Recorded Sayings of Wang Zhijin of Mount Pan盘山栖云王真人语录
- Also known as
- Recorded Sayings of Mount Pan, Recorded Sayings of Wang Zhijin
- Author / transmission
- Wang Zhijin
- Period
- Yuan · The sayings of Wang Zhijin (1177–1263), compiled by his disciple Lun Zhihuan, taking shape around the mid-thirteenth century.
- Canon division
- Dongzhen Section, Methods (Fangfa) category (Ten Books on the Cultivation of Perfection edition)
- Collected in
- Daoist Canon of the Zhengtong Era, Taixuan Section; also included in scroll 53 of the Ten Books on the Cultivation of Perfection.
- Category
- Alchemical Texts
- Fascicles
- One Fascicle (Juan)
Synopsis
The Panshan Yulu (盘山语录, Recorded Sayings of Wang Zhijin of Mount Pan) compiles the sayings of the Quanzhen priest Wang Zhijin (a disciple of Hao Datong, sobriquet Qiyun) instructing his followers at Mount Pan (present-day Jizhou, Tianjin). In plain and accessible language it expounds Quanzhen practice: “apply effort to the ground of the mind, and cast aside worldly affairs entirely,” advocating the tempering of mind and nature amid the affairs of daily life and the elimination of self-and-other and right-and-wrong, taking “the unmoved mind” as essential, and opposing the pursuit of supernatural powers and the chasing after external things; it also discusses methods for reading scripture, seated meditation, and dealing with others, expressed largely through parables and question-and-answer exchanges, with a strong Chan flavor. This work is one of the classic recorded-sayings texts of Quanzhen theory of mind and nature, ranking alongside the Recorded Sayings of the Perfected Danyang and the Recorded Sayings on the Northern Journey, and reflects the shift of Jin–Yuan Quanzhen Daoism from alchemical method toward the teaching of mind and nature.
Key Ideas
- Applying effort to the ground of the mind, tempered through daily affairs
- The unmoved mind, freed from self and other
- Opposition to the pursuit of external supernatural powers
- Quanzhen theory of mind and nature
Structure
One scroll, in the form of recorded-sayings entries.
Editions
- Edition in the Daoist Canon of the Zhengtong Era
- Edition in the Ten Books on the Cultivation of Perfection
Translations
- Partial English translation by Louis Komjathy
Full Text & Online Resources
Related scriptures
Recorded Sayings of the Perfected Danyang (Ma Yu), Recorded Sayings of the Perfected Qinghe (Yin Zhiping) on the Northern Journey, Ten Books on the Cultivation of PerfectionRelated figures
Wang Zhijin, Hao Datong- 任继愈主编《道藏提要》
- Louis Komjathy, The Way of Complete Perfection, 2013