The immortality pursued by cultivators is actually a process of "increasing yang and eliminating yin".

When it comes to the question of life, there are two paths before people to choose from.

People's life activities are maintained by essence, and those who are good at maintaining essence are immortal, otherwise they will have a short life. Longevity or short-livedness can only be chosen by the person himself.

In fact, it is not very difficult to live forever, the elixir is in the person himself, but the person himself does not know.

Everyone has an elixir, and they are all in vain. Everyone is born with an elixir, it's just that you yourself have lost your way and thrown away the elixir in vain.

What does this elixir refer to? It refers to the essence of the person himself.

The essence is born with yang qi, and the turbid qi and sick qi in the human body belong to yin.

If you don't know how to maintain your health, your yang energy is exhausted, and you become a pure yin body, then you are dead.

If you know how to maintain health, through cultivation, refine all the yin slag, and become a pure yang body, then you are an immortal, and an immortal has the longest life.

The ghosts are pure yin, and the immortals are pure yang. People are half yin and half yang, so they do not leave life and death.

Half of the lack of yin will become immortals, and half of the lack of yang will become ghosts, so people can be immortals and ghosts.

People are half-ghosts and half-immortals, in front of people, there are only two ways to go: one is the road to immortality, and the other is the short-lived road to death.

If the person chooses the path of immortality, then you must cultivate your own essence, because essence is the medicine of immortality.

Cultivating essence is the only right path to immortality, and remembering this sentence is very beneficial.

If people want to live a long and healthy life, they are absolutely inseparable from cultivating essence, and immortals and real people are also formed by the accumulation of essence. In the "Sutra", it is said: Immortals and Taoists are not gods, and they accumulate energy to become true.

Immortals have to accumulate energy, let alone ordinary people!

There are six immortal products, but in truth there are only five. One is called a human immortal. Immortals, refining the essence of the yuan and replenishing the vitality, in order to cultivate the foundation of immortals. However, he can be healthy, not separated from life and death, and this person is also an immortal.

Human immortals are refining the essence and replenishing the vitality, which is the most basic thing for cultivating immortals, and at the same time, it can also make people's bodies strong.

Human immortals are also human beings, why are they called immortals?

The Yuan Jing Yuan Qi of a human immortal is much more abundant than that of a person who does not cultivate, and its lifespan is much longer than that of a person who does not cultivate.

Immortals have the meaning of longevity, so they are called human immortals.

If you cultivate on the basis of human immortals, you can enter the realm of earth immortals.

The earth immortals, refining the vitality and knotting the inner dan, there is no danger of leakage, but the land people, do not leave the dust, and the immortals in this place are also.

The earth immortal refines the vitality and condenses the inner pill, and refines it into an inleakable body.

If you want to get married, you must refine your vitality. Dan, where the vitality is knotted, cultivates again, and enters the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

The immortals, refining the vitality and turning the original gods, have the magic of supernatural powers, water and fire are harmless, also known as narcissus, refining the gods and returning to the void, that is, the immortals.

Refining the god is still empty, literally, it is the yang god that is refined, but in fact, it is also qi that is refined.

The Yang God is the Qi Ear of the True One of the Void of Heaven and Earth.

Above, from human immortals to heavenly immortals, they are all cultivating Yuan Jing Yuanqi.

Depending on the stance of the station, the understanding of immortals will be different. For example, people often say: happiness is like longevity. The heart is chic is the immortal, the heart is not tired is the Tao, and the heart is selfless is the sacred.

What is an immortal? A healthy and immortal person is an immortal.

A long-lived person is open-minded, selfless, and free-spirited, which is not only a Tao, but also a saint, and an immortal.

If you want to live forever like an immortal, you can only cultivate the Yuan Jing Xuanqi. Yuan Jing Xuan Qi is yang, and the process of cultivating Yuan Jing Xuan Qi is the process of "increasing yang and eliminating yin".

"Heavenly Immortal Righteousness" said: "Eliminate a point of yin, so that a point of yang is added." Go to two, three, four, and five yin, and add two points, three points, four points, and five points yang. Gradually, the points will be earned to eliminate the ten yin, and add the ten yang, which is called pure yang. ”

Therefore, the ancients said: If the yang is not exhausted, it will not die, and if the yin is not exhausted, it will not be immortal. ”

Adding a point of yang, and at the same time eliminating a point of yin, this means that the immortal immortal is closer to a point, and the death is far away.

Add two points, three points, four points and five points of yang, and at the same time eliminate two points, three points, four points and five points of yin, which indicates that the immortal immortal is close to two points, three points, four points and five points, and for death, it is far away from two points, three points, four points and five points.

