Chapter 26: Master's Footprints
Master is like a guiding lamp, crossing the long wind on the path of cultivation.
If you are as sincere as your father is better than your relatives and friends, you will succeed with your left and right.
I saw the master's right hand standing on his chest with one palm, his left hand at the flat end, and his palm upward, at this time, on the top of the palm of his left hand, a milky white soft light cluster slowly appeared, and as time went by, this milky white light cluster became larger and larger, and became more and more dazzling, and finally, it turned into the shape of a white lotus flower, which was crystal clear and beautiful at a glance.
This lotus-shaped ball of light spun rapidly in Master's hand, and finally turned faster and faster, and when I felt that the speed of rotation was so fast that my eyes could not catch it, this light slowly broke away from Master's palm and slowly covered the top of my head.
The lotus-shaped light stopped above my head, slowly stopped rotating, and the light began to slowly grow, and countless streamers flashed in the light cluster, shooting out from the lotus-shaped light cluster and covering my whole body. At this time, there was an indescribable feeling of comfort all over my body, and my entire consciousness was being moistened by this halo.
Immediately, Master's voice came into my ears: "Keep your mind, condense the true element, don't be confused, and then shape the original ......."
As Master's words fell, the streamer shining into my body became stronger and more dazzling, and my body was filled with an incomparably huge amount of energy, which was wandering in every corner of my body, repairing some hidden diseases and broken meridians on my body, and at the same time, the continuous injection of this energy gave me a deeper understanding of the Heavenly Dao, and my skills were also further advanced at this time.
I don't know how long it has been, but I feel like it's just a moment, or a year, or a hundred years, time is so unreal, but I feel that my whole body is filled with Master's energy, and as Master's voice sounds, my consciousness wakes up from this state, and at this time, this refreshing feeling of consciousness begins to slowly disappear.
Master said: "Just now I used my own skills to give you further refining and condensing your Yuan Shen, strengthening your Yuan Shen body, so that you have the capital to have the capital to save your life in the Huashan Covenant, and now your Yuan Shen is not known how many times stronger than before the ability, so the idle person can't hurt you at all, unless the other party's skill is many times higher than mine, it is possible to hurt your Yuan Shen, otherwise, now you can say that you have been invincible." ”
After hearing Master tell me the truth, my heart is indescribable, I am grateful to Master for what he has done for me, I look at the fine beads of sweat oozing from Master's head, and Master panting slightly, I know that Master's training for me this time must be very draining, and I am extremely moved.
When Master saw that I was a little worried, Master just smiled at me and shook his head, signaled that he was fine, and said to me, "There is nothing to do for the Master, as your Master, you have to support you silently behind your back, as long as you can continue on the path of cultivation without deviation, it will be the greatest reward for me." "When Master finished saying this, I noticed that Master's eyes were deep and he was looking into the distance.
When I wanted to go up and ask, I don't know when, the Master had tears in his eyes, he looked at the sky and told me about what he had experienced before.
Master told me that Master was about the same age as me back then, and that he was living in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, when the whole country was scattered and there were constant wars, and the people were living in dire straits, the people were displaced, and many people were struggling in pain.
When my master was still an ignorant teenager, he was taken in by his master, who was my master, and after many tests, he accepted my master as a personal disciple and taught me everything he had learned in his life.
Because it was the era of war at that time, the master and the master were separated in the disaster, and the heavens were separated, and there was no news of each other.
At that time, my master was lonely, an orphan, and he was busy every day with how to make a living, and at the same time, he had to take care of his cultivation.
At that time, my master was not like now, when I could stretch out my hands for clothes and open my mouth for food, there were people waiting for me every day, and when I was in danger, Master would help to protect me.
At that time, the master, his cultivation road was even more bumpy, the master had to eat, worked as a long-term worker for the landlord's family, worked as a shift, worked as a carpenter, and served as someone else's apprentice, so it can be said that he has experienced everything for his livelihood.
It is precisely because of this that my master's understanding is better than that of ordinary people, and there is not such a saying that "only when you suffer hardship can you become a master." ”
In this way, my master persisted day after day, year after year, and whenever he wanted to give up his cultivation, he often said in his heart: "Apprentice, I miss you very much, Master, and I often think about Master, but where are you, Master?"
