Brief introduction of Dong Xuan Lingbao natural fasting instrument

Comprehensive Index of Taoist Scriptures Title: Dong Bao's Natural Fasting Instrument Compilation: Volume Number: Two instruments with the same volume: Orthodox Taoist Scriptures: Hanfen Loushu No.293, New Style Book No.0/6, Sanjiashu No.9, Taoist Synopsis No.519, and China Taoist Scriptures: Taoist and Lingzhai Instrument No.43. The author of Dong Xuanling Bao's natural fasting instrument is unknown. The Secret Eye in the Southern Song Dynasty recorded a volume of Lingbao Nature Zhai Su Qi Yi, which is suspected to be the book. This edition is included in the prestige category of the mystery department of the orthodox Taoist temple. Natural fasting is one of the six methods of Lingbao in early Taoism, which is mentioned in Lingbao's Five Senses in Southern Dynasties and Tongmen Theory in Song Dynasty. Mainly used to pray for the people and save all life and death. This paper contains the instruments for practicing natural fasting, and its ritual procedures mainly include chanting words, offering ten vows, offering four vows, walking around, three initiation, three rituals and twelve vows. It is said that this fasting method can lead to the souls of the nine-Xuan and seven-ancestors of the people's family, eliminate the pain of in-laws, and make men and women chaste and prosperous. Also, Dunhuang suicide notes P3282, S684 1, P2455. According to the textual research of Da Yuanrenji's Catalogue of Dunhuang Taoist Scriptures, it should be a copy of Lingbao Natural Zhai Yi in the Southern Dynasties, and its theory needs to be verified.