Longmen Mentality (Free Public Edition Book)

Taoist book title. This book was originally the text of his lecture "The True Words of the Heart" when he preached the precepts at the Baiyun Temple in Beijing for the sixth time. Later, his disciples Shao Shoushan and Zhan Shoubang wrote the postscript, and the disciples Zhan Tailin and Yuan Sun Tang Qingshan compiled it into "The Heart of the Dragon Gate". This book was written by Wang Changyue, a famous Quanzhen Taoist master in the Qing Dynasty. It is an important cultivation and discipline classic of the Longmen Sect. The book systematically expounds the mind method, precepts and behavioral standards of Taoists, emphasizing that practicing Taoism must start from "precepts, concentration, and wisdom." Keeping precepts can capture the mind, practicing concentration can calm the mind, and only by concentrating can generate wisdom can one achieve enlightenment. The book advocates "purity and inaction" and "clear mind to see one's nature", and opposes the abuse of talismans and seeking elixirs from outside. It advocates starting from the heart and taking sincerity, few desires and tranquility as the foundation of practice. He proposed the principles of practice such as "cutting off obstacles, abandoning love, practicing discipline to purify the body, and guarding the heart and mind." He pointed out that ascetics should be indifferent to fame and fortune, be pure of heart and have few desires, and aim to help the world with compassion. This book not only established the practice rules for the disciples of the Longmen Sect, but also laid the ideological foundation for the revival of Taoism in later generations. It is regarded as an important model for the inheritance and revitalization of Quanzhen Taoism.