Chapter 87: Spiritual Cultivation and Survivability
Under the repeated persuasion of Yao Guangxiao, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, gradually mustered up the courage and raised troops to overthrow his nephew Emperor Jianwen, so that the Ming Dynasty was in control of his hands. It can be said that without this Yao Guangxiao, there would be no Zhu Di's rebellion, and if there was no Zhu Di's rebellion, Zhu Di would not be the emperor. Then, the rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty will naturally be passed on among the descendants of Emperor Jianwen, if that is the case, the number of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty will be much longer.
But because Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather did not successfully put the bones of the ancestors of the Liu family into the mouth of the stone rhinoceros, Liu Xianshi was destined to find ways to take revenge on the Zhu family. Although Zhu Yuanzhang became the Son of Heaven, it was already a fixed number and could not be changed, but the Liu family still used various ways to subtly damage the descendants of the Zhu family and the Zhu family.
After listening to the words of the old monk, Emperor Jianwen suddenly realized that there was such a complex and incredible reason behind the catastrophe he had suffered, which was really incredible.
Unconsciously, it was nearly midnight, and there was a faint sound of drums in the distance, and the monks paid attention to "not eating at noon", so the two of them stopped eating dinner after eating the noon fast, although Emperor Jianwen was not a real monk, but just used the identity of a monk to cover his escape, but the precept of "not eating at noon", he also tried to go to the body in the past two years.
Although there was no dinner, the two of them were more refreshing and light, and although it was late at night, the two of them were still talking with great interest, without the slightest tiredness.
Although the old monk said so much, Emperor Jianwen still didn't hear from it about the life experience and origin of this old monk. So he still stubbornly asked: "Master, although you have talked so much, you still haven't told me, what is your origin?"
The old monk did not detour again this time, but replied categorically: "I am not someone else, but Yao Guangxiao's junior brother."
After hearing this, Emperor Jianwen almost fell off his chair Yao Guangxiao, it was this person who made his uncle make up his mind to rebel, this monk was the culprit of this qiē tragedy, and the junior brother of this person who had a deep hatred for him turned out to be this old monk!
But no matter how you look at it, Emperor Jianwen didn't find out that this old monk had any ill will towards him. The old monk also saw Emperor Jianwen's worry, so he smiled and said: "Your Majesty, please don't worry, although we are brothers in the same school, but we have always been at odds, I especially hate him, the worldly heart of pursuing fame and fortune is immortal, and when we were studying the same art, we both have our own strengths, he is proficient in strategy, and the art of arranging troops to arrange the emperor, and I am good at escaping, the method of surviving in danger." It was precisely because of our different talents that the master taught us these different skills according to our aptitude."
"The way to escape, the way to survive in danger? What are these methods, I hope the master will teach you."
The old monk smiled slightly and explained: "The world is so difficult and dangerous, how can you turn danger into danger, protect yourself in danger, and retreat unscathed, this is a university question, and it is also the most important way to achieve a qiē career, just imagine, if you can't resolve the danger, and make yourself die early, then a qiē ambition, ambition, it will not be able to achieve."
Emperor Jianwen nodded thoughtfully as he listened.
The old monk continued: "Since ancient times, there are only two people who can really become the son of heaven from a grass people, one is Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and the other is the Emperor Taizu of this dynasty, and that Liu Bang still has fields at home, and he has also been a small official, so there is only one emperor who can really change from a grass people to a grass man in just a few decades, and in just a few decades, there is only Emperor Taizu of this dynasty."
Why was the great grandfather of this dynasty able to go from the bottom, after countless close fights, and countless hardships, not only did he not die, but he could also become the emperor? Of course, it can be said to be a fate, but the fate is not a source of water, the end of no root, the grandfather must have his superiority in terms of escape and survival, in order to have such a fate.
I once heard a veteran soldier who had fought with his grandfather say that at that time, his grandfather was just like him, but he was just an ordinary soldier, but he was very different from other soldiers in many details: for example, when resting between marches or battles, no matter how tired he was, his grandfather always rested against a low wall or a stone wall, and never exposed his back.
