Jǐng shì gōng guò gé 警世功過格
World-Warning Merit-and-Demerit Ledger
planchette-attributed 示定 (revealed-and-fixed) by 呂洞賓 (Lǚzǔ / Chúnyáng / Fúyòu shàngdì)
The companion merit-and-demerit ledger to KR5i0095 Shí jiè gōng guò gé, organised topically by aspect of conduct (qiú xīn — seeking-the-mind; cún xīn — preserving-the-mind; zhì xīn — governing-the-mind) rather than by precept, and aimed more broadly at jǐng shì (warning the world) than at the initiate cohort. Pagination begins at sheet 58a, indicating continuous foliation with the preceding Shí jiè gōng guò gé — confirming that the two are pair-printed in the DZJY engraving.
Prefaces
The text opens directly with the Qiú xīn piān (Seeking-the-Mind chapter): “The Imperial Lord Fúyòu said: man’s having a heart is like Heaven’s having the sun. The heart’s being upright-or-deviant is like the sun’s rising-or-sinking. The sun’s rising-or-sinking divides day-and-night; the heart’s being upright-or-deviant judges man-and-ghost. Therefore the heart is the source of all goodness and the place from which all hundreds of conducts emerge. Confucians say zhèng xīn (uprighten the mind); Daoists say cún xīn (preserve the mind); Buddhists say míng xīn (illumine the mind). The mind being upright is then not chaotic; the mind being preserved is then not let-loose; the mind being illumined is then not obscured. The Three Teachings have one principle. Mèngzǐ said: the Way of learning has nothing else but to seek the lost mind. Today’s mind is like a lost lamb; why not return-and-seek-it?…”
Abstract
A Lǚ-zǔ-cult merit-and-demerit ledger in the jǐng shì (warning-the-world) register, paired with KR5i0095 within the DZJY engraving. The work is more concerned with the qiúxīn / cúnxīn / zhìxīn heart-cultivation framework than with formal precept-keeping, and is more outward-facing — directed at the lay reader, not the initiate. Composition c. 1700–1809.
Translations and research
- See works cited under KR5i0095.
Links
- Kanseki Repository KR5i0096
- Speaker: 呂洞賓 (託名).