Chapter 257: Nine Essentials of Cultivation (2)
The second is to accumulate virtue and practice
Wu Zhenyun: "If it weren't for the cultivation of Yin virtue, there would be a group of demons as obstacles. It can be seen that the cultivation of virtue is the most important task of a cultivator. If you deviate from morality and talk about it, it is heresy, and it is far from the door. Therefore, the ancient sages must first understand the way, and the ancient sages must first accumulate virtue. There is no ignorance of the Tao and can be sacred, and there is no ability to be virtuous without accumulating virtue. However, if you want to be holy, you must first be virtuous, and if you want to become enlightened, you must first accumulate virtue. Moral dual-use, internal and external, the study of the sages can be carried out.
Those who are Taoist are their own business, and those who are virtuous are the business of others. There is no end to cultivation and endless virtue. From ancient times to the present, after attaining enlightenment, you will still be with the light and dust, accumulate merit, and wait until the 3,000 merits are completed and the 800 deeds are completed. In addition, the avenue is jealous of ghosts and gods, and people who are not loyal and filial cannot know it, and people who are not great sages and great virtues dare not pass it on. That is, if it is known by force, the ghosts and gods do not like it, and it is bound to secretly bring disasters and promote their longevity. It is not in vain, but it is harmful.
To the self-obtained shrine valley immortal stay, with the grand duke as the bosom, every time you meet a person with lofty ideals, you want to be introduced. Occasionally, there are hints of clues, and after Xu Guan, he is not very complacent and self-sufficient, and he can't go deeper, and he has been slacking off for a long time, and his ambition is exhausted. His greed and troubles are even greater than ordinary people. Several people before and after, all of them. Such people must have no virtue in their ancestors, and they have no deeds, so they are diligent and lack, and they lose their true sect, and they are irretrievable. Because he was careless, he lost his words and was repeatedly hindered. Fortunately, it doesn't matter much, the real treasure has not been stolen. In view of this, he stammered and did not dare to show his horns lightly, which must wait for those who have strong hands to pay for it. The scholar of the world entered the door, looked directly at the immortals as the easiest thing, and deceived the ten directions, ignorant of the taboo. Never think about the blood and sweat of all ten directions, and every drink and peck is the coolie of all living beings. There may be those who use mantras to deceive people, or those who use false Taoism to gain wealth, or those who use yellow and white tricks to deceive, and they cannot be counted in every possible way. I owe 10 points of debt on another day, and I don't know how to digest it.
The ancients said: "Two horns or not, one tail is a thousand certain", must be this generation, must be the Taoist, must be virtuous, self-reliant, do not be confused, take the future. What is virtue? Those who sympathize with the elderly and the poor, cherish the orphans and widows, give medicine and tea, repair bridges and roads, help the needy, light money and justice, and travel are convenient. What is the deed? Suffering oneself and benefiting others, working diligently, giving virtue without expecting retribution, not settling grievances, merit without cutting down, and not fearing difficulties when there are difficulties, and those who see righteousness must do it. Can accumulate virtue, can stand up, the longer the more powerful, the virtue of the ghosts and gods, the quality is super vulgar, the master sees it, decides to enter the eye, and the avenue is promising. Otherwise, if you don't accumulate a virtue, don't cultivate a line, delusionally become enlightened, meet a master, cover up your bad and focus on your goodness, and claim that you can deceive others, but you don't know that people regard themselves as if they see their lungs and liver. There are even first-class people who do not do their duty, do a hundred evils, go to the wine shop and spend the night, have a moral mouth and steal their hearts, harm others and benefit themselves, are strange, do not regret themselves, and complain that they are not blessed and have no fate, which is to slander the Taoist scriptures are all false rumors. The true hell seed, when it is a stranger, ask it to be a human but cannot get it, how dare you look at immortals. Those who are virtuous are the things of their own world, and those who are Taoist are the things that become immortals. If you don't accumulate virtue and want to cultivate the Tao, you can't do it, how can you achieve the Immortal Dao, how can you not think twice?
