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Table 15
COSMOGONY: shun IIIJl (" CONT IN UAT ION " ) EIDAN PRACTICE: ni ~ ("I VERSION")
dao it! o emptiness (xu ~.)
"The Dao generates the One" from Spirit to Emptiness (i*flHtn&)
one spirit (shen fill) '-
z
"The One generates me Two" from Pneuma to Spirit (~~{.tfllJ) Cl
>
Z
two pneuma (qi ~) Cl
>
(")
"The Two generate me Three" from Essence to Pneuma (i*:f,'Ht :t
to
Z
C"l
three essence (jing fil)
"The Three generate the ID,OOO things" "laying our the foundations" (SIli¥)
ID,OOO things (wanWlI ~!ItiJ)
The cosmogonic stages of Daode jing sec. 42, and meir correspondence wim me stages of me *lleida/1 practice.
Based on *Zho/1gheji (eT 249), 5b.