Chapter 8 Qin Wudao stood on the shoulders of giants

Qin Wudao was not surprised to think that the inner family fist and the Taoist Jindan Dao that he was about to cultivate were the prescriptions that could cure this incurable disease.

And he, Qin Wudao, will also be the only Heavenly Cultivator in the Bosa Continent who is not devoured by the Heavenly Force.

The inner family on the earth exercises muscles and bones outside the box, and the fists and feet are outside the body. If you practice inside, you can live a long life.

The way of Jindan pursues the Tao of immortality. Even if the qualifications are poor and you can't cultivate longevity, you can always cultivate a longevity, and if you can't live a long life, you can always cultivate a healthy body without illness and disaster.

At the beginning of "The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", the Yellow Emperor asked Qi Bo for advice on health preservation.

Qi Bo's answer was: "The ancients, those who know, the law is in yin and yang, and in the number of techniques, eating and drinking modestly, living in a regular way, and not working in vain, so they can form and be like the gods, and spend their days and years to live a hundred years." ”

The realm pursued in "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" is to be a "peaceful person" who lives a long and healthy life.

In the unremitting pursuit of health and longevity by human beings on earth, it can be said that several different routes have been taken from ancient times to the present.

There are three routes that have a significant effect:

The first is the development of traditional Chinese medicine;

the second is religious practice, especially the exploration of Dan Dao theory;

The third is the practice of traditional internal boxing.

In the history of the earth, these three routes have developed in parallel and have also crossed from time to time:

For example, among the achievements of health preservation in ancient times, there are many practitioners of medicine, Taoism, and martial arts, amphibious or all three, such as Hua Tuo Chuangwu Opera, Wang Chongyang Chuan Quanzhen Teaching, Sun Simiao wrote medical books, etc.

There is a saying on the earth since ancient times: the connection between Taoism and medicine is the combination of the first and second routes.

Its system is very different from the traditional Chinese medicine system, and the methods and concepts are also different, and it has the remarkable characteristics of intersecting with Taoism. It can also cure diseases, but there is no distinction between superior and inferior.

The exploration of the second route Dandao theory and the third line of practice of Neijiaquan have been passed down from master to apprentice from ancient times to the present. This is also in line with the theory of Confucianism on Earth, and due to the high degree of privacy and physical and mental practicality of the inheritance itself, it is currently in danger of being lost.

In traditional Chinese thought, health preservation belongs to the part of the cultivation of life, and no matter what kind of exercise, any sect is ultimately for the word "life".

The people of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are all for the word "life", writing books and making speeches, and struggling all their lives.

Buddhism talks about detachment, Taoism talks about longevity, and Mencius also said: I am good at cultivating the spirit of Haoran.

In the course of religious development, the second line was inevitably developed. Whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, there is a lot of valuable practical experience.

Of course, judging from the achievements of health preservation alone, the Jindan Avenue of Taoism should be the first to be recommended.

In terms of the earth's 21st century statistical methods, Taoist health preservation techniques are recognized as the most effective.

For example, the average life expectancy of the first four ancestors of the Southern Sect of Taoism was more than 100 years old, and the highest lived was 137 years old.

There are countless long-lived Taoists among them, such as Zhang Daoling, Xu Xun, Sun Simiao, Chen Shu and other high Taoists.

Buddhist scriptures record that high monks, when the true fire of samadhi is ignited, burns away the stinky skin of the body, and achieves the fruit status of Buddha, Bodhisattva, and Arhat.

The Daozang records the high road, in the eyes of the tens of thousands of spectators, the white sun rainbow soared into immortals.

As far as modern health care is concerned, it is wiser to learn from the ancient health experience than to blindly deny it, so Chen Xuanning said, "Don't be arrogant, ruin my pearl and jade, and praise people's rubble."

Of course, Buddhism also has the inheritance of life skills, which can be seen clearly from the secret process of the six ancestors Hui Nengeng's acceptance of the mantle of the five ancestors.

Whether it is Taoism or Buddhism, they regard fate as an arch and refuse to pass it on easily.

The reason why modern people look at Buddhist scriptures and Taoist scriptures and ordinary people find it obscure is because of the New Culture Movement, which changed the Chinese characters that have been passed down for thousands of years to the simplified Chinese characters that are different from the four dislikes.

