Study Guides
Daoist neigong and the texts behind the lessons.
Longer reading for when you want to step back from the daily lesson and explore the sources, concepts, and practices that shape them.
Study path · Source text
The Daodejing 道德經 beside the Neiye 內業
Ten passages with four English renderings each — literal, Legge, plain modern, practice — and the Neiye line that says the same thing outright.
Guide · Source text
The Secret of the Golden Flower 太乙金華宗旨
A condensed rendering of the Chinese text in eighteen sections — turning the light around, the celestial mind, and the inner alchemy.
Guide · Perspective
Neiye 內業 and the Golden Flower
Two millennia apart, one contemplative architecture — where the two texts agree, where they diverge, and the practice they share.
Guide · Practice
The inner alchemy behind the form 內丹
What Tai Chi 太極拳 is actually doing inside — jing 精 to qi 氣 to shen 神, and why every postural rule is an alchemical instruction.
Guide · Background
Why the heart held the mind 心
Why so many cultures placed thought and self in the chest — and what interoception says about it now.
Guide
Yin-Yang 陰陽 in Practice
From a symbol of duality to a felt balance of qi 氣.