Chapter 492: The Tao is difficult
The fox cultivating immortals must first refine the form, and then there is the cultivation of virtue.
The fox cultivating immortals must first refine the form, that is, to refine the human form. The well-known "fox tail will show from time to time" is an embarrassing scene when the refining is halfway through.
Some vixens can't become immortals because of tail problems, and they have to ask someone to do tail docking surgery for her, which somewhat satisfies the superiority of human beings.
Some fox spirits have been refined into human bodies, but their heads are still fox heads, and they take off their fox skins when they practice at night, and then put them on to become foxes when the day dawns.
Then there is the cultivation of virtue, in order to survive and cultivate immortals, the fox spirit must not only be diligent in cultivation, but also pay attention to "cultivating Qi and ruling peace".
It is not easy to cultivate into a human form, and if you accidentally do something bad, how many years of hard work will be in vain. So some vixens are desperately trying to do good deeds to accumulate some yin virtue.
Sometimes, when it comes to the importance of moral cultivation, vixens are even more extreme than humans.
There is a wealthy merchant surnamed Ji in the north of the mountain, who accepts a family surnamed Jiang to rent.
As soon as Ji Fushi came into contact with the Jiang family, he guessed that they were fox fairies.
Jiang's family is very strict, and he has to read Taishang Laojun's "Tao Jing" and "Quotations" every day, and pays attention to mental issues all day long.
The people of the Ji family call them "fox Taoism".
But one day, the grandson of the Jiang family sexually harassed the maid of the Ji family, and the maid went to the Jiang family to complain.
Jiang said, "Don't worry, I will clean up this little cub." ”
The next day, the Jiang family mysteriously disappeared.
The people of the Ji family found thirty shell coins as rent in their rented house, as well as a little vixen who was strangled to death.
Attaching importance to the Tao and learning to such a point that even if a cultivator is reborn, he may not be able to do it.
There is a blind artist in the south of Hezhinan, who met an old man surnamed Huang by chance, and the two are very close to each other, and often eat and chat together.
Later, she felt that this old man Huang was a vixen, but because the two were familiar, she no longer shy away from it.
One day, the two talked about a lawsuit not long ago, because of the scandal in the boudoir, she couldn't help but be curious, and said to the fox spirit: "Since you can be psychic, you must know the secret of this matter clearly, tell me about it." ”
Unexpectedly, the fox spirit was furious: "I am a cultivator, how can I spread rumors? Besides, the affairs of men and women have always been ambiguous and difficult to understand, and they are not enough for outsiders. If you blindly speak quickly, it will 'hurt the harmony of heaven and earth, and summon the taboo of ghosts and gods', and it will damage yin morality!"
The fox spirit who concentrates on cultivation not only does not spread gossip and gossip, but also knows how to work hard to be good.
An old man once passed by an ancient tomb in the middle of the night, and heard the sound of whipping coming from the tomb, and the sound of talking: "If you don't read and write, you can't understand things, and you won't be able to do anything bad in the future." When you break the laws of heaven, it will be too late to regret it. ”
Lao Xusheng thought it was strange, in the middle of the night, in the wilderness, who was educating his children!
Listen carefully, it turns out that it is the fox spirit who is training.
It is not uncommon for foxes to learn to do good deeds, and even to kill their relatives in righteousness.
Therefore, some people once sighed and said: "There are people in the world who talk about science and act as a clever eunuch, and they are ashamed to be far away." ”
There is a saying in the Daomen that "cultivators are like cow hair, and those who have attained them are like horns", and you can imagine how difficult it is.
In history, there is also an enshrinement of the "Fox Fairy Hall", which is because its fox demon converted to the right path, swore an oath with the Taoist, and protected the Xuanmen, which has been cultivated into a positive fruit.
As long as the demons are willing to return to their hearts and no longer do evil and harm people, the Daomen are tolerant and acceptable, otherwise, the saints of the Heavenly Execution Immortal Dao will be destroyed.
If summed up, on the one hand, the cultivation of fox spirits is subject to the standardized management of the Yin and Yang Realms and even the Heavenly Court, and on the other hand, there is also a conscious obedience to ethics and morality in the heart. In the process of cultivation, they have to pay much more hardships than human beings.
In this sense, their cultivation process is like a civilian's hard work, full of inspirational positive energy.
Therefore, some people say: "From the fox to the fairy, such as the princess in the white house, I am proud, so why not hide it!"
One wonders why these elves were captured when they possessed mana.
There are two reasons for this: one is that man is the most spiritual creature in the world, and there is a saying that among the three worlds, only man is the most spiritual, and man has the greatest spirituality and good fortune.
Therefore, only human beings can enjoy all things in the world.
What flies in the sky, runs on the ground, and swims in the sea, which one is not eaten by humans?