My master kept telling me to endure it again, maybe the next moment I would get better, and I would see my master the next moment.
It didn't take a few years for my master's level to reach a fairly high level, and when my master appeared in front of him again, my master was both excited and a little resentful.
When my master saw my master, he couldn't wait to say, "Master, when you left me, I often had a dream.
My master often dreamed that there were two parallel rows of footprints on the beach. In the dream, he knew that one of the rows of footprints was his own, and the other, he did not understand.
Such dreams, he often dreamed, were the same almost every time. But sometimes, there is a little change, and sometimes there is only a row of footprints on the beach.
For many years, the disciple suffered a lot, but the disciple's belief in the master never changed, and he kept repeating this dream.
Many years later, the disciple finally figured out the law, generally difficult days, there are two rows of footprints, but when it comes to the most difficult, the most life is worse than death, and the misery is unspeakable, the days when he almost wants to give up his life, there will only be one row of footprints in his sleep.
At this time, my master realized something, and excitedly asked my master: "In my difficult days, the other row of footprints in my dream is actually Master, you have been accompanying me through that painful road, right?" My master didn't look at him either, he just stopped and inadvertently whispered, "Hmm!" "My master went back with great emotion.
After a while, my master couldn't figure it out again, so he went to my master again and asked, "But why did you abandon me when I was in the most miserable and miserable days, Master?" ”
My master smiled and said, "I have never abandoned you, nor have I given up on you." ”
My master was puzzled and said, "However, in the days when my life was worse than death, there was only a row of footprints of myself in my dreams!" ”
Only then did my master move his gaze to my master's face, and the eyes of the master and apprentice met, and my master replied gently: "I miss you, support you, help you, and I will never leave you, in the days when your life is worse than death, the most painful and weak, there is indeed only a row of footprints." But that row of footprints is not yours, it's mine. In those days, it was the Master who held you, carried you on his back, and guarded you through the most difficult part of the road. ”
When my master finished telling his story, he said to me with deep emotion, "The master teaches the way of disciples; The middle school teacher teaches the apprentice to the art; The lower teacher is happy with fame and fortune, and wine and meat; The apprentice respects his teacher, attaches importance to his way, takes the teacher's words as the guideline, takes the teacher's behavior as a clear example, strictly disciplines himself, and experiences the body and mind; Middle-class disciples may believe or doubt, or be diligent in cultivation or lazy and leisurely, and after all, it is rare to pass on the truth; The apprentices take the teacher as the backer and the umbrella, and are diligent in clinging, taking what they need in the request and offering. ”
After listening to Master's story, tears slowly oozed from my eyes, and I admired Master's endurance and ability to endure hardships.
Master said to me, "Mencius once said that when the heavens will descend on the people, they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and act chaotically. ”
Listening to Master's words, I also understood a truth, that is, "Master leads the door, and cultivation is in the individual." "The master can only show the way, whether he can go down or not, how far he can go, it is all up to the disciple himself. In the process of walking, the master will make a crutch and a lamp to accompany the disciples. When you encounter tribulations, Master will guide you and enlighten you. And the real way, you have to walk and understand by yourself.
In fact, to be able to become a master and apprentice, you need fate. The world is in a hurry, the sea of suffering is vast, if you have to meet the wise person as a teacher, it is the luck of three lives; If you meet a saint as a teacher, it will be the fate of eternity and the luck of eternity!
If you have fulfilled your wish, don't let down the guiding light in the vast sea of suffering. If you are still looking for it, don't miss it, maybe the opportunity is by your side.
Seeing that I felt something in my heart and realized something, Master nodded to me, and quietly disappeared from my side without me knowing.
I don't know when my consciousness has returned to my body, the moment I returned to my body, my physical body also had obvious changes, the surface of my whole body skin can be seen with the naked eye with the naked eye There is a circle of white halo, slowly exuding brilliance, this state lasted for a cup of tea, and finally slowly dissipated.
