Chapter 70, Cultivation is Cultivating the Mind
"It runs through three important categories of materialist dialectics: connection, development, and contradiction. Universal connection and eternal development are the two general features of materialist dialectics.
The fundamental content of the connection is the contradiction, and the fundamental driving force of development is also the contradiction, and the two general characteristics of materialist dialectics are determined by contradictions, so the contradictory viewpoint is the fundamental viewpoint of materialist dialectics, and is the essence and core of materialist dialectics.
The fundamental viewpoint of materialist dialectics is to admit contradictions and advocate looking at problems from a linked, developing, and comprehensive viewpoint. The fundamental view of metaphysics is to deny contradictions and to look at problems from an isolated, static, and one-sided point of view.
Matter determines consciousness, consciousness is a reflection of matter, and consciousness has an active reaction to matter......."
Now Xu Hao must read materialist dialectics for an hour every day.
This is "Materialist Dialectics" to get inspiration, although Xu Hao can't really just look at "Materialist Dialectics" to get a peerless formula, but maybe this is really in line with his three views, every time he reads it, he can feel that he can accelerate his mana accumulation, so Xu Hao plans to give it a try, see if he can read it a hundred times and see himself, really make a book of "From Materialist Dialectics", and even if it fails, this mana is not continuing to grow.
It's just that his master Hongyuan doesn't believe that this can make the trick, although Xu Hao reads the avenue of the sages, but it has nothing to do with cultivation, in his opinion, the recipe is to be created by the ancestors to pay blood, sacrifice a little bit, read the book a hundred times and see its righteousness, this is not a scholar's fantasy, if it is really so easy to succeed, Confucianism has long become the largest force in the world, but in fact, there are very few Confucian scholars who have cultivated Haoran righteousness, and most of the Confucian students are practicing qi and internal qi martial arts. ”
But Xu Hao retorted: "Teacher, where did the first generation of Qi cultivation methods come from? Why do we have to read Taoist classics such as "Tao Te Ching" and "Nanhua Sutra" when we practice the method, we don't want to understand the thoughts of the sages, so the disciples think that the sages have comprehended the exercises from their respective principles, cultivated the internal qi, and become the first generation of qi practitioners. Cultivation is cultivating the mind! ”
Well, compared with modern keyboard warriors, Hongyuan is not even as good as a primary school student, and he was speechless when Xu Hao refuted.
After a long time, he said: "Even if you want to create your own magic formula, you must have enough accumulation, it is impossible for you to make a world-famous magic recipe without even understanding the meridians, this is not a monster novel." ”
"You are still just a little monk in the foundation building period, what is the foundation building, building the foundation is called the foundation building, with your current strength, what kind of self-created magic tricks you want to create, but it is just a castle in the air. You are still laying a good foundation now! ”
At this time, Xu Hao looked at Hongyuan with resentment and said, "Master, do we have a second recipe for Qingniuguan?" I'd like to gain a little more experience, but the empty Scripture Pavilion of the Qingniuguan simply won't allow me to do that! ”
There are still a few books on spells, Taoist classics, Confucian four books and five classics, and even gods and monster novels, there are a lot of books, looking at the number of books, the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Qingniuguan is also like that, but the real situation is that Qingniuguan does not have any tips about cultivation except for a "Qingniuguan Thoughts"!
Hongyuan could only say with a straight face: "The cheats of this sect are enough for us to cultivate!" Don't be too ambitious! ”
But Xu Hao said: "Master, it was enough before, but don't forget that now your acupuncture points have opened 16, at this rate, it may only take 5 years for you to enter the realm of imperial objects, but does our "Qingniu Guan Thoughts" have a cultivation method for the realm of imperial objects?" ”
Not at all, the ancestors of the Qingniuguan Dynasty only cultivated the Dao Foundation Realm, and at most some conjectures about the Imperial Realm, it is impossible to have a cultivation method.
Hongyuan obviously didn't think about this problem, in his opinion, "Qingniuguan Thoughts" is broad and profound, he can't finish learning it in his life, he naturally doesn't have to think about such a long-term thing, but he didn't expect that it is really possible to finish learning now, and the road behind it will become a problem.
"It's not like this sect doesn't have a second recipe, you forgot that the last time we went out to Ao Rui, the Demon Suppression Division rewarded us with a recipe! This recipe introduces how to cultivate in the realm of imperial objects, and our master and apprentice don't have to worry about the path of cultivation in the future! ”
Xu Hao's eyes lit up and said: "Master don't say it, I forgot about this matter, what kind of recipe is this, show it to the disciple!" ”
But Hongyuan said: "What good can be the method of reward, it is just a popular method, called "Nine Turns of Merit"!" ”
"Nine Turns of Merit! What a weird name! ”
Hongyuan said: "This is the magic method that the imperial court hopes to promote, so it will be so easy for us to get it!" The method of cultivation is also very simple, borrowing from the principle of incense Shinto, but the incense Shinto is to borrow the effect first, and then repay the cause, and also find a way to reduce the cause of repayment, so the monks of Shinto always like to fool people, and because the cause and effect owed are very large, and the restrictions are very many, and the "Nine Turns of Merit Decision" first compensates for the cause, and then obtains the fruit, and the number of fruits is less than one-tenth, so the restrictions on monks are not high, but the speed of cultivation is also slowed down. ”
Xu Hao said: "In other words, this exercise is to ask people to do good deeds, wait for everyone's gratitude, and then use this mental power to cultivate?" The more good deeds you do, the faster you cultivate? And because it's a good deed, you should be grateful, and you don't need to worry about cause and effect. But it can gather the beliefs of all sentient beings to cultivate, and the cultivation speed can be compared to Shinto! ”
Hongyuan nodded and said: "That's right, this is what the imperial court hopes, the more monks who do good deeds, the more stable the world of Daqi!" But the flaws of this method are too serious, you did good deeds in the early stage, everyone is grateful to you, and your cultivation is very fast, although it is not as good as the Divine Dao, but it is much faster than the Immortal Dao that has been cultivated for hundreds of years. But the more you do good deeds, the more people will raise your standards, and the less grateful they will be to you, but the more you cultivate to a high and profound realm, the more you need to collect the spiritual power that the gods are grateful for, and this contradiction cannot be solved at all, so this secret book claims that even a saint cannot succeed in cultivation! ”
"The secret book was compiled hundreds of years ago, but in the past hundred years, there have been countless cultivators who have cultivated the 'Nine Turns of Merit Decision', but there are very few who have achieved it, and the strongest one is only the Yin God Realm, a middle-grade monk! So now in the immortal cultivation world, I have never heard of anyone who has cultivated this secret book, because the cost of hard work is too great and not cost-effective, so few people know this trick now, and the Demon Suppression Division often uses it as a reward, but basically no one wants it. ”