Chapter 10 At the beginning of the practice, the first level of meditation is to gather the mind
Looking at the talisman book in his hand, he didn't believe it, if he didn't practice the exercises, there would be no way. My heart was ruthless, and I secretly thought: "I don't believe it, since my predecessors can create cultivation exercises, I can't create cultivation exercises!"
It's a pity that he didn't know that the gods of the previous era didn't practice the exercises at all. The cultivation of all the gods starts from refining the gods and returning them to the void, they directly refer to the laws of enlightenment, and everything revolves around the laws of the priesthood, and there is no so-called cultivation practice at all. It is no wonder that he did not find any books of practice here.
Ling Yun made up his mind to create his own cultivation exercises.
This is not some arrogant statement, because he has the divine text of the previous god era in his hand, as well as the talisman book in his hand. With these things as a foundation, I dare not say that I have created supreme divine skills, and it is enough to allow myself to enter the Tao and practice.
"Mortal cultivation takes meditation as the first step!" Ling Yun silently recalled, "Meditation is the first level of cultivation! As far as I know, if the mind is uncertain, then the acquired consciousness of God is active, and the active awareness of God will cover up the innate primordial spirit. ”
But Ling Yun knew that these were actually things that would only be used when he had reached a high and profound realm, so why should he put meditation as the first place in his true cultivation?
"Saying a thousand, saying ten thousand, in the final analysis, is just because the mind is cluttered, which will cover up all the self-feelings in the body. Meditation is to get rid of all distractions and external objects, so that we can experience the changes in body and mind. Only by experiencing the physical and mental changes of the self can we grasp the self and enter the Tao practice. If you can't even grasp yourself, how can you practice?"
"There are many different ways for the predecessors to enter meditation – meditation, fasting, sitting and forgetting, keeping oneness, contemplation, and so on. ”
"The method of silence should be the first, this method comes from the "Tao Te Ching", empty its heart, calm its heart, abandon selfish desires, thoughtless, empty mind. This is only the first step to achieve the method of virtual tranquility, Lao Tzu also requires 'to achieve the extreme of emptiness, keep quiet', to achieve the extreme of emptiness, it is necessary to 'learn more and more, for the Tao day by day, loss after loss, so that there is no action'. In other words, learning is to increase knowledge, but in order to achieve 'emptiness', we must abandon what we have learned and abandon all knowledge. In order to achieve 'keeping quiet', we must also 'see plain and embrace simplicity, less selfishness and few desires', and maintain the simplicity and innocence of the soul, so as to achieve 'keep quiet'. ”
"Although Lao Tzu's Void Meditation Method is high, the Void Meditation Method must be natural, and it is too difficult to do it!" Ling Yun thought back for a while, remembering that he had seen the Void Meditation Method in a book before, but it was very difficult to do so.
"When most people sit down, their thoughts are fluttering, where can they achieve extreme meditation? Although this meditation method is successful, it will be twice the result with half the effort in the future, but this method of non-action is not suitable for most people at all, and I can't do it to that extent, so it's better to give up. ”
"Fasting and forgetting both originate from Zhuangzi, if Lao Tzu's method of silence is the best method, fasting and forgetting is the method of multiplication, although there is a way, but there is no specific method. Ling Yun thought about it for a while, and felt that this kind of method without a specific method was not suitable for him.
"Then, the rest of the two methods are Shouyi and Cunmei. Ling Yun pondered for a while, "Shouyi, which refers to concentrating and guarding a certain point or something. Meditation, also known as 'visualization', refers to the idea of imagining something in order to replace one's own mind with one thought, and to replace all thoughts with one thought, so as to achieve the result of calming the mind. ”
Ling Yun's gaze fell on the Fu Gong Book, "Shouyi and Visualization are the easiest to do, although they are only the middle multiplication method, but these two methods have great potential. I now have in my hand the three thousand red characters of the primordial three thousand red scripts, and these three thousand characters are supreme mysterious, and I don't need to visualize other things, I only need to visualize the three thousand red characters, and I can easily reach the first step of meditation. ”
"It's just that the jade characters of the Three Thousand Red Books are too mysterious, I don't know if I can succeed in visualizing?" Ling Yun was a little hesitant as his palm clenched the talisman book. Even with the talisman book in his hand, he wasn't sure if he would be able to visualize success. "If you can't do it, you can only think of the inferior divine text. ”
If he chose a second-class divine text, although there were also infinite mysteries, Ling Yun vaguely felt that if he chose a second-class divine text, he would probably miss the biggest opportunity. This is not that the Divine Script is worse than the Red Book Jade Characters, but he feels that once he chooses the Divine Script, and then wants to master the Three Thousand Red Books and Jade Characters in his cultivation, I am afraid that it will only be possible for him to cultivate to advance to the advanced realm.