I sat cross-legged on the bed and watched the changes in my body, and found that my skin was more delicate than before, white and red, and I looked younger, and some of the scars left by naughtiness in my childhood had disappeared somewhere.
When I was released from my cultivation state and sobered up from meditation, it was already the morning of the next day, and I found that my spirit was fuller and my eyes were brighter, including my own celestial eyes, and I could see more space and things at a glance, and the things I saw were more condensed.
I now look at everything around me, and as long as I think about it, I can see through the essence of this thing at a glance, without deliberately mobilizing it.
For example, if you look at a stone, you can see all the molecular components and structure of the stone, you can see where the stone was before, why it came here, and so on.
It can be said that through last night's practice, my skill has improved a lot, and my level has unconsciously improved a lot.
And now I find that there is a spirit not far behind the person, or standing on the shoulder or some distance behind the person, controlling that person, some of the spirits are like all kinds of animals, and some of the spirits are like I can't even call them like anything, like the aliens on TV.
As I walked, some of the spirits behind me noticed that I was observing them, directing them to leave me quickly, while others acted as if nothing had happened.
This also aroused my interest, and I thought to myself: people have primordial spirits, how did the spirits behind those people appear? And they can control people's behavior, what is that person's own spirit doing? And where did it go?
I came to school with questions. As soon as I entered the classroom, my classmates seemed to be talking about something, and I put down my schoolbag and listened to the conversation between my classmates.
The words are divided into two ends, it turns out that during our military training, Liu Ling, the female classmate who wanted to jump off the building, has fully recovered after nearly half a year of conditioning and recuperation.
She will come to school today, and she chose to be downgraded to a new year of high school, and coincidentally assigned to our first (3) class and became my classmate.
Listening to the whispers of my classmates, I was actually very happy in my heart, after all, it is also a good thing to pull a life back from the brink of death.
When the bell rang for the morning self-study, the head teacher led Liu Ling into the classroom, introduced her to the classmates, and assigned her a seat to sit down.
When Liu Ling walked to her seat, she saw me at a glance, her eyes lit up visibly, and she smiled and nodded at me. I was also in my seat, smiling and nodding to her.
In fact, most of the male classmates in the class were attracted by Liu Ling's beautiful and refined appearance, and their smiles exuded infinite charm, while the female classmates were all wide-eyed, amazed by Liu Ling's appearance, and there was a trace of jealousy in their hearts.
I was the only one who was not included, and I couldn't help but feel a little amused when I looked at the reactions of the male and female classmates in the class.
Sometimes, people, are so obsessed with this hue that they can't extricate themselves, and some real things are lost but they don't know it.
In this way, the intense study of the day was over, and the students all dragged their tired bodies out of the campus.
As usual, I also came to the clinic and practiced TCM diagnosis and treatment here with Mr. Cao, and now I can see patients on my own, but only as an assistant to assist Mr. Cao and Dr. Wu, because I don't have a doctor's qualification certificate after all.
Now I'm basically at night, after the evening self-study before coming to the clinic here, the staff of the clinic and the pharmacy have been used to calling me Xiaohyun, every time I come over, the staff here are very enthusiastic, because my nickname of "Little Divine Doctor" has spread out, and invisibly brought them a part of the income, besides, I don't have a salary yet, but I haven't thought about asking for a salary, Mr. Cao mentioned it to me before, but I refused.
When I came to the clinic tonight, Mr. Cao had just seen a patient, and now there were only three people left in the clinic.
The three patients in the consultation room were obviously together, one was an elderly woman, the other was a young woman, holding a baby in the arms of the young woman, who looked like he was only one or two years old, and the baby looked very well-behaved, staring at the surroundings with big watery eyes, and his eyes were full of curiosity.
One of them, the young woman, sat down with the child in her arms, and the elderly woman stood beside them, the young woman looked a little tired, Dr. Cao glanced at the woman and asked, "Girl, which of you wants to see a doctor?" ”
I heard the young woman reply, "Hello Dr. Cao, the child in my arms needs to be treated." "Oh, what's wrong with the kid? Any discomfort? Teacher Cao asked.
