Chapter 40: The Wind Rises
Beside Guanghe, there is a courtyard wall more than one person high.
The courtyard wall is made of rammed earth, and although it is tamped mud, it is too old to be mottled from top to bottom or even from the outside to the inside.
However, there are many long-lived vines on both sides of the courtyard wall, which grow under the root of the wall and climb on the courtyard wall.
At first, they grew with the help of courtyard walls, but as the years passed, their torsos became thicker and thicker, and they became entangled and twisted with each other, and gradually on both sides of the courtyard wall, new courtyard walls were "woven".
Therefore, it is not so much a courtyard wall of dirt as a mud inner and outer vines.
The vines are old and new, and their underside and roots are often mottled like courtyard walls, and some even look completely dry, as if they are dead, but if you look up again, you will see that above the dry vines, they are full of greenery and interlaced branches and leaves.
At this time, it is the time of July.
The weather has completely passed the cold season and entered the warm season.
Above and on both sides of the courtyard wall, different kinds of vines bloom with different kinds of flowers, large and small, and their colors are colorful, almost any color, and all kinds of colors are mixed.
Although it is said that there are different kinds of vines, they are all carefully selected.
This is not only the case with the vines at the courtyard wall, but also with all the plants and trees in the entire Lingxiao Lower Courtyard.
At this moment, the fresh breath of the plants and trees, as well as the strong or light fragrance of the flowers, seem to be near and far, seem to be far and near, permeating Guanghe's surroundings.
Guanghe usually likes to walk along these courtyard walls in the courtyard of Lingxiao, especially at night, whether it is a bright night with stars and moons, or a bleak night without stars and moons, there are figures of him strolling on the paths inside and outside the courtyard walls before and after.
After a long time, he even knew which part of the courtyard wall was big, small, crooked, and about to get in the way, and was about to bloom.
In fact, it is also his practice.
All kinds of questions and understandings about cultivation are done in the course of walking again and again.
And all kinds of practical cultivation, such as adjusting the mind and body, are also completed in the course of walking again and again.
Master Zun once said, "Everyone is different, so the way of cultivation is also different." What is suitable for me may not be suitable for you, and what is suitable for you may not be suitable for it. Whether standing or sitting, walking or lying, but those who have a sense of understanding, a relationship of mind, a condensation of the body, and a determination of qi are all cultivation, and all of them are good cultivation. ”
Therefore, among these disciples, everyone's cultivation methods are almost different.
Just like Guanghe, he rarely cultivated in his room, nor did he practice in a place such as sitting on a bed.
He was walking, among the walls of these courtyards.
As the years passed, the children of the past gradually grew up, and this cultivation method was slowly imprinted into their bones.
After a long time, whenever he came to these courtyard walls, Guanghe's body and mind would quickly enter a state of cultivation, and whether his mind was active or empty, his mind would be empty.
But this moment.
but his heart is troubled.
Extremely chaotic.
It's even more chaotic than the interlacing of the branches of the vine on the side.
"Senior Sister Guangqing, this is ...... This is about to enter the realm of truth?"
Hirowa stretched out a hand and held it in front of him.
It was nearly noon, the sun was in full bloom, there was not a trace of wind, and the leaves of the vine on the side, even the smallest leaves, were almost motionless.
But the hand that Guanghe erected in front of him was feeling wisps of "wind" passing through it, and the "wind" had a tendency to grow bigger and bigger.
The wind is blowing.
It's really windy.
Zhenxi City, as the only super city in the center of the Great Western Regions and the surrounding thousands of miles, inside and outside the city, I don't know how many cultivators there are, these cultivators are either from the Nine Great Immortal Sects, or from other large and medium-sized sects, as for those small sects or family scattered cultivators, I don't know how many.
Even the Dao Alliance has an official branch mountain gate here.
And at noon on this day, from a certain moment on, almost all the cultivators who had reached a certain level inside and outside the city west of the town were stunned for a moment, and then, either dazed, or pondered, or surprised, or just calmly and indifferently, looked at a place located on the south side of the center of the city.
It is also located in the Taiyuan Courtyard on the south side of the center of the west city of the town.
A little earlier, an old man and a young man were sitting opposite each other by a small pond playing chess.