Third, we must be conscientious
exhaustive sex, so that it lives. It can be known that the study of life is all based on the principle of right and wrong. If the reason is thorough, the performance will be complete, the life can be guaranteed, and the supreme and true land will be reached; if the poor reason is in a trance, it will be difficult to repair the life, and the sex will be difficult, and there will eventually be old age and failure
Regret. Today's scholars, who are confused to become monks, to learn the Tao in confusion, and to practice in confusion, since they are confused in life, how can they be pure when they die? What is the matter with their lives, and they are so vain! The way of the Great Dao, the way of encompassing heaven and earth, the way of stealing and creation, the supreme and noble, the most divine and the most wonderful, is not easy to know.
Scholars don't want to know what their lives are, they don't know what the meaning of the Dharma is, they eat all day long, they have nothing to do, they want to say a word, that is, they want to become enlightened, they wander and mix up during the day, and sleep peacefully at night. Those who falsely claim to have the Tao lead to mistakes with mistakes, and those who hope to come true will lure the blind with blindness. Even if there are one or two people of faith, they are just looking at the flowers, how can they put their minds deep into the truth and reason.
The words "If you find the true meaning on paper, there are powerful people everywhere" is specially issued for those who do not seek teachers, and it is useless to say that the Dan Sutra is useless. Later generations do not know the meaning of the ancients, and use this as a evidence, and ignore the scriptures, which is a big mistake. The husband and the fairy are really in the law, and they don't dare to say it in vain, and they hide the meaning in every word, and they don't know how much they have to do with their wives, making a ladder for future generations, and keeping an eye on the sect. That is, the deeds of the later masters and wise men are always within the scope of the ancients, and in the final analysis, they may not be higher than those of the ancients. If today's masters do not coax scholars, the ancient immortals will not be mistaken and future generations will know.
Advise people with lofty ideals to take the words of the ancients, study them carefully, seek a decision from their teachers, and after reaching through the front and the end, without any doubts, they can only do it, and be cautious of mistakes and self-reliance, and have no one; and do not listen to the sound of the bang and let others mislead themselves; as for the scholars who do not understand the written language, they must also distinguish the true meaning in the common sayings. As the saying goes, there is a great avenue hidden, and the special people have not thought deeply. Such as "no dignity", "no human form", "know-how", "so comfortable", "upside down", "follow the circle", "improvisation", "gold panning in the sand", "make something out of nothing", "seven dead and eight alive", "have oneself and no one", "do not know whether to live or die", "disregard for life", "only know oneself, do not know that there are people", "it is better to go to three families than to keep one", "courtesy to others, there will be gains", "only know one, do not know the second", such words are revealed, why not throw out one or two, make an understanding, and think about the scene. Although Dali is not clear, and the knowledge is gradually opened, it is close to the Tao, and the years have not passed. This poor learning, regardless of the virtuous or foolish, everyone can do it, and there is no shortage of hard work, and they will realize it over time. However, those who have realized their own private opinions must not act rashly. If you meet a Master, you must be innocent, insightful, and handy, so that you don't miss anything.
If you know the front but don't know the back, you don't know the front after you know the future, you don't know the yin you know the yin, you don't know the yin when you know the yang, you don't know the yin when you know the body, you don't know the use of the body, or you know the action but you don't know the action, or you know the yuan guan but you don't know the medicine, or you know the medicine but you don't know the old and young, or you know the pill but you don't know the pill, or you know the birth but you don't know the rebirth, or you know the cooking but you don't know the martial arts, or you know the martial arts but you don't know the cooking, or you know the yang fire but you don't know the yin charm, or you know the fire but you don't know how to stop, or you know the warmth and nourishment but you don't know how to add it. Not only that, but yin and yang have inside and outside, and the five elements have truth and falsehood. There are two periods of life, two days in succession, there are true and false, there is false in the true, there is the true in the false, there is the true in the false, there is the false in the false. If these organs are not thoroughly investigated, they will not be able to do so, and if they are not clear, they will not be able to do so.
