Inner gods Meditation

In this renewed context, the inner gods of the Daoist meditation practices and the ritual framework of the Taiqing alchemical practices serve no more. It is enough to look at some clusters of terms that recur in the Token to realize how its adept is not asked to meditate on the deities that reside within himself, or to address those who dwell in heaven. Instead, he surveys (can), examines (cha), investigates (kao), explores tan), inquires (/i), and inspects... 

The function of connecting what is above to what is below (where what is below includes the adept who practices alchemy) is not performed by the outer and the inner gods approached through ritual or meditation, but by a wide set of cosmological and alchemical emblems, all of which correspond to the others. Among them, the three most important ones are the following ... 

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