Merchants have gained a lot from this trip.

The Yu family received the help of Hualan Court and invited the Holy Mother of the Divine Turtle to exert their might, and they recaptured Ninghai City, the root of the family, smashed the conspiracy of the Tu family, avoided a man-made catastrophe, and experienced the two heavens of ice and fire in one day.

Therefore, in addition to the items originally traded, the merchant obtained more than half of the inventory materials that the Yu family half sold and half sent, which can be said to be a full load.

On the day of leaving, news came that the Holy Mother of the Turtle had subdued the three overlords of the East China Sea, re-established the status of the Lord of the East China Sea, and ordered the removal of the Sea Fish Gang, and the Yu family and the Lu family continued to retain the right to trade as agents, and the two families immediately decided to take advantage of this momentum to work together to exterminate the Star of the East China Sea and return peace and tranquility to the coastal land.

Brother Yu, the head of the house, also did a very good job, he immediately announced that he would donate a large amount of materials to the front line of Shuxuan Immortal Continent to resist the invasion of the Houtu Continent, entrust the merchant caravan to ship and deliver, and put the Tu family on the blacklist of transactions.

There were too many goods, and the merchants' special vehicles could no longer fit them, so they had to hire a lot of local cars and horses to transport them, and the convoy would go straight to the front line.

In order to prevent accidents, especially the counterattack of the slaughterer who defeated Ninghai, Shang Chenxi Feishu Chuanyin Shangbao mobilized people to respond.

Xunzhen took the four people of Hualanting to assist in escorting them for a while, and when the merchants arrived, they turned around and returned to the Vientiane Gate.

Back in the door, Hua Lanting and they were most concerned about the battle on the front line.

In these days, the invading enemy of the Houtu Continent has attacked on a large scale and attacked from all sides, and the Shu Xuan Immortal Continent has not been active due to the hasty response to the battle, and many sects are still waiting and watching, causing many lines of defense to be broken through by the other party, and it was not until more sects began to participate in the war that the situation was barely stabilized, and the two sides are currently in a state of stalemate.

Hua Lanting and other young disciples of the sixties couldn't bear it, and they all asked Ying to fight, but they were still suppressed by the door, saying that the time had not yet come.

Elder Zhou Xi sent out a message, only more disciples of the Sixty Generations broke through to the Five Qi Dynasty Yuan Realm, and a considerable number of people would only consider it after they reached the Six Ding and Six Jia Realm.

Zhou Xi also made another request in private, saying that in order not to let the Elder Seeking Truth pay for falling into a small realm in vain, he asked Lin Xianjing, Yi Liunian and Zhuge Yun to enter the Seven Star Beidou Realm as soon as possible, otherwise the battle time of the sixty generations of disciples would be delayed.

With the motivation and pressure, Lin Xianjing and the three of them worked overtime and practiced hard under the guidance of their own masters and minor.

The qualifications of the three of them are good, and their perseverance is also strong, and the search for truth not only allows them to experience the feeling of flying in the sky in advance, but also comes with a pure and pure qi that consolidates the foundation and cultivates at that time, and what is even more rare is that they do not hesitate to use pure heavenly thunder to expand their meridians and refine their physical bodies, so after a few months, the three of them have reached the critical point of breakthrough.

But the pass is the pass, and things that come naturally can be encountered but not sought, especially the Seven Star Beidou Realm, which needs understanding and opportunity to achieve it overnight.

The division commanders of the three of them used all kinds of means, some of them were kind words and comforters, some of them were beaten and scolded, and some of them went around asking for medical advice and medicine to find external forces.

After a long time, seeing the progress of other senior brothers and sisters, even Lin Xianjing, who was mentally stable, began to feel impetuous.

Hua Lanting couldn't do anything about it, at the Seven Star Beidou Realm Pass, his own experience and feelings were not applicable to others.

Zhou Xi also saw this situation in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, and after thinking about it, he invited Elder Chen Lu'an, who cultivated Buddhism and Taoism.

Asking Chen Lu'an is not for a breakthrough in cultivation, but to adjust the mentality of the three of them through the perception of cultivation.

