Daoist Practice Principles and Guidelines
Daoist practice-realization involves experiential understanding.
Daoist practice-realization involves both being and becoming.
Daoist practice-realization involves giving primacy to the internal (nei 内) over
the external (wai 外).
Daoist practice-realization involves conservation and non-dissipation (wulou 無漏).
Daoist practice-realization involves actualizing awakened nature (wuxing 悟性) over
habitual nature.
Daoist practice-realization involves recognizing the interconnection between inside
and outside.
Daoist practice-realization involves flexibility (rou 柔 ) and yielding (ruo 弱).
Daoist practice-realization involves non-action (wuwei 無爲).
Daoist practice-realization involves clarity (qing 清) and stillness (jing 靜).
Daoist practice-realization involves nourishing life (yangsheng 養生).
Daoist practice-realization involves purifying and cleansing the heart-mind (xixin
洗心), making a a lodging-place for the spirit (shenshe 神舍).
Daoist practice-realization involves expelling the old/stagnant (tugu 吐古) and ingesting
the new/pure (naxin 納新).
Daoist practice-realization involves the dual cultivation of innate nature (xing
性) and life-destiny (ming 命).
Daoist practice-realization involves conserving and refining the Three Treasures
(sanbao 三寶).
Daoist practice-realization involves forgetting (wang 忘).
Daoist practice-realization involves listening (ting 聼).
Daoist practice-realization involves energetic aliveness and sensitivity.
Daoist practice-realization involves intention (yi 意).
Daoist practice-realization involves living within the universe in its multi-layered
numinosity (ling 靈 ) and sacredness (sheng 聖).
Daoist practice-realization involves decreasing desires (guayu 寡慾).
Daoist practice-realization involves being carefree (xiaoyao 逍遙).
Daoist practice-realization involves non-contention (wuzheng 無爭).
Daoist practice-realization involves simplicity (pu 樸) and sufficiency (zu 足).
Daoist practice-realization involves purification (zhai 齋).
Daoist practice-realization involves lessening (shao 少) and decreasing (gua 寡).
Daoist practice-realization involves inward training (neiye 内業).
Daoist practice-realization involves observation (guan 觀).
Daoist practice-realization involves cultivating the Dao (xiudao 修道).
Daoist practice-realization involves refinement (lian 煉/錬).
Daoist practice-realization involves transformation (hua 化).
Daoist practice-realization involves alignment (zheng 正).
Daoist practice-realization involves guarding the One (shouyi 守一).
Daoist practice-realization involves attunement and resonance (ganying 感應).
Daoist practice-realization involves connectedness and pervasion (tong 通).
Daoist practice-realization involves virtue and inner power (de 德).
Daoist practice-realization involves "firing times" (huohou 火候).
Daoist practice-realization involves quiet attentiveness (moting 默聼).
Daoist practice-realization involves being inwardly still (neijing 内靜) and outwardly
reverent (waijing 外敬).
