Chapter 67: Wudang Aura (II)
Long Dan in the Wudang Taoist Temple due to his special identity, can go in and out of any place, even if it is Wudang's most important Tibetan scripture hall, can also enter and exit freely, Long Dan therefore consulted a large number of cheats about Wudang**.
Taoism inherits the traditional Qigong and opens up a variety of Qigong meditation methods. There are hundreds of qigong methods seen in Taoist literature, including static gong, dynamic gong, and dynamic static gong, and static gong is the main one. Taoist Qigong Jinggong Jinggong Meditation Method can be roughly divided into five categories: refining the spirit, refining qi, contemplating, guarding the knots, and inner dan. Practicing gods. This kind of method originated from Lao Zhuang, starting from the mind, with the empty mind, so that fit in the way of nothingness as the key to practice, there are the way of guarding, guarding the spirit, keeping one, fasting, contemplation, clear mind, contemplation, sitting and forgetting, refining the gods to return to the void, refining the gods and the way, etc. This ** from the Wei and Jin Yi "Xisheng Sutra", inherited the old Zhuang said, noble and nourishing the gods, expounded to calm the heart, collect the heart and leave the country, meditate on the way of "raising the gods", "keeping one", "thinking about the way" and "guarding the gods". The scripture "Body and Mind Chapter" clouds: "Always take the void as the body, but also take the mind of nothingness, these two are the same as the bodyless body, the heart without the heart, can be described as guarding the gods." "Shoushen" was originally published in Taoist books such as "Zhuangzi _ Deliberately" and "Fasting Jar", and the "Heart Fasting" in "Zhuangzi" is one of the fasting methods practiced by Taoists.
Kung fu such as refining gods has many things in common with Buddhism. Since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Taoism has absorbed Buddhism's Tiantai Zhiguan and Zen Buddhism on the basis of the doctrine of keeping the Tao and guarding the gods from Lao Zhuang, forming a kind of Buddha and Tao integration of the way of refining the gods. The "fixed view" mentioned in the "Dong Xuan Ling Bao Dingguan Sutra" is actually the transformation of the Buddhist "stop view". The viewer is also wise, as the sky always shines. There is no thought in the fixed body, the wisdom is boundless, and the wisdom is cultivated, so the name is fixed. "The method of practice is to meditate and meditate, and if the mind arises, it is immediately removed with the method of vipassana awareness, "only to extinguish the mind, not to extinguish the mind", and "the mind does not live according to one method". When the mind reaches a fixed time, it must be indulgent and anxious, so that it can gradually enter the "true determination" of "no evil, no trouble" involved, and wisdom is born from the hat. The way of "sitting and forgetting" described in the "Theory of Sitting and Forgetting" by Sima Chengzhen, a famous Taoist priest in the Tang Dynasty, is originally from the "Zhuangzi", and the practice is based on "collecting the heart and leaving the country, dwelling in nothing, and not having a thing", and achieving the state of tranquility of "not being aware of one body inside, not knowing the universe outside, and being one with the Tao, and all worries are sent". The entry is divided into seven steps: respect, breaking the relationship, receiving the heart, simplifying things, true view, Taiding, and attaining the Tao, and the four kinds of bigotry of adjusting the heart and preventing judgment, letting go, letting go, and indulging. This kind of "sitting and forgetting" method can be described as the product of the fusion of Buddhism and the way of sitting and forgetting in Lao Zhuang. The Sutra of Tranquility, which is regarded as an important classic by the Quanzhen Dao, is based on "clarifying the heart and releasing desires", and the key to releasing desires is to take the "heart without its heart" by vipassana, "without its form" by appearance, and "without its form" from a distance, so as to achieve the "heavy mystery" realm of "silence without loneliness".
