22 Zheng Li Lun. Passage translated by Heiner Fruehauf.
on the Central Void in the Inner Sphere (Huangting Neijing
23 Translated by Giovanni Maciocia.
Jing). Passage translated by Heiner Fruehauf.
24 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 10.
9 Daoist Internal Mirror (Neijing). Not the Yellow Emperor’s
Inner Classic but part of the work Che Sheng Ba Bian written 25 Essential Questions Chapter 17.
by Liu Sijing around 1647. Passage translated by Heiner 26 Essential Questions Chapter 61.
Fruehauf. 27 Classic of Difficulties 38th Difficulty.
10 Essentials of Materia Medica by Wang Ang, 1694. 28 Classic of Difficulties 29th Difficulty.
11 For example Guanzi, a 4th century BCE meditation text. 29 Classic of Difficulties 36th Difficulty.
12 Essential Questions Chapter 11. Passage translated by Heiner 30 Essential Questions Chapter 32.
Fruehauf.
31 Ibid.
13 Some medical historians also hold the opinion that early
32 Ibid.
contact with Jesuit missionaries may have played a part in
the revival of the theory of the brain as the centre of 33 Ibid.
consciousness. Wang Qing-ren in the chapter ‘On the Brain’ 34 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 33.
(in Correcting the Errors of Medicine 1830) cited three people 35 Treatment Strategies for Assorted Syndromes (Lei Zheng Zhi
who had previously held the same opinion as himself on the Cai) by Lin Pei-qin, 1839, quoted in The Practice of Chinese
brain: Li Shi-zhen, Jin Sheng and Wang Ang. Jin Sheng was a Medicine by Giovanni Maciocia, Churchill Livingstone, 1994,
friend of Jesuit missionaries in the Ming court in the p. 561.
sixteenth century and a convert to Roman Catholicism,
36 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 33.
whilst Wang Ang was his close colleague. See Andrews, B.J.,
Wang Qingren and the History of Chinese Anatomy, Journal of 37 Essential Questions Chapter 60.
Chinese Medicine, No. 36, May 1991. 38 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 33.
14 B.J.Andrews in Wang Qingren and the History of Chinese 39 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 9 and Essential Questions Chapter 70.
Anatomy, Journal of Chinese Medicine, No. 36, May 1991,
40 Essential Questions Chapter 17.
however, believes that Wang Qingren’s contact with
Western medicine is unproven, and that his refutation of 41 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 33.
classical Chinese anatomical theories was much influenced 42 The Heart & Essence of Dan-xi’s Methods of Treatment, A
by the radical ‘evidential research’ movement then prevalent Translation of Zhu Dan-xi’s Dan Xi Zhi Fa Xin Yao, Blue
amongst Chinese scholars. Poppy Press, p. 99.
15 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 33. 43 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 9 and Essential Questions Chapter 70.
16 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 8. 44 Essential Questions Chapter 62.
17 Classic of Categories (Lei Jing) by Zhang Jie-bin, People’s 45 Essential Questions Chapter 17.
Health Publishing House, Beijing, 1982, p. 49. First published 46 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 24.
in 1624. Passage translated by Giovanni Maciocia.
47 0.5 cun posterior to Toulinqi GB-15.
18 A Record of Nourishing Xing and Extending Ming (Yang Xing
48 Both from the Classic on the Central Void in the Inner Sphere.
Yan Ming Lu) written by Tao Hongjing 456-536. This was a
Passages translated by Heiner Fruehauf.
compilation of different theories on nourishing life in
fashion at that time. Passage translated by Heiner Fruehauf. 49 Collected Wisdom by Master Magic Sword. Passage translated
by Heiner Fruehauf.
19 Differentiation and Treatment of Disease (Lei Zheng Zhi Zai)
written by Lin Peiqin in 1839. Passage translated by Heiner 50 Spiritual Pivot Chapter 9 and Essential Questions Chapter 70.
Fruehauf.
20 Collected Wisdom by Master Magic Sword (Ling Jian Zi),