Recorded Sayings of the Perfected Qinghe (Yin Zhiping) on the Northern Journey清和真人北游语录
- Also known as
- Beiyou Yulu (Recorded Sayings on the Northern Journey), Yin Zhiping Yulu (Recorded Sayings of Yin Zhiping)
- Author / transmission
- Yin Zhiping
- Period
- Yuan · Sayings of Yin Zhiping (1169–1251), compiled by his disciple Duan Zhijian, recording his teachings given during his journeys to Yanjing and the region north of Yan between 1233 and 1235.
- Canon division
- Zhengyi Section
- Collected in
- Zhengtong Daozang, Zhengyi Section.
- Category
- Alchemical Texts
- Fascicles
- Four fascicles
Synopsis
The Qinghe zhenren beiyou yulu (Recorded Sayings of the Perfected Qinghe on the Northern Journey) compiles the teachings given to disciples by Qiu Chuji's successor, Yin Zhiping (styled Qinghezi), sixth-generation head of the Quanzhen order, during his journeys in the north, edited by Duan Zhijian. The recorded sayings discuss Quanzhen practice in plain language, taking forbearance and accumulating merit and good deeds and not letting thoughts arise as essential, holding that 'of the harms to practice, the three desires of food, sleep and lust are the gravest,' and emphasizing tempering oneself through everyday affairs and observing the monastic rules, opposing both overreaching ambition and superstitious pursuit of supernatural powers, while also recording Qiu Chuji's final instructions and methods of managing the religious order. His thought represents the shift of Quanzhen Daoism from the ascetic practice of its founding period toward the moral-instruction line of its era as a great religious organization, and is a precious record for the study of the life, ethics and cultivation of mind and nature within the Quanzhen order in the early Yuan.
Key Ideas
- Forbearance, and accumulating merit and good deeds
- Food, sleep and lust as the three harms to practice
- Tempering the heart-mind and nature through everyday affairs
- Discipline of the religious order and methods of proselytizing
Structure
Four juan, in recorded-sayings form, with Duan Zhijian's preface appended.
Editions
- Zhengtong Daozang edition
- Zhonghua Daozang, vol. 26
Full Text & Online Resources
Related scriptures
Recorded Sayings of the Perfected Danyang (Ma Yu), Fifteen Discourses of Wang Chongyang on Establishing the Teaching, Pure Rules of Complete PerfectionRelated figures
Yin Zhiping, Qiu Chuji- 任继愈主编《道藏提要》
- Louis Komjathy, The Way of Complete Perfection, 2013