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KAIXIN FAYAO 599

Kaixin fayao

Essentials of the Method to Open the Heart

Kaixin fayao is the title of an annotated edition of the Wubu liuce 1i ff!) /\ fffi
(Five Books in Six Fascicles; 1509), the canonical text of the Luojiao m ~ or
Luo Teaching. This sect, also known as Wuwei jiao $.1Ii ~ ~ or Teaching of
Non-action, was established by Luo Qing *'?Fl (1443-1527) and was mainly
transmitted in Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, as well as in
stretches of land to the north and south along the Grand Canal. Luo Qing
wandered in all directions, searching out teachers and visiting friends; after
more than ten years of painstaking cultivation, "he handed down dharma-
treasures to redeem men and heaven," and wrote the canonical text of the
sect in five sections. As each section is bound in one fascicle, with the excep-
tion of the third which consists of two fascicles, Luo Qing's work is entitled
Wubu liuce, lit., "The Five Sections in Six Fascicles." The titles of each section
are:
I. Kugong wudao juan 'i5 Jj]'t! J1! off (Scroll on Awakening to the Dao after
Bitter Practices)
2. Tanshi wuwei juan III tit $.1Ii ~ off (Scroll on Lamenting the Age and Practic-
ing Non-Action)
3. Poxie xianzheng yaoshi juan ii.&:r~ ~Jj iffi: ~ ~:ff (Scroll on Smashing the
Heterodox and Making Manifest the Key)
4. Zhengxin chuyi wu xiuzheng zizai baojuan lE 113 ~ M $.1Ii 1~ ~ § tE If off (Pre-
cious Scroll on Rectifying Faith and Removing Doubts, Unvarnished and
Self-Contained)
5. Weiwei budong Taishan shengen jieguo baojuan W W /G i'JJ '* ill ~ m ~ ~ 1f
TI; (Precious Scroll on the Fruits of the Profound Foundation of Lofty
Immovable Mount Tai)

The collection draws on Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. It laments
the hardships of human existence and advocates the Ch an Buddhist method
of subitaneous awakening (dunwu ~][ 'tTf), along with a vegetarian diet, virtu-
ous conduct, clarity and quiescence (*qingjing), and non-action (*wuwei).
Luo Qing's disciple, the Chan Buddhist monk Lan Fenglldf 00., wrote an-
notations on the Wubu liuce. In 1596, Lan's disciple Wang Yuanjing t?)Jjtj!jJ