Ancient Cangjie for the ancient history of the Yellow Emperor, born with four eyes virtuous, see the spirit turtle negative map, the book Danjia Qingwen, then the change of the poor world, look up at the change of the Kuixing circle, look down on the turtle text, bird feathers, mountains and rivers, finger and create words, the text is completed, the sky is the rain, the ghost is crying at night, and the dragon is hidden.

Legend has it that Cangjie succeeded in making words, and a strange thing happened, and that day it rained like rain during the day, and I heard the ghost crying at night.

Why is it raining like corn? Because Cangjie created words, which can be used to convey thoughts and record things, it is naturally worth celebrating.

Why do ghosts cry? Some people say that because of writing, the wisdom of the people will open day by day, and the people's morality will be separated day by day, and deception and cunning, and competition for killing will be born from this, and there will never be peace in the world, and even ghosts will not be at peace, so ghosts will also cry.

Cangjie had double eyes, and after the success of word making, he was named the saint of word making.

Creating words can be a great event for the earth-shattering ghosts and gods, because words can clarify the principle of the operation of the universe, unlock the code of heaven and earth, and even ghosts and gods will cry.

The change of Chinese characters has caused modern people to have annotations and translations to learn simple poems, otherwise they will not be able to read and learn.

There is also the accumulation of knowledge is not enough, modern people commonly use about 3,000 words, and about 2,000 words can be regarded as erudition. There are about 13,000 commonly used Chinese characters, and in ancient times, a person who wanted to be famous for Xiucai had to be proficient in recognizing more than 9,000 Chinese characters.

In particular, the Chinese people pay attention to: looking for immortals and asking for medicine. Therefore, the law should not be passed on lightly. So much so that most of the Buddhist scriptures and Taoist scriptures are replaced by nouns in the teachings.

For example, samadhi in the four meditations and eight precepts of Buddhism cannot be understood by those who have studied Buddhism in depth.

The Taoist scriptures are mostly referred to by hexagrams, the nouns of Zhou Yi. For example, "South" will be referred to as "leaving". If you don't understand the 64 hexagrams of "Zhou Yi", the names of acupuncture points in the human body, the eight veins of the Qi Jing, etc., how can you understand the meaning of the scriptures.

All the sutras will tell you how good you are when you become a Buddha and how good you are in the Elysian World of Rebirth.

Taoism also tells you how good it is after becoming an immortal.

What is the morning tour of the North Sea, the twilight of the sky, the yin god and the yang god day and night tour.

There is the magic power of picking stars and taking the moon, moving mountains and reclamation.

can live forever, swallow a golden pill into the abdomen, and know that my life is up to me.

It is more able to have the detachment of jumping out of the Three Realms and not in the Five Elements.

But there is no book that will tell you how to do it, how to do it, and how to cultivate to become immortal and ascend to immortality.

Even boxing is the same, no ordinary person can be invincible in the world by reading the boxing book.

The 5,000-year-old culture, in the final analysis, is only due to a short sentence of only ten words: a word cannot be practiced, and ten thousand volumes are empty.

Reading more than 10,000 volumes, reading through the subset of scriptures and history, Buddhist scriptures and Taoist collections, only theory and no practice, that is all fake and empty.

Therefore, the monks and Taoists of the new century have lost the majesty that only ancient times. There is no real thing, there is no real kung fu on the body, and no matter how many theories you know, it is just a parrot.

Some monks and Taoists, worshipping a master, finally took over a temple, inherited a Taoist temple, empty theory, no kung fu on the body, and preached Buddhism and Taoism to believers. It's like a squad leader in the army telling the recruits how good it is to be a platoon commander, and how powerful and domineering it is to be a platoon commander. You're just a squad leader yourself, how do you know if the platoon leader is awesome or not.

In modern parlance, do you still think that rich people are happy? Wrong, you can't imagine the happiness of rich people.

So there is no practice, there is no effort, even if you know that all the theories are false. Because you didn't get it.

Qin Wudao saw that many Xiuzhen novels had the word "preaching" in them. In fact, the correct usage among the three religions is the word "attainment".