The "Three Treatises on the Yuan Purpose" issued in the Tang Dynasty, according to the philosophy of "heavy mystery", divided the order of refining the gods into the three stages of "returning to oneness of the heart" (stability), "forgetting oneness of discouragement" (extinguishing determination), and "realizing the true oneness of the heart" (Taiding). If the mind is boring and difficult to collect, use the method of "rest assured to see from afar", and look at the infinite world in all directions from afar, to the unobservable place, and then take it back, from head to foot, to observe the false impermanence of the body. It can also be contemplated according to the breath, or "just pleasant to the spirit, and the essence is one source", so as to achieve silence and immobility. The second "forgetfulness of the mind", even the quiet mind is also extinguished, so that the shape is like a tree, the heart is like ashes, and the realm and wisdom are forgotten, which is called "discouragement and forgetfulness". The second time is to reach the true one by forgetting one, the heart and the Tao are together, because of forgetting and clearing, because of the clear and reaching, "understanding the true oneness of the heart", reaching the highest state of "Yutai's rule of heaven" in the "Zhuangzi". The "Theory of Sitting and Forgetting" also summarizes the effect of the practitioner's mind and body gradually arising with the kung fu as "five times and seven waits", which refers to the "true determination" of the mind from more movement and less stillness, less stillness and more movement, half of movement and stillness, and less movement of static and less movement. As a result, the body gradually changes, from the elimination of old diseases, the light body and the heart, and then rejuvenation, the heart is happy, and even "prolongs the life of a thousand years", becoming an immortal, a god, and a man. Since the Song Dynasty, the Taoist way of refining the gods has been further integrated with the Zen of Zen Buddhism, advocating clear insight, which is known as the "Shangpindan Method" and "the Highest Vehicle" in the Inner Dan. Gas refining. This kind of method originated from the pre-Qin exhalation of food qi and qi, mainly to regulate breathing, and has the names of qi, breathing, fetal breath, breathing, convincing, and eating qi. Practice the methods of general separation, more entry and less exit, taking the internal vitality of the pharynx, and taking the external qi. Breath-holding, called "Xingqi" in "Hug Puzi _ Release Stagnation", the method is to inhale from the nose, and then close without exhaling, gradually prolong the breath-holding time, and count silently when breathing, from one to one hundred and twenty, gradually increasing to thousand. When it cannot be suppressed, exhale slightly from the mouth. The entry and exit of the qi must be deep and dense, "I don't want to let my ears hear the sound of its entry and exit, the party age is full of more and less out, and the feathers are on the mouth and nose, and the feathers are not moving." This method is also described in the "Record of Nourishing Life and Extending Life", saying that the practice of qi must be practiced from the middle of the night to the noon of the life of heaven and earth, emphasizing that "if you want to learn to practice qi, you should gradually do it", and you should not reluctantly close your mouth and nose and rush to achieve success. Storing and serving external qi, for the combination of thinking and convincing, there are various methods such as taking five buds, six qi, fog, three qi, purple qi, etc. Five buds, refers to the five colors of the five qi born in the five directions, Taoism believes that the outer five qi and the inner five organs and five qi correspond, facing the five directions, storing and serving the five qi, has the effect of nourishing the dirty qi, fitness and prolonging life. The method of saving and serving, according to the "Taishang Health Fetal Breath Sutra" and so on, first sit flat and hold the solid, close the eyes and knock the teeth three ways, think of the oriental green qi (green buds) into my mouth, swallow the qi nine times, rinse the lips with the tongue and swallow three times, and think about the green qi into your liver, hovering and circling, and following the veins. The secondary storage is served with southern red qi (Danya), central yellow qi (yellow bud), western white qi (Suya), and northern black qi (black bud). The method of taking the three qi is to face the sun at the beginning of the sun, thinking that there are blue, white and red three-color qi under the sun, and go straight into my mouth, swallow its qi 90 degrees, and take the fog method, for the sake of thinking that there are five-color clouds and qi depressed, and swallow 50 degrees of qi in the mouth. The purple qi method is to think that there is purple qi