Lin Zining felt that the beggar thirteen was opening the scroll of the giant landscape painting, and he needed to listen patiently and read it carefully. So, while slowly squatting, he felt through the air, and made sure that there were no thorny branches, so he sat directly in the place and put on a posture of listening attentively.

I heard the beggar thirteen say again: "The moon is not round today, but the moon and stars are still very bright, exactly the same as what I saw at that time." ”

Lin Zining suddenly interjected: "When you entered the Chushan Sect, was it today? ”

Lin Zining's interjection didn't make the beggar thirteen angry, he instead smiled and said, "Yes, no wonder the junior brother said that you are smart." On the eighth day of the first month of March, it was the eighth day of the first month of March. ”

As soon as Lin Zining asked the beggar Thirteen and answered, the two officially talked to each other.

Lin Zining then asked, "Then your master must have been very good to you, you should be very happy at that time, right?" ”

The thirteenth beggar said: "Yes, although the master is very strict with me, he is really good to me, and I am his first apprentice." At that time, he had just become a true disciple and was able to officially accept disciples. Although the days of cultivation were quite hard, they were also very fast, much happier than beggars. ”

Beggar Thirteen is not the first Taoist master Lin Zining came into contact with, Mr. Bai Yi is also a master of the rebirth realm, and he has seen many powerful characters in Xingyuan Mansion. But only the thirteen beggars, or rather, only in the thirteen beggars at this moment, Lin Zining felt the meaning of returning to the basics.

In fact, Lin Zining especially wanted to ask where the master of the thirteenth beggar was, but he was keenly aware that this question was particularly sensitive, and once he asked, he didn't know what would happen.

Seeing that Lin Zining didn't ask anymore, Beggar Thirteen continued: "In the mountain gate, the master accepted a total of eight disciples, and only accepted Bai Yi after leaving Chu Mountain. Although I am a great disciple of the founding mountain, but compared to other junior disciples, my talent is the worst and the lowest comprehension, what realm is it worse, when the eighth junior brother refined the golden pill, I had just become a gang. Haha, I'm really bad. ”

"At that time, the juniors and disciples all laughed at me, saying that I had taken the position of the founding disciple for nothing. The fifth junior brother has the highest understanding, the fastest cultivation speed, and the most out-of-the-box personality, and at that time he scolded me like a log in front of me several times. Actually, it's not that I'm stupid, it's that I didn't think about immortality at that time, and I was satisfied with food, clothes, and a place to live. Master also knew, so although he was strict with me, he never scolded me for being like a piece of wood. At that time, it was really happy! It's fun! ”

Hearing this, Lin Zining's curiosity really couldn't help it, and asked, "Then where are your juniors and disciples now?" He still didn't dare to ask where the master of the thirteenth beggar was.

"It's dead, it's all dead, except for me and Bai Yi, Master's disciples are all dead. The old dead, the battle-dead, the slain, the mad dead, all died, and I buried their remains and ashes here, and behind the courtyard where we lived was the hillside, and I buried them there. When they apprenticed, they all worshipped me, the senior brother, and when they died, I gave them all this worship. ”

When the thirteenth beggar said this, his voice was very low, and his sadness was difficult to hide. But Lin Zining knew that Beggar Thirteen didn't need comfort, his sadness was like tears when he saw the emotion when he read a book, maybe for Beggar Thirteen, these are like stories in a book. It's just that he happened to see it, and then relayed it to Lin Zining.

Lin Zining took the opportunity to change his question, and asked the question he asked before: "Then sir, are you here to sweep their graves this time?" ”

"Hahaha, the latest third junior brother who died was also more than five hundred years ago, where is their tomb here. Even if there was, the bones inside were turned into dirt and returned to the earth. ”

"Then you're here ......"

"Come here to break the game, and then, forget all this, and bury all my traces here."

"Breaking the game? So you've broken the game today? ”

"Yes, thank you, without you, I don't know when I will break the game."

"I don't quite understand what you say, sir. I should be thanking you, but why are you thanking me? ”

"It's a long story, when you have achieved success in cultivation, you will know why I said this when the opportunity comes. Okay, let's not talk about me, let's talk about you. ”

"My business? What is the sir going to say about me? Is it my eyes, or is it the demonic energy on my body? Or is it the bead? ”

Lin Zining's past, Mr. Bai Yi naturally knows it.

Since Beggar Thirteen is Mr. Bai Yi's senior brother, and he is the only remaining classmate now, and he was entrusted by Mr. Bai Yi when he came, isn't it normal for him to know his origin?

Why did Lin Zining choose the thirteenth beggar when he had the opportunity to escape after the phoenix demon came out? In addition to returning to the city and not being controlled by himself, what is more important is intuition, or rather stemming from his understanding and trust in Mr. Bai Yi.

Of course, if it is a hero in hindsight, the reason why Lin Zining came to look for the beggar thirteen can also be analyzed. In terms of getting out, the process is to enter the cage, and there is still room to turn around outside the city. From the perspective of self-help, Lin Zining doesn't know if there is anyone in the city who can treat his eyes, even if someone can cure it, it is a question of whether he is willing to treat it, but Beggar Thirteen should have both the ability and the willingness.

