August 15, the moon is full of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Today in Wudang Mountain, the moon is exceptionally round. Xu Yangzhi stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the moon. I heard that there is a nobleman in the demon clan, Xiaoyue Bai Ze, who can turn into a giant demon and devour the moon on the night of the full moon.

Xu Yangzhi has knocked on the moon every day over the years.

That night, Yu Zhenyi was ready. Under the leadership of Xu Yangzhi, the two came to the back mountain of Wudang Mountain.

Known as "the world's first incense", Wudang Mountain dragon head incense, is located on the cliff cliff outside the stone hall of Nanyan Tianyi Zhenqing Wanshou Palace, you can see it from afar, there is a carved dragon stone beam dragon head stone about three meters long and about one meter wide stretched out in the air, and at the top of the dragon head stone is the incense burner that respects "dragon head incense".

In the night, Yu Zhenyi should not have been able to see the dragon head stone clearly, but under the background of the moonlight, he could see it clearly.

Because the dragon head stone stands on the cliff, below is the abyss, if you want to walk through the dragon head stone safely, you need a very high psychological quality and physical coordination, and the difficulty of sticking the dragon head incense can be imagined.

For thousands of years, there have been countless Taoist legends of immortal truth among the simple and heavy palaces and pavilions here, attracting believers from all over the world to come here to seek the Tao and make pilgrimages. In order to express their piety, some pilgrims risked their lives to burn dragon head incense despite the obstruction of the Taoists, resulting in countless deaths after falling into the rock.

Even after the rule of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, the Empress Wu Meiniang of the Tang Dynasty ordered a ban on burning dragon head incense, and set up a monument next to the Huabiao of the dragon head stone, and sincerely warned people in the inscription that the gods are benevolent, and the heart is sincere, and it is not necessary to climb to the cliff to burn incense to be regarded as reverence for the gods.

According to the ancient and modern times, to a certain extent, regardless of their own physical condition, blindly go to the dragon head stone to the dragon head incense, and now some believers superstitious to burn high incense and burn coarse incense, which is the same reason as whose incense is thicker than whose incense is longer.

As the empress admonished: Worship is respect, a bunch of incense goes straight to the nine heavens, why do you have to sacrifice yourself to take risks, and how can the gods be partial because of the size of the incense.

However, the dragon head incense of Wudang Mountain is known as "the first incense in the world" because of the dangerous location and the exquisite carving of the dragon head stone, as well as the solemnity of the royal dojo of the Tang Dynasty.

Towering Yamato, Taiyue Wudang, in the sky of history, "the world's first incense" is destined to be passed down through the ages like Wudang Mountain, a fairy cave.

Xu Yangzhi came here with Yu Zhenyi and asked, "Have you heard of the legend of this dragon's head incense?"

Yu Zhenyi shook his head, he naturally hadn't heard of it.

Xu Yangzhi looked at the moon in the sky, and was not in a hurry at this time, and slowly told Yu Zhenyi about the origin of this place.

Legend has it that there is a dragon mountain on the side of the Han River under Wudang Mountain, and there is a dragon in Longshan, which makes monsters every day, knocks over ships in the Han River, and eats boatmen who fall into the water. The common people hated this evil dragon and wanted to cure it.

When people heard that Emperor Zhenwu had great powers, they discussed inviting Master Zu to come and subdue the evil dragon. However, there were fewer people going, and I was afraid that the ancestor would not be moved. There were many people who went, and they were afraid of alarming the evil dragon. Everyone thought about it, and finally came up with a good idea: gather incense and incense towards the mountain.

The fact that the common people wanted to go to Wudang Mountain somehow reached the ears of the evil dragon.

It changed into a white-bearded old man and came to see the movement. It saw that the people were waving colorful flags, burning incense and burning watches along the road, not like they were looking for Zhenwu to complain, so they put their minds at ease and looked at the yellow flag held in front of them, which was also embroidered with a green dragon. The evil dragon was secretly happy, and the common people respected themselves so much! So they did not stop them, and happily returned to the Han River.

Since then, people have piled incense to the mountain, and there are rules for raising dragon flags, playing colorful flags, and burning incense watches.

The evil dragon returned to the Dragon Palace, set up a feast, drank the wine brewed by human blood, chewed the vegetables made of human flesh, and was beaming proudly, when he suddenly heard a shout outside: "The demon dragon is out!"

