The Taishang Ganying Pian (Tract of the Most Exalted on Action and Response) — one of the most widely circulated Daoist morality texts, teaching that Heaven rewards virtue and punishes vice through a cosmic accounting system.
Popularized the Daoist doctrine of cosmic moral accounting — every virtuous act adds years to one's life; every evil act subtracts. Provided a practical moral framework accessible to non-scholarly practitioners; circulated more widely than almost any other Daoist text.
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