From a spiritual point of view, most people in the world are in a sick state, and the difference is only in the severity of the disease, some people's illness has manifested externally, others are still in a potential state, and some are physical diseases, some are mental diseases, and more are both.

Cultivation is to change this state, so that the heavy lesions are light, and the small lesions are none, and then the wisdom is enlightened, and one of the important means to achieve this transformation is self-cultivation.

Generally speaking, self-cultivation and mind cultivation are two aspects of cultivation, and the Tao Te Ching compares them to the two wheels of a car, and only when the two wheels are the same size, can the car move forward smoothly.

In the process of actual practice, the two wheels of body and mind are always in a state of flux, and as long as they can be adjusted, the car will always be able to move forward, but the trajectory of the movement will be bumpy and swinging back and forth from left or right.

Therefore, the only way to reach your destination quickly is to minimize the frequency and amplitude of this oscillation.

Self-cultivation and mind cultivation can be regarded as one and the same, and self-cultivation is just a specific method of mind cultivation. However, it is only after cultivating to the point where the original mind is manifested, and transitioning to a state of cultivation in which the body and mind are one, that the two are completely the same thing, and at this point, there is no difference between self-cultivation and mind cultivation, but until then, it is still necessary to cultivate separately.

Based on the concept of Taoism and years of experience, the Freedom of Vientiane Gate is divided into major stages of practice:

First of all, it is to achieve the stage of strengthening the body and achieving the initial foundation stage of restoring health.

After that, it is the stage of refining and refining qi, which achieves muscle and blood activation, exercises internal organs, and turns essence into qi.

After that, the qi is full and the god is transformed, that is, the stage of refining the qi and turning the god, at this time, the gas becomes a god, and the brain gradually changes from wood to vitality from the surface and the inside, from turbidity to clarity, and the mind is strengthened.

This is followed by the stage of refining the gods and returning them to the void, and at this time it can already be said that the physical body is connected with the universe and the heavens and the earth.

As for the last two steps, for the natural stage of refining the Void Harmony Dao and the Dao Method, it is not something that can be achieved by a single self-cultivation exercise, and the strong person of a single cultivation body can only stop at this at most, and these two steps are extremely closely related to the cultivation of the mind, and only the exercises that cultivate both body and mind can be realized.

These two stages, similar to the first blooming of the heart and the blooming stage of the heart as mentioned by Buddhism, the things blocked by the heart are slowly peeled off layer by layer and broken apart, gradually revealing the original heart, pointing directly to the ascension to become an immortal and become a Buddha.

In order to facilitate the expression and embodiment of the step-by-step progress, the Freedom in Vientiane Gate refers to the ten realms of foundation building, obtaining medicine, knotting Dan, refining oneself, returning pills, warm nourishment, rebirth, Xuanzhu, Yaochi, and Wuji, and according to the characteristics of freedom as Wujigong, the above stages are further subdivided into one yuan rebeginning, two dragons out of the water, three mountains with the moon, four elephants yin and yang, five qi dynasty yuan, six dings and six jia, seven stars and six jia, seven stars and two stars of the golden lock, nine curves of the chain and ten directions of the infinite line.

For example, the Four Elephants Yin and Yang Realm where Hua Lan Ting is currently located still belongs to the refining and refining qi stage, and the Five Qi Chaoyuan Realm can be regarded as initially entering the stage of refining qi and transforming gods, and after the Seven Star Beidou Realm, it has reached the stage of refining gods and returning to the void.

And the Ten Directions Infinite Realm can be said to be the pinnacle of the stage of refining the Void and Combining Dao, and only after breaking through to the natural stage of the Dao Law can one have the qualifications to ascend and the possibility of impacting the Immortal Dao, which is also what the very few old and immortal top power ideas in the Vientiane Gate and even the Immortal Continent have been striving for.

After thinking about these basic cultivation knowledge, Hua Lanting couldn't help but sigh that he was still at the lower end of the cultivation stage, he turned his heart sideways, whether it was a blessing or a curse, a curse that could not be avoided, a blessing and a curse dependent, a blessing and a blessing to rely on, her mother!

He meditated on the steps, methods, and mental tips of the new body refining method a few more times, and began to slightly let go of his defensive tension.

As soon as he relaxed a little, the heat and momentum transmitted through the cup body immediately arrived in all directions with several times the force, Hua Lanting licked his palate, clenched his teeth, sipped the blood that overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and ran the exercises with all his might, and the dantian Zhongnei Dan was shining.

Unlike the master who would control the strength and rhythm when he helped him refine his body, at this time, the earth fire wrapped in carbon stones was of different sizes, and the impact force of each time was light and heavy, and the interval was long and short, so that he could not predict, so he did not dare to slack off a little, so he could only go all out, for fear of being knocked to death by the extremely heavy force under negligence.

This process is difficult and long, can only rely on boiling, just like washing a sponge full of impurities in the seawater, when squeezing hard, the impurities in the sponge will be discharged, when relaxed, the seawater will be sucked into the sponge, when repeatedly squeezed and washed, after countless cycles and exchanges, the impurities in the sponge will eventually be completely replaced by the seawater, to achieve the state of the flesh full of true qi and rebirth.

This process first requires meditation and meditation, and gathers complicated thoughts, which Hua Lanting can already do easily, but because of the crisis, it still takes a lot of work to achieve, and finally can set the mind on any part of the body for a certain amount of time.

Next, you have to endure all kinds of discomfort caused by external stimulation, starting with the skin, bones, then meridians, internal organs, and heart veins, and the deeper you go, the greater the degree of pain.

