30
Purification of the Vessel · 煉形 · lian xing
Level 30: Foetal Breathing
Tai xi — breathing that no longer requires the lungs.
Description
Tai xi — breathing that no longer requires the lungs. One of the oldest claims in Chinese religion and among the least verified.
This entry is a reconstruction. The Mo Pai sources do not publish a curriculum for level 30, so what appears above is drawn from classical Taoist internal alchemy and from the shape the Mo Pai literature implies for the "Purification of the Vessel" band. It is a map of the territory the tradition describes, written by this archive rather than taken from the lineage.
Practice
- Reconstructed. The lineage method for this level is not published.
Signs and effects
- One of the oldest claims in Chinese religion and among the least verified.
How it is tested
Not published. Teacher-verified, as at every level below.
Obstacles
- Unknown.
Sources for this entry
- The classical neidan corpus — Zhong-Lü texts, Wuzhen pian, Longmen commentaries, and the wider internal alchemy literature — the actual technical parent of Mo Pai's methods.
- Editorial reconstruction — Written by this archive from the classical material, where the lineage sources do not publish a curriculum.