Chapter 4: Determination to study the Dharma
"Grandpa, how do you know that I met a ~~ ghost?" I felt more and more stupid, and hesitated for a moment before saying the word.
"I sensed it from your protective guard, and I also knew that you fought this ghost, and although you won, he will definitely come to you for revenge." Grandpa said very seriously, it didn't sound like it scared me.
I really subverted my cognition several times, I accept that there are ghosts in this world, but grandpa's words made my head big again, just touched my amulet, I knew that I met a ghost, and I knew that I had a fight with a ghost, and I knew that I won? I hurriedly raised my hand and pinched myself, but the pain pulled me back to reality, this is not a dream, it is not ~~
"Grandpa, who the hell are you?" I asked.
"~~ I'm a Taoist." Grandpa hesitated for a moment and said in a deep voice.
After a long time, I learned that grandpa is not as simple as a Taoist, and even why we came to this small mountain village, why my parents left, and why I was able to retire from the army are all related to grandpa~
"No wonder that ghost said that I am from the Taoist family, because of my protective body, right?" The more I think about it, the more I feel like I'm an idiot, and I can actually think of touching porcelain when I hit a ghost, it's really ~ ignorant to get home
"Yes, your amulet hurt him, I can feel his resentment is very heavy, he won't let you go easily, it's not too early, go to sleep." Grandpa got up and went back to the house.
"Grandpa? This ~ is it? Then he won't come to me tonight, will he? "Halfway through this, he told me to sleep, and my heart was really upside down.
"Rest assured to go to sleep, he won't show up for three days." Before the words fell, Grandpa had already returned to his bedroom.
Now that this has happened, what else can I do? I also paced into my bedroom, but how can I sleep lying on the bed and tossing and turning, this thought is not clear, first hit the ghost, bumped into my perception of the world, and then grandpa's words, I am really dizzy to hear, is it possible that grandpa can know the past and the future?
Maybe it's overusing the brain, I don't know when I fell asleep, I saw a woman in white clothes fluttering towards me in a dream, when the woman approached, I fixed my eyes to see, this woman is beautiful, although the carcass under the white silk looms, but there is no smell of dust, this beauty is the kind of unearthly beauty, pure and pure like a pool of clear water, the shining eyes seem to be able to see through everything, I am obscene, the woman spoke~
"I helped you, you can help me too!"
"Helped me? What did you help me? I asked, confused
"~咯~咯~咯~~"
The woman was just about to speak, the rooster crowed, and I woke up with the sound, and I was puzzled, and suddenly remembered the figure I saw on the way to find Uncle Zhang Wu, could it be this woman?
"Come and sit~" As soon as I got up and walked out of the room, I saw that my grandfather was already sitting in the hall and said to me with a pleasant face.
"Well~" I answered and walked to the table and sat down, thinking to myself that grandpa is changing sex? Suddenly so gentle?
"I have hidden it from you for a lifetime, and in the end I can't hide it after all, so I'll tell you everything." Looking at Grandpa's expression, it was after a whole night of ideological struggle that he made this decision.
"People have three souls and seven spirits~" Grandpa said directly
"What are the Three Souls and Seven Spirits?" I thought to myself that you wouldn't be able to buffer it, so you just opened your mouth and came, but in order to learn the truth, I hurriedly asked.
Grandpa didn't mind being interrupted by me, and continued: "Three souls: one is fetal light, two is refreshing, and three is ghost~"
"Grandpa, can you be a little more superficial?" It's not that I'm stupid, I really don't understand.
Grandpa also seemed to see it: "That is, the soul, the soul, the soul~" Grandpa changed his words and said.
"Can you explain?" If you understand this, you don't understand it, so I continued to ask.
