Comprehensive Index of Taoism Book Title: Dongxuan Lingbao Five Senses Text Editor: Lu Xiujing Number of Volumes: One Volume Orthodox Taoism: Zhengyi Yu Zihao Hanfenlou Edition Volume 78 New Wenfeng Edition Volume 5 Sanjia Summary of the 32nd volume of the Taoist Canon: No. 187 Chinese Taoist Canon: Three Dong Zhen Jing Tai Xuan Bu Jing Jue? The 8th volume of Zhengyi Sutra?
"Dong Xuan Ling Bao Five Senses Essay" was written by Lu Xiujing of the Southern Dynasty. One volume, included in the first volume of "Orthodox Taoist Canon". The first half of this book is "Essay on the Five Senses", which describes how to practice the charcoal fasting method. Tu Tan Zhai is one of the early Taoist Zhai methods of Tianshi. The method is "taking the hardships as merit". Those who practice fasting must set up an altar in the open air, smear their foreheads with yellow mud, tie their hair loosely, hold a bi in their mouths, lie down on the ground, and kowtow to all directions to repent. During the Han and Wei dynasties, this fasting method was more popular, and was replaced by the Lingbao fasting method during the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties. This fast takes thirty-six days to perform at a time, and it accumulates for ten months and months. It is full of frost and dew, enough ice and mud, and you are hungry and cold. Therefore, Lu Xiujing wrote a five-sense article, saying that those who practice fasting should have five kinds of gratitude: First, I feel the hard work of my parents in giving birth to me and raising me. Secondly, I feel that my parents have suffered three kinds of troubles because of my marriage, accumulation of wealth, and property purchase. Three senses of life are misguided and painful, but fortunately, the three treasures of "Tao Bao", "Jing Bao" and "Teacher Bao" can be found. The Four Senses are the supreme enlightenment and salvation. The grace of enlightenment from the five-sense master.
It is said that with these five senses, those who practice fasting can tolerate suffering without confusion. The second half is "Fasting Methods for All", which discusses the essence and types of Taoist fasting methods. It is said that "Tao takes fasting as the foundation of virtue and the gateway to seek truth." Because the qualifications of Taoists are different, the fasting methods are also different. There are basically twelve methods in three categories, namely the two methods of Dongzhen Shangqingzhai, the nine methods of Dongxuan Lingbaozhai, and the one method of Santutanzhai, all of which indicate their functions. Although this book is only one volume, the theory of fasting described in it has a great influence on later Taoism.