Daoist Meditation: The Purification of the Heart Method of Meditation and Discourse on Sitting and Forgetting (Zuò Wàng Lùn) by Si Ma Cheng Zhen

338 Pages·2014·1.62 MB·English

by  Wu Jyh Cherng

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DAOIST
MEDITATION
The Purification of the Heart Method of Meditation
and Discourse on Sitting and Forgetting
(Zuò Wàng Lùn) by Sī Mǎ Chéng Zhēn
TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE INTO
PORTUGUESE, AND WITH A COMMENTARY
BY WU JYH CHERNG
with Marcia Coelho de Souza (for transcription,
editing, and adaptation of texts)
Foreword by Eva Wong
English translation by Benjamin Adam Kohn
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Transliteration of the Chinese terms into the Pīn Yīn system and ideograms: Tong Harr Lee
English translation: Benjamin Adam Kohn
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Medita??o taoista. English.
Daoist meditation : the Purification of the Heart Method of Meditation, and “Discourse on
Sitting and
Forgetting (Zuo Wang Lun”) by Si Ma Cheng Zhen / translated and with a commentary by
Wu Jyh Cherng
; foreword by Eva Wong.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-84819-211-9 (alk. paper)
1. Meditation--Taoism. 2. Sima, Chengzhen, 647?-735. Zuo wang lun. I. Wu, Jyh
Cherng, 1958-2004.
Medita??o taoista. English. II. Sima, Chengzhen, 647?-735. Zuo wang lun. English. III.
Title. IV. Title:
Purification of the Heart Method of Meditation, and “Discourse on Sitting and Forgetting
(Zuo Wang
Lun”) by Si Ma Cheng Zhen.
BL1923.M4313 2014
299.5’14435--dc23
2013035505
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 84819 211 9
eISBN 978 0 85701 161 9
Printed and bound in Great Britain
In Daoism, the crane is the bird-symbol for Immortality. Legends
tell that when someone attains realization on the Daoist Spiritual
Path, he leaves the manifest world to inhabit the Sacred World,
ascending while mounted on a crane, which opens its wings and flies
towards Heaven, transporting the Immortal to the dimension of
the Absolute.

CONTENTS
Foreword by Eva Wong............................... 9
DISCLAIMER........................................................ 11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............................................. 12
THE USE OF PĪN YĪN ................................................. 13
Introduction ........................................ 15
PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ................................... 17
PREFACE ........................................................... 19
XĪN ZHĀI FǍ
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PPAaRssTa Ig es from boo:kTs HoEf tPhUeR DIFaIoCiAstT CIOaNno OnF THE
HEART METHOD OF MEDITATION 23
Compilation, translation and commentary:
Wu Jyh Cherng
1 Introduction ..................................... 24
2 Fundamentals of the Method........................ 26
3 Theoretical Considerations ......................... 30
4 Practising Meditation.............................. 35
ZUÒ WÀNG LÙN
PSAī MRTǎ ICI héng Zhēn : DISCOURSE ON SITTING
AND FORGETTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Commentary: Wu Jyh Cherng
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ................................................ 50
PREFACE ........................................................... 54
1 Trust and Respect................................. 58
2 Breaking the Ties................................. 71
3 Gathering the Mind ............................... 81
4 Simplifying the Activities .......................... 137
5 Authentic Contemplation........................... 152
6 Peaceful Fixation................................. 196
7 Possessing the Path ............................... 240
Afterword....................................... 282
GLOSSARY.......................................................... 329