One is that he can master a part of the red book and jade characters now, and the other is that he can master the red book and jade characters until a long time later, and the difference between the two is very big, so he can't be cautious.
Thinking of this, Ling Yun relaxed his palm slightly, opened the talisman book, and lowered his head to look for the simplest red book and jade characters on it.
But he didn't know that the red book and jade characters were not so simple. It may be that a seemingly simple text contains profound and complex mysteries, so it cannot be distinguished by its strokes and patterns. Unfortunately, he didn't know this!
Turning the pages and looking at the Fu Zheng book, one by one the red books and jade characters appeared in front of me. Looking at it, although he saw it at the time, he could remember this text, but once he looked away, he would forget all the memories of this red text.
This is the subtlety of the red book jade characters, at that time, I could see it, and I could understand a little bit of the basic meaning, but after that, my memory was blank, and I couldn't write down the red book jade characters I saw.
Therefore, if you want to visualize the red script, you need to have a deep understanding of its meaning and be able to keep it firmly in your mind. So in the next selection, Ling Yun chose a red book jade character according to the difficulty of the strokes.
This text is somewhat similar to '○', which represents the origin, the beginning, the beginning, but also the end, the destruction and the end, it is a symbol of the cycle, and it also symbolizes the meaning of 'transformation and transformation'. It may seem simple, but it contains countless meanings.
However, this text does not simply draw a circle to say, 'This is this red book and jade character'. If it were that simple, I'm afraid anyone would be able to write it. But can you just draw a circle and say it's a red book?
It's a pity that Ling Yun didn't know this. He chose this text precisely because of its simplicity of strokes.
But he didn't know that the red text he chose, even among the three thousand red calligraphy and jade characters, was ranked among the top three in difficulty.
In this way, after Ling Yun selected Chiwen, he began to visualize.
First of all, he fixed the talisman book in front of his eyes, looked directly at the words written on the talisman book, and when he felt that the words were deeply imprinted in his heart, he closed his eyes and began to visualize the words according to the images left in his memory.
Unfortunately, no matter how much he visualized and deepened his memory, he couldn't stop this red text from disappearing from his memory. When Chi Wen completely disappeared from his memory, no matter how hard Ling Yun tried to recall, he couldn't recall this Chi Wen image at all.
In desperation, he had to reopen his eyes and look at the red text again. See, remember, visualize, forget, and re-see, remember, visualize, and forget. Repeat this process over and over again, over and over again.
It's a pity that Ling Yun has never been able to successfully visualize this red book jade character. Even if he comprehended a little bit of the subtlety of words, he could not improve the success rate of visualizing the red book and jade characters.
Not even a trace of a specific image can be left in the mind.
Lingyun knows, or remembers, the success of the visualization out. Either forget, even if you know what it means, but you can't remember it, you can't remember, there is no third option.
"Could it be that it is so difficult to memorize a red book and jade characters?"
He also tried, memorizing and visualizing other red calligraphy and jade characters, and the final result, like this text, was simply unable to remember and successfully visualize. Ling Yun attributed all this to the subtlety of Chiwen itself. didn't know that the red book and jade character he chose was one of the top three in difficulty.
Repeating the cycle of watching, remembering, contemplating, and forgetting over and over again, he had already fallen into trouble with the text, and the distracting thoughts in his mind gradually disappeared. There is only one obsession left - to successfully memorize this rune.