710, "Dead Pig"

Through the smoke of history, let us return to the present. At the beginning of the morning of April 28, Mengxia, at the foot of the tomb of the former Qin king Fu Jian, I saw a ragged and unkempt bearded man with a big belly sleeping like a "dead pig", and he escaped a dead beggar! Even the killers of the Prime Minister's Mansion "Twelve Stars of Séance" and "Heaven and Earth" trampled on him, but he still fell asleep soundly and did not wake up, which is really a "strange" in the world!

Who is this boar-like hairy man? To tell the truth, this dead beggar with a big belly who seems to be Zhong Liwu is Tan Qiao Tan Daxia, a friend of Chen Shu, Zhong Liquan, Li Babai, Lu Dongbin, Jurchen Mao Nu and many other strange people. This person once appeared in the chapter where Ye Wuwu and Chen Tuan played against Huashan, but now he is sleeping in front of the barren mound.

However, don't underestimate this dead beggar, he is one of the strange hermits in the Five Dynasties period, a famous Taoist priest and Taoist scholar, the word Jingsheng, a native of Quanzhou (now Quanzhou, Fujian), the son of Si Yezhu of Tang Guozi, has been smart since childhood, and has been widely involved in history in his early years. His father hopes that his son will be Jackie Chan, hoping that he can be admitted to the Jinshi and rise to the top. It's just that Tan Qiao has a strong interest in the study of Huang Lao and other sons, and collects books such as "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", "The Inner Biography of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty", "The Inner Biography of Mao Jun Liexian" and other books. His parents didn't know what to do, thinking that Junnan Mountain was close to Kyoto, and it would be harmless to visit it, so they readily agreed. Who knows that it doesn't matter if he goes, Tan Qiao has already made up his mind, once he left the house, he will not return, and he has traveled to Taibai Mountain, Taihang Mountain, Wangwu Mountain, Song Mountain, Huashan, Taishan, Lushan, Qianshan ....... In the face of his father's reprimand, he replied:

Mao Jun used to be the son of man, and he resigned from his father to learn immortals, and now he admires it, hoping that it will be beneficial. Parents seek the Tao with their steadfastness, and do not limit themselves to the affairs of the world, but listen to them.

Tan Qiao worshiped the Taoist priest of Songshan as his teacher, studied hard for more than ten years, and did his best to cultivate the valley and cultivate qi. After traveling all over the world, his whereabouts were uncertain, and he became a traveling Taoist.

Tan Qiao's usual behavior is often very different from ordinary people. Xia Qiu Dong Ge, like crazy. Sometimes lying in the wind, rain, frost and snow, not waking up all day long, people think that he is dead, but when they look closely, they are stunned. In fact, Tan Qiao has already obtained the authentic internal cultivation method of the Daomen, the authentic sleeping skill, and the kung fu is profound, and he does not care about cold and heat. This is what my old man often says: "Some people are dead, but he is still alive; There is a man who is alive, and he is dead. Death is lighter than a feather and heavier than Mount Tai, and there is a walking corpse alive. ”

The secret of sleeping is that the sleep of real people, the sleep of immortals, and the sleep of supreme people, keep holographic, drink jade liquid, the golden gate is closed and cannot be opened, and the soil is closed and cannot be opened. Canglong is locked in the Qing Palace, Suhu is in the west room, the true qi runs in the Danchi, and the divine water circulates in the five. Hu Jia Ding to be at the right time, summon the hundred spirits to guard its room, and then my god out of the nine palaces, wandering in the green, as if the performance is real, if the rise is down, the down is like rising, Ran Ran and the auspicious wind are swimming, and the clouds are haunted. Poetry: To people have no dreams, their dreams are wandering immortals; Real people become sleepless, and sleep is cloudy. There is medicine in the furnace for a long time, and there is no heaven in the pot. If you want to know in your sleep, the first mystery in the world. Therefore, it is said that the sleep of a real person is not to sleep for a long time without waking up, but to hide in sleep, and to cultivate internal cultivation, not to sleep really well.

Tan Qiao does not store property, his sleeves are breezy, and he happily forgets about things. often scattered the clothes and money sent by his father to poor families. Based on his understanding, Tan Qiao wrote the "Book of Hua", which revealed his incisive insights after in-depth exploration of social reality, life philosophy, transcendence of thought and other fields. From the poems that Tan Qiao often recites, we can see his broad-mindedness and understanding of the Tao:

The line is made of the Yangtze River fan for the sky, and the sandals are thrown to the East China Sea.

Penglai has no more roads, only in front of Tan Sheng's cane.

Tan Qiao went out of Confucianism and Buddhism and entered the Tao of immortals, but he still often paid attention to social issues. In order to make his understanding known to more people, he searched for people in the course of his long travels in order to publish his writings.

The general principle of the changes in the universe revealed by Tan Qiao's "Book of Transformation" is:

The commission of the Tao is also, the void of God, the deification of qi, the transformation of form, the form of birth and all things are stuffed.

The use of the Tao is also, the form of qi, the gas of the gods, the deification of the void, the void and all things are so passable.

