Chapter 014: The Tao Is Different (Part I)

Abandoned? Guan Xiao is even more stupid!

What do you do if you are an ancestor and abandon your descendants?

Luo Xiao let out a long sigh: "Speaking of which, this is still a secret discovered by your master. ”

"Dunhuang murals and Dunhuang grottoes, you must know. The old man's eyes showed a look of adoration and sacredness.

"When I was in the Great Northwest, one winter, two serious illness numbers suddenly appeared in another prison, and at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, the phone call came in frantically, and at that time, your master and I happened to live next door. An old jeep pulled your master and set off in the middle of the night, no one could have imagined that it was a big drop in temperature and a heavy snowfall, and the snow was under the snow, and by dawn, the snow had already disappeared from the windowsill, and your master and their jeep broke down on the way. The driver and the escort cadre went down to repair the car, but the two of them accidentally fell into a hole in the snow, and your master was still handcuffed to the car at that time, but it was okay...... Where does the disciple of the thief sect care about a handcuff, your master went down to rescue the two cadres, and they were almost frozen. Your master has no choice but to go on foot to ask for help, which is already on the edge of the Gobi Desert, and the Dunhuang Grottoes are nearby, and the Dunhuang Grottoes have a management office, and there is a camp post of the agricultural reclamation brigade. So your master rolled all the way and crawled all the way there, at that time, your master was about the same age as you are now. The old man sighed heavily, and in a blink of an eye, thirty years passed like this.

Luo Xiao looked at the little boy: "What your master didn't expect was that he was crawling, because the snow was thick, and many places that were not originally roads were filled, so he climbed in the wrong direction, and suddenly fell into a cave!

The content of the letter is divided into two parts, the first part is confession: this Taoist is the most famous person in Chinese history, he is the king of the Taoist who discovered the Dunhuang murals in the late Qing Dynasty, that is, because he entertained the Englishman Stein, which led to the theft of more than 50,000 Dunhuang cultural treasures by foreigners, and the other part is to tell the reason why we were abandoned by our ancestors. The ancestors of our ancestors, in other words, the ancestors of the Yan and Huang Emperors, as early as that period, there were already people who were forever free from the suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death through cultivation, which is what we now call becoming immortals......"

"Then why did they abandon us?" the little sister of the Luo family couldn't help but ask her father with wide eyes.

The old man of the Luo family took two more puffs of hookah, sorted out his thoughts, and continued to talk.

For any kind of intelligent creature - the old man of the Luo family specifically pointed out that this intelligent creature does not specifically refer to human beings, including all kinds of animals that can eventually possess intelligence through various means, and it is obvious that this special point includes snake immortals.

There are two paths to the evolution of every intelligent being, either, like the ancient Chinese qi refiners, through the cultivation of their own bodies, they eventually become immortals who can integrate into the whole world and become immortals who live with heaven and earth, and this path is destined to be bumpy, or through "strange and obscene techniques", by changing the external way, entering another evolutionary path.

The difficulty of these two paths is very different, the former road, because everyone has to start from scratch through continuous training, and finally challenge the catastrophe, there is no one who can succeed, human beings are good to say, the most bitter is those animals, especially low-level animals, they must first go through the transformation of the level.

The latter path is that the next generation inherits the achievements of the previous generation and continues to carry it forward, and in the end, it is the success of the entire race, and after success, even the weakest individual will have great power.

These two paths are clearly incompatible!

The former is through unremitting cultivation of one's body and will, and finally transcends the world, and achieves success, while the latter is completely about "adapting" oneself to the world around oneself, and ultimately hoping to achieve success. The reason why I say "expectation" is because the success stories of the former abound in historical materials, while the latter, until now, is still polluting the environment, creating garbage, overdrawing the energy of the entire natural world, and more importantly, there is no successful case.

Although the Chinese civilization has only been recorded for 5,000 years, in fact, for the history of Chinese immortal cultivation, the civilization passed down by word of mouth has exceeded hundreds of millions of years, and the cultivation record with real records has exceeded a million years -- the book "Classic of Mountains and Seas" has vaguely mentioned some of it.

In the past tens of thousands of years, the vast majority of cultivators were rulers, such as the Eastern Emperor, the Second Emperor of Yan and Huang, Yao Shunyu, and so on, but the practice of cultivators ruling the world finally came to an abrupt end around 3000 BC for a well-known reason - King Wu of Zhou defeated King Shang.

It was indeed a battle between cultivators in the true sense of the word, including immortals!

It was that great war that had inflicted unprecedented and irreparable damage on cultivators—tens of thousands of Qi Refiners had died tragically, and most of them had even been in the same sect to ask questions. The victors of this great war were not really victors, and most of the victors were too heavy to survive the catastrophe, and finally died under the thunder.

Since then, the Qi Refiners have made an important decision - to stay away from the ruling power, to avoid the hostility of the powerful to each other and lead to a great war between the Qi Refiners, and similarly, no Qi Refiner of any sect can enter the ruling class under any name.

It is precisely for this reason that Western Buddhism took advantage of the situation to enter, and eventually the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism competed.

In the history of China, Buddhism and Taoism were at odds, and at certain historical stages it can be said that it was brutal, with patches of monasteries being demolished by the rulers, and all monks and nuns under the age of 60 being forced to return to the laity – all of which was of course done by the ruling class at the behest of the Taoists. And vice versa.

After taking two puffs of his cigarette, Luo Xiao continued.

No matter how big the difference between Buddhism and Taoism is, after all, they still have a common point, that is, through their own cultivation, to improve the level of human beings or intelligent species in the entire heaven and earth, and finally completely get rid of the shackles of heaven and earth.

Similarly, in the history of Chinese culture, no matter which sect the ruler believed, he adopted a repressive attitude towards "strange and obscene techniques".

"'Strange Obscenity' ......" Guan Xiao sneered, and his tone brought out a little disdain: "Probably, only the rulers of ancient China would describe science like this, ignorant and ignorant to the extreme, so China has been backward and bullied for hundreds of years." ”

Luo Laohan smiled and glanced at Guan Xiao with a strict oblique glance: "Really, do you really think so?"