From the point of view of qi, the feeling of physical obstruction and discomfort is caused by the obstruction of turbidity qi and the narrowing of the air passage on the other.

Once the water level is reached, the potential energy of the water can be used to break the dam and pour out, and the turbidity gas can be brought into the river together with the sludge and turbid water deposited on the channel, so that the navigation route becomes smooth.

At this time, I will feel unusually comfortable.

Of course, this phenomenon is only temporary, and soon the next stage or level of obstruction will cause the qi to stop somewhere, causing new discomfort, and then starting another battle.

At the same time, it is also necessary to transform the essence at the same time, transforming the low-energy essence into the energy level of the qi.

The qi in the body will sink somewhere, and then people's thoughts will naturally follow. You can choose to move your mind away from that place, you can also fix your mind there to strengthen the qi sense there, or you can use your mind to loosen the qi sense and help the qi machine get through there.

How to decide exactly at the right time, Hua Lanting's set of exercises uses the positive and negative alternating method, first strengthen the qi sense, resist the qi from the front, and after holding it to a certain extent, suddenly withdraw the mind, as if pressing the ball underwater, when it is pressed deep enough, let it go suddenly, and the ball will bounce up, so that the qi machine will pass through the circulation channel in the body point by point, complete a circular transformation, and strengthen the physical body and the real body at the same time.

After many repetitions, Hua Lanting's body discharged a little bit of greasy black uncleanness, the muscles became more and more soft and elastic, the direction of the muscle fibers also tended to straighten, the pain in the muscles began to weaken, and the bones between the joints were constantly stretched out and crackled.

It's easy to say, Hua Lanting has done its best in this unknown process, and has used several methods to survive until now.

The first is to endure, relying on a strong will to endure the pain inflicted on the inside and outside and the pain everywhere.

Hua Lanting remembered that in the small village of the secular world, he had seen a Chinese medicine doctor treating uncles and aunts suffering from frozen shoulder, regardless of the strong stretching, the room was full of patients' crying fathers and mothers, ghosts crying wolves, and crying and grabbing the ground.

The heat and momentum outside are more random and violent than those of the Chinese medicine doctor, and Hua Lanting's performance at the moment is even worse, hoarse, hysterical and shouting, anyway, no one here laughs at him.

When he couldn't bear it anymore, in order not to let the brain's self-protection mechanism activate and faint, Hua Lanting activated the empty azure smoke jade in his chest.

He could already command the Sky Azure Smoke Jade to release the stored pure aura, but he could only release it in a trace, and he couldn't control the amount at will.

Relying on a weak but continuous replenishment of aura, he was able to continue to support it.

After a few rounds, as he swirled in the air and slowly descended, the temperature became higher and higher, and as time passed, first the jue cup, and then the goblet, all of which could not withstand the high temperature and burned for a long time, and began to soften and crack.

Hua Lanting had no choice but to summon a hexagonal cup and a bamboo silk cup to stick to the inside for reinforcement, but fortunately, the physical body was strengthened, and it was estimated that it could hold on for a while.

When the willpower endured and the Void Sky Blue Smoke Jade Spiritual Qi assistance was a little unable to keep up with the pain caused by the fire refining body, Hua Lanting had no choice but to use the "Spiritual Victory Method of Self-Sacrifice and Visualization" taught by Yun Yiqi. ”

The supernatural ability of a cultivator to see the inside of one's own body is called "inner vision", and by extension, examining oneself can be called "vipassana", and studying others is called "observation".

People eat every day, we eat animals and plants, we drink, we drink milk and water, we breathe air, we bask in the sun, these are part of our body, but these are just the aggregation of all kinds of matter, energy and information.

In this sense, the human body is nothing more than a combination of various things, the so-called body born of pretense.

When something goes wrong with the "mass of things" in the body, when something that has no choice but to do anything happens, such as death, when a person feels extremely hopeless, at least one way is to try to pull the "me" out, to adopt a bystander attitude, to try to observe it, to feel it - one has the opportunity to take oneself as an object of observation, to taste and play, and perhaps not change anything, but this in itself is a way of happiness that is both environmentally friendly and high-class.

The above points of view are applied to cultivation, and in Yun Yiqi's words, they are infinitely useful, and at least they can reduce suffering.

Hua Lanting couldn't do it yet, but when he tried hard to "see" his physical body from the outside of his body, he didn't realize the high-level magic mentioned by Yun Yiqi, but he stood by and watched and "gloat" that "others" were suffering, and sure enough, at least his own pain was reduced a lot.

In this way, Hua Lanting alternately used various methods, and finally felt that the cultivation of the method of refining the body had reached a certain level, and the strength of the physical body had increased very much.

At this time, the hexagonal cup and the bamboo silk cup are about to melt.

According to Hua Lanting's estimate, he was exposed to the earth fire at this time, and his physical body could support him for some time.

But then what, and then there is no then? Where is the afterlife in the place of death?

He had been hoping that the fire that was constantly crashing against him would push him to the edge of the trench fire cave so that he could go up or hook it with a golden wire and get out of the ground.

But I don't know if it was bad luck, this situation did not appear, and he always floated in the middle position.

The concept of burial is deep-rooted, and he really does not want to be cremated to death.

Soon, when the cup melted down, he would have to fall into the fire and return to the ruins.

His thoughts became slow, and when the fire refining true body was completed, Hua Lanting was really at a loss.

At this moment, a new practical problem involving life and death popped up again!

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