The young woman said: "My son doesn't know what's going on these days, he cries every night at 12 o'clock, no matter how he coaxes, these days we adults are tired of nothing, I went to the big hospital in the city to see it, and I didn't get better after prescribing some medicine, you can take a look at it first." ”
After listening to the young woman's introduction, Teacher Cao first looked at the child's eyes, touched the top of the child's head, and after a while, said to the child's mother: "The child is not sick, but the child's illness may be really delayed when he goes to a big hospital." ”
The child's mother and the woman next to her were a little anxious when they heard Dr. Cao say this, and the older woman said: "Dr. Cao, I am the child's grandmother, you must take a good look at my grandson, as long as you take a good look at the child, I will agree to any conditions." ”
Dr. Cao smiled and waved his hand, and said to the two of them: "It's not a big problem, the child's this is called 'pediatric convulsions' in traditional Chinese medicine, you found it early, if it takes a long time, it will cause the child's convulsions, staring, paralysis and other complications." ”
In order to accurately judge the child's symptoms, Mr. Cao continued to ask: "When did the child start to cry at night, and a few days before the child cried, where did you take the child to go?" Think about it and tell me that I want a detailed itinerary, which is very helpful for the treatment. ”
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law heard Mr. Cao's question, and they both began to recall the itinerary of the past few days, and Mr. Cao said this, Mr. Cao couldn't help shaking his head, and said: "This is not right, it's not the reason, you think about it, where have you been?" ”
Teacher Cao couldn't think of them anymore, so he said to them: "There are two kinds of convulsions, one is convulsions and the other is panic, and I observed that this child was obviously caused by panic, not convulsions, so I asked you where you have been and scared the child." ”
When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law heard this, they looked a little nervous, and kept shaking their heads and saying that they hadn't been anywhere in the past few days, and they really didn't have any.
Just when Mr. Cao didn't hope for any results, suddenly, the child's mother slapped her thigh as if she remembered something, and said to the mother-in-law next to her: "Mom, I remembered something, wasn't my cousin from my hometown a few days ago?" It was said that the aunt of the child in the hometown passed away, and because of the long distance, we could not notify our family in time, because of this Dad also had a fight with his cousin, and from that day on, the child began to cry at night, right? ”
When the child's grandmother heard this, she seemed to remember something, and said excitedly: "Yes! I also remembered that the child's aunt liked our baby before she was born, and she came to see the child once when she was one year old, and she hasn't been here since, is it her aunt's soul missing the child? So you followed your cousin to our house? ”
When the old lady said this, except for me and Teacher Cao, everyone present was shocked with goosebumps, especially the child's mother, who was really frightened, and said "Mom!" Don't scare me, I can't sleep at night! ”
Hearing this, Dr. Cao couldn't help nodding and said, "That's right, the problem is here, people say that when children are infants, their heavenly eyes can see some unclean things loomingly, I guess they may be frightened by the soul of the dead aunt." ”
When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law heard this, they hurriedly said to Teacher Cao: "Doctor Cao, how should this disease be treated?" There won't be any after-effects. ”
Dr. Cao said: "First of all, I want to use acupuncture treatment, calm the child first, and take the child's pulse and the acupoints of the hand Shaoyang Sanjiao meridian, the hand Shaoyin heart meridian, and the foot Shaoyin kidney meridian for treatment. Finally, it is supplemented with drug treatment, this traditional Chinese medicine is called 'Babao Zhen Jing Pill', which is really not available in general pharmacies, but it just so happens that we have this medicine in our pharmacy. ”
After hearing what Mr. Cao said, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law immediately relaxed. Teacher Cao asked the child's mother to hold the child and not let him move, while Teacher Cao used smaller than usual acupuncture to take acupuncture points for the children.
Acupuncture for children is different from adults, children love to move, so to distract his attention, I cooperated with Mr. Cao to tease the child, and it didn't take long for Cao to pierce all the needles into the acupuncture points.
