Chapter 70: The Treasure Bowl Told by the Pillar Master
The above are some of the old things of "Eternal Cultivation of the Spirit to the Immortal Feather Treasure Basket", however, it is too shocking to record it, unfortunately, it has not been handed down in the world where Ling Yun lives, but has been told orally from generation to generation, and through their understanding, it has been transformed into a story that conforms to their cognition.
The following is Master Zhu's account of the "Treasure of Cultivating Immortals":
"In ancient times, the universe was only chaotic, and an ancient god Pangu was born in the chaos, opening up the heavens and the earth, the light rose to the sky, and the turbid one sank to the earth, Pangu stood between heaven and earth for 1.8 million years, and after falling, the body turned into all things, the left eye was the sun, the right eye was the moon, the blood turned into rivers, the limbs turned into mountains, the exhalation turned into the breeze, and the hair turned into grass and trees.
I don't know that millions of years have passed in the world, and the ancient goddess Nuwa came to the earth, made people out of the earth, refined stones to make up the sky, and brought peace to all generations. 10,000 years ago, the earth beasts infested, magma earthquakes continued, the sky hung nine days, the north of the eternal night was frozen, the stone wall of the fairy mountain was wide open, countless immortals came to the earth, suppressed the giant beasts, sealed the magma, shot down for eight days, and unsealed the north, since then everyone in the world knows that the fairy mountain is a forbidden place in the holy realm, and when worshipping the gods, they all bow in the direction of the fairy mountain.
Then, the immortals soared, the immortals left the world, at that time witnessed the immortal traces, there was a great enlightenment of the master of the wilderness, it is the West Kunlun has a lifetime of spirit to get the artifact of heaven and earth, is a fragment of the creation of jade disk, since then to cultivate into a true immortal, self-named Hongjun ancestor, is the so-called "first Hongjun and then there is heaven", which means that Hongjun ancestor is the ancestor of the Hongjun who cultivates the way to the heavens, and is already the supreme immortal who can recreate heaven and earth!
In later generations, all the immortal cultivators took Hongjun Patriarch as the Tao, but none of them knew his true method. When his wife died, he sang and others said that he was excessive, and Zhuangzi said: "No." It is the beginning and the death, how can I be the only one who has no generality! Observe the beginning and have no life, not the life of the beginning, but the formlessness, and the formlessness of the formlessness. Mixed between the mang, change and gas, gas change and form, change and life, now and change and die, is the phase and for the spring, autumn, winter and summer four seasons also. People slept in the huge room, and I cried with it, thinking that I couldn't get through my life, so I stopped. ”
The meaning of this passage is to say, "How could I not be sad when my wife died! Yet, before the beginning of her life, she did not exist, not only was she not born but she was not physically formed, not only did she not have a body, but she did not form a breath in the first place. Mixed in the trance-like realm, there is a breath of change, a breath changes and a body, a body changes and a life, and now the change returns to death, which is the same as the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The dead man lay her quietly between heaven and earth, and I wept with it, thinking that it was not possible to reach the destiny of heaven, so I stopped crying. ”
This is exactly what is contained in the "Treasure Urn", man was originally just a mortal fetus, initially only nothing, then took on a body, gradually grew up, and gradually grew old, until he died.
Therefore, "Treasure Basket" believes that the cultivation of mortals needs to start from the original mortal body, and cultivate all the way to become the ontology, virtuous body, holy body, and supreme body, which is the ultimate that mortals can cultivate, and the supreme body is already the realm of half-human and half-god, and then it is impossible to break through only by relying on the mortal's own comprehension. Only by looking for the immortal qi of the lost world can we break through to the body and further reach the immortal body.
From the mortal body to the body of the method, whether it is Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, have their own experience, Taoism cloud feather ascension to immortals, in fact, is just half a foot into the immortal gate, is the realm of the body, Buddhism has a standing Buddha, the so-called Buddha, is also the body of the world, otherwise how to become a Buddha in the world, will naturally fly to the sky.
