Chapter 172: Enlightenment

Among practitioners, especially those who have attained enlightenment, the exposition of the state of enlightenment is also very direct and clear.

There is a saying: real people don't show their faces, and they don't show their faces.

Enlightened people, like ordinary people, still have joys, sorrows, emotions and desires, but there are also extraordinary differences.

They are like the vast sea, surging and changing on the surface, but in the heart, they are rich, tranquil, and infinitely wide.

How can a person who has attained selflessness, a person who realizes that all things are one with me, and a person who has known the truth of equality be impetuous, violent, and irritable?

As the old man Ji Shui Yin said, is the Tao cultivated?

The Tao is self-sufficient, self-is, self-existent, inaction, and maverick......

It cannot be created, nor can it be changed, it can only be recognized.

Therefore, the cultivation of enlightenment is a state of change, impermanence, promising, impossible, and endless.

There is no period for cultivation, and enlightenment is only in one thought: "All kinds of magic are the way to point, and only the great road is the true meaning......

If you don't realize the Tao, how can you cultivate the Tao?

What is it that is being repaired?

If you don't know yourself, how can you cultivate yourself?

Who is it for?

The Tao is final, thorough, and self-perfect, and the Tao is enlightened, not cultivated.

The so-called practice first, then enlightenment, is actually a misdirection.

Who's fixing?

Who am I?

These involve fundamental self-awareness, and it is the first problem that as a practitioner should solve.

Enlightenment is the foundation, the practice is the end, and the difference between the original and the end is reversed; Enlightenment is the body, cultivation is useful, and the body is used as the same, which is called nature.

Enlightenment is the solution to "who am I", and practice is to solve the problem of making a difference, "what can I do".

In order to learn day by day, it is to grind bricks into a mirror, and for the Tao to deteriorate, it is to practice after enlightenment.

Grinding bricks into a mirror is a dream bubble, and the practice after enlightenment is to simplify the complex, just like dressing and eating, naturally.

If you practice without enlightenment, you will be bound by delusions all your life, and the result will be like dew and electricity, and you should contemplate it as such; after enlightenment, you will practice alone with the spirit of heaven and earth, just like an eagle striking the sky, a fish flying and diving, and all kinds of living beings, competing for freedom!

After Wang Baoshan listened to the words of the old man Ji Shuiyin, he suddenly felt that he really heard the Tao and naturally woke up.

Although he is still at the most superficial level of enlightenment, he has not yet reached enlightenment in the true sense.

However, his ability to comprehend, from this to that, in a trance, has undergone earth-shaking changes.

If he takes time, he can also gain a lot, and he has an amazing creation in cultivating and enlightening.

It's like that through a single point, an infinite number of points or lines can be extended, and through a single thought, an infinite reverie can be expressed.

Everything is possible, everything is possible, everything is available......

Enlightenment is only the beginning, the human heart does not leave the body, the body and mind are one, where the body is, the heart is there.

The human heart, fixed in the essence of life, will be: unchanged with the fate, with the fate of the same.

Only those who are physically and mentally united can not be happy with things and not feel sorry for themselves; they are not shocked by humiliation, they are not carried away, they are not pessimistic when they are frustrated; no matter how much the wind blows and the waves blow, it is better than taking a leisurely stroll.

Today's Wang Baoshan is "I am alive" before enlightenment, and "I am watching me alive" after enlightenment.

Before enlightenment, he was a fan of the authorities, and after enlightenment, he was a bystander.

Before enlightenment, he worked hard to succeed, but after enlightenment, he looked at himself with nothing.

Before enlightenment, he looked at the part and the phenomenon in terms of the part, and after enlightenment, he looked at the part in terms of the whole and the phenomenon in terms of the essence.

Before enlightenment, the "self" lives in contradictions, and after enlightenment, the "self" exists in the perfection of Taoism.

He practiced with the Tao... With one heart as the foundation of enlightenment, the true life is within the perception of the Tao.

The perfection of the Tao is not the absence of shortcomings, not hot-headedness, and not assumptions, but the advantages and disadvantages of human beings, and the general norms of right and wrong, good and evil, and right and wrong.

The fact itself is not perfect, the moon is cloudy and sunny, and no matter how luxurious the palace is, there are thatched houses and garbage; No matter how beautiful a person is, he also has phlegm and feces and urine.

Therefore, lotus flowers can grow from the sludge, and it is fertile soil, and the Tao of Enlightenment itself is "neither dirty nor pure".

To know the perfection of the Tao is to be enlightened, and to be enlightened is to seek truth from facts, that is, to know and grasp the truth of things.

Let go of the heart that wants others to recognize you, if the heart is led by external objects, the heart will be afraid and worried.

Persuade yourself not to think about it, to do your best, and to work hard and conform to nature in everything.

When a person is no longer delusional and looks at himself and everything with a full heart, his heart is at peace.

In peace, doing what you should do is the Tao, that is, the way of the heavens, and the way of the Tao, which is natural.

Enlightenment also allowed Wang Baoshan to regain his self-confidence, because at that moment of epiphany, he seemed to have found the root of life.

The so-called self-confidence is to have an almost transcendent understanding of one's own life ontology, and a undoubted conviction.

Self-confidence is not for others to see, self-confidence does not need to be proven, self-confidence has nothing to do with appearance.

Self-confidence can ignite the light of life, shine on oneself, and in the light, there is no darkness. No matter what time and environment, people's thoughts need to be positive and positive.

With fearless courage, face everything, no complaints, no complaints, and live in every moment truly......

