When I opened the Taishang Sutra, I saw a purple mist without any words.

Turning another page, it is the famous sentence at the beginning of the Tao Te Ching: Tao can be the way, not the constant way, the name can be named, and the name is not the constant name. None, the beginning of heaven and earth, there is, the mother of all things. Therefore, there is often nothing, and I want to see the wonder. Often, I want to see it. These two have the same name and different names, and they are the same mysteries. Mysterious and mysterious, the door of all wonders.

The meaning is very clear, "Tao" is just an ethereal concept, not something that can be explained clearly by a few fixed words. It is something dynamic, it will constantly change, and it will never be exhausted.

Therefore, when practicing and seeking the Tao, what is sought is not the Tao in this scripture, nor is it the Tao that the ancients believed, but the natural way of heaven and earth, and the way of the practitioner himself.

This book is intended as a reference, not the only truth.

Xiao Fan continued to look down.

Then he froze.

Taishangjing, it's actually ...... Tao Te Ching!

Exactly the same kind!

The second page is also the second chapter of the text of the earth version of the Tao Te Ching: The world knows that beauty is beauty, and evil is evil. We all know that what is good is good, and what is not good is good. There is no symbiosis, difficulty and ease are compatible, long and short are dwarfed, high and low are mutually beneficial, sound and sound are harmonious, and constant. It is to do nothing for the saints, to teach without words, to do all things and to start with Buddha, to achieve and to live in Buddha. The husband is the one who lives in the Ephesus, and the one who goes to the Ephesus. Gale

What this chapter says is that all cognitions are relative, because knowing that there are ugly things, you will feel that some things are beautiful, "being" and "nothing" are a set of contrasts, long and short, high and low, tone and harmony, front and back, all because of the other half, will be felt.

The second half of the chapter talks about the way of the sage, teaching people not to one-sidedly understand everything in the world, not to deliberately do certain things, even if they do good deeds, they don't have to take credit. If you don't take credit, you don't care about losing, and your mentality is always very good.

Xiao Fan has read this scripture a long time ago, and the truths mentioned in the book are of great help to enlightenment in life, and there will be different gains in different ages and different living environments.

But this thing ...... Take it to cultivate immortals?

How to fix it?

He flipped down.

This scripture is very thick, and it is indeed the content of the original Tao Te Ching, a total of eighty-one chapters.

By the time we reached the last chapter, the book had bottomed out, and there were only two pages left.

Xiao Fan looked at the penultimate page.

On this page, there is a passage that roughly means that it is not necessary to demand a certain result in the cultivation of the Tao, and that going with the flow is the highest state. The Great Dao does not deliberately hide, it is in every corner between heaven and earth, and the cultivator himself is also a part of heaven and earth, a part of the Great Dao. Therefore, instead of studying the outer Tao, it is better to study and study oneself, and with oneself as a reference, we can see the subtle things and gain insight into the nature of the universe.

This is an idealistic concept, which is a bit ethereal and illusory, and it feels useless.

However, if you think about it carefully, human beings are the primates of all things, and they themselves contain countless secrets, and every cell structure in the body is very mysterious, more advanced than any high-precision instrument in the world of science and technology.

In addition, he is a chaotic body and studies himself...... It still seems to make some sense.

Moving on, there is the last page.

This page should be regarded as the essence of the whole scripture, there is a Taiji diagram on it, a sword is erected in the center of the Taiji diagram, dividing it into two parts, and the five elements of color are attached to it, as if changing with the flow of yin and yang.

A seemingly simple picture, induced with divine thoughts, can experience the operation of yin and yang, the cycle is endless, as if heaven and earth are reasonable.

"This scripture is really hard to understand......

Xiao Fan thought secretly.

It's a bit embarrassing to give him a copy of the Tao Te Ching, which can be bought for a few dollars on the earth.

There are at least hundreds of millions of people who know this book, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who read through the whole book, but has anyone become an immortal?

Nope!

In the world of materialist science, how can there be any gods......

Although I have changed places now, it is in the Hongmeng world, but the psychological feeling is actually similar, the scriptures are still those scriptures, and every sentence is still very reasonable, and at the same time, it is ...... It's still not like the practice of cultivating immortals.

Xiao Fan pondered carefully and thought about it for a long time.

Unconsciously, he was hungry, so he went offline to eat, and then came up to continue pondering......

After a while, he was hungry again, went offline to eat again, and went online to comprehend the Tao Te Ching.

Time flies quickly, but enlightenment becomes very slow.

In the past, there was a clear guide for learning skills and mental methods, and it was necessary to use the mind to mobilize the true qi to run along a certain meridian, to stay through those few acupoints, when to speed up, how many weeks to circulate at a time, and so on......

Although it is complicated, the guidelines are clear, and you can basically learn it immediately.

And now, Xiao Fan can't understand it at all, even if he understands the meaning of the scriptures, he can't see what its cultivation method is.

You can't really "do nothing" enough to simply give up your practice, right?

Two days have passed, and the players outside are talking about him and Longqian Island, and they have almost turned the forum over.

And he still locked himself in his room to meditate and comprehend the Dharma.

It wasn't until the third day that there was a knock on the door.

Xiao Fan got up to open the door, only to see Ning Feiyan standing at the door, the strong midday sun was shining, and she couldn't see her face clearly, only one outline.

The slender waist and slender figure look pleasing to the eye.

"Are you also in retreat, why haven't you moved for two or three days?" Ning Feiyan wondered.

Xiao Fan confessed honestly: "I have encountered an incomprehensible method, and the old dean said that this mental method is very powerful, but I feel that it is difficult to even get started."

"Oh? Do you also have times when you can't figure it out? Ning Feiyan chuckled, walked in, and naturally took the book in his hand and looked through it twice.

There is still a big difference between NPCs reading books and players.

Players read other people's skill books, and if they learn them, the items will be gone. And the NPC won't, she can watch it as long as she wants, it doesn't matter if she learns it, the props still belong to Xiao Fan.

"The Tao can be the way, the non-constant way, the name can be named, the name is not the constant name...... Isn't this what the general outline of Taoist practice says? Ning Feiyan read it again and let out a surprised sound.

The cultivators of the Shenlong Continent are basically Daoists, and the cultural content of the Daoists here is basically the same as the Daomen known on the earth, and naturally there are some classic sentences on the Tao Te Ching.

However, Xiao Fan didn't know a lot, and when he saw that his senior sister had heard it, he said, "Look back, have you seen all these contents?"

Ning Feiyan nodded slightly and turned a few pages.

He immediately shook his head and said, "There are only a few sentences that are relatively familiar, it looks a little obscure, and I don't know what the guidance of cultivation is."

This feeling is basically similar to Xiao Fan, her comprehension is worse than Xiao Fan, and naturally she can't comprehend the truth in the scriptures so quickly.

"So you don't have a complete Tao Te Ching here......"

Xiao Fan was enlightened when he heard this.

If there is no Tao Te Ching in the Shenlong Continent, then this Taishang Sutra is more unique.

Perhaps understanding it with the thinking of an earthling is a wrong act in itself, and it should be thought of from a different perspective and with the thinking of a monk from the Shenlong Continent!