佛祖歷代通載 8.31

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（十一）　世祖時。道士寇謙之字輔真。雍州人。早好仙道修張魯之術。服食餌藥歷年亡效。有仙人成公興。求謙為之弟子。相與入華山居石室。興採藥與謙之服。能不飢。又共入嵩山石室。尋有異人。將藥與謙之。皆毒蟲臭物。謙之懼走。興歎息曰。先生未仙。正可為帝王師耳。未幾興仙去謙守志嵩山忽遇大神。乘雲駕龍導從百靈。集於山頂稱太上老君。謂謙之曰。自天師張陵去世以來。地上曠職。汝文身直理。吾故授汝天師之位。錫汝雲中新科二十卷。自開闢以來。不傳於世。汝宣吾新科清整道教。除去三張偽法租米錢稅及男子合氣之術。大道清虛寧有斯事。專以禮度為首。加之以服食閉練。使玉女九疑十二人授謙之導引口訣。遂得辟穀氣盛顏色鮮麗云。

(11) In the time of Shizu, there was the Daoist Kou Qianzhi, courtesy name Fuzhen, a man of Yongzhou. From an early age he was fond of the Dao of the immortals and cultivated the arts of Zhang Lu. He ingested medicinal drugs for years without result. There was an immortal, Cheng Gongxing, who asked Qianzhi to take him as a disciple; together they entered Mount Hua and dwelt in a stone chamber. Xing gathered herbs and gave them to Qianzhi to ingest, enabling him to feel no hunger. They also entered a stone chamber on Mount Song together. Soon an extraordinary man appeared and gave medicine to Qianzhi, but it consisted entirely of poisonous insects and foul-smelling items; Qianzhi ran away in fear. Xing sighed and said: “Sir, you have not attained immortality; you are only fit to be a teacher to emperors and kings.” Shortly thereafter, Xing ascended as an immortal. Qianzhi kept his resolution on Mount Song. Suddenly he encountered a great deity, riding clouds and driving dragons, accompanied by a retinue of a hundred spirits, who assembled at the mountain summit, calling himself Taishang Laojun. He said to Qianzhi: “Since Heavenly Master Zhang Ling departed the world, the post on earth has been vacant. You possess refined culture and an upright character; therefore I confer upon you the position of Heavenly Master, and bestow upon you the New Code of the Clouds in twenty fascicles, which since the creation of the world has not been transmitted to mortals. You shall proclaim my New Code to purify and rectify the Daoist religion, eliminating the false methods of the three Zhangs, grain rents, money taxes, and the sexual arts of harmonizing qi among men and women. The Great Way is pure and void; how could it contain such matters? Take ritual regulations as primary, supplemented by ingestion and breath-holding practices.” He caused twelve jade maidens from Jiuyi to transmit the oral formulas of gymnastics to Qianzhi. He thus achieved avoidance of grains, abundant qi, and a fresh and radiant complexion.