Chapter 56: Mindfulness

It is said that as long as you read the first volume of the Ghost Sutra in great detail and regulate your internal breath according to the steps recorded in the scripture, you will be able to refine your mental awareness, but why don't I feel it at all?

In the next few days, Qiao Sanye deliberately slowed down the car, the car stopped and stopped, and every time he arrived in a city, he would stop and rest for a while.

He did this at the behest of my master, who said that he would take advantage of the little time he had left to let me feel what I had learned from the Ghost Sutra.

I asked Master, what did I learn from the Ghost Sutra?

Master said that he had never read the Ghost Sutra, so he knew what I could learn from it.

However, he also said that now, my internal breath is very different from the past, whether it is in the cultivation circle or in other circles, I have never seen such a law of internal breath, the key is that this internal breath is strange and not chaotic, no, not just chaotic, but stable and frightening.

How stable is it? In my master's words, if I only listened to the inner breath, I would not be like a living person, but like a stone statue standing still.

It's weird, I didn't notice anything abnormal about my internal breath!

It wasn't until two days later that I finally noticed something unusual.

In my perception, it was as if there were two streams of time in this world.

Let's describe it this way, when we watch a movie, we occasionally encounter a situation where the sound and the picture do not correspond, and the picture is played before the sound appears, which makes the whole film look particularly awkward.

My current feeling is very similar to the mismatch between film and sound when watching a movie.

The difference is that I am ahead of my sight and hearing, and my sense of touch is lagging.

For example, if I tap a table with my hand, I will first see my fingers fall on the table, hear the hard sound of the table when it is struck, and then feel my fingers fall on the table.

The difference between the time before and after is about 0.1 second, and it is difficult to detect the anomaly if you don't feel it carefully.

I've tried a lot and found that every time it's the same, no matter what I touch, the touch always comes a little bit slower.

At this time, I finally understood that in the Ghost Sutra, "the heart is not in vain in the red dust, and the vanity is separated in an instant." What does that mean.

My physical body is still in this yang world, but my consciousness is a moment ahead of this world.

What I saw and heard was what the world looked like after a fraction of a second, and what I touched was the world itself.

When I first realized this, I was almost stunned.

This consciousness seems to be able to transcend the shackles of this world.

It took me three days to recover from the shock and begin to try to adjust to the disconnection that comes with my mind.

Since the sense of disconnection itself is not too strong, I quickly got used to this feeling of touch being a little slower than my eyes and ears.

After that, I went to Master again and had a brief discussion with Master.

I don't have to think about it, and the loser against Master will definitely be me, I just want to see if my mind can be applied to actual combat.

It turns out that it can.

When I fought with Master, it was as if I could see the future, and I could see his next move every time.

It's just that Master's speed is too fast, even if I can see his movements in advance, I can't make a perfect response at the same moment, after a fight, my fighting style has not changed much from before, and the way I lose has not changed much compared to before.

But I'm already very content, in the past, I could only take two or three moves at most under the master's hands, but today I have carried five moves.

Even Master said that I was making rapid progress.

Another important use of mental awareness is that it can give me better perception when I practice magic.

In the past, when I practiced magic, I would always encounter some so-called bottlenecks, and once I encountered a bottleneck, I would always be a little discouraged in my heart, and I could only rely on a breath of resilience to persist in my cultivation.

But now when I encounter bottlenecks, I always have a very confident feeling in my heart, and I always feel that breaking through these bottlenecks is what I am best at, no matter how difficult it is, as long as I put a little effort into it, I can finally break it.

For me in the past, practicing was the same as doing homework, I didn't want to do it, but I had to do it.

Now for me, it has become a pleasure, as if I was born for this.

It's not self-hypnosis, it's that something has changed in my heart.

Since I got used to the "jet lag" brought about by my mind, as long as I don't sleep and eat, I either temper my mental power repeatedly, or release my mental power and practice the techniques taught by my master, or I will tackle key problems with the techniques that I am not familiar with.

Seeing my various actions, Qiao Sanye would always ask my master with anxiety: "Xiao Dongzi shouldn't be a demon from practicing martial arts, why don't you know how to rest all day long?" ”

Every time I heard Third Master Qiao say this, Master just smiled at me: "You still have to rest when it's time to rest, don't burn your body." ”

At first, I thought Master was just saying this casually, and I didn't take his words to heart, but after tossing and turning for so many days, my head began to swell and ache.

I was scared, so I asked Master if I had gone mad.

Master said that people like me, who have too strong concentration and can learn everything faster than others, are also prone to neuropathic headaches because of the endless overuse of the brain.

Since then, I have had the habit of carrying an alarm clock with me, focusing on one thing for more than 50 minutes, and stopping and resting as soon as the alarm clock goes off.

Such a combination of work and rest can greatly improve efficiency.

Here I also recommend that you try this way of working, but adjust the time, every 25 minutes, take a 5-minute break, every 4 25 minutes, and take a 10-20 minute break.

By paying your full attention at work, relaxing during breaks, and not doing anything that fatigues you, you'll find that your work becomes easier and your productivity is at least tripled.

The key to this approach lies in those eight words.

Give your full attention and relax completely.

From the mountain city to the city where Jingyun Mountain is located, it was originally only about two days by car, but with the unremitting efforts of Qiao Sanye, we walked this road for nine days.

When we arrived at the small town where Jingyun Mountain is located, the sky was already dark, and this place was much more prosperous than the mountain town we lived in before, even if it was dark at night, we could still see many pedestrians on the road.

The car drove uphill, and Qiao Sanye said while changing gears for the car: "Do you really want to put the two of them in the other courtyard?" ”

Along the way, I always heard Master say that when we arrived at Jingyun Mountain, he and Qiao Sanye were going to do something very important, and there was no way to take me and Lu Shengcai with him, so he decided to send us to a place called "Shanmen Courtyard", where someone would take care of the food and daily life of the two of us. However, Master also said that in the future, he would go to the other hospital every morning to supervise my morning exercises, and no matter what, the morning exercises must not be delayed.

I actually don't really care about what Master and Third Master Qiao are going to do, anyway, as long as I can see Master every day, no matter where I live, it's the same for me.

As long as there is a Master, it is home.

Master nodded: "Right now, there is nowhere else to go except for the Shanmen Courtyard." ”

Qiao Sanye was not very relieved: "Is the surname Lu reliable?" ”

Master sighed: "If it weren't for the Earth Sect back then, Senior Brother Yunsheng should have been my own senior brother, and the relationship between the two of us is not as weak as it seems." ”