Description
He dao — merging with the Tao. The stated endpoint of the classical corpus, below Mo Pai's own.
This entry is a reconstruction. Mo Pai publishes no curriculum for level 63, so what appears above is drawn from the classical stage this band corresponds to — lian shen huan xu (煉神還虛), refining spirit and returning it to emptiness — and from the shape the Mo Pai literature implies for the "Ascension" band. It is a map of the territory that tradition describes, written by this archive and not taken from the lineage.
Practice
- Reconstructed. He dao (合道), merging with the Tao, is where the classical corpus stops: it is the terminus of the three transformations and of the literature that describes them. Everything Mo Pai numbers above this point has no classical counterpart at all — not a disputed one, none.
Signs and effects
- The stated endpoint of the classical corpus, below Mo Pai's own.
How it is tested
Not published. Teacher-verified, as at every level below — and unverifiable here in a second sense, since the classical account below is not Mo Pai's.
Obstacles
- Attachment to attainment. The subtlest form of the same error that ends the work at every lower level, and the one the texts treat as the last to go.
- The imitation of emptiness. Sitting blankly resembles this stage closely enough that the literature distinguishes them repeatedly and never quite manages to say how.
- The final self. What remains at the top of the ladder is described as the thing that most wants to remain, and the tradition has no technique for it — only the nine years.
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.
- The Wuzhen pian — Zhang Boduan's verse classic of 1075, the central text of the Southern lineage — and the sharpest classical source on the difference between the yin shen and the yang shen.
- 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.
- Editorial reconstruction — Written by this archive from the classical material, where the lineage sources do not publish a curriculum.