Chapter Ten The Dao of Cultivation

Send us Fan MailCook walks in, choppers held high, and advances on the fat monk.Xiaoyao is ordered to do manual labour by the Abbot, but is sneered at by Xiao Jing.The Abbot and Shijie instruct the two young students in the fine points of the Classic for Contemplating the Marvellous (Taishang Dongxuan Lingbao Guanmiao Jing, 太上洞玄靈寶觀妙經), a Tang dynasty meditation and internal alchemy text.SHOW NOTES:Xiaoyao Xingzhe, the self-styled carefree pilgrim, has lived and worked all over the world, having crossed the Gobi in a decrepit jeep, lived with a solitary monk in the mountains of Korea, dined with the family of the last emperor of China, and helped police with their enquiries in Amarillo, Texas.FAN MAIL is. a new feature now available to leave feedback on episodes, love or hate them.  Look for the button in the top ribbon when you click on “Episodes.”Visit the Fat Monk Website: https://thefatmonk.net/for pdfs of all recorded chapters and a few more, as well as other bits of interest on Daoism, Buddhism and Neidan, with an emphasis (but not a limitation) on pre-twentieth century authors such as Huang Yuanji and Li Daochun.If you would like to support the production costs of  this podcast, you may do so at Ko-fi. Check out the wonderful Flora Carbo and her music:https://floracarbo.com/