Gradually, the yin of the whole body is eliminated, and the body of pure yang is eliminated, and the ultimate goal of immortality is achieved.

The process of cultivating essence qi is the process of health and longevity, and as long as you stick to it, you will definitely live much longer than the average person.

Mysticism in Taoism is an important part of the Daoist belief system that cannot be ignored, which is related to both the theory of "Dao" and the practice of "Shu", and even the entire Daomen can be integrated into the mystical experience of Daomen practitioners.

Here, starting from mysticism, step by step into the mystical experience of Taoist practitioners.

Mysticism is a very common phenomenon, and it is not difficult to find its shadow in secular life, and it is even more common in the religious world.

In the broadest sense, people usually classify such a phenomenon as mysticism, that is, the objects that people face, the things they experience, the feelings they experience, and so on cannot be described or explained by empirical common sense or rational reasoning, and are beyond the realm of human grasp.

Even when people hear a certain song or a certain word, they suddenly realize or have an epiphany, and they feel like waking up from a dream.

The simplest form of mysticism seems to be the sense that sometimes one gets at a glance a deeper understanding of the meaning of an aphorism or a formula.

Such a form of mysticism is not surprising, both in people's everyday lives and in the context of higher religious experiences, because it is such a broad concept.

However, the narrow meaning of mysticism seems to limit the scope to the realm of religion, and one of the more popular views is that mysticism is a mystical experience of encountering, being, and being one with God, and is a mystical state of consciousness.

The core or key to mysticism is the mystical experience, which is an advanced form of religious experience in which the subject feels the presence of God or some ultimate reality that leads to the expansion of consciousness and the sense of transcendence of the everyday world.

Even religion is equal to personal religion there, equal to personal experience, and with personal feeling and taste for sacred objects, true religion will arise, and if the individual loses communication with the gods, loses his personal sense of the sacred, religion will not exist.

Divine power originated from a direct personal connection with the gods, and it was here that personal mystical experiences were elevated to the highest point of religion and became the basis for the establishment of religion.

However, the object of mystical experience, that is, the supernatural, superhuman ultimate reality, is relative, and the culture in which the experiencer lives and the experiences he has had are referred to and interpreted differently.

Tao is the highest state of Taoism, so attaining Taoism has become the ultimate goal pursued by Taoists.

So what exactly does this "Tao" look like, and how can we "attain the Tao"?

These two questions form the crux of the entire Daomen system, and become the source of Daomen mysticism, and the root of Daomen's efforts to pursue mystical experiences.

Mysticism is a discipline that combines spiritual practice with esoteric knowledge, and is a personal religion that rises to the highest level.

This definition of mysticism is perhaps best suited to Taoism, not only because the theoretical knowledge of the Tao is mystical, but also because the practice of how to attain the Tao is more mysterious than that of other religions. In Daomen, the former is called "Dao" and the latter is called "Shu".

It seems to be an indisputable fact that the original meaning of the philosophy pursued by Daomen is derived from Taoist philosophy.

Although the understanding of the Tao is diverse in different periods and different theories, these interpretive states do not go beyond the scope of the interpretation of Taishang Laojun's philosophical system.

In the "Sutra", he described the "Tao" in clear and trance-like words: "The Tao is the Tao, and it is very Tao...... Xuanzhi and Xuan, the door of all wonders", "It is said to be formless, the image of nothing, it is said to be trance, and the first is not seen, and then it is not seen" "There are things mixed, born congenitally, lonely, independent and unchanging, circumferential and not dead, can be the mother of the world." I don't know its name, the strong word is called the Tao, and the name of the strong is called great", "The Tao gives birth to one, one life to two, two to three, three to all things" and so on.

Trying to define "Dao" based on these words of Taishang Laojun is probably just futile. He seems to express the whole of the Tao, but he doesn't seem to say anything.

As a metaphysical creator, "Dao" is the ontology of all things, the law of the operation of all things, the whole universe, the sum and unity of heaven, earth and man, the spontaneity of nature and traces, the creation of all things and the absorption of all things, and it is the ontology, creation, naturalness and regularity of "Tao" that has become the theoretical foundation on which Taoism can rely on.

However, how can metaphysical language define the slightest trace of metaphysical means that exist and do not exist?

The indescribability is where the mystery of the Tao lies, and it gives a philosophical basis to the mystical experience in the Dao.

The same mystery and trance also provide the ultimate possibility of becoming one with the Tao and becoming an immortal, since any word is superfluous, incompatible, and insufficient, then it becomes natural for the soul to experience and strive to become one with the Tao.