Grandpa thought for a moment and then said: "The three souls live in the spirit, so when the human body dies, the three souls return to the three routes: the soul returns to the heavenly path and reaches the space heavenly path." Because the soul is only a conscience and an immortal "Wuji", because of the cause and effect of the body, it cannot return to the origin of the sect, so it has to be taken away to the sustenance of the Heavenly Road of the Upper Space and temporarily taken into custody by its main god, which is the so-called "Heavenly Prison". The awakened soul returns to the underworld and reaches hell, because the awakened soul can know all the karma of the main soul, and can also instruct the good and evil of the living body, so after the death of the physical body, the awakened soul enters the land of cause and effect. The living soul wanders between the cemeteries, because the living soul was originally the body of the "Zude" surname passed down from generation to generation. With the courage of the seven spirits in the body, after death, the cemetery is to the god, and the place of sustenance for people to come and go. Until reincarnation again, the three souls will be reunited. Among the three souls, the two souls of Lingjue are always outside, and only the living souls live alone. The three souls of the Lingjue do not often meet together. ”
"You~~Let me figure it out~" The amount of information is too large to digest at all, which is completely contradictory to what I have learned before, and once again completely subverts my worldview~~
In just a few hours, so many things happened, I felt like a balloon, a balloon that was about to be blown up, and I instantly realized that the world I had been in contact with before was not the real world, it was like a dream, a dream for twenty years, until today I suddenly woke up, hearing is false, seeing is believing, but I really saw it, and what I saw was something that I had never believed in when I was so old, although it would be difficult to accept it for a while, but fortunately, I have experienced so many experiences since I was a child, and my psychological endurance is okay, There are no wonders in the world, and I am relieved a lot when I think of this~
"What about the Seven Spirits?" Since you choose to accept it, you can accept it thoroughly, as the so-called knowing oneself and knowing that the other is invincible, anyway, I have fought with ghosts, and if I meet it again in the future, I also have a bottom in my heart. As everyone knows, I have since embarked on this road of no return~
"Seven Famous Corpse Dogs, Fu Ya, Bird Yin, Swallowing Thieves, Non-Toxic, Removing Filth, Stinky Lungs~" Grandpa replied quickly this time
"Grandpa~~~" I deliberately dragged out the tone very long, and I said that I didn't understand.
"That is, joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, and desire~" Grandpa shook his head helplessly and said.
"Do animals have spirits?" I ignored my grandfather's disdain and asked
"Everything in heaven and earth has a soul, plants have only one soul, no soul and soul, animals have a soul and a soul, and people have souls, souls, and souls." Grandpa continued.
"And that ghost I met in the cemetery is a living soul?" Now that I've accepted it, there's nothing to be afraid of, and now I'm not shy about saying ghost words.
"Not necessarily, the soul has no evil thoughts, and there is little right and wrong, at most, it suddenly appears and scares people, and the ghost you encounter is likely to be the soul of awakening." Grandpa is analyzing
"But according to you, isn't the Awakened Soul going to hell?" I argued
"Then there can't be any fish that slip through the net? If there are fugitives on earth, can't there be one in hell? Grandpa explained
"According to what you said, the soul, the soul, and the soul all belong to a person, so his soul is still there, is the soul of the soul merged with the soul of life?" I continued to ask ignorantly
"No, the three souls are based on the flesh and blood of a person, and they must be supported by the seven spirits, and if the body of a person dies and decays, the three souls will not be able to meet again, unless they are reincarnated again." I dare to say that my grandfather is the most kind to me today
"You said this ghost is a soul of enlightenment, but what about his soul?" Although I believe that there is a ghost in time, I still want to find out the flaws, after all, it came too suddenly, this is human nature.
"Although the living soul will also come out to wander, but the scope is limited, and his living soul should be attached to the tombstone, or his remains." Grandpa explained
No wonder Uncle Zhang Wu would say that he was beaten when he peed, and he dared not to pee on someone's ancestral grave, but directly on someone's head, hey~~ Thinking of this, I hurriedly asked the master: "What about Uncle Zhang?" Last night, the ghost said that he would take Uncle Zhang Wu's life. ”
"Ordinary ghosts don't have complete seven spirits, so their ability to distinguish between good and evil is also very low, you had a fight with him yesterday, and he has already transferred his resentment to you, he won't do anything to you Uncle Zhang Wu anymore." Grandpa continued
Heh~ This is still on me, according to grandpa, it seems that this ghost is an ordinary ghost, if this is changed to an unordinary one, Uncle Zhang Wu and I can't run.
