When the old man heard this, he smiled and said, "Come back and see, it's good to come back and see! If you come back a little later, you won't be able to see this place?"

Hong Hanguang was curious: "What's wrong?"

"The descendants are not filial, and the family property is ruined!" the old man said with a smile, and there was no angry pain of ordinary old people selling ancestral homes. Hong Hanguang was even more curious: "You don't seem to be sad!"

"What's there to be sad about? If my children and grandchildren are not filial, then I have no responsibility as a parent? If my children and grandchildren are incompetent, then it is also destined by heaven! If my children and grandchildren are defeated, how long can I suppress them? Besides, the matter has come to this, sadness is a day, and happiness is also a day! Sadness can't make me live well, so why not be happy?"

The old man said, took out two moon cakes from the food box on the side, stuffed one into his mouth and bit it, and handed the other to Hong Hanguang.

Only then did Hong Hanguang realize that today was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the old man came here at this time, probably for the last thought. But listening to what he said just now, it was not just for this reason, he took the moon cake, was silent for a while and said, "You are really very different from your grandfather!"

"My grandfather and I are two people, how can it be the same? He has his choice, I have my life, and no one will be the same as everyone else in their life. Even if he wants you to follow his path. Aren't you like that?"

The old man's last words were a little pointy and meaningful, but the image was really not very good, chewing food in his mouth, sitting on the ground casually, he looked at Hong Hanguang and said: "Dao Chief, I can see that you are confused!

"I just suddenly don't know why I'm practicing?"

"What's there to think about this? It's not something you like? I remember my grandfather once said that you are destined for the same way, and according to the Immortal Dao, you are a natural Yuqing Realm guest. Why don't you know why you're practicing? The old man didn't understand why Hong Hanguang was confused.

"Originally, I practiced for the sake of immortality, but gradually I realized that the immortality I obtained through cultivation also existed to the limit. ”

"Oh?" the old man heard this, put it down and prepared to stuff it into his mouth, and half-eaten the moon cakes, listened carefully, and did not make a sound.

Hong Hanguang just wanted to talk about his emotions, and he didn't care if the old man understood it or not. Therefore, the old man's actions made him involuntarily say some thoughts in his heart.

"Do you know that the creatures of the world, after exhaling their first breath from the mother's womb, fall from the innate to the acquired. At this point, every move, word and deed will consume their own spirit. Even if living beings can draw nutrients from food and refresh themselves from sleep, they will be different from the original. ”

"Besides, after consumption, it is replenished again, and once it goes, there are consumption and changes. Over time, the innate qi dissipates and the acquired qi accumulates. Creatures grow from infancy to at least a year, and teenagers grow to their peak, and eventually as their innate qi is exhausted, they gradually move towards old age, until the acquired qi dissipates and turns into dry bones. ”

"The same is true of birds and animals, because the exercise is more intense, even if they think less than ordinary people, it is difficult to last long. Flowers and trees, no words and deeds, no thoughts and emotions, but they also have the alternation of withering and glory, do not know moderation, and consume vitality in vain, even if there are no manners, words and deeds, there are few people who can last for a long time. The mountains and rocks are thoughtless and unmoving, but it is difficult to resist the washing of time, and they will eventually grow old and decay and return to dust. ”

"And we and other people who ask for immortals to ask for the Tao, swallow the vitality of heaven and earth, the essence of the sun and the moon, and replenish the innate qi, so as to prolong life, but the vitality that comes from swallowing is also different from the innate qi of oneself. ”

"Therefore, it is said that cultivation can lead to eternal life, but the word immortality, after all, it is just a 'long' word, and when it is still endless, it is not eternal life!"

Hong Hanguang's words don't make much sense, just simply and simply point out the problems encountered in the process of pursuing. After finishing speaking, he looked at the moon cake in his hand, and for some reason, a little weird feeling suddenly appeared in his heart, and he couldn't help but wonder if he would have been different if he had chosen another path.

This is the feeling that Hong Hanguang has traveled in the world over the years, he looks at the red dust, some people cry, some people laugh, some people are watching plays, and some people are acting.

When life is boring, people seek pleasure for themselves. When life is joyful, people seek their own troubles! People fill their lives with fun, boredom, trouble, and joy.

In his view, the world is like a house of fire, in which people are tormented all the time. But the world is a pure land, and people are always showing their good wishes.

In this complex world, some people seek death, some people seek life, and some people seek a wonderful life.

