Chapter 8 Enlightenment and Self-cultivation
"The ancestor taught him a great lesson, and the disciples and grandsons knew that they were wrong. Ye Fan bowed his head and said.
A moment of silence followed.
In order to alleviate the embarrassing atmosphere, Ye Fan then asked Chang Sangjun: "May I ask Master Zu, why do you seem to know everything about this world?"
"It's not simple, after the completion of the path, in addition to looking for destined people, there is a lot of free time, and when you are bored, you always have to find something to do. Therefore, reading and traveling are indispensable, and in modern times, you have invented televisions, computers, mobile phones, the Internet, and so on, and you will naturally be able to do more. ”
Obediently knocking, no wonder even the local dialect and even the Chinese dialect can be spoken, so that's the case.
"It's really interesting, have you ever thought about going to a university to get a diploma or something? With your ability, it will definitely be a piece of cake to take the entrance examination to Huaxia Qingbei University. ”
"What, going to university? First, I'm not interested, and besides, I don't have a physical body, how can I go to school?"
Yes, how did I forget this stubble, Chang Sangjun said when they first met that he only had a soul and was immortal, and his body was long gone.
However, Ye Fan remembered that he also said that when he had a car accident, he attached his soul to the old beggar.
So he asked, "You can attach your soul to a mortal student, isn't that okay?"
"You're so whimsical, you don't know any common sense. How can the soul always be attached to others, in that case, the world will be in chaos. can only temporarily seal its original soul and replace it, and it won't last long. ”
Chang Sangjun continued with some sadness: "Therefore, cultivators cherish their physical bodies very much, after all, the longest lifespan of physical bodies is only 360 years old. ”
"Why 360 years old?" Ye Fan was puzzled.
"One day in heaven and one year on earth. The 360 days of the mortal world is exactly the time of the year in the heavens, and if you can't complete the cultivation in these 360 days, the soul will die with the physical body. Therefore, since the establishment of the Taoist Medicine Sect, I have cultivated the immortal body of the soul. ”
"Oh, I see. Ye Fan suddenly realized, suddenly thought of something, and asked, "May I ask Master Zu, is there nothing in this world that you don't know?"
"Basically. Chang Sangjun stroked his white beard with his right hand, and couldn't help but show a hint of smugness on his face.
"So do you know how many decimal places there are after pi?" Ye Fan only saw a report not long ago that the π of pi has been accurate to the 25769803700000000000 digits.
"This ...... This ......"
"Well, this one hasn't worked out yet, it's too hard for you. Seeing Chang Sangjun's embarrassed face, Ye Fan couldn't help but secretly laugh in his heart.
Clearing his throat, Ye Fan then asked: "Since you have learned the rice language, then the current president of the United States should also know something, right?"
"Hmm. This time, Chang Sangjun didn't dare to hold it up, and looked at Ye Fan a little nervously, waiting for his later questioning.
"Master Zu thinks he can lead the United States to continue to dominate the world?"
"So you want to ask this. Chang Sangjun breathed a long sigh of relief, "Don't look at the special score, now jumping up and down like a crazy monkey, putting on a posture that I'm crazy, you bite me." You just need to remember one sentence, if the sky wants to die, you must first make it crazy! Wait and see, the country of rice will not be able to reach it for a few days. The future must be the world of China, and the whole world will accept the baptism of Chinese morality and truly realize the world as a family. In order to realize the dream of China's great rejuvenation of 'one world, one dream', we must rely on aspiring young people like you to have the pride and courage of 'catching the moon in nine days and catching turtles in the five oceans'. ”
Ye Fan said in his heart: Okay, this ancestor can really say it, it seems that the news and TV are indeed not less, just the sentence "It is up to you to maintain world peace".
Okay, let's ask something valuable, Ye Fan had an idea: "Master Zu said it very well! There is one more thing, I want to ask you, it is said that the rice lottery is boring, can you know the winning number of the next issue in advance?" I thought, if I can win the special prize of the rice lottery, it is 10 million rice yuan, and it can be exchanged for tens of millions of Huaxia coins, with this money thrown on the face of the Wu family, wouldn't it be possible to terminate the contract and sell the deed of sale in minutes, and be freed from this?
Unexpectedly, Chang Sangjun's originally smiling face instantly became gloomy when he heard this: "Nonsense! For the Taoist, the most basic requirement is to be benevolent and virtuous, how can you be greedy for money! And it is absolutely undesirable not to follow the right path and be greedy for windfalls!"
"I ...... What I mean is that the United States is not a good type, and it is 'robbing the rich and helping the poor' by taking the wealth and power of the wicked. Ye Fan had never seen Chang Sangjun so angry, so he hurriedly defended.
"How can you hide from me with your little care. You can rest assured that a contract will not last long, as long as you repair the medical path, all difficulties will be solved. ”
"Remember, you are not a mortal, you are a person hand-picked by the Moral Heavenly Venerable, and your future will be limitless! When that time comes, you will know that you are not actually you!" Chang Sangjun thought for a moment and added.
"Do you mean that I am an extraordinary person, and I have another identity in my previous life, just like the disciple of Daode Tianzun, that is, your master?"
"Shhhhh When you complete your cultivation, everything will naturally be understood. ”
"It's getting late, I have to go. Remember what I said, practice the Tao of medicine well, and eliminate distracting thoughts. ”
"Disciple Sun repents, so where will I go to find you in the future? In the process of cultivation, I am worried that there will be many things that I don't understand, so I want to ask you for advice. ”
"You can't find me, I'll come to you if necessary!"