It's not that there is any way, but there is just that. The sages have already proved that the road has been passed, and later people only need to practice according to the exercises, compare the scriptures left by the ancestors, the theories left behind, and combine the changes in your body after your own cultivation to prove whether you have gone astray or not, and whether it is the same as the theory describes through the comparison between practice and theory.

This is the proof of this.

Whether you want to become an immortal, or live a long life, or avoid good fortune without disease and disaster. The ancestors and sages crossed the river by feeling the stones, using all their lives to learn, prove and practice, and write books and speak.

From ancient times to the present, the scriptures have left all the theoretical things to the later ones, and all the later people only need to do is to practice according to the inherited exercises, and then practice them on their own and prove them.

To give a simple example, Chinese medicine cures the patient's disease, and after accumulating experience, it is found that it is indeed consistent with what is written in the medical book, then the Chinese medicine certificate has arrived. It has been proved through practice that it has arrived, and it has been proved that pharmacology and prescriptions are correct. It also proved that what he learned was correct.

The same is true of the Dan Dao, a Dan Dao practitioner does not have immortality, or even dies of illness without longevity, and a practitioner does not die without illness, then he has not attained the proof that the body will not deceive people. If you can't know if the theory you're learning is true, then you're not proving it, because your body isn't reflecting the lack of benefit.

And those who know the theories of refining and refining qi, refining qi and transforming gods, refining gods and returning voids, and refining voids and merging the Tao. Through the foundation of his own body in 100 days, he conceived in October, and faced the wall for nine years...... After these high paths, I finally found out that oh it turned out to be like this, and I proved the theory I learned with physical practice, which is called proof!

If you have kung fu in your body, you are practicing it.

Generally speaking, those who use the doctrine of Taoism and the like have caught a scale and a half claw, thinking that they have grasped the shallow flow of the entire cultivation world.

If you don't understand it, you can teach people about cultivation. There's no real stuff on your body, there's no kung fu, that's all.

And how to practice, how to practice real kung fu, how to practice Dan Dao?

At this time, Confucianism will tell you: It is better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles, it is better to read countless people than to read 10,000 people, and it is better to read countless people than to show the way by famous teachers.

There is no superiority in cultivation, and those who reach it are teachers.

You are still in the 100-day foundation building stage, so those who have completed the 100-day foundation building and reached the October pregnancy stage can be your teacher. If you are a newcomer who does not know how to practice, then someone who has reached the stage of building a foundation in 100 days can be your teacher.

And those who only understand theory cannot be your spiritual teacher. He hasn't even cultivated, so how can he teach you to practice? Without real kung fu, you can only be taught fake tricks.

This is where charlatans come in.

If you don't cultivate out of Qi, and if you don't practice to reach a certain realm, it is naturally impossible to observe the method of qi, let alone look at fortune telling and feng shui.

Therefore, most of the ancient Confucian students would travel to the world and visit famous teachers.

Heaven and earth are the king's own teacher, in ancient times called the master rather than the modern master, the master represents the preaching and receiving karma to solve doubts, and the teacher is the same as the recreation.

If you have people who believe in Buddhism and believe in the Tao and are pious, if you want to worship the master, you must also be able to distinguish between the high and low levels of cultivation, and whether the master you worship has real talent and learning, whether you have really entered it, and even attained it.

Buddhism tells everyone that it is rare to have a human body, it is difficult to find a famous teacher, and it is difficult to smell the Fa-rectification.

It is already very difficult to attain human bodies in the six realms of reincarnation.

If you have a human body, it is even more difficult to meet a famous teacher who can enlighten you, and it is not a coincidence that the cycle of cause and effect can be met but not sought.

What makes it even more difficult is that even if you meet a famous teacher, you may not necessarily be able to pass on the Fa-rectification to you.

The ancients also said: It is okay to die at night. It describes the satisfaction of being able to hear the true Dharma.

For example, an ordinary person has worked diligently to become a chef, and after becoming a chef, it took decades to research a dish, and you simply want to learn from a teacher and learn the skills of pressing the bottom of the box. Isn't it a little hard.

Especially the inheritance of Dan Dao, throughout the ages, it is not possible for people who are not sincere and have great perseverance with good character and bones.

