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Recorded Sayings on the Union of Immortals and Buddhas仙佛合宗语录

Also known as
Union of Immortals and Buddhas, Perfected Wu's Recorded Sayings on the Union of Immortals and Buddhas
Author / transmission
Wu Shouyang
Period
Late Ming · Spoken by Wu Shouyang and recorded by his disciples, composed around the Chongzhen reign (the 1630s).
Canon division
Outside the Canon
Collected in
Outside the Canon (included in the Wuliu xianzong and the Daozang Jiyao)
Category
Alchemical Texts
Fascicles
One Fascicle (Juan)

Synopsis

Recorded Sayings on the Union of Immortals and Buddhas (Xianfo hezong yulu) is a record of Wu Shouyang's oral teaching of alchemical method to his disciples, answering specific difficulties encountered in practice in question-and-answer form, and holding that immortals and Buddhas share a single principle of the dual cultivation of nature and life: the Buddhist illumination of the mind and seeing of one's nature verifies 'nature,' while the alchemical refining of essence into qi verifies 'life' — hence the name 'the Union of Immortals and Buddhas.' Its contents include the practices and 'verifying signs' of the stages from the initial return to emptiness, refining the self, and gathering the medicine, through fire phasing and the Major Celestial Circuit, to the emergence of the spirit, giving concrete explanation to what is set out in the Direct Discourse on the True Principles of Celestial Immortality, with an appended 'Song on Cultivating Immortality by the Perfected Wu' and other pieces. This work and the Tianxian zhengli form the outer and inner aspects of a single whole, and together serve as a practical guide to the alchemical method of the Wu-Liu School.

Key Ideas

  • The union of immortals and Buddhas; the dual cultivation of nature and life
  • Difficulties resolved through question and answer, with verification at each stage
  • Return to emptiness — refining the self — gathering the medicine — the Celestial Circuit — emergence of the spirit

Structure

One scroll, in the form of recorded sayings in question-and-answer format.

Editions

  • The Wuliu xianzong edition
  • The Daozang Jiyao edition

Full Text & Online Resources

Related scriptures

Direct Discourse on the True Principles of Celestial Immortality, The Wu-Liu School of Immortality (Wuliu xianzong)

Related figures

Wu Shouyang
References
  1. 《伍柳仙宗》
  2. 胡孚琛主编《中华道教大辞典》