Except for Confucius, the most holy teacher, the others are just posthumously sealed by later generations, and naturally they are only virtuous bodies, and the holy bodies have not been reached, let alone the supreme body, because Confucian disciples attach importance to the present world, do not believe in ghosts and gods, and are not interested in becoming a demigod.
Throughout the ages, there are very few people who can reach the ultimate body. Since I became a pillar master, I got this "treasure basket" from the door, I often feel that it is very useful, and it is useless to think about it, except for knowing the five stages of the mortal body to the body, and there is no specific teaching you how to become the body, is it to learn the monk to eat fasting and recite the Buddha? Or to learn the Taoist priest to meditate and recite the mantra? or to learn the scholar Haoshou to read the scriptures?
Therefore, I have been meditating hard, but there is no gain, today to teach you, at least you know some ways to cultivate immortals, there is a true immortal spirit in the world, and the cultivation of immortals is expected, this silver, not in vain. ”
Finally, I would like to send you a mantra, you might as well comprehend it a few more times, this is the mantra that I often use to comprehend the Great Dao when I break through the nine-layer exercises of this sect.
With nothingness as the way, the spirit element as the sex, empty and vague, dangling too mysterious, pregnant in the hollow and sparse, reckless and void, lonely, immeasurable. If there is a word, it cannot be seen; If there are no words, all things are born from here. Eight tables are poor, and gradually they begin to divide. The next into subtle, thought of the world, and there is a Hongyuan, standing in the hollow, floating and empty.
Don't think that this is talking about the creation of heaven and earth, in fact, the world in people's hearts is not from chaos to pure spirit, and the secret method of martial arts is not from emptiness to infinity? ”
After the pillar master finished telling the old things that he remembered for a long time, he drank a few sips of tea in the middle, interrupted several times, and breathed a long sigh of relief, and his face was as calm as ever.
You Guangjue knelt on the ground, at first he heard the legend of Pangu opening the world, and thought that this old man would not fool me with some well-known myths, and then heard the legend of the ancient immortals, and his heart was even more anxious, this is also a legend known to women and children, until he talked about the mortal body, the body, the virtuous body, the holy body, and the body, the brain was like an initiation, and suddenly it was like waking up from a big dream.
He savored it, only to feel so shocked, and so ordinary, as for how to achieve the body, the pillar master did not elaborate, maybe there is no record in the "Treasure Basket", otherwise this old man has already soared, why sit here and talk dry for ten thousand taels of silver? As for mentioning that the immortal qi in the world is still there, it makes You Guangjue have hope for cultivating immortals.
Suddenly, he saw that the pillar master was gray-haired, closed his eyes and recuperated, and a sense of desolation rose in his heart, even a talented martial arts wizard like the pillar master had not been able to penetrate the avenue of cultivating immortals in his life, and he was so dull, could he be lucky enough to encounter the qi of the immortals? and desperate for a while.
"That's all for today, you can step down, I will instruct you again when I have the opportunity in the future, and remember not to mention this matter to anyone. The pillar master closed his eyes and said.
You Guangjue kowtowed and said, "Master Xie Zhu gave advice, and the little ones didn't dare to talk nonsense to others." After speaking, he turned around and exited the room, his steps slow, his eyes glazed, as if he was so shocked by what the pillar master said that he had not yet come back to his senses.
The pillar master sat cross-legged on the bed for a long time, but the two people under the bed were lying on the cold floor, their bodies almost frozen. Ling Yun just listened to him tell a lot, and actually regarded the things in the myth as evidence of cultivating immortals, and couldn't help laughing in his heart, the so-called mortal body, the ontology, the virtuous body, the holy body, and the supreme body, aren't they all human bodies, what's the difference, low-dimensional beings want to cultivate into high-dimensional lives, thinking that this is an omnipotent god, which is tantamount to a grasshopper shaking a tree.
Suddenly, I heard Master Zhu muttering to himself: "It's bad, I forgot to remind this stinky boy to call two little ladies over for me, and I talked about the of cultivating immortals for so long, I don't know if he remembers." ”
Under the bed, Yang Lingya pursed her lips and glanced at Ling Yun, her eyes full of banter and disdain.