Daoist TRAINING | Initiates

Daoist Immortals | Taiyi Jiutian Yuanjun

Thursday, December 17, 2026, 4 - 6pm CT

Tàiyī Jiùkǔ Tiānzūn (太乙救苦天尊), “Great Unity Who Rescues from Suffering,” is a high Daoist savior deity embodying compassion, purification, and liberation.

He descends into realms of distress to free souls from karmic burdens, misfortune, and spiritual darkness.

Invoked for healing and protection, he represents the Dao’s redemptive power, guiding both living and deceased beings toward clarity, renewal, and release from suffering.
  • Full PowerPoint

  • 2 hours of Video and Audio 

  • Level: Initiate

  • 6 Months Access

In addition to the Dao talks, as time allows we will practice scriptural work, mystical study (玄学 xuan xue) and meditation, this year’s monthly Daoist training will focus on the Daoist Immortals.

Heavenly Worthy of Great Unity Who Rescues from Suffering

Tàiyī Jiùkǔ Tiānzūn (太乙救苦天尊), “Heavenly Worthy of Great Unity Who Rescues from Suffering,” is one of Daoism’s most revered celestial savior deities, embodying profound compassion, deliverance, and liberation from suffering.

Tàiyī Jiùkǔ (太乙救苦), “Great Unity Who Rescues from Suffering,” indicating both his cosmic origin and his role as a divine protector of all beings caught in distress, karmic entanglement, illness, or spiritual obscurity. As a Tiānzūn, he belongs to the highest rank of Daoist divinities, functioning not as a perfected human but as a primordial emanation of the Dao’s redemptive power.

In Daoist cosmology, Tàiyī represents the original unity before yin and yang separated, a state of completeness and pure clarity. When manifested as Jiùkǔ (“Rescuer from Suffering”), this primordial unity takes the form of boundless compassion, reaching into the darkest realms to guide souls toward purification and renewal.

Ritually, Tàiyī Jiùkǔ Tiānzūn is invoked for healing, exorcism, protection, release of the dead, and guidance through crisis. Families pray to him for relief from suffering, while Daoist priests perform rites of deliverance in his name.

In inner cultivation, he symbolizes the transformative power of compassion, the force that frees the practitioner from inner knots of fear, grief, and confusion.

Ultimately, Tàiyī Jiùkǔ embodies the Dao’s unconditional mercy, reaching wherever suffering exists and illuminating the return to clarity, balance, and spiritual liberation.

What's included?

Lecture - 2 hours 

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You will have a full 6 months to explore and embody this beautiful practice.