in the mud pill palace of oneself, and it is vigorous and soaring, and this qi is subdued. Storing the inner vitality of the method refers to the qi that rises from the dantian of one's own qi sea when exhaling, and when this qi rises into the mouth, it closes its mouth and swallows again and again, thinking that its sound gurgles and goes straight into the sea of qi. "Mr. Phantom Zhen Serving the Inner Yuan Qi Formula" is divided into more than ten recipes such as enterprising, naughty, regulating qi, pharyngeal qi, line qi, refining qi, committing qi, holding qi, cloth qi, etc., in which pharyngeal qi refers to swallowing the inner vitality of the pharynx, and the line of qi refers to the internal vitality swallowed, leading the qi with the intention, wearing the spine from the lower dantian, following the spine to the top of the head, and then descending, all over the hair, head, neck, arms, ten fingers, five organs, legs, and feet, and finally want to be cleansed by the righteous qi and blood stasis around the body, and it is dispersed from the ends of the hands and feet, which is called "dispersed qi". This method of convincing is one step further, and it goes to Neidan. Reflection class. Meditation, slightly similar to the so-called "visualization" of Buddhism, is the continuous imagination of a certain form of meaning, is the main cultivation method of Taoism of the Fu Zheng School, and the source is the Weishu. The objects of contemplation in the cultivation of Taoists can be roughly divided into two categories: those with religious content and those without religious content. Those with religious content, such as the gods inside and outside the body, fairyland, heavenly palace, etc., and the gods of contemplation, there are the five visceral gods mentioned in the "Taiping Sutra", the twenty-four gods in the body, the thirty-nine gods mentioned in the "Dadong Zhenjing", and the gods such as the sun and the moon, the five stars, and the Beidou, and the gods in the three dantians in the body are the main ones, and the names such as "Hug Puzi" are called "Shouzhen One". In addition, there are "319 Palace Law", "Silent Dynasty God", etc., and the gods such as the Taiyi Emperor, who is considered to be in a dominant position in the above dantian, are the objects of contemplation.
There are methods of contemplation, such as the method of internal vision, the method of storing and serving the sun and moonlight, the method of serving three-color qi, the method of serving vitality, the method of crisp bathing, and the method of serving Zixiao. For example, the "Danshu Purple Character 35 Straight Passage Sutra" describes the internal view method as: sitting upright and looking inward, thinking about your own internal organs and stomach, you can distinguish clearly, and you can really see the internal organs for a long time. The inner vision method described in the "Purple Degree of Yanguang Sutra" is to make the ears and eyes pay attention to hundreds of miles and thousands of miles away. It is said that the ability to see and hear things in the distance for a long time has the ability to see and hear from afar. Another example is the "Seven Signatures of the Cloud Pipe" volume 45 "Serving the Sun and the Moon and the Mang": There is always a sun in the heart as big as a copper coin, red nine rays, from the heart out of the throat, to the mouth, and the reversal is returned to the stomach. After thinking for a long time, I exhaled and swallowed several times. The method of serving the moon is to think that there is a moon in the mind, release white light, shine into the throat, and swallow its light. To obey the Yuan Qi method is to think that the qi of Yuan and Harmony in the air is depressed, like clouds and rain, flowing into itself, penetrating the skin and flesh, entering the bone marrow, and the limbs and five organs are infiltrated by it, like flowing water seeping into the ground. Crisp bath method: Imagine that there is a crisp ball on the top of the head that melts, flows into the brain, irrigates the heart, and travels around the limbs. The above two methods have the special effect of replenishing the deficiency. In order to store and serve various colors of qi and light, such as red, white, black, and purple, there is the meaning of absorbing the life energy of the outside world. Keeping the know-how. This kind of method takes the intention to keep the dantian as the doorway, and has the names of "keeping one", "fetal breath", "saving the spirit and refining qi". For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao's "Saving the Spirit and Refining the Qi Ming" cloud: "If you want to learn this technique, you must first be absolutely grained, feel at ease in the sea of qi, keep the divine dantian, and calm your mind." Mr. Huanzhen's "Notes on the Fetal Breath Sutra" explains that "the fetus is formed from the volcanic qi": "The