Four Calamities

Several other rules, dictated by the Mysterious Master (Xuanzi) who first received the Nine Elixirs from the Yellow Emperor, are listed in the commentary to this text under four headings the Five Interdictions [wuji), the Three Taboos (sanhui), the Four Calamities (sibai), and the Six Adversities (liuwei). The Five Interdictions concern days on which the compounding of the elixir and related actions should not take place. These are... 

Jiudan jingjue, 20.6b. The Four Calamities are also listed in the Shangdong xindan jingjue, 3.i7b-i8a, which gives a different version of the first one the soil is devoid of elixir s pneuma danqi) and is not a divine soil shentu). 

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Ayya Tathaaloka Bhikkhuni. (2010). Saffron and green in the clear forest pool A reflection on the four noble truths and right effort. In D. W. Mitchell W. Skudlarek, OSB (Eds.), Green monasticism A Buddhist-Catholic response to an environmental calamity (pp. 111-124). Brooklyn Lantern Books. 

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