The second is that although some spiritual animals have mana, they also have "napping" or when their mana is weakened when they have not yet reached the level of changing their human form in their cultivation, and at this time, people take advantage of the "void" to enter or accidentally hit and capture them.
Therefore, when people encounter spiritual things, they must not harm them or covet their pleasures, causing them endless troubles and calamities!
There is a Taoist temple, and there is a Xun Taoist priest who is over ninety years old in the Taoist temple, and he is now ninety-six years old. He has practiced for many years, and knows that if he can survive to the number of the Ninety-Nine Double Yang, he will be able to gain another thirty years of yang life, and if he cultivates for another thirty years, he can avoid the reincarnation of the human world and return his soul to the immortal realm.
Two years later, Lao Dao felt that the age was approaching, and black and white impermanence was already on the way to come, and Lao Dao was reluctant to give up.
One day, Xun Lao Dao traveled to Yuntai Mountain, where there were a few immortals drinking tea and chatting, Lao Dao approached to see a few old friends, so he stepped forward to sit down, after the tea five flavors Lao Dao frowned, and the fairy friend asked: "Brother Dao is troubled?"
Lao Dao confided what he had encountered, and when he finished speaking, all the immortals also thought about how to help Lao Dao survive this catastrophe without using immortal arts.
At this time, an immortal in the southeast said that he heard that there was a matter of nine snakes lying in coffins for yang shou.
After hearing this, the immortals asked how to solve it.
The immortal said: "As early as nine hundred years ago, when the poor Dao was still in the world, he encountered a matter of borrowing a snake for longevity. ”
"At that time, we had a large family in the local area, the old man earned a lot of property in business in the early years, and then borrowed the family property to buy a wide range of family business, from things to people, bought a field property, became an official, married the daughter of a high-ranking official, it can be said that the prosperity was prosperous, but the good times did not last long, when the family business was in full swing, the old man fell ill. ”
"After several twists and turns, it is useless to find the palace doctor, but the old man is a little strange, and people from all walks of life can not find a way, but one day, a flower child stood at the door to ask for food, and the housekeeper went out to look really pitiful, and rewarded two shell coins.
At this time, the beggar said, "Do you have something difficult to solve in your family?"
This sentence is in the heart of the housekeeper, and the housekeeper tells the truth.
When the beggar heard this, he said, "Can you take me in and have a look?"
The housekeeper brought the beggar into the mansion, and the beggar looked at the old man, and said that the old man's yang was about to be exhausted, and everyone hurriedly drove out before the words fell.
At this time, the beggar said, but there is a way to remedy, and the wife and concubine hurriedly asked what is the way? The beggar said that there are nine snakes lying in the coffin for longevity, that is, preparing the coffin before the person dies, and then going up the mountain to the south and the north of the water, these places belong to the yang place where there are few snakes, but the snakes that can inhabit here have yang energy, and their yang energy can be exchanged for people's yang life. ”
The beggar said, "Before a person dies, prepare a coffin, and spread nine snakes in it, and the soil near the snake's nest, not much, just a handful, and then take the water from the nearest pond near the snake's nest, not much, half a bowl, and then take the flowers and trees near the snake's nest, not much, enough for nine small cages." ”
Then put these things in the coffin, carry the coffin to the center of the nine snake nests, put it for three days and three nights, then cover the coffin, bow three times in each of the four directions of the south, east, west, and north, light three incense sticks, and collect the incense ashes when the incense is burned out, and scatter them outside the coffin. ”
Then the coffin is carried home, and the body of the person is put into the coffin, and the coffin is not sealed, and after nine days, the person can be resurrected, and he can live for 30 years. After a person is alive, the nine snakes must be put back in their place, and then a tablet will be set up at home to offer incense until the deceased is actually dead. ”
When they heard this, they were skeptical, but they had no choice but to follow the beggar's words. Sure enough, the old man died two days later. ”
"The housekeeper's wife hurriedly did what the beggar said, back and forth for half a month, a miracle appeared, the master really woke up, the old man heard what happened after the resurrection, and hurried up to set up nine tablets, after all, his life was given by them. ”
After the immortal finished speaking, everyone was dumbfounded, and they had never heard of such a thing. But why not use the existing method of prolonging life, after the old Taoist went back, he immediately prepared, found the Taoist boy of his Taoist temple, and explained everything.
Sure enough, Lao Dao passed away three days later.
The Taoist children followed the old Taoist explanation, step by step, but after everything was done nine days later, the old Taoist did not wake up, the Taoist opened the coffin and was startled, the old Taoist body has emitted a foul smell, and the body is full of snake bite wounds, and the snake has long been gone.
It turns out that this old way is the beggar of 900 years ago. In fact, the old Taoist after a thousand years should have become an immortal, but because he lent his thirty years of life to the old man nine hundred years ago, he lacked these thirty years of Taoism, which led to his present life and this life.