All human beings have this Golden Elixir complete in themselves: it is entirely realized in everybody. It is neither more in a sage, nor less in an ordinary person.

The main names of the elixir are huandan, or Reverted Elixir, and jindan, or Golden Elixir. Gold (jin) represents the state of constancy and immutability beyond the change and transiency that …

Modern studies usually refer to the Chinese arts of the elixirs as Waidan (External Alchemy) or Neidan (Internal Alchemy), but the authors of alchemical texts often call their tradition the Way …

In the practices, compounding the Elixir has two primary meanings. In the first meaning, the Elixir is obtained by heating its ingredients in a crucible. This practice, as well as the branch of …

The main designations of the elixir are huandan, or Re-verted Elixir, and—especially in the “internal” bran-ch—jindan, or Golden Elixir. On the basis of this term, the authors of alchemical …

Grafting Internal Alchemy into the teachings of the Daode jing (Book of the Way and Its Virtue) and of the later Taoist tradition, he shows how the Way of the Golden Elixir can lead to the …

Golden Elixir is another name for one's fundamental nature, inchoate and yet accomplished (huncheng, a term derived from the Daode jing). There is no other Golden Elixir outside one's …

An envoy of the Great Ultimate will welcome you with the Golden Elixir and the Winged-wheel [Chariot] (yulun). You will multiply your form and transform your shadow, making them into …

In the first stage of the Neidan process ("refining essence into breath"), circulating the essence along these two channels generates the Internal Elixir.

Those who do not obtain the Golden Elixir, and only ingest medicines of herbs and plants and practice the minor arts, can extend the number of one's years and defer the time of death, but …