Therefore, Mr. Xiao Tianshi said, "Since ancient times, sexual skills are easy to transmit, but life skills are difficult to transmit, even if you meet a famous teacher, it is always difficult to knock on it."

The development of the third route is mostly influenced by the second route, Taoist Dandao.

In theory and practice, the traditional Neijiaquan draws on the achievements of religious development, especially the achievements of the Taoist Neidan theory.

Theoretically, Neijiaquan has always advocated Taoist culture, and Taoism's idea of overcoming rigidity with softness is the soul of traditional Neijiaquan, and "Taijiquan Treatise" has long been considered to be made by Zhang Sanfeng's patriarch.

In practice, a lot of internal kung fu is also directly derived from Taoism.

For example, Baguazhang, one of the three major internal fists in China, its founder Dong Haichuan is a teacher of Taoism, which is recorded in detail in Dong Haichuan's tombstone inscription.

Most of the practitioners of the Taoist Inner Dan also admit the high degree of correlation between the second and third routes.

Niu Jinbao, a descendant of the Taoist Longmen Qianfeng School, believes: "Taijiquan and Taoist health preservation come from the same source, and they cannot be separated at all... It is closely related to Taijiquan, Baguazhang, Xingyi Zhuquan and various boxing techniques... This is completely consistent with the requirements of Taoist meditation and the role it plays. ”

Inner boxing is a practice route that is easy to operate and quick to achieve. As the saying goes, "medicine is not as good as food, and food is not as good as martial arts". The primary purpose of internal boxing exercise is to maintain health. This is especially true in modern society, and this is also reflected in the fist theory of the main inner family of the earth.

"Taijiquan Treatise" clearly pointed out: "May the heroes of the world prolong their lives, not to be the end of the technical attack." "Taijiquan Thirteen Potentials Song Formula" also said: "What is the intention of detailed pushing, longevity and longevity." ”

Baguazhang's "Usage Song" describes this idea as "lifting and opening and closing to practice internal strength, and the dantian has infinite treasures." Practice the art carefully to seek its subtlety, and realize the Tao of immortality".

Sun Lutang, a master of a generation of internal boxing, concluded: "The foundation of self-cultivation, the way to return the yuan, in short, does not look at the meaning of the meaning, Tai Chi, and the principles of Bagua Boxing." ”

Qin Wudao believes that the inner family fist is the way to go hand in hand with martial arts and health preservation, and coupled with the cultivation of Dan Dao, it is completely able to overcome the disadvantages of the heavenly power being too domineering and thus devouring the body.

The differences between the civilizations of the two worlds on the Bosa Continent and the Earth have led to a great difference in the cultivation paths.

The human sages of the Bosa Continent discovered the energy of Heavenly Power, so they created a brilliant Heavenly Power civilization that multiplied to the extreme.

It is impossible to determine whether the earth has heavenly power or not, but the land of China is the cultivation of the energy of Qi (qi tong: qi), and it has also reached an extreme.

The cultivation route of the Dan Dao has not changed since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, which shows that this Dao is very mature.

Because of the lack of heavenly power, Huaxia embarked on another path of cultivation, through the energy of Qi, which is "used by the people every day but do not know", to develop the treasures of the human body, use Qi to nourish the body, make the body healthy and long-lived, and have a record of the qualitative change of life of the Taoist immortal.

The Bo Sa Continent explores and studies the domineering energy of cultivating Heavenly Power, while the Earth Huaxia studies and explores the more neutral and peaceful energy of Cultivation Qi.

Two worlds, two environments, two different paths, two equally brilliant civilizations and cultures. One cultivates energy, the other cultivates the physical body. In general, those would be two paths that will never cross.

Under special circumstances, these two roads still have an intersection, and this intersection is Qin Wudao who crossed over.

And in another year, Qin Wudao awakened the Heavenly Root at the age of nine, and he could naturally cultivate Heavenly Power, which would mean that these two civilizations would collide with Qin Wudao's body.

Qin Wudao didn't feel that he had the greatness to change the world, and if he did, he would just stand on the shoulders of giants such as Confucius and Mencius, Lao Zhuang, Siddhartha, etc......