[Ma Yu, quoted in Don-xuan Jin-yu Ji 8/22a] "Do not male light of the spirits and insult the ghosts."

p. 116

[Liu Zu-qian, in Dao-ji Jin-s^i Lu:e, p. 461] "As for [Wan Z^e’s] sending out his Spirit and entering dreams, ... and other such deeds as rising

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high above or disappearing, these were all his [acts of] ... the great Tao".

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[quoted from Xuan-fen Qin-hai Lu 1a-b] "The Tao gave birth to Heaven and Earth [which] separated [and] gave birth to people. When people were first created, [their] spiritual light shined naturally ... .

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The earth produced mushrooms what on their own had an excellent flavor and did not require any cooking. People all ate them. At this time they still did not cook with fire. The mushrooms were all fragrant. Their (the peoples’) noses smelled the fragrance, and their mouths enjoyed the flavor. This gradually brought about the heaviness of their bodies, and their spiritual light was soon thereafter extinguished because of the deepness of their wants and desires."

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__-ton (Penetration of __)

its nature

230, n. 6:15

1.

Xin-jin ("Mind’s Surroundings")

"the adept experiences his or her True Nature leaving the physical body"

231, n. 6:15

2.

S^en-jin ("Spirit’s Surroundings")

"ability to see and know of things in places beyond the ordinary range of perception"

3.

Tian-yan ("Heavenly Eye")

"the adept sees landscapes of mountains and rivers within his or her own body"

4.

Tian-er ("Heavenly Ear")

"the adept in trance {this is not necessarily "in trance"} hears the voices of gods and humans"

5.

Su-xin-hu ("Sudden ... Signs from the Past")

"the ability to perceive the causes and effects ... of the Three Realms"

6.

Ta-xin ("Minds of Others")

"ability to manifest the "body outside the body" in multiple locations"

When the Radiant Spirit traveled outside of the body, it was ... visible to others."

"a Realized One could "send out the Spirit and enter dreams (chushen rumeng). This ... was a method that Wang Zhe used to convert Ma Yu and Sun Bu’er. ... Wang Zhe "sent out his spirit and entered their dreams with various kinds of changes and manifestations, ... inviting them with [scenes of] heaven."" [Jin-lian Z^en-zon Ji 5/9a-b]

... this Radiant Spirit of Wang Zhe’s that appeared before Ma Yu ... "his left eye turned clockwise and his right eye turned counter-clockwise, and sometimes he appeared as old, young, fat, skinny, yellow, vermillion, blue, and white with no constant form nor color."" [Dao-jia Jin-s^i Lu:e, p. 451]

At times [he was seen] dancing by the right side of Kunming Pond, and at times [he was seen] singing and reciting [poe:try] around Mt. Zhongnan.

[quoted from Jin-lian Z^en-zon Ji 2/7b-8a] Later ... in Wendeng District (Shandong). Amidst five-colored clouds appeared an extremely large white tortoise with a lotus flower on its back. The Patriarch-Master was seated upon the lotus flower."

p. 123

At Qiyang Town (Shaanxi) he came down to the world wearing a cap. ...

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He manifested his compassionate countenance."

"Ma Yu states that a year after his death, He Dejin, suddenly from empty space, presented him with a book of poetry illustrated with a fishing scene." [Dan-yan S^en-guan Can (DT 1141/TT791) 2b]

[quoted from Dan-yan S^en-guan Can 13a-b] "In Lintong County there was a certain embroidered silk merchant named Sir Zhang, who had long been ailing from an illness that could not be cured. Suddenly one evening he saw the Master-Uncle in a dream. The Master-Uncle told him what the proper medicines and treatments for his illness were. When [Sir Zhang] asked him was his name was, he replied that he was Mr. He of Zhongnan. After waking up, [Sir Zhang] followed the prescription ..., and the illness was cured".

"Ma Yu, just before dying, had visions of Wang Zhe and He Dejin (invisible to his disciples attending him), beckoning him from midair to join them among the ranks of immortals." [Li-s^i Z^en-xian Ti-dao Ton-jian Xu-pian 1/21b-22a; Jin-lian Z^en-zon Ji 3/11a-b]

[quoted from Li-s^i Z^en-xian Ti-dao Ton-jian Xu-pian 1/22b] "in Changyang ..., the jinshi scholar, Xu Shaozu, and others saw strange forms of auspicious clouds, phoenixes, and cranes. ... Chongyang (Wang Zhe), in a cloud cap and crimson garments, and Master Danyang (Ma Yu), wearing three topknots and donning a white robe, appeared upon the clouds."