At a certain moment, the old man's hand holding the chess piece suddenly stopped above the chessboard, and after a full pause of two or three breaths, he landed normally.
And after the fall, he suddenly smiled, and said to the young man opposite:
"The avenue is incomplete, one is heaven and earth, two is life, and three is everything. ”
"Xiao Jiu, how do you understand this sentence in the Book of Ancient Avenues now?"
The chess pieces that had been picked up in his hand were gently put down, Xiao Jiu lowered his hands and straightened up, his attitude was respectful, and after pondering for a long time, he said: "Master, this is the sound of the Great Dao, and it is also the principle of cultivation. ”
"The road is supreme and complete. ”
"Heaven and earth are missing one. ”
"There are two living beings. ”
"Everything is missing. ”
Therefore, all things make up one, that is, they become living beings, living beings make up one, that is, they are the same heaven and earth, and heaven and earth make up one, that is, they are together. ”
When the old man heard this, he didn't say anything, comment or praise or disparagement, he just continued to ask, "Why make up for it?"
This time, the boy pondered for a long time.
"The avenue has no image, but it is pregnant. ”
"The avenue has no heart, but it has affection. ”
This is called creation. ”
"The way of creation is the way of non-existence, the way of profit into void, the way of profit into void, the way of fighting up and down, and the way of yin and yang. ”
"Today's yin may not be tomorrow's yang, today's below may not be tomorrow's above, today's void may not be tomorrow's surplus, today's nothingness may not be tomorrow's existence. ”
"All of this, and vice versa. ”
"In the middle of my generation, we should first understand the way of creation, and then grasp the opportunity of creation, and then yin can turn into yang, and then the lower can be soared, the void can become profitable, and the non-existent can be turned into existence. ”
"This tossing and turning along the way is 'making up', that is, practice. ”
Hearing this, the old man finally bowed his head slightly to show his appreciation, but his expression was still faint.
Then, the old man said: "According to your words, the way of creation is the way of existence and absence, profit and deficiency, up and down, yin and yang mutual evolution and interaction, then there is profit and there must be deficiency, and there must be compensation and loss." If the path of cultivation is the path of 'making up', then what is the way of 'loss'?"
This time, the young man almost didn't think about it, and replied directly: "Master, the way of heaven and earth, the way of living beings, and the way of all things are all the ways of loss." ”
"Oh, what's the point?"
The old man asked.
"Heaven and earth are damaged, so they are born and destroyed. ”
"The living soul is damaged, so the old age, the sick and the dead. ”
"All things are damaged, so they become dwelling and empty. ”
"Only my generation is in the meantime, feeling the birth, old age, sickness and death of living beings, and knocking on the heavens and the earth. Then, there are great sages in the generation, looking up to heaven and earth, classifying all things, understanding the principle of yin and yang, and holding the opportunity of change, and being able to follow the way of creation and enter the door of creation. ”
Hearing this, the old man's face finally showed a look of extreme satisfaction.
"Okay, yes, you have this understanding, it seems that in this sect's "Taixuan Sutra", it is indeed a primer. ”
"I Taiyuan Sect, the core of the sect is the Three Classics, the "Taiyuan Sutra" establishes the fundamental teaching, the "Taixuan Sutra" expounds the principle of creation, and the "Taishang Induction Sutra" builds the promotion level. ”
When the old man said this, he paused, and then said: "Xiao Jiu, if you go to cultivate now, you will use the fourth chapter of the Taishang Induction Sutra." ”
"Master, now?" the young man was slightly puzzled.
Because the Taishang Induction Sutra pays attention to the time of cultivation, and the best time of the day to cultivate lies in the morning and evening.
At this time, the yin and yang changes between heaven and earth are the most obvious, and the effect is also the best through the cultivation of the Taishang Induction Sutra.
At this time, it was noon, and it should not have been the time for cultivation.
"Well, now. ”
The old man did not explain why.
"Yes, Master!"
The boy took the order and left.
"My son, he is extraordinary, and other talents are also Zhuoxiu. Looking at the figure of the young man walking towards the backyard, the old man shook his head, "In the next ten thousand years, my Nine Great Immortal Sects, I don't know whose children can knock on the gate of the heavenly immortals first." ”
The next moment, the old man's figure passed away, and when he reappeared, he was already outside the gate of Ling Xiao's lower courtyard.