Dominion · 御 · yu
Level 60: The Thinning Boundary
The distinction between the practitioner and the world stops holding.
Description
Reconstructed. The dominion band's terminus. In the mythological register the Mo Pai literature slips into at its outer edges, this is where weather, distance, and matter cease to constrain — the register of the hsien tales rather than of any curriculum.
Practice
- Reconstructed, and mythological in register. There is no method here in any classical source: the powers of this band are described throughout the corpus as by-products, and the terminus of the band is described as the point at which a practitioner stops finding them interesting.
- The one prescription the literature does make at this stage is renunciation — that the capacities be set down rather than developed, on the grounds that the work above this point cannot begin while they are still being enjoyed.
Signs and effects
- In the hsien tales, an adept who no longer demonstrates anything and is no longer found where they were.
How it is tested
Not applicable, in a stricter sense than elsewhere: nothing at this level is claimed to be witnessable by design.
Obstacles
- The whole band, in the tradition's own view. Every classical treatment of the powers says the same thing — they are the last and best-disguised trap, and the more of them a practitioner has the more likely the work ends here.
Sources for this entry
- Chinese numerological and literary tradition — The 36/72 pairing, the seventy-two transformations, the seventy-two disciples — the cultural source of the number.
- 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.
- The Zhong-Lü corpus — The Tang–Song material attributed to Zhongli Quan and Lü Dongbin: the first systematic step-by-step internal method, and the source of the ten months, the three years and the nine years.