Chapter 17: An Epiphany
Lin Hai finally paid 30,000 yuan, but after receiving the membership login code and selling the relevant textbooks, he did not rush back, but found a hotel to live in outside the three stations of Sanqingguan, and then went to Sanqingguan every day to take classes, which was still the idea given by the graduate student who helped Lin Hai sign up.
In fact, the Sanqingguan didn't fall into the eyes of money, and they didn't see Lin Hai's class, and the Taoist in charge of teaching didn't even give Lin Hai a look of contempt, so they said that they were the ones who were masters.
However, Lin Hai still has some opinions on the Taoist master who took the class, the Taoist who teaches fitness exercises is normal, but the Taoist who teaches Taoist classics has some minor problems, in Lin Hai's impression, the monk is fat and the Taoist is thin, this is common sense, but the Taoist who teaches Lin Hai and others is not thin but fat and round.
Looking at the big fat man standing on the podium, if he wasn't wearing a Taoist robe and an eight-sided hat, how could he look at this more like a success mentor, that is, the kind commonly known as a liar, this strong sense of disobedience often makes Lin Hai play, and he can't deeply understand the Taoist classics that this fat Taoist priest is talking about.
Besides, the dozen or so classmates in the same class are even more strange, among them there are old men and women in their seventies and eighties, which is the most normal, and there is a young woman who looks like a fine score, and what is even more strange is that there are two foreigners, curly-haired and dark-skinned international friends who reverently chant Mandarin that Lin Hai does not understand.
And then there's the teaching content of the fat Taoist, basically, this one is reading from the book, but he added some more vivid and well-known examples, plus vivid expressions and tones, so that the content that is not brilliant seems more interesting and easier to understand, but this understanding is the understanding of the fat Taoist, not inferior to these students.
When the class ended, it was even more speechless, and the questions asked by these students made Lin Hai feel as if he had signed up for a fake Taoist training class, otherwise how could that aunt ask Guanyin Bodhisattva if he could worship with Daode Tianzun? There is also the recitation of the Tao Te Ching in the morning, whether you can recite the Lotus Sutra in the evening, and so on.
However, Lin Hai did not give up, he felt that he should still persevere, thinking that the monkey back then was different and had to go through the training before he had to teach the true scriptures, perhaps, he would gain something if he persevered a little longer? At the very least, it would be good to find out whether there are any real Dao masters in these three clear views.
However, thinking of Ye Xuexin, who never urged himself, but always cared about himself, Lin Hai sighed secretly, and decided to replace him for two more days, if there was still no progress, he would go back first, maybe he thought too simple at the time, whether it was Taoism or Tantra, if there is really a secret method to strengthen the soul, I am afraid that these two are no longer the current situation, in the end, their methods may not be what they want, the soul that the two say is literal, but the connotation is fundamentally different.
After walking for a while, Lin Hai leisurely retracted his scattered thoughts, and just happened to hear the fat Taoist priest Taishang foaming at the mouth and talking about the "Getaway" in the "Nanhua Sutra".
"Zhuangzi said that there is a fish named Kun in the North Underworld, its length does not know how many thousand miles, and it turns into Peng, and the breadth of its back does not know how many thousand miles, does it sound very exaggerated? So is Zhuangzi fictional or has he really seen Kunpeng? No one knows this, Zhuangzi also said that sitting in the fighting room, the god flies thousands of miles, perhaps, he has really seen a fish thousands of miles in a certain place..."
Lin Hai pouted, is Nima talking about myths or classics? The getaway is not a classic of mountains and seas, and Zhuangzi is just fictionalizing these things to tell his philosophical thoughts... Hey? Wait, why do you think this picture is so familiar!
Living in the fighting room and flying thousands of miles? Isn't that the same as the black cat!
Also, Zhuangzi said that Dream Butterfly, what is the difference between this scene and when he entered the dungeon!!
No way!!!
Lin Hai felt as if he had discovered some amazing secret!
Could it be that those aliens were more than 2,000 years ago... A hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period! The cultural prosperity of the Tang and Song dynasties! And also...
Lin Hai's head was running at high speed, quickly connecting these seemingly unrelated dots, and then he was shocked to find that as long as the black cat was substituted into it, everything seemed so reasonable and appropriate.
After a long time, aliens have been partying on the earth two thousand years earlier or even earlier, and the more academic and cultural heyday, the more active the aliens may be.
Lin Hai thought about it and broke out in a cold sweat, but soon he realized that what he had discovered was not a great secret, if his guesses were true, then the same kind of black cat should be regarded as one of the earthlings, if people wanted to harm the earth, they would have already done enough, why wait for today.
But it's really interesting to think about, maybe every epoch-making giant on the earth has the shadow of an alien behind it, and thinking that he may be barely the same kind as them, Lin Hai can't help but feel a sense of honor.
If this is true, then the classics left by Zhuangzi, no, no matter which one they are, as long as they are handed down from generation to generation, I am afraid that they are worth savoring carefully, and they may hide their perceptions and metaphors for aliens, parallel worlds, and souls.
