Samaya

Overview

This canonical ID (9) 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

Brahmavihāra Radiation
Waidan — External Alchemy
Temizu / Chōzu
Cave Asceticism
Celestial Masters Healing Petition

Research layers

Layer 1: Brahmavihāra Radiation

Source file: 01_Buddhism.md

Practices: loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, equanimity.

Some texts describe extending the chosen attitude directionally: east, west, north, south, above, below and all around, eventually to all beings without limit.

Reliability: A.

Layer 2: Waidan — External Alchemy

Source file: 02_Daoism.md

Chinese: 外丹
Early major tradition: Taiqing / Great Clarity

Historical alchemy compounded mineral and metallic substances to create elixirs of transcendence.

Taiqing ritual sequence

Specialist scholarship on the Book of the Nine Elixirs identifies:

master-to-disciple transmission,
establishment of ritual area,
choice of auspicious time,
compounding/refining the elixir,
offering to the gods,
ingestion.

Cinnabar, mercury, lead and sulfur appear in major historical systems.

Hazard: VERY HIGH. Mercury, arsenic compounds and other alchemical substances caused historical poisonings and deaths. This encyclopaedia documents the ritual chemistry but does not convert poisonous recipes into modern dosage instructions.

Reliability: A/B.

Layer 3: Temizu / Chōzu

Source file: 03_Shinto.md

Purification at a shrine water basin before worship.

Common procedure

Take ladle in right hand, wash left; switch, wash right; pour water into left palm and rinse mouth without touching ladle to lips; rinse left hand; allow remaining water to rinse the handle; return ladle.

Local practice may simplify.

Reliability: A/B.

Layer 4: Cave Asceticism

Source file: 04_Syncretic_Japan.md

Caves function as womb/tomb, otherworldly entrance and site of seclusion. Practices can include recitation, meditation, fasting and darkness.

Hazard: environmental danger.
Reliability: B.

Layer 5: Celestial Masters Healing Petition

Source file: 07_PRIMARY_SOURCE_PROCEDURE_UPGRADES_v1_6.md

Tradition: Tianshi Dao / Celestial Masters

Doctrinal setting

Early Celestial Masters could interpret illness as related to moral fault rather than only demons or elemental imbalance.

Ritual sequence reconstructed from the institutional pattern

The afflicted person identifies/confesses faults.
Repentance is formally expressed.
The officiant prepares petitions describing the fault, confession, repentance and requested aid.
Separate or appropriately addressed petitions are directed to the Officers of Heaven, Earth and Water.
The petitions are ritually transmitted through the priestly bureaucracy.
The client undertakes the moral correction/observance required by the community.
Healing is sought as restoration of moral and celestial order.

Learning

Study Celestial Masters liturgical manuals and Terry Kleeman’s historical reconstruction, then distinguish early forms from later Daoist healing rites that add exorcistic or tantric technologies.

Layer 6: Samaya

Source file: 13_FORBIDDEN_TABOO_RESTRICTED_INDEX_v2_1.md

Class: SAMAYA-RESTRICTION
Who: Tantric initiates

Samaya binds initiate, guru, deity, mandala and tantric community. Exact vows differ by tantra and empowerment.

Possible requirements

Depending on cycle:

never abandon the Three Jewels;
maintain secrecy;
preserve deity commitments;
maintain particular ritual colors, substances or observances;
avoid specified conduct;
keep practice schedule or offerings.

Repair

Many lineages teach confession/purification and samaya repair, but the exact repair belongs to the specific cycle.