Looking at these, Honghanguang, who understood that he could not live forever, couldn't help but think.

All things will eventually decay, no matter how wonderful this life is, after joy, anger and sorrow, it will eventually die. So when you are alive, no matter how joyful, sad, or distressed, it is just an embellishment before death, or the memory of others, what good does it do you?

In another thousand years, who will remember whom?

Since he will eventually turn into dust, and will eventually turn into nothingness, what is the purpose of coming to the world to walk on the earth? Like Hong Hanguang before, swallowing his vitality in the mountains, it seems that he has lived longer than ordinary people, but when he can remove the time of vomiting, there is no wonderful life for mortals, is this kind of life meaningful?

These troubles were entangled in Hong Hanguang's heart, and he told the old man, the more he said, the heavier the twilight on his body.

"What did I think it was?" The old man suddenly laughed, stuffed the moon cake into his mouth again, and said happily: "Isn't what you said already recorded in the Taoist books? ”

"If you have sentient beings for sentient beings, and all sentient beings are humane, how can you get answers if you seek to prove humanity with the heart of heaven?

"Humanity, the way of heaven?" Hong Hanguang repeated softly: "The way of heaven is like a bow, the higher one suppresses it, the lower one lifts it, the surplus loses it, and the insufficient one makes up for it." The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more than is lost. The way of man is not, and the loss is not enough to give more than ......"

Whispering the Taoist scriptures that he had memorized countless times, and when Hong Hanguang came back to his senses, the old man was already gone. Hong Hanguang didn't look for the old man, but found a place to think.

A few days later, Hong Hanguang, who had a vague sense of heaven and humanity, went to look for the old man, only to find that the old man had passed away a few months ago!

Hong Hanguang, who was a little melancholy in his heart, went to see the old man's grave, and under a banyan tree not far from the cemetery, he saw the old man's phantom.

Looking at the banyan tree, Hong Hanguang's face is not very good-looking, generally speaking, there are no trees with developed root systems such as banyan trees on the edge of the cemetery. Although the arrangement is good, it can take advantage of the developed root system and large tree structure of the banyan tree to form a shelter for future generations.

However, the well-developed root system also means that the roots may enter the tomb, which is not only a bad omen in Feng Shui, but also easy to breed demons. As far as Hong Hanguang knows, many ferocious banyan tree spirits and locust tree spirits grew on the edge of cemeteries or mass graves at the beginning.

The root system of these tree spirits absorbs corpses as nutrients, steals the seven spirits and spirituality left in human corpses, practices demon methods, and some of them can even use corpses to detain the souls of the other party.

Hong Hanguang, who was a little worried that the old man was imprisoned, stepped forward, but before he could understand the situation, the old man smiled at him: "You are here." Still have any doubts?"

"I figured something out, that's why I wanted to come to you and ask. Hong Hanguang looked at the old man's soul and said softly: "I haven't tried my best to overcome the difficulties of the world since I was born, and then I practice and hope for immortality, so after I see all kinds of things in the world, I can't help but want those things that don't belong to me, and all kinds of sorrows will arise." In fact, the joy of life lies in the absence of attachment and inaction, and the external objects do not enter the heart, even if they are lost, they are not hindered by themselves. ”

"Zhuangzi Zhile?" the old man smiled: "This way is more suitable for me!

The old man smiled, looked at him with Hong, and asked earnestly and sincerely, "What do you think is cultivation?"

Hong Hanguang was slightly stunned, he had already seen that the old man was not very human, but he didn't understand why the old man asked like this, and his silent attitude made the old man ignore it, and he asked again: "What do you think, what is the Tao?"

This time, the old man did not give him a chance to speak: "The way of heaven is insignificant, the cycle repeats, the earth is dark, the site of life and death, and the humanity is vast, and I don't know where to end." If these three are the Tao, what is the heavens, what is the earth, what is man, what is the Tao, where does the heavens come from, where does the earth come from, and where do people come from?"

Hong Hanguang pondered silently: "The Tao is the foundation of change, unborn and imperishable, formless and imageless, without beginning and end, all-encompassing, its big has no outside, its small has no inside, and it has changed and remains unchanged for eternity." ”

"Where did that come from?"

"Out of nowhere?"

"How can the Tao be born out of nothingness?

Hong Hanguang fell into contemplation again, but the old man suddenly smiled and said: "Actually, you don't have to think so complicated, the so-called cultivation, the predecessors have already told you the answer!"