In the past few days, Lin Hai has really read a lot of Taoist classics, in addition to the "Book of Changes" that is completely incomprehensible, Lin Hai has read through the classics such as the Tao Te Ching and the Nanhua Sutra more than once, and at this moment there are doubts, Lin Hai searched in his mind, and found that there are really a lot of difficult to understand or absurd content in these classics, but once he uses his own guess to interpret it, it immediately becomes extremely reasonable and true.
However, what makes Lin Hai strange is that no matter which classic book does not mention any statement about the soul garden, the things that are related to the soul are often 'Yuan Shen', 'God' and 'Dan', and what is combined with these is the cultivation of qi, transportation, meridians and viscera, and the most famous is of course the theoretical system of 'refining and refining qi, refining Qi and returning to God, refining God and rejecting emptiness'.
Did you guess wrong? These ancient sages are not like themselves, didn't they get the help of aliens to understand the truth of the soul and the world?
Lin Hai carefully thought about what the black cat once said, he once said that the soul garden is just a kind of concrete, and the reason why the concrete becomes a concrete image must be because this concrete composite itself Some concepts, maybe in ancient times people did not have this concept of the soul garden, but paid more attention to their own body, and body worship was a very common thing in ancient times, so could it be that the soul of ancient people was embodied by their own body?
A fictional body, as well as the fictional meridians and viscera, as well as the Qi that runs in it, are essentially the same thing as the plants and flowers in the garden of the soul, as well as the flounder animals!
Looking back at the Taoist cultivation system, refining and refining qi, isn't this strengthening memory and will? Refining Qi to return to God, this is probably the integration of just the system, strengthening the three views and improving the thinking ability, refining the gods and reversing the void, probably to obtain soul energy, right?
Lin Hai couldn't help but be a little excited when he thought of this!
This excitement Lin Hai woke up from his contemplation, he subconsciously reached out and pressed the classics on the desktop, wanting to open it and verify it carefully, but as soon as his eyes opened, a huge fat face suddenly popped out of his vision!
Lin Hai was frightened, and the hairs on his body stood up, fortunately, Lin Hai's soul was still very strong, and there were ten points, so he didn't lose his temper, but subconsciously dodged backwards.
The big face also pulled back, and then laughed:
"I'm sorry, it's the poor road that shocked Lin Jushi."
Lin Hai was stunned when he heard this, only to find that the big face in front of him turned out to belong to the fat Taoist:
"Ah, no, no, what's the matter with that Dao Chief... Hey, why is it getting dark, is it going to rain? ”
After Lin Hai finished speaking, he realized that something was wrong, not only was the sky much darker, but what was even more strange was that the surrounding classmates were gone? Are you dreaming now?!
"Hehe, it seems that Lin Jushi really had an epiphany, and it is already ten in the evening."
Lin Hai opened his mouth wide in surprise:
"Huh?! How so? I just..."
"Lin Jushi thinks he's just thinking about it for a while, right?"
The fat Taoist pulled a chair from the side with a smile, and sat opposite Lin Hai with a curious face, Lin Hai nodded, and at the same time quickly thought about countermeasures in his heart, it is estimated that this fat Taoist priest wants to take something out of his mouth, but Lin Hai can't tell him what he guessed just now.
The fat Taoist priest naturally saw Lin Hai's wandering eyes, and continued with a smile:
"Lin Jushi, an epiphany is a great opportunity that I can't ask for, in fact, Poor Dao is very curious, what did Lin Jushi have an epiphany in my class? Of course, it doesn't matter if Lin Jushi doesn't want to say it, Poor Dao is just pure curiosity. ”
Lin Hai looked at the fat Taoist priest and pursed his lips lightly with disdain, although this thing said that he didn't care, but what was the undisguised expectation on his face? Even the smile on the corner of his mouth hid something else, Lin Hai was convinced that if he didn't say something, this fat Taoist priest would probably never give up.
"This... Actually, it wasn't much, but I just thought of something about the essence of Taoism. ”
"Oh? The essence of Taoism, can Lin Jushi talk about it carefully, so that the poor Tao can also get some benefits. ”
Lin Haigan laughed and said:
"I'm all cranky, if the Taoist doesn't mind me talking nonsense, I'll talk to the Taoist chief."
"Hehe, Taoists are not those bald heads, who can accommodate everything in the world, let alone the words of a family."
Lin Hai nodded and said with a serious face:
"After this period of study, as well as my own thoughts, I feel that the essence of Taoism is actually an 'attitude'."
"Attitude?"
"Yes, attitude, an attitude that looks at the world and embraces all things. Putting aside the philosophical theories and more specific methodological epistemologies in the many texts, the most essential purpose of the Taoist texts is to make us look at things from the perspective of the whole world, well, how to put it, if we have this attitude, then our experience and conclusion of the world and our own destiny will be different. Of course, my ideas are still very superficial, but I think the true meaning of Taoism is for us to face everything with a more detached and peaceful attitude. Actually, I just thought of this, and I can't say it, but the Taoist chief smiled. ”
The fat Taoist priest looked at Lin Hai with some amusement, and paused for a moment before laughing:
"Lin Jushi has a discerning eye, and he is indeed very suitable for cultivation, and other laymen and Taoist friends, the poor Dao will not say this, since Lin Jushi has an epiphany, then the poor Dao will talk to Lin Jushi, in general, Lin Jushi's statement is also not right."
"Huh? What does this say? ”