Ge Hong Quotes

Ge Hong was an Eastern Jin Dynasty scholar, and the author of Essays on Chinese Characters. He is the originator of First Aid in TCM and influenced later generations.

Ingesting divine cinnabar will make your life span inexhaustible. You will last as long as heaven and earth, be able to travel on clouds and ride dragons, and ascend at will to the Heaven of Highest Clarity.

Ge Hong
- Life
- Heaven
- Dragons
Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.

Ge Hong

Where the Mystery is present, joy is infinite; where the Mystery has departed, efficacy is exhausted and the spirit disappears.

Ge Hong
- Joy
- Spirit
- Mystery
When one peels away dark clouds, one exposes the sun; as a result, the ten thousand things cannot hide their shapes.

Ge Hong
- Result
- Clouds
- Shapes
People reside within qi and qi resides within people. From heaven and earth down to the ten thousand things, each one requires qi to live.

Ge Hong
- Earth
- Heaven
- Reside
Respect the old and cherish the young. Even insects, grass and trees you must not hurt.

Ge Hong
- Respect
- Hurt
- Old
These characteristics are why Daoism is the ruler and leader of the hundred schools of philosophy and why it is the ancestor of Confucian righteous and benevolence.

Ge Hong