Chapter 8: Soul Refining in the Netherworld
"Close your eyes and meditate on your mind, hold on to your ...... and meditate on your mind"
According to the exercises in "Netherworld Alchemy", combined with the cultivation experience provided in Le Zhenren's thoughts, Lin Yifan began his first thought cultivation in his life, learning how to calm his mind and calm his mind.
With the experience of Le Zhenren as a reference, Lin Yifan quickly understood the essence of concentration, that is, the six words "meditation, rest, and stopping". This refers to guarding the mind and surrendering delusions in a subtle state, not to say that there are no thoughts and distractions at all. After all, people are not plants and trees, and it is impossible to be completely unmoved.
There are Buddhist scriptures on the earth that say that if a person has 840 million thoughts in a day, there will be 840 million births and deaths.
Therefore, some people explain the Buddhist scriptures and say: A person's life is the accumulation of many thoughts and deaths, so they are called "sentient beings". And all thoughts and events, like waves, rise and fall, extinguish and rise, cannot be seen or touched, just like a dream, so the ancients said that "life is like a dream".
Le Zhenren's cultivation experience believes that although many practitioners pursue the realm of "a thought is a Buddha without a thought", it is extremely difficult to do it like plants, trees and stones, and it is extremely difficult to do without thinking at all, and the more realistic goal is what the six ancestors said: "The first thought is not born is the heart, and the second thought is not extinguished is the Buddha." ”
The so-called non-birth of previous thoughts means that when a thought arises in the present moment, and the mind does not go with it, without going with it, you can realize your bodhi true heart, which is more effective than the method of stopping meditation. The so-called imperishable thought refers to not using the method of "killing thieves" to extinguish those thoughts that will be born and destroyed in the future, but treating them in a non-dwelling way, that is, seeing that thought, but the mind does not dwell on that thought, just like treating a dream bubble.
It would have been a bit difficult to do this, but the special grinding effect of the Hell Illusion on the mind was fully manifested at this moment. With the accumulation of experience in the small fantasy realm of hell, coupled with absorbing the experience and description of Le Zhenren, Lin Yifan suddenly found the feeling of being settled.
"The green mountains do not move, and the white clouds come and go."
"Thoughts start from the heart, thoughts do not move the heart, thoughts go through the heart, and thoughts do not leave traces. ”
Gradually, Lin Yifan entered a mysterious realm, allowing thoughts to come and go, rise and fall, and experience the feeling of non-dwelling and bodhicitta
This feeling is mysterious and mysterious.
"Gloomy, insignificant, a little spiritual light, falling from the sky......"
After feeling that he had completely settled his mind, Lin Yifan began to follow the concept in "Nether Alchemy", first visualizing a little spiritual light, born from the endless netherworld darkness, and shining into his soul sea.
This is the groundbreaking light, the spiritual light that gives birth to all things!
There was an immediate feeling of warmth in the soul sea, and the cold sea water seemed to have a temperature at this moment.
A vigorous vitality is quietly brewing in the seawater.
Lin Yifan was immersed in this mysterious feeling, and contemplated them one by one step in a step-by-step manner.
I don't know how long it took, in this mysterious and ethereal state, Lin Yifan suddenly felt that his thoughts had a feeling of being full and full of strength.
If you are on the earth and have a physical body, this state means that the soul has been cultivated and wants to try to get out of the body.
Being able to approach the out-of-body state so quickly has something to do with the previous illusion trial, and it also has a lot to do with the soul heart fruit.
Lin Yifan was overjoyed in his heart, and as a result, he quickly retreated from that ethereal state.
Lin Yifan was not depressed, and used the method he learned from Le Zhenren to look at the sea of souls, and carefully felt the many changes in his thoughts and mental power.
According to the cultivation knowledge passed down by Le Zhenren, the sea of souls that the mages refer to is the sea of divine souls, or the sea of souls, while the martial artists are more accustomed to calling it the sea of knowledge, that is, the ocean of consciousness.
The soul is mainly composed of three parts, namely, the origin of the soul, thoughts, and willpower.
Among them, the soul origin is composed of elements such as aura, vitality, yin and yang, and the five elements, and is the soil for the birth of thoughts.
Thoughts, also known as divine consciousness, carry a person's life experience and thoughts, exercises, etc., and are the core components of the soul, which are divided into three types: main thoughts, ordinary thoughts, and miscellaneous thoughts. Cultivating the soul mainly refers to the idea of cultivating.
The level of thought is equal to the level of soul.
Brown thoughts have no rank, cyan thoughts are human ranks, silver thoughts are earth steps, and golden thoughts are heavenly steps. There are three levels of heaven, earth and man, and each level is divided into lower grade, middle grade, upper grade and best grade, the higher the grade of the thought, the stronger the combat power.
It is said that in addition to the three orders of heaven, earth and man, there are higher grades, but that belongs to the fairy world. In the human world, the heavenly step is the extreme.
Mental power is the power of thoughts, it can be the explosive power of a single thought, or it can be the power of multiple thoughts gathered after arranging formations, there are many mysteries.
