xinshu

xinshu, an early Chinese Daoist system aimed at purifying the practitioner’s life force (qi) and enabling him to attain awareness of true reality as encompassed in the Dao. In xinshu the purification of qi meant cleansing the mind and heart of thoughts and emotions; only when an individual had reached a state beyond conscious desires, fears, and ideas was he able to receive the spiritual power of the Dao. Control of breath seems to have...