"......" Ye Fan was about to say anything more, when suddenly a bright light flashed in front of him, and Chang Sangjun was nowhere to be seen.
Ye Fan exclaimed in surprise, unconsciously waking up from his dream.
This dream was so real that Ye Fan even wondered if it was a dream.
Then I was worried that it was really just a dream, just like when I was a child, because of "thinking about it every day and dreaming at night", when I fell into a dream, I started this apprenticeship with the director of the scene of the master's master.
Where is there any Changsang-kun?
What he said may have been nothing more than his own imagination.
But how did that knowledge come to my head when I had never seen it?
Ye Fan suddenly remembered the most important thing, why the content behind the first volume of the "Immortal Secret Recipe" asked by Chang Sangjun in his dream was blank, but he did not get an answer.
If there is no secret recipe description, what else can I use to cultivate the Tao of Medicine?
Ye Fan was at a loss again.
Could it be that there is another secret in it that I haven't discovered yet?
Didn't Master Grandpa say that sometimes the Tao needs to be comprehended by oneself, and it cannot all be taught. So enlightenment comes from this.
With doubts, Ye Fan immediately took out the first volume of "The Secret Recipe of Immortal Grants", and when he turned to the last page of the table of contents, through the blank space of the paragraph, he faintly found that there seemed to be handwriting on the next page.
Unable to hold back his excitement, Ye Fan hurriedly turned the page back.
Sure enough, after the table of contents, there was an extra page of text at some point.
But if you flip back, it's still all blank.
After a little contemplation, Ye Fan finally realized the mystery.
If you want to get this, you must first enter the room.
In fact, although he has obtained this Taoist medicine book, he has not performed the ritual of apprenticeship, so he naturally cannot really enter the room. And the ancestor Chang Sangjun came to dream and ignited himself. He officially entered the medical Taoist sect and became a disciple.
Unlike traditional Chinese medicine, Taoist medicine generally pays attention to secret traditions, so the development cannot be as strong as that of traditional Chinese medicine. This is the main reason why Chinese medicine disciples are all over China, and there are very few Taoist doctors. Moreover, in modern times, those who claim to be Taoist doctors, in fact, there are counterfeiters in nine out of ten, and most of them are grandstanders.
As the "Secret Recipe of Immortal Teaching", which is a Taoist doctor's divine book, there are naturally very few people who have taught it.
Even if outsiders get it by chance, they can't see the contents, so there is no need to keep them and pass them on to future generations.
It's like the current anti-counterfeiting encryption technology, which is only shown to those you allow.
As for the second volume of "The Secret Recipe of Immortals", because it introduces some conventional methods of treating diseases, there is no obvious difference from traditional Chinese medicine. In line with the purpose of benefiting the common people, it is also the idea of benevolence and morality to pass it on to the world.
After all, thousands of years have passed, and Huaxia has experienced countless wars and changes, so naturally there will not be too many people who have obtained this divine book, but there should always be it, so it is not surprising that the old director of the department has been passed down from generation to generation.
This may be the main reason why the first volume of "The Secret Recipe of Immortals" has been lost to this day, and there are very few people who have published it.
Lin Fan continued to comprehend the last two sentences.
When the path is reached, the content is self-revealed.
Now that he is just a disciple who has just started, his Dao cultivation is fundamentally starting from scratch.
Monasticism is a long process.
Just like clearing the game, it must start with the easiest little devil to deal with, and gradually appear after clearing the customs, the middle devil, the big devil, the super devil, and the final big devil.
You can't become a fat man in one bite, since there is only one page at present, so let's start cultivating from this page.
Ye Fan took out the "Seal Book Dictionary" and first translated the font on it into simplified characters.
The first sentence: Cultivators first cultivate themselves.
Self-cultivation refers to the cultivation of the body and mind.
The body here refers to the physical body, which is what we commonly refer to as the body.
The heart here refers to the mind, which is what we often call moral sentiments.
This is followed by a long excerpt of the song, the full text of which is as follows:
Close your eyes and sit with your heart closed, hold your hands and meditate on God. Knock on the teeth thirty-six, and hold Kunlun with both hands.
The drums of the sky are sounded left and right, and the twenty-four degrees are heard. Swing the pillar slightly. The red dragon stirs the water,
Thirty-six drums are gargled, and the mouth is full of divine water. One bite is divided into three swallows, and the dragon and tiger run by themselves.
Hold your breath and rub your hands to heat it, and rub your back to the back to be fine. With all this breath, I want to burn the Nabhi Chakra.
Rotate left and right. Put your feet stretched, fork your hands and support them with both voids, and lower your head and climb your feet.
To Hou Shenshui to, and then gargle and swallow again, so three times to finish, the divine water nine times swallowed,
Swallow the gurgling sound, and the pulse is self-adjusting. After the river car was transported, I wanted to get angry and burn myself.
The mantra is 12 paragraphs, and the meridian is forward. Diligence is uninterrupted, and all diseases are turned into dust.
When Ye Fan was in the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the school once offered a "practice" course for half a year, first Zamabu, then learned Wufowl Opera and Baduanjin, and finally practiced Yijin Jing. Although I have only learned a little bit of the surface and have not persisted in it, I still understand it a little.
Therefore, it is speculated that this song recipe should be the Taoist mantra of internal strength, and then according to my own understanding, this set of internal strength method introduces the method of sitting exercises, meditation method, pure heart method, guidance method, massage method, easy method, percussion and swallowing, etc., so that the body and mind can return to nature, and integrate with nature, so as to stay away from various diseases of health care and nourish the heart.
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