Wei Boyang

Boyang Wei (Chinese魏伯阳/魏伯阳, Pinyin wèibóyáng ) was a legendary Daoist Immortal in China, said to have lived in the 2nd century.

According to tradition, Wei boyang to have been summoned to the imperial court in 121, however, have an office rejected. He should have retired in the tradition of Daoism into the mountains to search for the elixir of immortality.

Wei boyang is considered the author of the Cantong Qi (Chinese参 同 契, Pinyin cāntóngqì, about relationship of three or triple match), a classic of inner alchemy, which can not be securely dated, many texts of the inner alchemy take on but respect. The Cantong Qi is considered the earliest written evidence of Chinese alchemy.

The highly symbolic work that uses a wealth of images and metaphors, has been in the history of inner alchemy understood as a way to develop the inner strength, which acted as a mystical elixir in the body of the adept. It contains instructions for Taoist meditation, through which the adept understand the interaction of Yin and Yang and should exploit. This process is illustrated in Cantong Qi through the trigrams and hexagrams of the Yijing. The pure Yang - elixir through which life is supposed to restore is to be created by observing the microcosmic and macrocosmic cycles to the One, to attain the Dao. In addition to the speculations of the Yijing play in Cantong Qi also numerology, the Chinese calendar and scientific knowledge of the time involved.

The text provides not only a guide to meditation is, but also describes the attitude of inaction, the Wu Wei, without which, according to the Daoist doctrine the goal is not to reach and partially, the text also deals with the basics of Chinese medicine.

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