On this day, Chen Lu'an took Hua Lanting and Lin Xianjing out and went to a forest in the Douji Peak of the back mountain.

At this time, it was already cool in autumn outside the mountain, and the mountain was still when the heat was about to end, and the trees in the woodland were still hissing.

Chen Lu'an said: "This is a place where I usually cultivate, and I will borrow it for you today." If you want to break through, you can't be hot in the sky, you have to calm me down. You three, now start meditating. ”

The three of them sat cross-legged, running freely and without extreme power.

At first, they didn't care, because it was a basic kung fu, and they started learning from the beginning, and after so many years, they could almost achieve a level where they could quickly enter meditation at any time in any environment.

However, this is not the same as in the past, no matter how much they gather their minds and carry their breath, they are just distraught and unable to enter the state smoothly.

Hua Lanting was a bystander, he raised his eyes to look at the trees, the autumn cicadas were noisy, sometimes one after another, sometimes hundreds of cicadas contended, the sound was in the ears, disturbing people's hearts.

Lin Xian and the others also felt abnormal, it is said that with their current cultivation, let alone the sound of cicadas, even if they beat gongs and set off firecrackers in their ears, they could not prevent the three of them from entering the realm of selflessness.

This cicada is different.

Chen Lu'an said at this time: "Yes, this is the cicada I borrowed from Zhaoyao Peak, good at pronunciation and killing techniques, can break the body into the soul, and disturb people's cultivation, so as to sharpen your mind." ”

"The three of you will work one wall, and then prick up one ear to listen to the old man talk about Zen, and at the same time listen to the sound of cicadas. If we succeed in the end, we will be able to complete today. ”

"There are several laymen such as Geng Linmang, a senior master, who have written articles related to cicadas and Zen, and I will talk to you about the general idea. ”

The cicada is the insect that best represents summer.

The word "Xia" on the oracle bone script is the appearance of a cicada, and this "Xia" is the origin of the ancient civilization of the East.

It's hard to say when summer began to sneak into life. When the scorching sun is shining and the first cicadas are singing across the earth, anyone can say with certainty: summer is really coming.

Summer begins to be grand and begins with the chirping of cicadas.

There is always a cicada leading the singing, attracting 10,000 sentences of harmony, a sentence of three stacks, high and low, if the sound of gold and jade vibrate, endlessly.

This kind of summer, like a quatrain, the sound of cicadas, mediocre and mediocre.

Cicada and Zen, these two characters are close in shape, similar in sound, and have the same meaning.

Both cicadas and Zen have the word "single", and the two small mouths on the ancient body of the cicada "toad" are like two eyes, and then put on silk-like light wings, as if there is only a single lonely meditator wearing a robe.

The cicada is an insect.

Zen is a method of cultivating the mind.

When the cicadas are not calling, they are still there.

Zen, just like when the cicadas are not calling, is quiet. From the outside in, from physical stillness to spiritual stillness. In the end, even if the body moves, the mind is still.

The cicada is a Zen person, and the sound of the cicada is the Sanskrit sound.

The cicada "droops and drinks the dew". Xunzi also said: "Those who drink but do not eat are cicadas." ”

The eating habits of cicadas are indeed different. One says that it drinks the dew on the leaves, and the other says that it drinks the sap of the tree, anyway, it is a master who "does not eat the fireworks of the world", which is a bit of a meditation practitioner's high wind and bright festival.

Listening to cicadas in midsummer, the sound of cicadas is wordless Zen.

The ancients believed that the cicada was noble, "shedding in turbidity, floating outside the dust", stealth and silence, born to speak, just like a gentleman, if it does not sing, it is already a blockbuster.

Folk like to refer to cicadas as "knowing".

This name is even more interesting: knowledge is great wisdom, it is the transparency of seeing all things in the world, and it is great detachment, and it is the thorough realization of no desire, no desire, no desire, no self.

Meditation practitioners advocate that only by penetrating life with great wisdom and returning to the true nature with great detachment can we achieve great freedom and attain true happiness.

Xiao Xiao knows, may not have thought about these mysterious things, it just lives with its own heart, not greedy, not demanding.