It burst out of the water, and saw a Taoist man with a sword in his hair, and took a closer look, it was the true martial ancestor, knowing that he had fallen into the strategy of the mountain people, and turned around and wanted to run, the ancestor pointed at the seven-star sword and used the "immobilization method" to fix the evil dragon.

Then press it under the Dragon Mountain. He also asked people to build a pagoda on the top of Longshan Mountain to calm the mountain.

After some time, the true style went down the mountain to see if the evil dragon had changed his evil and returned to the right. The evil dragon cried with a handful of snot and tears, and said, "From now on, I will not dare to do evil again." "Zhenwu saw that it was still honest, so he let it go. Who knew that this guy was duplicitous and harmed people again.

The common people went to invite the ancestor to subdue the demon again, and thought of another way to go up the mountain.

When the dragon heard about it, he turned into a white-haired old woman to see the movement. Seeing the two people who went up the mountain, each of them pierced the left corner of his mouth with an iron hammer, and pierced it through the corner of his right mouth, and could not speak, this is called a lock mouth with a sword.

He thought to himself: These two people can't speak even if they go up to Wudang Mountain. How can Master Zu find my head?

It was relieved to boldly go back to the Dragon Palace to set up a human flesh feast.

Before the dragon's human flesh feast was dispersed, Master Zu came. It turned out that the two mountain people went to the gold neck of Wudang Mountain, pulled out the iron chisel, smeared some incense ash on the two corners of their mouths, and were able to speak. They told Zhenwu about the evil dragon that he had done. The True Martial Ancestor is here again. The evil dragon knew that he had been tricked again, so he thought that he was punished, and asked the ancestor to press it under the dragon mountain again.

Master Zu sneered: "Hey! It's not so cheap! How many good people have you killed, how many great crimes have you committed? Now you are going to be trampled on by thousands of people, trampled by ten thousand people!" and he took it back to Wudang Mountain. When passing by Nanyan, I saw that there was a distance from here to Jinding, so I asked the evil dragon to build a long bridge in the sky.

The evil dragon looked up and saw that from Nanyan to Jinding, it was dozens of miles, for fear that his waist would be trampled by the pilgrims, and he was so frightened that he shrank into a ball and did not dare to move as soon as he stretched out a few feet from the edge of Nanyan.

Zhenwu laughed: "On weekdays, you open your teeth and claws, but you are also a coward!" He told it to climb to the edge of the South Rock, put an incense burner on its head, and let the pilgrims step on its backbone and go up to burn incense.

Who knows that this evil dragon still does not change its evil nature and does not accept punishment, whoever steps on its back, it will tilt its head and shake its tail, and throw whoever to the bottom of the south rock and fall to death.

Master Zu was furious when he saw that the evil dragon was doing evil again on the golden roof. He pulled out the seven-star sword, pointed at the evil dragon and shouted: "Change!" The evil dragon turned into a stone dragon in the blink of an eye, and it will never move, which is the "dragon head incense" of Nanyan Palace that people see today.

This story is very good, Yu Zhenyi asked, "Does this have anything to do with our business?"

Xu Yangzhi pointed to the high mountain and said: "To pass on the gong, we must use the dragon head incense. Later, when I'm ready, you take the incense and put it in the censer, and it only takes three prostrations, and you're done. ”

Yu Zhenyi was a little confused.

Xu Yangzhi looked at the moon in the sky, the position was almost there, and he said, "Stretch out your hand." ”

Yu Zhenyi stretched out his hand.

Xu Yangzhi also stretched out his hand, and in his hand, a bronze lamp appeared out of thin air. The candles on the lamp are not yet lit, and they look blurry in the dark night. Xu Yang stopped on his right hand and lightly cut a cut.

Blood dripped in the bronze lamp, and the flames burst up.

It was faint, but it was not extinguished.

Lamp offerings are one of the most important ways of offering in Taoism. The lamp in the Taoist family not only shines thousands of miles, but also recites the Tao, the lamp and candle are urgent, and the light and darkness are continued, and the Nine Xuan Heavenly Blessing Hall is released, and the Nine Profound Hells are passed. In conjunction with the rituals of the Dharma, it is the best kind of merit to shine through the heavens, to go down to hell, to lift out the dead, to save suffering, and so on.

This bronze lamp is Xu Yangzhi's natal object.

As long as the Daomen is still alive, they can all return to life.