The relationship between people is a very wonderful thing, and it is a common thing for the white head to be as new as new, because of a sentence of the old people of the Western Capital, because of a bead that still does not know whether it is a blessing or a curse, Lin Zining feels that the beggars are credible. Now that he knows the relationship between Beggar Thirteen and Mr. Bai Yi, Lin Zining didn't think about hiding anything from Beggar Thirteen.

As soon as the beggar said that he wanted to talk about him, he directly cut the bottom.

Is it the eye? Is it demonic energy? Or crystal beads?

Hearing Lin Zining's question, the beggar thirteen laughed twice before replying: "These things may be big things for you, but they are definitely not important things. Your eyes and the demonic energy in your body are the same thing, and I can help you exorcise the demonic qi with a raise of my hand. As for the bead, you just want to say, I have nothing to say, I don't know where it came from, but when my master passed it on to me, he also said that he didn't know the origin of the bead. ”

Since the beggar thirteen can expel the demonic qi in his body with a single raise of his hand, he really doesn't have to worry too much about the demonic qi in his body, and the origin of the crystal bead is unclear, so there is nothing to say. Lin Zining understood the meaning of the beggar's thirteen words, so he asked, "What does the gentleman think is Zining's important matter?" ”

Beggars Thirteen asked, "Changyu Wenqiu's "Wenqiuzi" is a strange book, have you read it?" ”

"Zining has read it seven or eight times, and I don't dare to say that I have memorized it backwards, and I am familiar with it."

"Okay, so what do you mean by 'politician, Masaya'?"

This is what Changyu Wenqiu said when Changyu Wenqiu was serving as a secretary in Kangguo, when Kang Wugong, the lord of Kangguo, asked him for advice on the way to govern. The original text is 'Kang Wu Gong asked the government of Wenqiuzi. Wen Qiuzi said to him: Politicians, Zhengye. Zi Shuai is upright, who dares to be upright? It means that the word "government" means to be upright, and you yourself take the lead in uprightness, who dares not to be upright? ”

"Then let me ask you, what is your 'zheng'?"

The question of the thirteenth beggar pointed directly to the depths of Lin Zining's heart, to put it more bluntly, this question pointed directly to the depths of the hearts of all cultivators, martial arts practitioners, officials, and even everyone. What is your "positive"?

Speaking only of the Tao, in a small sense, the word "monasticism" specifically refers to monks who follow the Taoist method and practice Taoist exercises, and in a large sense, the "Tao" of "monasticism" is the way of heaven and earth, the way of nature, the supreme way, and the path of the essence. The demons, demons, Buddhism, and the Tao are all different understandings and manifestations of the original path, that is, the gods born naturally from the mountains and rivers and the gods of the enshrined sacrifices, and they are also another understanding and manifestation of the Tao.

If you have supreme wisdom, blaze a trail, comprehend the Great Dao, it is not an exaggeration to call you a saint, and if you want to start a sect, you are the master of a religion.

Why does Taoism always talk about nature and nurture, but Buddhism does not talk about nature and nurture? That's because Taoism talks about qi, and from the perspective of the way of practicing qi, the chaotic qi is the innate qi, which is the original manifestation of the dao, and the subsequent three-element qi, yin and yang qi, and the five elements qi are all subdivisions of the innate qi. And the qi in the human body is all acquired qi, so cultivating the way is to cultivate the acquired qi into innate qi.

And what about Buddhism? Buddhism teaches knowledge. From the perspective of the path of cultivation, the innate consciousness is the inner principle of the innate consciousness, which cannot be manifested, and naturally there is no such thing as the theory and practice method of turning the acquired consciousness into the innate consciousness. Because if you cultivate your acquired divine consciousness into an innate divine consciousness, you will be assimilated by your innate divine consciousness.

Qi has a form and a reason is invisible. But no matter the way of Buddhism, cultivation to the end requires the unity of qi and reason. As for how to do this, don't talk about the thirteenth beggar, people who are hundreds of times more powerful than him, thousands of times or even ten thousand times, don't know, and are still groping.

Knowing this, we will understand that "Qi Hai" is a Taoist word, and "Zhi Hai" is a Buddhist word.

The difference between Taoism and Buddhism, in addition to Taoism's emphasis on qi and Buddhism's emphasis on knowledge, is that Taoism talks about sex and Buddhism talks about fate. The so-called "sex" is the fundamental texture, is the state of essence, the fundamental difference between the innate qi and the acquired qi lies in the difference of "sex", one is the nature of the innate essence, and the other is the nature of the acquired mixture.

And the "fate" of Buddhism, although there is also a difference between the fate of the previous life and the fate of the current life, but these are all the fate in reincarnation and the fate of the next life. There is no difference between innate and acquired fate, but there is a difference between the front edge and the back edge, good fate and evil fate.

Since the two schools of Taoism and Buddhism have different paths of practice, why is it that in the enlightenment poem of the thirteenth beggar, there is such a view that "the origin and extinction are all due to thoughts, and the attachment is related to the calamity", which is obviously the view of Buddhism's practice?

That's because the difference between the two cultivation paths of Taoism and Buddhism is the most basic difference, and when it comes to specific practice, the most basic path is determined to distinguish between Taoism and Buddhism, and the rest of the Dharma teachings are different, and the schools are mixed.

One of the differences between ancient cultivators and current monks is that ancient cultivators learn from others' strengths and now cherish themselves.

The path of cultivation needs to be "right", and the purpose of cultivation needs to be "right".