Jade hairpin smiled and said: "Master don't worry, when the ancestor left, he had already ordered Xiao Tianshu to watch the little red horse, and the little red horse should be fine now!" ”

Xuan Chu said: "It's about the same, he is the one who saved my life!" ”

Jade hairpin smiled: "If it were me, I would definitely sacrifice my life to save my master!" ”

Xuan Chu smiled: "Hehe, don't give up your life, when you encounter this kind of thing in the future, it is important to save your life first, and then keep your life, tell the master, let the master save me......"

Jade hairpin smiled: "In case of emergency, if the goblin eats you, we don't work hard, and when the ancestor comes back, you will be gone......"

Ji Chu said: "But it's also, but aren't you afraid?" ”

Jade hairpin said: "I'm afraid, but it's instinct to protect the master, after all, without the master, what's the point of our existence!" ”

Xuan Chu said: "Aren't you afraid that there will be no you in this world from now on?" ”

The jasper hairpin smiled: "If it weren't for the master, there would be no one in this world, I'm just a jasper hairpin!" ”

Chu Chu smiled: "Okay, I can't understand your world, but I can understand it." ”

The jade hairpin said, "Is the master afraid of death?" ”

Xuan Chu nodded and said, "Since I can remember when I was a child, I should have been scared when I was about two years old, and I used to cry for a day......

The jade hairpin smiled and said: "The master is just cultivating immortals, and he can live forever!" ”

Chu smiled: "Huh? That's right, you said that you have been following Master for so long, you must have something to do with immortality? ”

Jade hairpin said with a smile: "The elaboration of Taoism's belief theory of "immortality" is based on the concept of water worshipping qi and giving birth to all things in heaven and earth. It is precisely on the basis of the concept of qi that Taoism regards human life as made up of qi, and thus proposes the secret of "immortality" and its approach. ”

Xuan Chu said: "Didn't you say that you were angry? Can this anger give birth to people? ”

Jade hairpin smiled: "Human survival is closely related to qi. "Hug Puzi" said: "Mrs. is in the air, the gas is in the people, from heaven and earth to all things, there is no need to be born with qi." "Taoism also sees spirit as a kind of qi. The Taiping Sutra says: "Qi gives birth to essence, essence gives birth to spirit, and God gives birth to light." "Lao Tzu Xiang'er Note" says that the human spirit is "essence", "the essence of human energy is full of hiding." Based on the idea that human life is made up of qi or essence, Taoism proposes the secret of "immortality": the preservation of essence. "Lao Tzu River Gong Note" said: "If you keep your essence and qi in a disorderly manner, your body will be able to respond to it and be supple." "A man can hold one, so that he can live forever without leaving his body." One is born from the beginning of the Tao, and the essence of Taihe is also. "The essence can regulate the inside of the body, so one must keep the essence and keep it from the body. If the essence of the human body lasts forever, it can live forever. ”

Chu said: "Immortality is my greatest dream......"

Jade hairpin said: "The so-called immortality requires not only that the body is not bad, but also that the spirit is eternal and combined with the body." However, from the point of view of general common sense, this is impossible; For man is always going to die, and when he dies, his body is going to rot. However, Taoism has a solution to this - cultivating to become an immortal. The so-called cultivation is to make one's physical body as light as "qi", and at the same time, to enable one's spirit to live in it for a long time.

In this way, you can "ascend in the flesh" and become immortal immortals. One of the cultivation methods is the so-called "convincing qi". "Convincing qi" means "eating qi", not eating grains, so as to refine the body as light as "qi". It can be seen that the so-called immortality is to cultivate the physical body as light as qi to ascend to heaven, which is really mysterious and mysterious. ”

Xuan Chu said: "Since people are transformed by qi, what is the state of people who become ghosts after death? ”

Jade hairpin smiled: "After death, people return to the state of "qi". ”

Seeing that the master hadn't come yet, Xuan Chu said, "What is the survival state of a person after becoming an immortal and ascending to heaven?" ”

Jade hairpin smiled: "The Taoist saying is "with heaven and earth". "Taiping Sutra Part C" This means that those who become immortals become one with heaven and earth and become a state of "qi". It can be seen that the Taoist theories of "immortality" and "becoming immortals" are completely based on the concept of qi life.

So far, we believe that the "qi" concept of life is the most important cornerstone of the edifice of Taoist theory. Taoism's cosmology theory and "immortality" theory are all based on the "qi" view of life. The original meaning of "qi" was originally very simple, that is, the "water qi" that constituted all things in heaven and earth in the primitive water worship.

Xuan Chu said: "According to this, the five elements of qi, which actually contain many things? ”

Biyu Hairpin said: "After extensive extension and reverse deduction by thinkers throughout the ages, especially Taoism, 'qi' has become all-encompassing, and has become very complex, ambiguous and ambiguous. However, the "qi" of Taoism still has the morphological characteristics of water qi. For example, when Taoism talks about the form of "qi", it is said that it is "clear and invisible" ("Lao Tzu Xiang'er Note Notes"), "The vitality is invisible, turbulent and rumbling, the lying one is the earth, and the lying one is the sky." (Note: "Taiping Jing Hetu Wei.") Only water vapor has such a characteristic of being invisible, intangible, diffuse, and ascending to heaven and earth. It can be seen that the Taoist theory with "qi" as the core actually originates from the qi life concept of water worship. ”

Hui Chu said: "Between the universe, the world, all kinds of things, all living beings, their career orientations are different, but there is a common pursuit, which is survival. People not only seek to survive in their lives, but also want to live happily and healthily in the midst of survival. Since ancient times, people have discussed the way of health preservation a lot, but the earliest, most complete and most valuable is Taoism. ”

Jade hairpin smiled: "The Taoist method of health preservation originated from Huang Lao and has a long history. Guangchengzi gave the Yellow Emperor the way of immortality and said: "The essence of the Tao, the most slender: the extreme of the Tao, faint and silent; Ignore and listen, hold your mind and be quiet, and your form will be self-righteous. It will be quiet and clear, without the form of labor, without shaking the essence of you, but it can live forever. Eyes do not see, ears do not hear, heart knows nothing, and thy god will keep the form, and the form is immortal. Be cautious inside, close outside, and know more for defeat. Guard your body carefully, and things will grow themselves. I keep one of them, so I am 1,200 years old, and my form has not declined. It is Gao Dao Guangchengzi who taught the Yellow Emperor's health preservation method, and the Yellow Emperor became a positive result according to this health preservation purpose, and at the same time, according to his cultivation success method, the cultivation realm is divided into three levels, that is, "real person (to the person)", "sage", "sage". Although there are three kinds of differences, they all aim to conform to the fortune of heaven and earth, yin and yang, and take the core idea of having a temperate appetite, having a constant life, and being ruthless to make the form and the god (and) together. ”

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Tzu still followed Guangchengzi's teaching of the Yellow Emperor's health concept of "keeping one place and harmony", and further expounded the way of health preservation in his work "Tao Te Ching". For example, in Chapter 16: "To the Extreme, Keep Quiet"; Chapter 10: "Carrying the camp and hugging one, can it be inseparable?" "Camp" is spoken of here as the soul, and "spirit" is said to be the spirit and body shape, which is the same as the "Inner Classic" that "can form and be spiritual". Ordinary people think too much, the seven emotions are crazy, and the six desires are dang, which makes people delirious, the soul is not kept, the heart and kidneys are not J, and the yin and yang are out of balance, so Lao Tzu makes people stay together, the soul meets, and the natural immortality. ”