Cultivating the source is the first, and saving the treasure is urgent. If you want to light the ever-bright lamp, you should use the oil method. If you add oil, you need to know the know, and if the oil is not added to the know-how, it will be multiplied by the oil without a lamp. Therefore, you can add oil only if you know the know-how. If you don't add oil, you can't take your life, if you don't take your life, then it's difficult to stay in love, and if you don't stay, once impermanence comes, your life will be separated, and your corpse will be scattered.

What is the know-how? The trick of adding oil to receive life is traditionally called the natal seven-star lamp.

The so-called seven-star lantern refers to the seven large, critical acupuncture points in the body that can absorb and convert the life energy light of the high-dimensional space. These seven acupuncture points are distributed in the human body, and if you stand on its left side and look at it, it is exactly in the Big Dipper pattern with the mouth facing forward and downward, and only the orthodox can be repaired.

This method of cultivation is known only to the Daomen.

After Xu Yangzhi lit the bronze lamp, he took out three pillars of incense from his small cave. Then he lit it on the bronze lamp with a serious expression, and the fire of the bronze lamp was very weak, because it was Xu Yangzhi's Shouyuan and spirit.

The Taoist Sutra once said: "Those who light the lamp of life have no afterlife." ”

Yu Zhenyi didn't know about this, and Xu Yangzhi didn't tell him.

Generally, these seven-star lamps are used to sustain life. This natal seven acupoints constitute the natal seven-star lamp in the human body, and if you want to light the everlasting lamp, you should use the oil method. Kong Ming used the Outer Seven Star Fighting Method to continue his life, but how did he know that there were still Seven Dou Star Lamps in his body?

Xu Shu knew that when he reached the fate of the hidden cultivation of the Tao, he knew the wonder of the seven-star lamp inside. The seven acupuncture points presided over by the Seven Star Lantern are all the key to the dual cultivation of life. There is a cloud in the Danjing: "From this upward, the secret of a thousand saints is not passed on, and the apprentices of later generations are so rare to hear of and encounter." If a person knows this, he can really take away the divine merit and change the destiny of heaven. "

The Seven Star Lantern Method is this: "From this upward", the acupoint method of a thousand saints is secret but not transmitted. I order the direct venting of the eternal heavenly opportunity, and I hope that sincere cultivators will be courteous and treat the secret method well, and the breadth will be fateful. Especially for the elderly with broken bodies, may this Fa help Er to investigate the mechanism of life and death, and enjoy the joy of returning to the roots.

The seven-star lamp method is used to add oil and receive life, which is to use the spiritual energy between heaven and earth as the "oil", the gathering of the spirit gathering method as the "add", and the contemplation and vipassana silence as the "connection". If you want to live forever, you must first look at it for a long time. This long-term vision is to return to the light and shine inside, and forget to take the order without help.

The Seven Star Lantern Method received the order, that is, after refining the Spirit Gathering Method, it entered the simmering stage from the martial fire stage. Light the seven-star natal lamp in order with your mind, and fully digest and absorb the "sameness" of the spiritual light gathered.

Xu Yangzhu watched silently, his mind still taking care of the lamp or torch.

He rubbed his hands dryly, hot and then dry on his face, ears, and the back of his neck. Then hold the hollow fist with both hands, rub the kidney area with the back of the hand, slowly open the eyes, and complete the activity of the hands and feet. Even if it is his current realm, it will take some effort to light the lamp of life.

The lamp should be burned for a long time without going out, so that the mind should not leave the place of silence at once.

If you can often return to the light after the completion of the work, taking into account the burning state of the fourth lamp, it will be more wonderful, and in the daily life of walking, standing, sitting, and lying, you can often reflect on this light, that is, you are in the work. In the work, the oil lamp is always bright, and the oil cannot be added, and the life cannot be received.

This bronze lamp is obviously the method of continuing the life of the Daomen, why did Xu Yangzhi light his life lamp at this time?

He shouted, "Pick up the incense!"

Yu Zhenyi knew that he had already finished preparation, so he walked over respectfully and took the three incense sticks in Xu Yangzhi's hand.

The wind at night was very cold, and Yu Zhenyi was afraid that the incense would be blown out. He carefully put the three sticks of incense on his chest, and walked towards the dragon head incense according to what Xu Yangzhi said. On the dragon head incense, there is a small bronze tripod.

Xu Yang stopped behind him and coughed: "Go forward, don't look back if you encounter anything." ”