In the past, Wang Baoshan lacked self-confidence, a fearless self-confidence.

With self-confidence, we can move forward bravely and reach certain unpredictable realms.

Of course, the future is a long way to go, and it is still unknown how far it can go.

What Wang Baoshan can do now is only to practice his own heart and do what he can.

In the middle of the night, it was quiet and dark.

The old man Ji Shui Yin woke up faintly.

When he woke up, he looked around blankly and said in surprise, "Boy, who are you? Where am I?"

“......”

Wang Baoshan, who had just recovered his mind, was asked by his old man so cluelessly, and he couldn't help but be a little unable to keep up with his train of thought, I don't know why?

"What's wrong? Can't you kid understand human speech?"

Old man Ji Shuiyin saw that Wang Baoshan was speechless, and seemed to be a little angry.

After he finished speaking, he waved his hand to himself, and out of nowhere, he took out a large coarse porcelain bowl, buckled it upside down on the ground, and began to read something.

This move was strange and made Wang Baoshan very surprised, he couldn't understand what this old man wanted to do?

After a while, the old man Ji Shuiyin opened the bowl, and saw a villain with gray hair and purple ribbons in green clothes appearing under the bowl.

The little man, only a few inches tall, was alive and vibrant.

Wang Baoshan was surprised, and hurriedly looked down, and found that the villain was the same as the old man Ji Shuiyin.

Then, under Wang Baoshan's stunned gaze, the old man Ji Shuiyin took off an upper.

"Smack......

With a soft thud, the upper struck the villain on the head.

The old man Ji Shuiyin also shouted softly: "I'll beat you on the head! The older you get, the more stupid you become! You know how to drink all day long...... I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll fight!"

"Smack...... Smack......"

With a few soft sounds, the villain was beaten and begged for mercy, saying: "I must correct my mistakes and try to quit drinking, and I really did it!"

When the old man Ji Shuiyin heard this, he shouted angrily: "Speak well, why did you break the precepts again?"

The villain seemed to be very afraid, and hurriedly said: "Ming'er, Ming'er, I must not drink, I will definitely satisfy you!"

The old man Ji Shuiyin didn't seem to believe it, and hurriedly asked, "What should I do if I drink it?"

When the villain heard this, he didn't pay much attention, but smiled and said, "Drink, you are imprisoning me for hundreds of years...... Isn't it ...... Which time was it not like this......"

When the old man Ji Shuiyin heard this, he didn't have his previous serious expression, and said helplessly: "Seeing that your face is thick, it's useless to fight...... That's it...... That's it...... I'll spare you this time......"

After he finished speaking, he smiled, put the bowl on the villain's head, recited the incantation, and when he opened it again, there was nothing under the bowl.

Wang Baoshan, who was looking stupid on the side, didn't know why, and didn't know what he meant.

The old man Ji Shuiyin put on his shoes and took the big bowl, and then looked at Wang Baoshan.

"Boy, you haven't answered the old man yet!"

"I ......"

After Wang Baoshan heard this, he couldn't help but be speechless, he wanted to answer before, but he never had a chance to speak!

But the old man Ji Shuiyin looked at him speechlessly, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, I don't want to know who you are, so I ask you, why are you drinking with me?"

"Senior, isn't that what you are looking for?"

"If I'm looking for you, won't you excuse yourself?

“......”

As soon as Wang Baoshan heard this, he was immediately speechless.

He is now enlightened, his heart is like a mirror, through observation, he has seen some clues, so out of personal cultivation, it is inconvenient for him to worry about anything with the old man Ji Shuiyin.

How do you know that the old man Ji Shuiyin is unrelenting, if it is Wang Baoshan's, he should not drink with himself.

Wang Baoshan knew that something was wrong, and he didn't want to defend himself, so he had to apologize to this eccentric old man.

It took a long time for him to finally let the old man Ji Shuiyin, who was messing around and chattering, settle down a little.

After some mutual conversations, Wang Baoshan figured out the reason for the matter, it turned out that the old man Ji Shuiyin had practiced and realized the Tao for a long time, but what he encountered was amazing.

He is an old man, not only has his cultivation been unfathomable, but in terms of enlightenment, he has already reached the rumored realm of returning to the truth.

As for the realm of returning to the truth, it is one of the five levels that practitioners divide into the path of comprehension.

One of them is enlightenment, two are enlightenment, three are enlightenment, four are universalization, and five are true.

The old man Ji Shuiyin said frankly that with the increase of the realm, although his old man is becoming more and more profound, after returning to the basics, he has become a great avenue.

But no one is perfect, no one is perfect, this old man Ji Shui Yin is good at everything, but he has a bad habit, that is, he loves to drink, and he has reached the point of being addicted to alcohol.

It is precisely because of this that his old man's Yuan Shen Dao body is also contaminated with a lot of alcohol, which is the little man that Fang Cai, Wang Baoshan saw.

In order to pursue the perfection of the Great Dao, the old man Ji Shuiyin remembered to quit drinking, but the length of time he drank, whether it was his physical body or the Yuan Shen Dao body, had accumulated for a long time, and bad habits were difficult to get rid of.

As the saying goes, bad habits are easy to make, but quit hard!

And because the exercises practiced by the old man Ji Shuiyin were too special, over time, subtle changes occurred between him and his Yuan Shen Dao body.

This subtle change is by no means a trivial matter, which makes the old man Ji Shuiyin's mind also undergo a huge change, becoming often transient amnesia and strange behavior.

That's why he was an old man, and he had that scene of Fang Cai, and his funny and grotesque behavior.