Fourth, we should visit the true teacher
If there is no teacher's guidance
As everyone knows, the gods in the sky have no place to live. Wu Zhenyun: "Rao Jun is smarter than Yan Min, and he doesn't meet the true master Mo Qiangchai." "Honestly, the study of life, there must be a teacher, not to guess the private degree and know, the past can have an epiphany, self-knowledge is not upward, and then have to meet the apricot forest into the avenue; Shangyang is to get the secret of the governor, dare not be self-sufficient, still must see the ancient city and prepare for the fire; Dongxuan Ming Mountain has been suffering for thousands of years, nothing has been gained, and then I feel that the ancient power to point out, only to know the big things. The way to cover one's life is to steal yin and yang, seize creation, reincarnate and kill, twist the qi machine, and the way of congenital and heavenly, ghosts and gods cannot be measured, yarrow turtles can not occupy it, and those who get it will stand on the holy throne and go straight to the other side, which is the first major event in the world, the first difficult thing in the world, how to know it?
There are only 3,600 side doors, and 72 products of Danfa, which harm the good with evil, and confuse the true with falsehood, and it is very difficult to distinguish who is the blind teacher and who is the master. However, it is easy to distinguish, all the masters are born, pretentious, unique and out of tune, no, not deceitful, different parties, no name, no talent, no profit, no deception, not grotesque, every word, all beneficial to the world, one line and one stop, great benefit to the Holy Religion, greed, hatred, infatuation, love and nothing, will, must, solid, I and all the good, the character is high, everyone can not reach, the mind is free, everyone can not reach. Occasionally, if you cite a person with lofty ideals, you will also try it to be true or false, and if its white jade is flawless, you will be willing to give instructions on it; if it is not human, you will never dare to leak the heavens. That's why it's the Master.
If the blind teacher has nothing to do, he is vain and profitable, and he refuses to think about his own mistakes, and he will teach others the wrong way. There are those who refer to men and women as yin and yang, or those who use the sutra as the pearl, or those who use the furnace fire as the outer pill, or those who refine the heart and kidneys as the inner pill, or those who contemplate as the contemplation, or those who travel the meridian as the extraction, or those who turn the wheel as the Zhou Tian, or those who recognize the stubborn emptiness as nothingness, or those who take luck as the do, or those who forget the form as the meditation, or those who refine sleep as the retreat of the yin, or those who take sulfur as the yang, or those who seek to prolong the life of the five grains, and so on. Such people, who do not speak of merit, do not stand on their own discipline, who are clothed and have money in their waists, who are crowned with hairpins and snakes and scorpions, who are attentive when they see wealth and wealth, who forget the way when they encounter hardship, who drink and eat meat, who do not care about the blood and sweat of the ten directions, who lose their reputation and deprive themselves, who know that they are sinking in all calamities, when they walk, they only use their efforts on money, and they do everything they can in their actions and on food and clothing, and they worship one head and one worship, that is, they are accepted as disciples, and they have tea and a meal, even if they preach, they use the door of the sages and sages to deceive themselves and the world, and they steal the words of the ancients, and they pinch monsters and demons, and they only know that they are full and warm, and they care about the life and death of others.
If a scholar listens to his words and does not observe his deeds, he will have a sense of the way, and there will be no one who does not enter the net and harm his life. In addition, he was confused, admitting the false as true, and the consolidation was incomprehensible, although there was a high true saint master who wanted to carry him, there was no way to enter. There are many Taoist people in the world who have suffered from this. If you only judge people by your tongue, then everyone is a god and everyone is an immortal. I would like to ask if there are thousands of people who have learned the Tao, but how many people can be enlightened? Most of the sages are not common, and the great power is rare, because they are uncommon and rare, so they are masters. Those who are superior are out of their kind and excel, how can they be judged by their tongues? In those days, he was given a touchstone by the teacher's secret, and he was good at understanding people's high and low status. If you meet a cultivator, you will try it with wine and wealth, and you can't move it, you will be extraordinary, and you will be able to criticize it with "Meditation" and "Tao Zhi", and the one who responds casually is the Master. Tried and tested, 100 shots, willing to use this method, all the same people.