There are 3,000 forest trees, and there is a branch to perch on, and the red dust and the sound of the breeze are enough.

The cicada is also Zen, one is the voice of nature, and the other is the inner practice.

A cicada is also a lifetime of Zen.

The life of a cicada can be described as a lot of calamities.

Cicada eggs are laid on the orifices of tree branches, and they have to avoid the stealing of gnats to have a chance to hatch, and the nymphs have just seen the light and have to burrow into the burrow before the temperature drops down, and carry out a new "practice".

It was a dark and long wait.

Even the common cicadas have to survive for two or three years, and they have a long life among insects, some of them grow to five or six years, and one species is willing to wait for 17 years!

If you are lucky, you have not been dug out of the ground for such a long time, and the cicada has ushered in another metamorphosis - feathering.

The old shell beneath the ground will begin to crack from the top of its head to the center of its back of its chest, and the soft new body will break away from it, trembling and spreading its wings, feeling the flow of air and beginning its real life—only a few weeks before its death.

Years of waiting, just in exchange for a season of singing.

It spent most of its life underground, ending up with only a few dozen days of glorious life in the sun. When you think about it, you don't find the uniform cicada chirping annoying. After accumulating a lifetime of enthusiasm and venting it in a short period of time, how can this voice not be loud?

In its life, it has experienced darkness and light, bondage and freedom, crawling and wings, dumbness and singing...... Layers of metamorphosis between the two gates of life and death.

The cicada song contains the power of life, the explosion after silence, and the success after accumulation.

Born as a human being, who has not fallen into the dirt like a cicada, and who has not been like a cicada, putting on hard armor to fight for conflict?

If you understand the cicada, you may understand life.

The monk Tang Sanzang, who learned scriptures from the West, was a golden cicada in front of the Buddha, and he was a cicada in his previous life.

It is rumored that Sakyamuni preached under the Bodhi tree, there was a golden cicada on the tree, the Sanskrit sound lingered, the cicada chirped endlessly, disturbing the gods and Buddhas, the Buddha waved his hand, and waved the golden cicada into the earthly calamity.

In fact, whether it is a holy monk or a mortal, there will always be a dull and lengthy period of suffering in life, like a black hole with no end in sight, but it is this kind of time that is about to usher in the growth period of transformation.

The place of suffering in life is the time of cultivation.

The insect cicada is the rebirth of the body,

Entering Zen is the nirvana of the soul.

You have to believe that the confinement outside the body is breaking, and the wings conceived in your heart are about to break out.

Zhuangzi once told a story about a hunchbacked old man who used a bamboo pole to catch a cicada, which was as easy as picking up something. So when someone asked him the secret, he said that he had the Tao, and that the so-called attainment of the Tao was nothing more than training. Stones are tied to bamboo poles until a state of "concentration" is reached.

What kind of state is that?" "The body is like a tree, without a trace of the breath of a living person, only the wings of the cicada in the eyes, and the heart is not distracted, and the mind is concentrated. ”

Catching cicadas and sitting in meditation must be settled. From the initial restlessness, to the separation of body and mind, to observe the self, to look inside the self, and finally to settle down.

Summer without cicada song is lonely. But with the cicada song, some people always think it is noisy.

On a hot day, the sound of cicadas is boiling, from morning to night, non-stop. Especially at noon, when you are sleepy, the more noisy it becomes, and you will fall asleep when you are making noise.

It's not the cicadas that make trouble, it's our hearts.

Being able to sit still and listen to the cicadas in the midst of the restless sound and heat is a kind of meditation in itself.

In ancient times, when the children of Buddhism participated in Zen, they would always choose to sit cross-legged under the trees and in the mountains with the sound of cicadas, and practice meditation.

The sound of cicadas becomes Zen.

Before a cicada breaks the ground and chirps, it has been sitting in the dark for many springs, autumns, winters and summers. Maybe three years, maybe ten years, sit quietly, wait, keep shedding the old cloak shell, each time you shed, there will be one more round of annual rings on the tree, and time will pass a little.

The cicadas left in the treetops are traces of old penance.

The best Zen state in life is rich and quiet, not anxious and confused in restlessness, nor struggling and chasing in flashiness.

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