cultivator often lies under the umbilicus, guards his spirit in the body, and the spirit and qi are combined to give birth to a mysterious fetus." "This kind of method, the way to start is basically the same as Neidan. Neidan, since the late Tang Dynasty, Neidan generally refers to the systematic method of refining "Dan" in the body with its own innate essence and spirit as medicine. Among the various methods of Taoist cultivation, Neidan's theory is the most refined and the method is the most thorough, which can be called the representative and essence of Taoist qigong. As far as the order of practice is concerned, it can be divided into three categories: the method of cultivating nature and natural life, cultivating life first and then cultivating life, and cultivating life first and then cultivating nature. This method is also known as the "Shangpin Dan Method", "the highest multiplication", is the way of refining the gods and the Zen of Zen Buddhism fusion, starting with both the direct refining of the gods and the void, the absolute forgetfulness, the clear mind. For example, "Ten Books of Xiuzhen _ Xie Zhang Ziyang Book" cloud: "People can have no heart in their hearts, no thoughts in their minds, pure and absolute point, which is called pure yang." But if you can keep this heart and move without chaos, you will naturally be in harmony with the Tao. Huang Yuanji of the Qing Dynasty "Le Yutang Quotations" said: "The Shangpin Dan Method, with the god into the void, no coloring, no emptiness, empty color and forgetting, after a long time to melt, even the word nothingness is not used, this is the so-called "Zhuangzi" "God by the light" also." "Cultivating nature first and then cultivating life is advocated by the Northern Shouzong of the Quanzhen Dao. This method starts from removing emotions and desires, collecting the mind and stopping thoughts, and seeing the nature of the heart, and purifies the mind and does not be confused by the delusions of desire. Hold your heart, and then refine your essence in turn, and you will be able to do your best. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Shouyang divided the practice of this Danfa into four stages: one builds the foundation, focusing on refining oneself and returning oneself to the void and doing the kung fu of the unintentional situation. The second refining and refining Qi is called the first pass and the hundred day pass. Three refining Qi gods, called Zhongguan, October Guan. The four refining gods are still empty. In addition to Jinggong, Taoism also inherited and developed the guidance and massage techniques of the pre-Qin, Qin and Han dynasties, supplemented by percussion, pharyngeal jin, and Mingtian drums, etc., as an important method for curing diseases and fitness, prolonging life and even becoming immortals. Guidance, massage, to shake the limbs as the method, initially quite simple, mostly imitate the posture of animals, such as "Hug Puzi" said "dragon guide tiger guide, bear through the turtle throat, swallow flying snake bend bird stretch", etc., five bird play, eight sections of brocade, etc., are of this kind. This kind of exercise method is mostly combined with pranayama, breath holding, meditation, and contemplation, and becomes qigong and dynamic and static work. Its action posture is becoming more and more complicated, as mentioned in Sima Chengzhen's "Theory of Convincing Qi and Essence", there are dozens of guidance methods, which are quite similar to Indian yoga asanas. Convincing, percussion, and the sound of the heavenly drum are coordinated, and the combination of movement and stillness has become a major feature of Taoist qigong. Long Dan combined the mental method of Wudang Taoism, and figured out the supreme true qi operation method taught by the master, and benefited a lot. Long Dan meditated in the cave for more than 100 nights, and finally began to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, when the aura gathered in the upper dantian of Long Dan to a certain extent, Long Dan's brain consciousness changed, and when he was silently exercising, Long Dan actually saw his own internal organs. Long Dan's discovery was very pleasantly surprised, and he continued to add to his cultivation, and after more than 3 months, Long Dan finally opened the eye of heaven and could see his whole body clearly. At this time, how to cultivate the dragon pill, the speed of absorbing the aura of heaven and earth slowed down. Long Dan knew that he was no longer of great use here in Wudang Mountain. He politely refused the retention of the Qingxu Taoist and embarked on the road to Shaolin Temple.
At this time, how to cultivate the dragon pill, the speed of absorbing the aura of heaven and earth slowed down. Long Dan knew that he was no longer of great use here in Wudang Mountain. He politely refused the retention of the Qingxu Taoist and embarked on the road to Shaolin Temple.