دانلود کتاب Book of the Five Talismans (五符經 - wǔ fú jīng): 太上洞玄靈寶五符序 (Taoism)

When I read the translation of 5 scrolls of the Du Ren Jing by Norman Goundry on

http://www.dztranslation.org/texts/vol-0005/daozang-0005-content.html

and began learning about LingBao Daoism, I was left with several questions that the internet couldn't answer – ‘who was the White Emperor, and what was his significance?’, what is the ‘Yellow River Map’ and where did it come from?’ – and other origin stories from the LingBao tradition.

When I found Book 388 of the Taoist Canon on the web at ctext.org,

http://ctext.org/library.pl?if=gb&file=99014&page=4

I found the answers to my questions. It is sometimes called “Book of the Five Talismans”, and begins with a long prologue explaining the flood story of Ancient China in all it’s beauty and complexity, and goes on to list several mystical practices that were assumed and expanded upon in the Du Ren Jing.

I have begun the project of translating the three-scroll long scripture, comprising 174 woodblocks in total, making up three scrolls. This is the first scroll, the first 55 woodblocks, so I'm about one third of the way into my project.

Here I am just publishing the English translation, but I also have the whole thing with Chinese characters and pinyin, available by email at [email protected]; just like the Buddhists like to chant, some Daoists like to write out the characters from the scriptures, as I tend to do, and this is where I get some of what I write out. On my website www.translate-the-dz.com I encourage others to collaborate in the translation project that could be expanded to many other parts of the Daoist canon.

"Ling Bao" Daoism -
Ling is the character - 靈 that is often translated "spirit" or soul, but looking into the components of it, a fuller meaning might be " the numinous power in the wind and the rain beating against the thatched windows and in the dance of the shaman";
Bao is the character -寶and means "precious, treasure".
The vision of LingBao finds divinity from "anterior heaven", from before the time that Heaven and Earth became separate, the universal salvation, in the wind and rain and light, the natural universe that revolves in the sky above us a giant talisman to ferry us into that salvation;
The Wu fu Jing is a fundamental text of LingBao Daoism, from the mid to late 400's; at the end of the third scroll are the five talismans; along the way are several foundational stories of Daoism and Chinese culture.

"HeLu, with the strength of his own nature, accepted the practice and used the medicine of its method to pass through the cloud of war and injury, becoming able to look past the frivolous and to settle into calm within the flowing energy, pausing in breath, practicing the cutting off that enables the crossing of a river, gazing out past the dust, homeward, into the full moon distance, reaching the escape that does not return to the stress that gathers and piles up into heavy layers, an understanding that disentangles and harmonizes into freedom, a releasing solution that separates life from death; the divine spirit of the storehouse-treasury-depository of the scriptures binds up and strings together the esoteric and precious spirit writing with the tranquility of dawn that stands behind it, for the intimacy of the personal soul who takes the book from the shelf and beholds the divinity that bestows the numinous power of the water and mountains that are sealed within it, the flowing energy never lost from the book that it exists within; "