Chapter 0005: Taoism Begins with Zhengyi
The wind in the night was a little cold, and the placket of Su Laodao's clothes was blowing on his body, and looking back at the time, he sighed that everything was up to him, and it could be said: "Who can tell whether it is true or false, and the truth is clear." One flower and one world, one grass and one paradise, one leaf and one Bodhi, one sand and one bliss, one side and one pure land, one smile and one dust, one thought and one quiet. ”
"Grandfather, come and wash your face." Grandson Su Dahai carried a bucket of water and came straight to Su Laodao's side.
"Well, let's put it down for now. You also go in first, and wait in the main hall with the chief officer, and I will come after changing my clothes. Su Lao Dao commanded.
"Okay, grandfather, then remember to wash your face first, and I'll go in." After Su Dahai finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the main hall.
Su Dahai pushed open the door of the main hall of the bamboo building, and saw a shrine in sight, only to see the horizontal batch of black characters on a red background from right to left, like a phoenix dancing and a dragon soaring, and its shape is even more dignified: worship the god of my ancestor; Shanglian: Ancestral merit and virtue are far away; Downlink: Zixiao, Sun Xian, Shi Zechang; Divine seat: Nine Heavens Si Ming Ancestor Incense Seat; Hall number: the god of the ancestors of the past dynasties on the martial arts hall; The names of the three gods are from top to bottom: Patriarch Taishang Laojun, Zhengyi Zhenren, and Luo Xianshi.
(Note: The patriarch Taishang Laojun is Laozi, surnamed Li Ming'er, the word Dan, the word Boyang, or the name Boyang, a person from the late Spring and Autumn Period.) Zhengyi real person is Zhang Daoling, surnamed Zhang Mingling, a native of Pei Guofeng in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Luo Xianshi is Luo Gongyuan, also known as Luo Siyuan, a native of Ezhou. )
As soon as Su Dahai entered the door, he said to the clan leaders waiting in the main hall: "Wait a while, grandfather will arrive later, and I have something to explain." ”
After speaking, Su Dahai sat quietly on the bench in the corner with everyone, patiently waiting for Su Laodao.
Su Lao Daoxin changed into a plain white robe, and his simple outfit still couldn't cover his Dao bone fairy style, his hair was black and white, and the black and white half of his head was extremely obvious, he walked into the door and walked straight to the shrine and said, "Come over and incense the ancestor together." ”
In the main hall of the bamboo house, a group of six people held three incense sticks, reverently and respectfully incense the shrine, and kowtowed......
In front of the shrine, a horizontal and two vertical benches were re-arranged, Su Laodao sat alone in the middle, Su Dahai and the principals sat on both sides, and Su Laodao was telling them the story of the Su family's immortal origin:
Since Pangu opened the world, Nuwa created the creation of the century, to the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the Yellow Emperor is the first emperor of the five emperors, and the great achievements of unifying the Chinese tribes will be able to be crowned gods by merit, and the ambition of the Yellow Emperor is to become an immortal, not a god.
In order to obtain the Tao method of keeping the body immortal or returning the old naughty child, the Yellow Emperor learned from many capable people and learned from their respective strengths, and with his unremitting efforts, he created the cultivation method of the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon".
Legend has it that on the day of the Yellow Emperor's 120th birthday, he planned to use the Qiankun Ding left in the mortal world by the mother of the earth, Wa Niangniang, to refine and fuse with his own body, and have reached the realm of physical immortality.
What is Qiankun Ding? It's a true artifact.
Back then, Nuwa Niangniang used the Demon Refining Pot to subdue the monsters and monsters that plagued the world, and the level of the fall became Qiankun Ding. The tripod was fused by the Yellow Emperor and failed, and the mountain peaks were blown up, making the Qiankun Ding completely become a gourd gourd in its original form. With this explosion, the gourd melon was also missing.
Fortunately, when the Yellow Emperor practiced the Taoism of the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing" to make the physical body fall, he successfully extracted the ninety percent of the artifact spirit of the Qiankun Ding and turned it into a yellow dragon. After the Yellow Emperor's corpse was dismembered into a god, this yellow dragon became his mount, making the Yellow Emperor the only yin god in the world to ride a dragon to the heavenly palace. It is said that the Yellow Emperor sat on the back of the dragon, grabbed the dragon's whiskers, and flew to the Yellow Emperor Shrine of the Nine Heavenly Xuantian to live. Although the Yellow Emperor did not become an immortal when he practiced the Taoism of the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon", he became the highest righteous god under the Nine Heavens - the Emperor of Heaven. The Emperor of Heaven obtained the divine status under the approval of the laws of heaven and earth, and only then did he obtain the right to live in the Ziwei Heavenly Palace. This crape myrtle heavenly palace is in the thirty-three heavens of the heavenly palace. The Yellow Emperor Shrine of Xuantian and the Ziwei Heavenly Palace of the Heavenly Palace can be teleported up and down at will, so comfortable.