Teacher Cao wiped the beads of sweat from his head and began to tease the child with me. As time went by, the time finally came, and when Mr. Cao took the last needle from the child, he was obviously relieved, with a smile on his face, and said to his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law: "Okay, it's okay, all that's left is to take the 'Babao Town Convulsion Pill' and let the child rest for a few more days and be fine." ”
After that, Mr. Cao explained some precautions and time to take medicine to his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and we watched them leave the consultation room, and Mr. Cao turned his head to me and said, "Xiaohyun, isn't the human body amazing?" Isn't Chinese medicine more wonderful? There are some incredible diseases that cannot be cured by Western medicine, and only Chinese medicine can cure them. What a pity that the Chinese nation has been going to be lost for thousands of years! Therefore, you must study hard and pass on Chinese medicine. ”
I nodded and reassured Mr. Cao, and at the same time asked Mr. Cao a question, saying, "Teacher, I have often heard others mention before, people hit evil spirits, or some animal possession and other things, if a patient like this should be treated, just like the child tonight, there are no symptoms but there is a problem, how should this be treated?" ”
Teacher Cao listened to me ask this question, nodded incessantly, and said, "Child, you have asked the point, this matter cannot be explained in one sentence or two sentences, I will only tell you the simplest and most effective way." ”
I listened carefully, and Mr. Cao said: "I will teach you how to judge this folk possession, because it has a variety of manifestations, and it is generally more urgent, or gibberish, crying and laughing, and most of them lose their normal expressions, which is abnormal. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that the body of the human body is a masculine substance, and the thinking consciousness of a person is a feminine substance. Then the yang and spirit of the human body constitute the unity of this contradiction. Yin and Yang go hand in hand. So where does a person's mind go when he dies? According to the law of immortality of matter, when the organs of various parts of the human body are worn out to the point of irreparability, then it is the time when the person dies and the soul leaves the body, so is the soul of other animals like this? These feminine substances do not disappear after leaving the human body, but float around, when the person's quality is extremely poor, and the person's mental aspect has something in common with this negative substance, the person and the feminine information collide in the same space. This is called possession pathogenesis or possession treatment. ”
After Mr. Cao said this, he picked up the water cup on the table, took a sip of water, and continued: "There are two ways to diagnose it. One is to feel the pulse; The second is the specific function to discriminate. The first is when the patient talks about the condition, he should observe from many aspects, and then feel the pulse after finding the abnormality. For example, when a patient comes, you concentrate on your eyes. Staring at the patient, if it is a bad information causing the disease, the patient will shudder, or dare not look at you with eyes, all the above situations, may be related to negative information, there are two kinds of pulse, one is to touch the inch, also known as heaven and earth: the second is to touch the middle finger, also known as the fairy ghost, touch the pulse at the same time to diagnose according to the male left and female right, that is, the male patient touches the left hand, the lesbian touches the right hand, and the pulse should be relaxed and not nervous, you can use the index finger and thumb to pinch and touch the other party's middle finger. Start with the root of the gods. The middle finger has three segments, the root is the god, the side of the index finger is the inner god, and the side of the ring finger is the outer god; The inner part of the middle section is the inner immortal, and the outer immortal is the outer immortal; The stub refers to the inner ghost. Outside is an external ghost. The inner god is the god of the sect in which he believes, and the outer god is the god of the outer religion. The inner ghost is the information of the death of an ancestral spirit or family member. The ghost is the information of the family with a foreign surname. At the time of diagnosis, the thumb and index finger pinch the middle finger carefully, and if there is a beat, it can generally be judged according to the above. Any negative beating is different from normal blood beating, which is regular, but negative reaction is fast and slow. ”
When Mr. Cao talked about the second method, he just shook his head and said, "This special function has only been seen in some medical books, and I myself have not come into contact with such a person in so many years, which is a pity." ”
When I heard Teacher Cao say this, I only smiled slightly, thinking that I can't let anyone know this secret of mine, Teacher Cao, I'm really sorry to be a disciple.
I stayed in the clinic until 9 o'clock in the evening before leaving to go home, for me, the experience of tonight gave me a deeper understanding of the connotation of Chinese medicine, but also made me have more respect for the magic of Chinese medicine, and also made me more admired Mr. Cao.