Wang Taixu, a real person of the East Pole, lived in seclusion in the Wangwu Mountain.
In the year of the reign of Emperor Yi of Tang Dynasty, Wang Yi, the magistrate of Wangwu Prefecture, who had revered the Tao all his life, often recited the Huangting Sutra. However, he did not understand the profound and mysterious principles of the Yellow Court Sutra, but he recited it five or six thousand times a day. When he heard that there was a cave in Mount Wangwu, the cave of the gods, he asked to be the magistrate of Wangwu and wanted to set up a hut in it, hoping to visit and pay respect to the mountain often.
Later, Wangwu was dismissed as a magistrate, so he took his breath for a few months and felt slightly more energetic and lighter. He entered the cave house and vowed never to return. During the 20 or 30 miles he started walking in the cave, the cave was sometimes wide and bright, and sometimes dark and muddy. He felt the cave wall and walked bent over in the cave for three or five days, and suddenly it was flat and wide, and the cliff was leaning against the air, straight up to ten thousand feet (ancient unit of length, six feet five inches in the Tang Dynasty for a foot), and below there was a house like a rock set in the mountain, which could sit hundreds of people, with a stone bed, a bookcase, a coffee table, neatly furnished, as if someone lived there. There was an ancient scripture on the bookcase, but Wang applications did not dare to take it, but kneeled down, arched his hands, and bowed down, saying: “I am a lowly subject of the lower earth, and my form is dirty, and I have always admired the way of longevity, and I am fortunate to enter the cave and see the spirit house, which is a rare opportunity in all calamities. Today, I have witnessed the relics of heaven and the jade case of the mysterious scriptures, but I dare not take them without permission. May the immortal teachings bless me and allow my lay eyes to read the scriptures, then I will benefit from it.”
He bowed his head for a long time, begging for a sign of retribution. Suddenly there was a man sitting by the bookcase and said, “Have you forgotten? The immortal descendant of Gou, who can prefer the Tao, can be ranked among the Qingjian. I am a real person from Dongji, with the same surname as you, and this “Huangting” treasure sutra is a commentary made by me. Now pass it on to you.” And he gave him several buckets of peaches. He said, “This peach, who eats it, can fly in the daytime; this peach kernel, rolled into powder and taken, can not only cure illness, but also prolong life. Although you have the ambition, but you can not live in this. Let’s meet on this mountain in twenty years. Be diligent for it, and you will attain the Way.” After saying that, he disappeared.
Wang feared to stay here for a long time, so he returned with the peach kernel and the Huangting sutra presented by Dongji. After he returned, he ground the peach kernels into powder and took them, and became healthy, disease free, and younger. The Yellow Court Sutra, which was annotated by Dongji, has been handed down in the world.
(Source: Taiping Guangji)
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