Willpower, as the name suggests, is the power of human will, which is often overlooked, but in fact it is the supreme leader of the human body. As small as being able to get up in time in the winter morning, to surviving the small illusion of hell like Lin Yifan, the issuance and execution of various orders of the human body require the participation of willpower, and it is also the main force to create miracles in life.
Those with strong willpower can withstand thousands of hardships when cultivating, and firmly hold the Dao heart, and the probability of falling and giving up halfway is much smaller.
Those strong men who sharpened their swords for ten years and then soared into the sky, if they didn't have a firm will and enough patience, they wouldn't have a blockbuster outburst.
And those who are weak-willed or even have no willpower often achieve nothing in their lives.
The most important function of the Hell Illusion is that it can temper the willpower of the cultivator, and if you can withstand the pain brought by the Hell Illusion, you will have a certain immunity effect when cultivating in the future.
Those great powers used the Hell Illusion Realm as a special cultivation place for the Yuanpan plane, hoping to cultivate more powerhouses for the Yuanpan plane.
"If the origin of the soul is paper, and thoughts are words, then willpower is the pen!"
Man is born with only the origin of the soul, like a blank sheet of paper. Later, under the influence of the acquired environment, various ideas were born, just like words on paper. Taken together, these different characters form different souls with unique personalities.
Of course, there are good and bad words, and there are strong and weak thoughts of the same grade, which is mainly related to the strength of willpower.
Willpower is like a pen, those with strong willpower have upright and strong handwriting, and the traces engraved on the thoughts are profound, and the mindfulness will be correspondingly strong; while those with weak will, the handwriting is shallow and crooked, and the mindfulness is weak, and it is difficult to achieve positive results in cultivation.
Every thought contains willpower, if the thought is the flesh and skin, the inner willpower is the muscles and bones.
In the past, I didn't do well in school, and I always thought that I was not smart enough and my memory was not good. But if it's a song or novel that I like, maybe I can remember it ten years later, I can sing it, I can recite it, and I remember the maps and props in the game so complicated. And if it's political history and chemical formulas that I'm not interested in, I can't remember anything......"
In fact, interest is the best teacher, when people are interested, they will be very attentive and attentive to remember, and their willpower will be fully mobilized, and they can be deeply engraved in their thoughts. In the past, I couldn't endure hardship, and I didn't have enough perseverance, also because of my weak willpower. And after this training in Hell Fantasy, I finally made up for this shortcoming. ”
"This hellish illusion is really a wonderful place, it can not only hone willpower, but also improve the mind and soul origin, and the three are promoted simultaneously, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a holy place for cultivating souls. ”
Lin Yifan figured out a lot of things in his understanding, and then he continued to look at the soul sea.
In the sea of his soul, there is a sky and a sea.
The sky was the light curtain of the Soul Sea Enchantment, which was originally empty, but at this moment, there was an additional moon transformed by the Soul Heart Fruit.
This bright moon radiated a stream of extremely cool energy, and the originally shallow sea water slowly deepened.
The sea water is the origin of the soul, and as long as the source is sufficient, a new idea will be born here from time to time.
The wind howls on the sea, and these sea breezes are transformed by willpower. Whether it's offense or defense, willpower can play a huge role.
All kinds of thoughts turned into fish, swimming happily in the water. These fish are large and small, and those large fish represent the main thoughts, and the medium-sized fish represent the ordinary thoughts. As for the distractions, they are just small schools of fish, which sometimes gather and scatter in the sea, sometimes form a large ball, and sometimes scatter like light and rain.
The main thoughts are the most central part of the soul, and they record the main experiences, thoughts, and main exercises of life. They are like whales, hidden deep at the bottom of the sea, tightly protected by the sea that the soul source transforms into.
If these main thoughts are damaged, at least they will lose their memories and their cultivation will decline, or at worst they will become idiots and become confused.
Lin Yifan's current soul sea is only a conjugation of thoughts, which is far inferior to the soul sea naturally formed in his body. However, people's thoughts are constantly changing, and the more fruitful the cultivation, the more thoughts will increase, so the spirit body must conjure up a sea of souls to store these thoughts.
Although the general soul cultivation method has no effect on this kind of illusionized soul sea, in the "Netherworld Alchemy Technique" that Lin Yifan is learning, there are some special methods that can refer to the method of refining the body to temper thoughts, expand the soul sea, and strengthen the soul.
"Wow!"
A large fish about three meters long jumped up from the sea, took advantage of the sea breeze transformed by willpower, jumped high out of the sea, glided in mid-air for a long distance, and fell back to the sea after more than ten seconds, and the huge tail slapped on the water, smashing the sea surface into a big pit, and then forming a whirlpool.
"Okay! After eating the Soul Heart Fruit, coupled with the cultivation of the Netherworld Soul Refining Method, my soul origin has increased, my main thoughts have become bigger, and my strength has also become stronger! After entering the Great Illusion Realm, my willpower will continue to increase, and I should be able to reach the out-of-body realm. Lin Yifan was full of joy.