Tan Qiao believes that the movement of the avenue constitutes a complete circle, opening and closing, and the transformation of life and death, although the body is void and infinite. The development program of all things in the universe is Tao ~ God ~ Qi ~ Form (all things). In this way, the world is endless, ever-changing, ever-changing, and all things have a commonality, that is, form ~ qi ~ god ~ void, "void and all things are so clear." This formula, framework, principle, and spirit are universally applicable. Even if you want to use it to analyze the phenomenon of social evolution, it is completely feasible:

Void God, deify the gas, gasify the form, form the fine, refine the Gu Pan, and look forward to the transformation of the concession, the concession of the lifting, the lifting of the humble, the respect and the inferiority of the distinction, the distinction of the crown, the crown of the chariot, the chariot of the chariot, the palace of the palace, the palace of the guard, the guard of the Yan Xiang, the Yan Xiang of extravagance, the extravagance of the accumulation, the convergence of the deception, the deception of the torture, the punishment of the chaos, the chaos of the soldiers, the armor of the soldiers, the struggle for defeat. It also comes and is unstoppable; It is also unstoppable.

Tan Qiao seems to have intended to constitute a grand map of the evolution of human history, from the origin of human beings, the development of private ownership, the establishment of imperial power to the historical chains of exploitation, oppression, and resistance, he recognized a certain inevitability of history, and thus made a description in a traditional Chinese way. Although its theory seems to be very simple and simple, and even some links are not connected, it cannot be compared with Marxism-Leninism. Thought.. Compared with the similar expositions of theoretical classic writers, it is already rare that his understanding of social history reached such a level a thousand years ago. It is precisely this kind of macro understanding that enables him to draw many unique views on the problem of social disorder.

Tan Qiao also has a summary of the evolutionary program of human beings themselves:

Void God, deify Qi, Qi into blood, blood into shape, form into infants, infants into children, children into strong, strong into old, old age, dead from death.

Void is transformed into God, God is transformed into qi, and qi is restored into matter.

The transformation is continuous, from the infinite ring, all things do not want to be born, but have to be born; All things do not want to die, they have to die. (The Book of Death)

The question of where humans originally came from is still a major topic of debate in the scientific community. Of course, Tan Qiao started from the Tao and the void to analyze the formation of the human embryo, and realized that birth, old age, sickness and death are an iron law, and also realized that although all things change, they are cyclical.

Tan Qiao believes that the ancient sages finally realized that "the end of poverty and the source of creation" through intensive consideration, and the transcendent path of human beings, the principles of cultivation are obvious and not mysterious:

Forgetting the form to nourish the qi, forgetting the qi to nourish the spirit, forgetting the god to nourish the void, the virtual and the real are connected, which is the great harmony. Hide it for the essence, use it for all spirits, contain it for the Taiyi, and put it for the Taiqing. It is the way of deification, which is to be separated from the growth and dissipation of the body, the wind and clouds are vented in the seven orifices, the true qi is fumigated without cold and heat, and the pure yang flow is injected without death and life. ("Huashu Ziji Palace Tablet")

The "way of deification" is the way of human transcendence, and after cultivation, it can make people's lives move in a reverse direction, that is, change the direction of movement from the life evolution program of void ~ god ~ qi ~ blood ~ shape ~ infant ~ child ~ strong ~ old ~ dead. This is not a change after death, if this is the case, it is tantamount to outright religious superstition, but when life activities still exist, whether the individual's life is in the youth, strength, old age, or healthy and sick, it begins to embark on the road of return: form ~ qi ~ god ~ void. "Those who have attained this principle can be made in vain, and God can be transformed, and form can not be born."

The immortality of God is not the transformation of life, blood, form, and infancy, and forgetting the form, returning to the form as qi, being God, and being void is beyond the state of human life and death. Tan Qiao's theory that the Tao casts the human body's shape, spirit, qi and blood to reach nothingness and never sit down, the world will feel mysterious and unpredictable, if combined with Chen Jing's "Wuji Diagram", people will feel that what kind of exploration is being carried out by Taoist scholars, and what they are carrying out is a great cause of the human body and the life engineering of the human body and the universe.

From the passage of the above-mentioned "Huashu Ziji Palace Tablet", we understand that Tan Qiao can be different from ordinary people, lying on ice and snow and calm, although the breath is still stunned after days, is because the true qi in his body is fumigated and plays a role in cold and frost protection. There are many records in the classics about the masters of Buddhism and Taoism who sit in the harsh winter and melt ice and snow, and Tan Zi is not alone. Of course, Tan Qiao's ability to do this also shows that he has entered a higher level in enlightenment. In this regard, he made a principled disclosure in the "Book of Transformation":

There are people who are good at hiding, or they can resist the cold, or they can go to the great hunger, or they can live forever, and they know nothing in their hearts, they have nothing to do, they can't do anything, they can't be confused, and they can't get death. It is a big body like a body, and the body knows the truth. It is said to be the tsu of the auspicious people. (The Book of Transformation)

It is to know the body with a real human body, and to know the body. (Yin and Yang)

In nature, turtles, snakes, cranes, deer and other long-lived animals, there are many species, Tan Qiao carefully observed, from far and near, from the other to this, to summarize the root cause, is the "sting". The sting is not only the form and body, but the heart and the spirit. There is a method of stinging in the Taoist internal cultivation method, which refers to the latter. Tan Qiao said: "If you have the outline of heaven and earth, know the house of yin and yang, and see the hidden of the spirit, you can take the number, you can live, and the world can be restored." ("The Book of Turning into a Boat")