"Please also advise!" Honghan bowed to the disciple salute.

"It's just that man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law, and the Tao is natural!"

Hong Hanguang's complexion changed slightly, this sentence is also recorded in the Taoist scriptures, and the law "law" here is not a simple imitation, but from the meaning of imitation to the law, and use. That is, from the hope of equal difference contrast, we can understand the shortcomings of our own existence.

Therefore, if a person does not violate the earth, he will have complete peace and the law, the earth will not violate the heavens, but he will be fully loaded, and the law will be heavenly, and the heavens will not violate the Tao, but will be completely overcome, and the law will be the way, and the Tao will not violate nature, but will have its nature, and the law will be natural.

Those who are natural in law are in the square and the law, in the circle and the law are round, and there is nothing to violate in nature.

In short, man is subject to the earth, the earth is subject to the heavens, the heavens are subject to the Tao, and the Tao is subject to itself.

Apply to the path of spiritual practice......

Seeing that Hong Hanguang had an understanding, the old man smiled and said lightly: "The so-called cultivation is nothing more than cultivating oneself and self. ”

"Therefore, cultivating the path is cultivating the poor path. If it's not a poor way, what kind of way is it?"

Hong Hanguang buzzed in his mind, the surrounding void was shattered piece by piece, and he woke up from the illusion little by little, he looked at the much younger "old man" in front of him, bowed down and said, "Thank you Teacher Yuchen for your advice." ”

After speaking, Honghan sat down on his knees, and the human ingots in his body continued to rotate, and wisps of vitality gathered from all directions.

Looking at the changes in Hong Hanguang, Yuchen nodded with satisfaction.

As early as when he heard Hong Hanguang's name, he thought of Li Hanguang, the thirteenth generation grandmaster of Maoshan in Shangqing Dao, which would be seen in many copy worlds.

According to historical records, his original surname was Hong, and he changed his surname to Li because he avoided filial piety to the emperor Li Hongmiao, and his teacher Sima Chengzhen was awarded the Dafa Lingwen Golden Record in Wangwu Mountain, called "Mr. Xuanjing" and "Mr. Zhenyin".

Speaking of this Mr. Xuan Jing, when he saw Sima Chengzhen for the first time before apprenticeship, the twelfth generation grandmaster of the Maoshan Sect of the Shangqing Sect said: "What a guest of the Jade Qing Realm!"

This is also the origin of Yuchen's evaluation of Hong Hanguang in the illusion.

According to the worldview of the dungeon world, many plot characters are interspersed with each other, and the status of knowledge identity will change a lot. So after knowing Hong Hanguang, Yuchen focused part of his attention on him, and after discovering that he was destined for the same way, he increased his attention.

It's just that although this Hong Hanguang is a fellow practitioner and is good in all aspects, he also has his own flaws. The environment in which he lived in the past made him seem a bit "modest" and liked to do things.

Like this case regarding the split into three factions within the disciple, when Yu Chen asked him, he should have made a decision, instead of saying words that seemed fair, but were actually peaceful.

At the same time, I don't know if it should be because he has not experienced any hardships in the past, so that although Hong Hanguang pursues immortality, he does not understand the concept of immortality and the meaning it represents.

Therefore, Yuchen specially arranged such an illusion as a tempering, hoping to make him understand what immortality is, what immortality is, what cultivation is, and what cultivation is.

............ Today is still working overtime until ten o'clock, the number of words is still a little worse, and the following will be changed to the words, please forgive me for the inconvenience..................

To illustrate, among the three major factions of the early Daomen, Tianshi, Shangqing, and Lingbao, the Heavenly Master worshiped Taishang, and Shangqing worshiped Yuanshi, and there are also sources that Shangqing faction worshiped Yuanshi Tianzun and Taishang Daojun at the same time. The Lingbao faction worships Lingbao Tianzun (Taishang Yuchen Dadaojun). And the name of Shangqing is that the Shangqing sect says that those who take refuge in their own home and attain the Tao can ascend to the 'Shangqing', which is higher than the 'Taiqing' of the Heavenly Master's Dao! To put it bluntly, it is to let the Yuan Shi Tianzun, who was born later, be above the Taishang Laojun. However, in order to facilitate everyone's reading, most of the time it is still unified according to the routines of Taiqing Taishang, Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Lingbao.

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