"Although the ghost's ability to distinguish between right and wrong is low, it does not mean that the ghost does not distinguish between right and wrong, although many ghosts do not have a complete seven spirits, but they have memories before they were born, that is to say, they were good people in life, they were good ghosts when they died, and they were bad ghosts when they died, but there are exceptions, if the resentment is too heavy when they die, they may also become powerful ghosts and harm people, but many times you can still reason with ghosts, unless the grudge is too deep." Grandpa said
This topic is really getting fresher and fresher, this can be reasoned with ghosts, and if you continue to talk about it, can you fall in love with ghosts? ~
"Can anyone see or touch ghosts?" Stop thinking about that nerve-wracking question, I'll ask something superficial
"There are many ways to see ghosts, such as boys and girls, or ghosts want you to see, or through Taoist spells, but there are only two kinds of people who can see and touch ghosts~" Grandpa said and stopped making a sound
"What two kinds of people?" It's starting to whet my appetite
"One is a person with an incomplete soul, and the other is a person with strong spiritual power." Grandpa said
"Am I not completely in my soul??" I always felt that the spirit or something had to be like the master fairy in the movie, so I naturally thought of the former, which really scared me.
"If there is something wrong with the soul, people will be demented. If there is something wrong with the soul, people will go crazy, their nerves will be scattered, they will not know shame, and they will be prone to incest. If there is something wrong with the soul, people are prone to illness. Which one do you see? Grandpa asked rhetorically
"No, grandpa, don't tease me, am I very spiritual?" I thought to myself, I haven't studied Taoism, learned spells or anything, and I still have spiritual power?
"Since you were a child, I have let you practice martial arts, meditate and stand on piles, and often throw you into the wild~" Speaking of this, grandpa paused and looked embarrassed, I know that grandpa loves me, but rarely shows it, grandpa continued
"In order to cultivate your aura, meditating and standing on the pile is to absorb the aura of heaven and earth, throwing you into the wild, is to absorb the aura of all living beings, and let you practice martial arts, in order to have a strong physique as a carrier of aura, more than ten years have passed, do you say your spiritual power is strong?" Grandpa asked me again
Oh~~ It turned out to be premeditated, and I have been cultivated in this direction since I was a child~
"Then why don't you teach me the spell directly, isn't that more direct~" I muttered with a little dissatisfaction in my heart
Grandpa also saw my dissatisfaction, and said softly: "I train you, I don't want you to follow in my footsteps, otherwise I wouldn't have come to this small mountain village to live in seclusion, I'm just worried that if one day I'm gone, you also have the ability to protect yourself when you encounter these things, after all, these are another world you have never set foot in, in fact, I don't want you to contact in my heart, and I don't want you to know, so let you go to study, and I also want you to stay in society, so you can live freely in the world you believe in, but it's a pity that I am willing to do, I still can't erase our shadow on you~~~" Grandpa said this, looking up at the sky sadly; It's just that I didn't notice that my grandfather was talking about "we" instead of "me".
Since I was a child, my grandfather never said these words to me, when my grandfather said that he was not there one day, my tears were already rolling in my eyes, yes, grandpa is already my only relative, I have always lived in my own world, but I never thought about how much the people around me have paid for me, how much grandpa has undertaken for me, thinking that these tears have unconsciously flowed out of my eyes, I was busy taking advantage of grandpa's inattention, raised my hand to wipe away the tears~
Grandpa also retracted his thoughts at this time, and then said: "Cultivating the Dharma must first cultivate the body, if you can't even control your own physical body, how can you control the spell, besides, all spells need to be based on the soul, otherwise, wouldn't anyone be able to cast a spell by reciting a few spells?" ”
From the beginning of the resistance, to now I feel more and more that what my grandfather said makes sense, I have just stepped into this unknown world, I still have a lot to learn, it can also be said to start from scratch, and then look at my grandfather I am full of admiration, and there is no doubt at all.
In this way, the things that happened before and after have been figured out, such as why my grandfather was able to provide me with his own strength, although I don't know the Tao, but there is still common sense, and I have played a lot in the movie, those mages help people solve some difficult demons and monsters, and the owner's family will definitely have to pay, and I am even more sad when I think of this.
I'm so young, such a good skill, I almost got into trouble when I fought with that ghost yesterday, grandpa is in his early sixties this year, can you imagine how much hardship I have suffered in order to protect me, in order to make money, in case I meet a powerful ghost, grandpa is not injured at such an age?
I still feel that I have a conscience before, so I think about it I am really wolf-hearted, I actually misunderstood my grandfather for so many years, and said that grandpa is a god stick behind my back, this will really want to give myself two slaps, the more I think about it, the more uncomfortable it is, I knelt straight in front of my grandfather.
"Grandpa, you teach me spells, I will raise you in the future, and I will protect you!" The tears could not be hidden, I looked up at my grandfather and said seriously.