Chapter 600: New Discoveries
Fang Tian originally agreed with everyone that he would put a copy of "My Thoughts on Cultivation" in the Library Pavilion, but now the title of this book has been changed to "Forty-three Rules of Gossip".
These forty-three are indeed reflections on spiritual practice, and each of them is a thoughtful proposal to cut into the practice of the apprenticeship stage and the Dharma stage, but it is not the same as the original predetermined positioning.
"My thoughts on spiritual practice" should be a systematic thing, and "gossip" is really just gossip.
It's not that it can't be written systematically, but Fang Tian suddenly felt that this topic, this book, maybe shouldn't be written by him alone, and in the future, it would be better to let every member of the association, including apprentices and mages, participate in this construction.
For example, let's formulate a topic, "What do you think is the most important thing in practice, or in practice?"
Fang Tian will have Fang Tian's opinion.
The crowd will have the opinion of the crowd.
The apprentice will have the opinion of the apprentice, and the mage will have the opinion of the mage.
Different qualifications, different backgrounds, different experiences, and different levels, this kind of "difference" brings together the "most important thing in cultivation", which is more interesting.
Compared with Fang Tian's own "true knowledge and insight", it is much more interesting.
These many people, on this issue, do not need to communicate, do not collide, do not need to influence each other, they just need to come up with their own determination. But in the end, these conclusions must be repeated, intersected, and then converged into one, two, three, four, five, six.
Summing up these points is actually the general outline of practice.
Later cultivators, no matter who they are, as long as they get this general outline, can sift through and extract it and condense their own cultivation path.
Such a book. The number of words will not be too much, maybe it can only be called a "small book", but it is such a small book, which will be qualified to accompany a magician from a young apprentice who is new to magic, and then level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Then the new mage, the first dharma, the middle dharma, and the high dharma.
Maybe until the Archmage.
A book, a lifetime companion.
And a cultivator has such a book. That's enough.
From the perspective of the association, such a book is conducive to generating cohesion and creating a sense of belonging.
From Fang Tian's personal point of view, on the one hand. It was he who came to appreciate more and more, as a captain. "Gathering the crowd" is the most important. On the other hand. It is Fang Tian himself, who is gradually moving towards purity.
A tree, some people see its tall or strong trunk, some people see its many or striking branches, some people see its thick leaves, some people see its brilliant flowers.
But there are people who will see it. The roots that lie deep underground.
There can be two stems, hundreds of branches, thousands of leaves, and ten thousand flowers.
And the root must be one.
Back to it. Fang Tiancai found that along the way, as his cultivation progressed, he had actually been consciously or unconsciously approaching this "one".
"Establishing the world, traveling the world, and passing through the world" is close.
"The original heart, the dust heart, and the Tao heart" are close.
The "cross practice system" is close.
"The way of yin and yang" is also close.
If he goes on like this, one day, he will really find that root, touch that one, and then give birth to two, two to three, and three to all things, holding one can know the world, and holding one can walk the world.
This one, this one, is not "reason", but "Tao".
"Reason", thousands of years in the previous life, what should be said, the world has already explained thoroughly. And what runs in the world is not "reason", there is "reason" all over the world, that is the biggest lie.
Let's talk about Su Dongpo, who is familiar to many people.
This person is born extraordinary, he belongs to that kind of genius and is super genius, and what is even more powerful is that he is also very knowledgeable, talented + learned, that is, he is both talented and rich.
Such a person is like a sharp sword, and learning is like a heavy axe.
A sword is cleaved, the water is broken, an axe is cut down, the mountain collapses, under this sword and axe, no one in the world can stop it, no one can resist it.
But this is the same person, in his first term as an official, he was impeached by his superiors...... Impeached...... Impeached......
When a boss impeaches a subordinate, the boss must be small and incompetent.
Needless to say, the amount is small.
Let's just say incompetent, you say that you have to be incompetent to what kind of Cheng dù before you can think of "impeaching" your subordinates? Can't you just call him over and slap him?
But through this record, it can also be seen that His Excellency Su Dongpo must have done something that made this boss unbearable.
What's the matter?
Its practical toes can also guess, it must be that this Excellency prides himself on being able to learn both, and then he feels that the truth is in his hands.
As a result, it is a talented person who does not know it, and he does not need to learn for many generations.
Of course, he can't think that the "world" doesn't use him, but that this boss doesn't use him.
If this is the only case, it may indeed be that there is a problem with this boss, but later it turns out that it is indeed the "world" that does not need him.
The world can't tolerate him.
And the key is the "way" of this world.
In terms of "reason", not to mention his era, even in all eras, there may not be a few people who can talk about him, because there are many talented people and many learned people, but there are really not many people like him who are both talented and learned.