Since then, there has been a cultivation of the divine law "Yellow Emperor Neijing", and later generations respected the Yellow Emperor.
In order to maintain the order of heaven and earth, in addition to the great achievements of the Five Emperors period, the great achievements of the Five Emperors were directly ordered to be sealed as gods, and mortals in the world were allowed to achieve supernatural powers through the cultivation of the Yellow Emperor. At this point, the heavens have opened a large number of gods who have settled in the heavenly palace from one heavy heaven to thirty-two days.
After the end of the great cause of heaven and gods, the path of mortals to become gods is basically terminated.
There are many mortals in the world who have inherited the Yellow Emperor's grand plan immortal industry, and can continue to explore ways to cultivate into immortals.
The wheel of time came to the Spring and Autumn Period, the greatest humanitarian scholar of all time appeared in the world, Lao Tzu, he was eighty-four years old one day, he rode a ox and sat on his back, his hand was swiped with a silver beard, came to a mountain gate under the bluestone platform, the autopsy again communicated the merit scroll order to be born, canonized Lao Tzu to ascend to become a god. There is a copy of "Lao Tzu" on the bluestone platform to practice Taoism, (also known as "Tao Te Ching"), the core of Taoism is the Tao of nature, inaction and governance, is the general outline of the cultivation method, very wonderful, that is Lao Tzu left the world to cultivate immortals. Since then, there has been a new cultivation method in the world, "Tao Te Ching", which later generations respected as Lao Tzuxue.
Legend has it that there are 32 layers of bluestone steps at the place where Lao Tzu flies to the platform, plus the first floor in front of the main hall, which is exactly 33 floors, which just hints that his 'Lao Tzu Learning' will have one person who will take the lead in creating and carrying forward the Tao, and there will be a time when the Son of Heaven will respect him, so that the spiritual power of faith in the world will blow out, and he will obtain the divine status of the thirty-two heavens in the heavenly palace in the future, and have the power above the gods under one god in the thirty-three heavens of the heavenly palace.
Mortals in the world can also indirectly appear gods through the cultivation of Lao Tzu, and they must also accumulate merits, obtain faith and spiritual power, and obtain the recognition of merit scrolls, so that they can become gods and ascend. Although the number of corpses dissected into gods and settled in the Heavenly Palace Divine Position is very small, it is better to have a divine position than not to have one. In contrast, the pace of mortals in the world exploring and cultivating to become immortals is endless. There is no contradiction between becoming a god and becoming an immortal, if you can't become an immortal, you can become a god anyway.
The time has come to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Zhang Ling, who resigned, was also one of the monks who inherited the Yellow Emperor's grand plan. Zhang Ling, who is gifted and intelligent, integrates the two cultivation methods of the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu to form a new immortal cultivation method of the Huang Lao Dao.
Zhang Ling made Taoist books and preached in Shuhe Ming Mountain, and founded the way of Zhengyi League, which was called Zhengyi, also known as the Tao of Heavenly Master. Zhang Linghou called Zhang Daoling, is the founder of early Taoism, respect Taishang Laojun (Lao Tzu) as the ancestor, with the Tao Te Ching as the highest classic, Fu is a token of the ancient emperor's dispatch of troops, and the urn is a symbol of communication with God. Zhang Daoling, also known as Zhang Tianshi, failed to cultivate into an immortal in the end, and could only be dissected into a god, and ascended to the Heavenly Palace to become one of the four heavenly masters.
It is said that Zhang Daoling's descendants but because of his Taoism, must produce five buckets of rice, also known as five buckets of rice; The position of Heavenly Master Dao Heavenly Master is hereditary by his descendants; The Taoist priest of Zhengyi can not live in the palace, but can have a family.
During the Tang Dynasty, the emperor respected Lao Tzu and claimed to be a descendant of Lao Tzu, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, Tang Gaozong, Wu Zetian, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, etc., repeatedly pursued the seal, so that Taishang Laojun obtained more faith and spiritual power in the world, the higher his status in the Heavenly Palace......
When Su Laodao talked about this, he paused for a while and said to the five people present: "Whether it is you, Su Dahai, or the head of your hall, you have all practiced in Kaiyuanguan, and the most unfortunate one is also a Taoist child, that is, the disciple of Kaiyuanguan, you must remember that the Taoism of our Su family monks is from the right one." Later, I will tell you that our Su family's immortal fate comes from the master Luo Gongyuan and Luo Xianshi, which was a matter of the previous dynasty, and it happened when Tang Xuanzong Li Longji was in the past, so our Su family and the Tang Dynasty formed an indescribable cause and effect obscurity. ”
After listening to what Su Laodao said, the five people in the audience were all full of emotions and could not be expressed.