Hai quyển ghi sự tích và ngôn hạnh đạo sĩ Từ Thủ Tín (Từ Thần Ông) đời Bắc Tống, được ban hiệu Hư Tĩnh Xung Hòa Tiên Sinh. Vừa tiểu truyện chân nhân vừa ngữ lục linh nghiệm, thuộc phổ lục/chân nhân truyện đời Tống.
Ứng dụng: Nghiên cứu chân nhân triều Tống, sấm ngữ–linh nghiệm dân gian và mối quan hệ đạo–triều.
记北宋泰州海陵道士徐守信（徐神翁）言行。守信十九岁入天庆观洒扫，遇至人授道，日诵《度人经》，有问休咎者假经中语以告，言无不验；发运使蒋之奇因经「神公受命普扫不祥」呼为神翁。崇宁二年赐号虚静冲和先生，大观二年卒。弟子苗希颐裒次、朱翌/朱宋卿编录，二卷入《正统道藏》正一部，记嘉祐至元符灵异与占验事迹，属北宋「神异道士」语录型文献。
⚡ Ứng dụng: 命数观、经语占验与虚静冲和之境；借《度人经》语示休咎，合修命与修性。
🔗 Liên quan: 灵宝度人经；混元圣纪；历世真仙体道通鉴
Xu Shenweng’s recorded sayings prove that human use of life is bounded by heaven, allotment, portion, and number (天/命/分/数), which cannot be altered by raw will; ignorance of principle creates the need for a seer who has already obtained the mind-pattern. Divination is not creation of fate but disclosure of a pre-structured field. Stillness and harmony (虚静冲和) are the epistemic virtues that make disclosure accurate.
1) State client constraints (分/数) before strategies; refuse 'anything is possible' coaching. 2) Pre-reading protocol: 虚静—breath and empty agenda, then open the chart. 3) When 冲和 is missing (internal conflict), delay prediction; regulate first. 4) Teach clients which sectors are hard allotment vs soft timing. 5) Model Xu’s low status service (sweeping) as training: humble roles refine perception of pattern.
Unlike 洞仙传’s rewrite-through-ascent gallery, Xu’s logic prioritizes knowing the allotted measure. It differs from 开元占经’s vast external omen tables by centering the seer’s 虚静 mind as instrument. Why: the yu lu form proves through aphoristic cases that fate-disclosure is ethical-epistemic, not merely technical.