Taoist cultivation can also be divided into three main categories, namely the righteous path, the side path, and the evil path......

The Right Path: Inner Refining ......

The so-called righteous path focuses on refining one's own essence, which is to follow the exercises recorded in the traditional Taoist secret books, which belongs to the orthodox Taoist cultivation method.

It can be divided into Inner Dan and Outer Dan, Outer Dan is like Qin Shi Huang looking for an elixir, Inner Dan is to refine the essence in the body into a golden pill, and Outer Dan is to refine it outside and then take it, so in comparison, the Inner Dan is still more reliable, after all, it is cultivated by yourself,

The outer Dan technique is like "grafting", which will definitely involve the problem of "adaptation", "convincing the qi and regulating the throat with the inner dan".

This is a sentence said by Xu Xun of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in fact, there is a lot of information about Neidan in most of the literature, and Neidan has also been recognized by many ancients, but it is simple to say, and it is troublesome to do.

Side doors: with the help of ......

The side door likes to use the power of nature, in fact, the use of the side door is not a matter of the side door, but strictly speaking, it is not orthodox...... The power of nature is the water, fire, thunder, lightning, wind and rain in nature, etc., using talismans or spells, or some spells, using this kind of thing to urge, to achieve an effect that can be used with the help of natural power!

The presentation method is to ask for rain, such as the heavenly thunder recorded in the "Dao Fa Hui Yuan", or the rain that occurred in the ancient court, which belongs to the use of natural forces.

Evil Path: Replenishing ......

The evil way is the so-called evil devil's crooked way, which is popular to collect and replenish the yuan and refine the soul, and it is written in the twenty-seventh volume of "The Thousand Golden Prescriptions": "The sorcerer in the husband's room is very close, and people cannot practice their methods." Ten women in one night, closed only, the art in this room is complete. ”

This room in the art is similar to this, but it is better than picking yin and supplementing yang, picking yin and supplementing yang is a complete evil way, Taoism itself pursues no desire and no desire, and it is impossible to ascend to the Tao as long as there is desire......

Not to mention whether cultivating to become an immortal is true or not? The way of collecting yin and supplementing yang will only stimulate people's desires more, and it cannot be a way to attain the Tao, and this way will be more and more criticized by various sects in future generations, and it will become more and more declining!

There are five levels of Taoist Inner Dan cultivation, and when you reach the highest level, you can break through the void with one blow......

Neidanshu is considered by Taoism to be the most authentic method of cultivating immortals. Wei Boyang of the Eastern Han Dynasty has already used hidden words to describe the cultivation of Neidan in his book "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Deed".

By the end of the Tang Dynasty and the fifth dynasty, the Taoist Inner Dan technique began to mature. In particular, the Neidan Gong method passed down by Zhong Liquan and Lü Dongbin among the Eight Immortals was followed by the Quanzhen Sect and other Neidan cultivation schools, and became the most widely spread Neidan cultivation method, that is, Zhong Lü Dan Dao.

Zhong Lu Dan Dao is a human body system engineering with dual cultivation of life and the cultivation of form and spirit. By sexuality, we refer to spiritual practice; Life is the cultivation of the physical aspect.

Zhong Lu Dan Dao takes the condensation of essence, qi and spirit as the basic skill, and the ingestion of innate qi as the key. The order is clear, and there is a test every step of the way. The cultivation realm of Zhong Lu Dan Dao, according to the description of Zhong Lu Missionary Collection, is divided into five levels, that is, the five immortals mentioned in Taoism.

The first level is the realm of ghosts and immortals......

Cultivation only cultivates nature and does not cultivate life, and after refining, it has supernatural powers, but it cannot prolong life, this is the realm of ghosts and immortals.

The practice of meditation in Buddhism, because it only focuses on seeing the nature of becoming a Buddha and does not care about the physical body, often falls into the state of ghosts and immortals. Lu Dongbin pointed out a long time ago that only cultivating nature, not life, is the first disease of cultivation.

Therefore, there are many Buddhist monks who have attained enlightenment, but there are not many people who live long. Hui Si, the third ancestor of the Tiantai sect of Buddhism, also recognized this problem and led him to Buddhahood.

He said, "Seek a long life for the sake of protecting the Dharma" and "borrow the outer Dan to cultivate the inner Dan". The cultivator failed to refine to pure yang, and after death, he thought quietly, went out of the dark and entered the underworld, was immortal and immortal, and achieved the first level of inner Dan cultivation: "ghost immortal".

The second level is the realm of human immortals......

Human immortals are just the opposite of ghost immortals, human immortals only cultivate life but not sex. After cultivating successfully, he does prolong his life, but he does not have supernatural powers.

In the beginning, a cultivator may have heard of the Dao of Cultivation because of great chance, but because of the depth of his sins or the shallowness of his blessings, he changed his original intention after suffering some hardships, so he could only achieve a small success, and could not completely cultivate the Dao.

Human immortals are also cultivated through hard work, and the accumulation of the qi of the five elements or misunderstandings has great benefits to the human body, so the body is doubly good, and the epidemic of the eight evils cannot be harmed, and it is rare to get sick.

The third level is the realm of earth immortals......

The earth immortals can be called immortals in the true sense, but they are just immortals who live in the human world.

The earth immortals are half of the heaven and earth, and they have the talents of the gods, but they do not have the blessings of the gods. The earth immortals still haven't comprehended the avenue, and the achievement stops at the method of small success. Even so, the earth immortals can also live forever and wander in the world.

Many mortals are more envious of the earth immortals, rather than the heavenly immortals who can only relax their sleeves in the lonely Guanghan. Cultivators who practice the Jindan Avenue of Life and Soul Cultivation reach the realm of earth immortals without leakage until Xiao Zhoutian achieves success.

The fourth level is the realm of immortals......

Cultivate in turn, until you can come out of the yang god and have boundless mana and magical powers, it is the realm of immortals.

The yang god is relative to the yin god, the yin god is just the ghost of the yin spirit, and the yang god is according to the statement of Zhang Ziyang, the patriarch of the Southern Sect of the Quanzhen Sect: "Jindan Avenue, life and cultivation, is the place where the gathering is formed, and the dispersion is the qi, and the place where the true god appears, which is called the yang god." ”

Apparently the embodiment of the avenue. In addition to being able to produce the yang god, the immortal realm also has ten supernatural powers such as Tianyantong, Tianertong, and his heart.

The fifth level is the realm of heavenly immortals......

According to the statement in the "Zhonglu Missionary Collection", only the immortals who have great achievements in heaven and earth and great deeds in ancient times can reach the realm of heavenly immortals. After cultivating to become an immortal, if you are bored in the three islands and ten continents, you can then preach and accumulate merits in the world.

If there is merit on the Tao and deeds in the world, after the merit is satisfied, the heavens will descend the heavenly book, and the immortals can return to the heavenly realm with the pass of the heavenly book, so they are called heavenly immortals.

Of course, the heavenly immortals are not the end, and they can also be officials in the heavenly realm. Mainly water officials, earth officials, heavenly officials and the like. If you can make achievements, you can also be promoted step by step, until you rise to the realm of Sanqing Void Nature.

The power of the Heavenly Immortal Realm lies in the fact that it can shatter the void and return the void to the Dao. Reaching this realm, it can be said that the cultivation of the Inner Dan has reached the state of consummation.