Chapter 32 Solid Foundations Are the Key to Spiritual Practice
It was two hours later when I had finished copying the high pile of scriptures. I used to have to copy this book for at least a week, but now it only takes me two hours!
All the contents of the scriptures have been firmly engraved in my mind, and I have sorted out those Buddhist knowledge from memory, and I feel that I have benefited a lot, because this Buddhist knowledge is so majestic and boundless. I sat cross-legged on the mat, and then I brought out the few spiritual qi I had and fused it with the Buddhist knowledge in my mind, absorbing the vitality of heaven and earth according to the method given to me by my usual master, and then integrating it with the knowledge I had learned and comprehending it with my heart......
This sitting, I slowly forgot the time, I felt that my practice was getting smoother and smoother, and the things that I didn't know before would be all at once, thinking about my former self, I suddenly felt that it was a miracle that I was so stupid that I was not disliked by the master.
The master has very high requirements for everything, for example, it is not enough to comprehend the superficial of Buddhism, not only to comprehend thoroughly, but also to be able to draw inferences from one another.
Cultivation is a slow process, and I have wasted 50,000 years of time, 50,000 years ago, I learned only scratching the surface, so to speak, I don't have to study hard, make up for the time I wasted before, and when I go out in the future, I won't embarrass the master.
I don't know how long I sat there, it seemed like hours, it seemed like days, and slowly the time and things around me seemed to have nothing to do with me, and when I opened my eyes again, I found that three thousand years had passed, and I didn't know when I reached the bottom of the lotus pond. I stretched out my arms, exhaled the breath back into the sea of qi, and then walked out of the lotus pond. The master has probably been here, and the bottom of this pool has the breath of the master, although it is very light, but I can feel it.
Time passed unhurriedly, and I suddenly became hungry for knowledge, and I couldn't wait to learn everything in one go, so I read all the books in the master's study one by one. Every day, I would go to the master's place, and take all the books that I had not studied back to my room, and read them one by one, and the master was very satisfied with my hard work, and he gave me all the books he treasured, and occasionally gave me a point or two during my practice. Another 3,000 years have passed in such a busy and fulfilling day.
On this day, I ran into the master's study again, thinking about grinding the master to see if I could grind a roll or two of treasures, but before I could enter the door, the master swept my sleeves and drove me out of the door! Usually when I do something wrong, the master will do this to me, but in the last few days, I have done nothing.
I was a little aggrieved, but when I raised my eyes and saw the master looking at me indifferently, he didn't seem to notice my grievances at all, he continued to hold the pen and write, and said indifferently, "Don't come here to grind for the teacher in the future, everything that should be given to you is given to you, it is a good thing to practice a little thoroughly, but the practice should not be too urgent, and a solid foundation is the key to practice." ”
I think about it, as long as it is said by the master, there must be his reason. But building a solid foundation is about reviewing what you've learned over and over again, which is really not much fun and boring.
I turned around to look for my beautiful sister, thinking that when I first came, I stole her elixir, anyway, I was idle, maybe I could learn how to make alchemy. I still owe her a pill.
But when I came to her yard, I found that she was not there, probably out to look for fairy grass, I wondered when she would come back, but I didn't know when she would return. I didn't find a beautiful sister, so I had nothing to do.