Five Forbidden Trades
Overview
Section titled “Overview”This canonical ID (2) currently groups 6 source layers with divergent titles. Milestone-1 migration preserves every layer below without inventing a single merged narrative. Status: needs-review.
Also attested under these titles
Section titled “Also attested under these titles”- Aśubha / Foulness Meditation
- Daoyin — Guiding and Pulling
- Harae
- Nyūbu / Mine-iri — Entering the Mountain
- Tohokamiemitame — The Five Divinatory Signs and Later Incantation
Research layers
Section titled “Research layers”Layer 1: Aśubha / Foulness Meditation
Section titled “Layer 1: Aśubha / Foulness Meditation”Source file:
01_Buddhism.md
Names: Sanskrit aśubha-bhāvanā; Pāli asubha-bhāvanā
Setting: Early Indian Buddhism; later systematized in Abhidharma and meditation manuals
Type: Anti-attachment meditation
Procedure family
Section titled “Procedure family”The object may be a corpse, the body’s internal substances, or a visualized unattractive aspect of embodiment. Traditional manuals distinguish multiple corpse signs and bodily parts. The practitioner stabilizes attention on the chosen sign until sensual idealization weakens.
Related practices: thirty-two body parts, skeleton meditation, cemetery contemplation.
Reliability: A/B.
Layer 2: Daoyin — Guiding and Pulling
Section titled “Layer 2: Daoyin — Guiding and Pulling”Source file:
02_Daoism.md
Chinese: 導引
Early therapeutic/long-life exercises combining posture, stretching, controlled movement and breath.
Historical pattern
Section titled “Historical pattern”Adopt named animal/cosmic postures; stretch or twist; coordinate breath; direct attention toward bodily regions; repeat in seasonal or therapeutic routines.
The Mawangdui Daoyin tu is among the famous early visual witnesses.
Reliability: A/B.
Layer 3: Harae
Section titled “Layer 3: Harae”Source file:
03_Shinto.md
Japanese: 祓 / 祓え
Purification removing tsumi and kegare. Can be individual, communal or state ritual.
Common shrine form
Section titled “Common shrine form”Officiant bows; recites purification words; waves an ōnusa / haraegushi over people or objects; pollution is ritually removed; rite proceeds to offerings/prayer.
Reliability: A/B.
Layer 4: Nyūbu / Mine-iri — Entering the Mountain
Section titled “Layer 4: Nyūbu / Mine-iri — Entering the Mountain”Source file:
04_Syncretic_Japan.md
Ritual entry into a sacred mountain is not ordinary hiking. The mountain may be mapped as mandala, womb, death realm and path of rebirth.
Generic initiation pattern
Section titled “Generic initiation pattern”Purification; boundary crossing; vows/instructions; ascent through named stations; austerities and recitation at sacred loci; symbolic death/descent; culmination; return as transformed practitioner.
Access: traditionally guided by lineage leaders.
Reliability: B.
Layer 5: Tohokamiemitame — The Five Divinatory Signs and Later Incantation
Section titled “Layer 5: Tohokamiemitame — The Five Divinatory Signs and Later Incantation”Source file:
07_PRIMARY_SOURCE_PROCEDURE_UPGRADES_v1_6.md
Japanese writing: 吐普加美依身多女 / 米 and variants
Entry type: BELIEF / INSCRIPTION / INCANTATION COMPLEX
Earliest ritual setting
Section titled “Earliest ritual setting”The five components to, ho, kami, emi, tame are inscribed on deer bone or tortoise shell in divinatory contexts.
Medieval development
Section titled “Medieval development”The Urabe family later used the phrase as a major component of the Three Great Purifications (sanshu ōharae). It also came to be vocalized as a magical incantation.
Practice interface
Section titled “Practice interface”For kiboku, the five signs belong to the inscription stage before scorching.
For later purification use, the phrase belongs to transmitted Urabe liturgy and should be learned from the relevant textual/lineage source rather than back-projected into the archaic rite as spoken words.
Learning pathway
Section titled “Learning pathway”Study the Kokugakuin entry, then trace the Gōke shidai and Urabe purification traditions. Keep the divinatory inscription and later spoken incantation historically separate.
Layer 6: Five Forbidden Trades
Section titled “Layer 6: Five Forbidden Trades”Source file:
13_FORBIDDEN_TABOO_RESTRICTED_INDEX_v2_1.md
Class: MORAL-PROHIBITION / WRONG LIVELIHOOD
Who: Lay followers
Canonical list: trade in weapons, human beings, meat, intoxicants and poison.
Research importance
Section titled “Research importance”This is a prohibition on livelihood rather than mere consumption or personal behavior.