There are other details, for example, he always holds the handle of the waist knife tightly in his right hand, and almost even when eating and sleeping, he keeps his hand on the handle of the knife, and whenever he is fine, he will repeatedly practice how to use the fastest speed to pull out the waist knife to defend himself and counterattack the enemy. Once, the grandfather was still a small boss at the time, one day he and the other three small leaders came to a military camp, unexpectedly, the soldiers of this military camp had already rebelled, just waiting for the grandfather and the four of them to appear at the gate of the camp, seven or eight rebels suddenly pulled out their knives and stabbed, although the three small leaders did not have to be as bad as the grandfather, but before they pulled out the knife, they had been pierced by the rebel sword, only the grandfather, because of the good habits he usually cultivated, actually pulled out the waist knife in his right hand at an astonishing speed, and defended the stabbing sword, Then, after quickly cutting down the two of them, he turned over and successfully escaped.
Later, as I had done the previous times, when I wrote an e-mail to Yang Hui about this very interesting detail, he still wrote a letter very quickly, and wrote a essay-like article on the great role of habit formation and spiritual mobilization in survival, the full text of the e-mail is as follows:
Repeated practice of skills, can save lives at critical moments, first tell a real case, this case is from a book called "oncombat", this book is the authoritative American study of the psychological state of soldiers (or other law enforcement officers) in combat:
The author's father was a police officer, and this father never left his gun. And every time the policeman's father goes for a walk with his wife, he has a habit that most people don't understand to always have his wife on his left. And often practice with his wife, such as in an emergency, let his wife pull his left arm, and then he quickly pulled out the gun. These habits are really weird.
One day, the father and his wife were visiting the supermarket as usual. Suddenly, the wife noticed a man standing not far from them, looking at them with a fierce look in his eyes, as if he was drawing a weapon, so she subconsciously pulled her husband's left arm, and the husband was also accustomed to quickly draw the gun with his right hand. It turned out that the person who was going to attack them was a criminal that his father had arrested in his early years, and after he was released from prison, he came back to take revenge. Because of the usual training of this policeman's father, he was able to take out his gun and shoot back in time at this time, and it was this habit that saved his life.
In a dangerous state, it is not precisely the brain that reacts, but the long-term habits and instincts. Because there is simply no time for you to think. And in the face of great danger, the human body will be in an extremely tense state under high pressure, and in this state, many actions of the human body will not be controlled by the mind at all.
There is such a case, also in the United States:
An American police officer was alone at home one day fiddling with a gun, but accidentally misfired and hit himself in the leg, causing him to bleed profusely. If the bleeding is not stopped in time, you may die. Under the physical and psychological factors such as fear, nervousness, and pain, something unexpected happened, and he wanted to dial 911 for help, but every time he dialed 411! Why? Because he usually dialed 411 and never dialed 911. In this extreme situation, the movements of the body are no longer at the command of the brain, and they only respond according to the habits they have accumulated in their daily lives. In the end, the officer had to say to the operator of 411 "I am a police officer and accidentally shot myself with a gun, please help me contact the 911 ?????".
Therefore, when a child is alone at home, if he is also in an imminent danger situation, it is better to say that he is trying to break into the door and he has not practiced calling 911 beforehand, it is difficult for him to complete this seemingly simple action in this situation.
An American soldier who participated in the Vietnam War once described his combat experience as follows:
On the battlefield, when faced with danger, I was always able to react correctly, which surprised even me. These reactions on the battlefield seem to be completely instinctive, and they don't think about it at all. In retrospect, this qiē was the result of my usual long-term training.
Only if you practice in advance, you can play at critical moments. An American veteran said it well: You don't expect to do a move you've never practiced on the battlefield. We often say that "sweat more in peacetime, and bleed less in wartime", which is also the meaning. However, the actions of ordinary training must take into account actual combat, and if the training does not take into account actual combat, it will be "very serious".
The FBI in the United States once had a popular kind of training: after firing two shots in a row, quickly insert the gun into the holster on the waist, and then take it out and shoot, and so on. At first, no one thought that there was a problem with this kind of training, which trained both shooting and drawing guns, killing two birds with one stone, how good.
But soon, the consequences of this type of training appeared: an FBI officer who was trained in this kind of shooting, after two shots with a criminal, did not shoot continuously, but unconsciously but naturally inserted the gun into his waist, just like normal training! At the critical moment of life and death, it was this action that killed him.