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Awakening to Reality: The "regulated Verses" of the Wuzhen Pian, a Taoist Classic of Internal Alchemy Louis Schwartz Headbanger and Sad Bastard andAwakening to Reality (Wuzhen pian) is one of the most important and best known Taoist alchemical texts. Written in the eleventh century, it describes in a poetical form, and in a typically cryptic and allusive language, several facets of Neidan, or Internal Alchemy. This book contains a translation of the first part of the text, consisting of sixteen poems, which provide a concise but comprehensive exposition of Neidan. In addition to notes that