Below you will find an overview of Wang Liping’s Dragon Gate system of Taoist alchemy training: The Internal Art of Penetrating to the Numinous Treasure and Wisdom Ability (Lingbaotong zhineng neigong shu 靈寶通智能內功術).
Wang Liping teaches internal alchemy (neidan) and the Taoist five arts (fate calculation, discern appearances, divination, practices, and medicine). Internal alchemy powers the five arts. The core of Wang Liping’s teaching has three components:
1 Yinxian Methods (meditation)
2 Three Immortals Practice (internal alchemy)
3 Celestial Eye Practice
Yinxian Methods (meditation)
Yinxian Methods (Yinxian fa 引仙法) are the way of silent meditation used in the Dragon Gate Lineage and form an essential platform for the practice of internal alchemy. Before we can practice alchemy we need to prepare. The 12 methods are a collection of techniques and principles used throughout the alchemical process to regulate the mind and body and enter stillness.
- Gather Mind and Sit Quietly
- Regulate Body
- No Seeing, No Hearing
- Gather Vision Return Hearing
- Regulate Normal Breathing
- The Three Steps of Calming, Creating, and Gathering Spirit
- Regulate True Breath
- Energetically Sealing the Body
- Inner Vision and Return Hearing
- Concentrate Spirit and Begin Quiet Illumination
- Listen and Follow Breath
- Nourish Heart to Bathe and Cleanse


The first three methods are core of the practice, and the remaining nine are supplemental. The methods are not meant to be followed sequentially. But to be applied as needed.
Methods 1 to 7 are for restoring us to our original healthy state.
Methods 8 to 9 are for repairing energetic leakages in the body.
Methods 10 to 12 are for building foundation.