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Also, on his way to Ninghai, the master threw a greased umbrella into the air. The umbrella rose and mounted the wind. When it reached Wang Chuyi’s hermitage on Mt. Cha, it finally came down. Thus it had traveled more than 200 li ... from where it had been thrown."

He threw his umbrella and hurled his cap ... . ...

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"Threw his cap" refers to when the master first went to Deng[zhou] and was overlooking the sea north of the city. The bamboo bark cap on his head suddenly fell into the water ... . But in a little while it came back."

"Ma Yu ... once met a poor crippled man ... . ... Ma Yu made him drink talisman water ... .

On another occasion he healed the rheumatism of a ... man by laying a charm on some fruit and making him eat it."

[according to Jin-lian Z^en-zon Ji 5/3b] "Wang Chuyi ... saw a corpse being lowered into its grave. Wang Chuyi covered both its ears and shouted, "The Underground Ministry must not receive him!" In a little while, the corpse rose back to life".

[according to Ti-xuan Z^en-ren Xian-yi Lu 11a-b] "Wang Chuyi once resurrected a woman who had fallen dead at a jiao ritual after eating dog meat. Wang Chuyi brought her back to life by blowing on her."

I am going to Penglai ... before [the rest of you] to pay my respects to my teachers."

Ma Yu sang and danced in joy on this occasion [Jin-lian Z^en-zon Ji 3/10a, 5/10b-11a; Jin-lian Z^en-zon Xian-yuan Xian-z^uan 42b], much in the same manner as what is reported of the philosopher, Zhuang Zhou, on the occasion of his wife’s death in the Zhuangzi." [p. 236, n. 7:18 : "The Zhuangzi (ch. 18) relates that when Zhuang Zhou’s wife died, his friend, Hui Shi (the logician), went to console him, only to find him ".. beating a basin and singing." (see Victor Mair, trans., Wandering on the Way ... [Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1998], 168.)"]

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That night ..., a thunderstorm suddenly arose. Ma Yu ... passed away."

[according to Dao-jia Jin-s^i Lu:e, p. 433] "Ma yu had abruptly announced his intention to "return to Reality" (guizhen) on the full moon ... . Seven days later, on Wang Zhe’s birthday, ...

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there was a sudden rumble of thunder. Wang Zhe’s voice was then heard ... saying, "The time for you to become immortal has already arrived. You must not linger any longer!" At midnight, Ma Yu ... "transformed.""

"he had a dream in which he encountered his ascended brethren, Wang Zhe and Ma Yu, who informed him that it was time for him to become an immortal. ... He then ... passed away."

"he stopped eating and speaking. ... After seventeen days had gone by in this manner, Wang Zhijin ... peacefully passed away. He had reached the ripe old age of eighty-six sui."

p. 147

[according to Li-s^i Z^en-xian Ti-dao Ton-jian Hou-ji 6/3a-6b] "Zhao He ... was a female adept who is said to have encountered and been given a peach by Lu: Yan when lost in the wilderness at age twelve. For the rest of her life, she ate only fruits ... and lived in a bamboo tower with her elder brother and his wife. There she was visited frequently by Lu: Yan."

[according to Li-s^i Z^en-xian Ti-dao Ton-jian 48/18b-20b] "Lan Fang was a Taoist who ... lived ... in the Zhaoxian Guan Monastery on the Southern Peak Mt. Heng (Hengyang, Hunan Province). ... On the way, Li Guan encountered a metal wares merchant who ... had a white mole between his eyebrows. ... Lan Fang proclaimed that the man was in fact the immortal Liu Haichan (Liu Cao). ... Lan Fang clapped his hands

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and laughed loudly. The sound of thunder rumbled from his head, and from there emerged a luminous replica of Lan Fang’s physical form. {projection of the causal body?} After the luminous Spirit had ascended to the sky, the mortal body of Lan Fang was found dead."