But if this world is "reasonable," for an individual, what do you have to work hard for, what do you have to struggle, what do you have to struggle, and what do you have to hold a certain position?
The truth is that there is a "bit" to make sense.
In other words, there is a way to make sense.
In fact, in layman's terms, this Tao is "justice", the Tao that everyone or at least most people agree on.
It's not just fists.
It's not just words, either.
It's something more subtle, something that everyone practices every day without knowing it.
It's a lofty goal, and it may end up being nothing. Therefore, for Fang Tian at the moment, there are only two things to do, one is the director, and the other is cultivation.
Directors, take care of things around you, from those close to you. to the closer people, to the estranged, one, two, three, four, five, so on.
Cultivation is to go on without hesitation in the four aspects of the cross practice system. The reason why we say that we are looking for the "Tao" is why we are looking for it? It is not to seek hardships for ourselves, but to cultivate the need.
This need, Fang Tian thought of it, this was the big stone that stood in front of his cultivation system. But for now, it's not urgent, this stone is still far away from him.
At the moment, he only needs to "clear his heart".
Grind yourself and precipitate yourself little by little. Let the consciousness be pure, let the spiritual power be pure. Let the heart be pure. And then also let the body pure.
These four are both four things and one thing.
There are two if there is one, there are three if there are two, and there are four if there are three.
And to put all four of these together is his practice.
It's still night.
Twilight shrouds the four fields. Fang Tian hung his hands and stood quietly on one of the countless large and small interlaced mountain ranges on the periphery of the Great Plains of the Association, with the starry sky above his head, the valley under his feet, and the breeze around him.
Fang Tian's mind was in his mind at this time. But there are no stars, no streams, and no wind.
A piece of tranquility, a clear pulse.
It was the elemental world that Eric Andy Pat had felt when the three of them were connected with their spiritual powers, but unlike their simple and superficial feelings, as the master, Fang Tian's feelings were undoubtedly much deeper.
In fact, the so-called "feeling" also means that the whole body and mind are immersed.
If you want to study it carefully, such an experience still comes from that "knowing the sea".
Although Fang Tian said that he didn't care about it, he still cherished many things it brought, whether it was the "Great Dao" or the "My Dao", or just the big lake in the sea of knowledge, the things that were given to him by the Cun Zài in the "dream".
Fang Tian didn't enter the sea of knowledge a few times.
But the clarity and tranquility of the lake are deeply remembered.
And now, when his cultivation was on the right track, moving forward step by step, and reaching a certain level, the image of the lake finally turned into the image of the water element that he felt.
The inside and outside finally blended together.
Now, he didn't have to enter the sea of knowledge, he only had the water element that spread between heaven and earth, as if he had felt and touched the lake very naturally.
Thinking of the time when he met him in a "dream", there was a stream, there was a fog, and finally, he gave him this lake.
And this lake, now, is connected to his understanding of the water element.
Fang Tian even had an extremely strange guess in his heart, was that Cun Zài a kind of Cun Zài similar to comprehending and mastering the "Water Elemental Heart"?
Further, is the water element among the four elements the source of this world's metamorphosis?
One of the Four Origins?
Thinking of the identity of the Cun Zài in this world, Fang was naïve and conjectured.
In fact, at this stage, Fang Tian had been carrying out the "Starlight Cultivation Method".
That is, through the contemplation of the mind, feeling the penetration of starlight like rain and mist in the meridians, but this cultivation method, or this feeling, gradually changed in terms of the process, and suddenly in terms of the result.
This change is that the starlight suddenly broke through the blockade of the meridians, not only penetrating in the meridians, but also penetrating through the meridians and penetrating into the entire body.
This kind of infiltration immediately dragged Fang Tian into the world of the water element.
It's as if the whole body, the whole mind, is beginning to "melt".
Fang Tian felt that he was like a withered leaf falling into the lake, this was a withered and withered yellow leaf, which was infiltrated, began to stretch, and became rejuvenated, and the veins in the leaf became more and more clear.
Before, it was only when he was cultivating that he could feel the existence of this vein, that is, the meridians.
But now, at any time, even in normal times, I can feel it clearly.
It doesn't matter.
The important thing is that there are some elements every now and then, and the water element is the most, but it is not limited to the water element, flying, dancing, touching, bumping, like snowflakes, passing through the guò meridians and melting into his body.
This night, this feeling is even more advanced.
Fang Tian felt that his body was the earth, and the whole world outside was snowing.
When Fang Tian opened his eyes again after a night of snowfall, his nose suddenly smelled a lot of smells.
The smell was not surprising, he had this experience many days ago.
But then, something strange happened. (To be continued......)