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    The c. 350 BCE Neiye 內業 or Inward Training is the oldest Chinese received text describing Daoist breath meditation techniques and qi circulation. After...
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    Baixin 白心 "Purifying the mind" (38), and Neiye "Inward training" (49). Modern scholars believe the Neiye text was written in the 4th century BCE, and...
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    "immortality".[citation needed] The Guanzi essay (late 4th century BCE) Neiye "Inward training" is the oldest received writing on the subject of qi cultivation...
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  • divination and the I Ching. Early versions of independent texts like the Neiye, the Lüshi Chunqiu, the Zhuangzi, and the Daodejing. The Daodejing (also...
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    first forms of "Taoism". Some of the main early Taoist sources include: the Neiye, the Zhuangzi, and the Tao Te Ching. The Tao Te Ching, attributed to Laozi...
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  • mention of the term in this sense is in a 4th-century BCE chapter called Neiye "Inner Training" of a larger text compiled during the Han dynasty, the Guanzi...
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    qi that connects and pervades everything in the world." The Guanzi essay Neiye (Inward Training) is the oldest received writing on the subject of the cultivation...
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  • Zuowang (section Neiye)
    the eternal, and to know the eternal is called brightness" (ch. 16). The "Neiye" 內業 (In- ward Training) is another important source for the early practice...
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    Daodejing commentaries are comparable with the Huang-Lao of the Guanzi Neiye, but otherwise utilizes the Laozi more as a theme for methods of rule. Although...
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  • BCE (1999: 26–27). Included in the 2nd century Guanzi, the likely older Neiye (or Inward Training) may be the oldest recovered Chinese text, describing...
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