Chapter 40: The Beginning of Practice
As he spoke, Zhang Xingzhi pointed to the starry sky map on the first golden page and said, "The starry sky map on this first page requires you to observe every day, remember all the changes of each star in the map, and imprint it deeply in your mind. Then visualize it in your mind to cleanse your mind. Only in this way can we gradually sense the aura between heaven and earth and open the door to cultivating immortals. ”
Luo Yin finally woke up from that dizzy state, "Master, the disciple just stared at this starry sky map for a while, and then he felt that his whole head was dizzy. ”
Zhang Xingzhi smiled: "This is natural, you are only observing it for the first time now, it is not surprising that you have this feeling." In the days to come, you will observe the diagram every day until you know every change in the diagram. At that point, you can start visualizing the picture in your mind. ”
And when you can visualize this complete picture of the starry sky in your mind, you will naturally be able to sense the aura between the heavens and the earth. This is the first step in cultivating the truth, sensing aura. ”
Luo Yin glanced at the picture again, only to feel that the stars were constantly changing, as if there were endless changes, he only felt dizzy, and hurriedly looked away again and said: "Master, the disciple sees that this starry sky has infinite changes, and it is not easy to remember every change. Could it be that the method of induction of each sect is to visualize the starry sky map?"
Zhang Xingzhi: "Naturally not. The other schools of art are introduced through visualization, but each school has a different method of visualization. Some are visualizing the great day, some are visualizing mountains and rivers, and some are visualizing the image of the true immortal Buddha. This starry sky diagram is a unique visualization method of the "Mixed Yuan True Sutra of the Heavens", which visualizes the movement and changes of the heavens and stars, so as to cultivate the true qi of the mixed yuan. ”
After speaking, he pointed to the star map and said, "Your cultivation from now on is to observe the star sky map every day and see all the star trajectories. Take this scripture back with you and study it for good students. Go for it!"
Hearing this, Luo Yin saluted Zhang Xingzhi and said, "Obey the master's orders, and the disciple will go back to the room and start watching." ”
After speaking, seeing that Zhang Xingzhi was no longer speechless, he withdrew from the main hall and returned to his room.
In the room, he stared intently at the picture, but after only a moment, he became dizzy and had to stop to rest, rest for a while, and then look at it again.
After watching it like this for a while, I felt a little better, and I was not as dizzy as I was when I first observed it.
At this moment, he heard a rumbling in his stomach and sensed that he was hungry. Only then did I remember that I hadn't eaten for almost a day since I arrived yesterday, and it was strange that I wasn't hungry.
He left the room, intending to get something to eat, but as soon as he left the room, he remembered that when he chose a room yesterday, he had already seen several rooms in the small Taoist temple, and the upper left side of the courtyard was the kitchen.
He walked into the small kitchen, and when he looked at it, he saw that the whole kitchen was full of cold pots and stoves. He rummaged around, not letting go of anything, but he couldn't find even a bite to eat.
He walked out of the kitchen, stood in the small courtyard and held his stomach and thought: "Shizun here, there is no food at all, how can this be good, is it possible to go up the mountain every day to pick wild fruits or hunt for a living?"
When I was thinking about it, I only heard Zhang Xingzhi's voice in the main hall: "Apprentice, why don't you work hard in the room, but stand in the courtyard in a daze?"
Luo Yin heard Shizun's words, turned around and walked into the hall, saluted Zhang Xingzhi and said, "Master, when the disciple was working hard, he noticed that he was hungry in his stomach, so he wanted to come out and get something to eat, but there was nothing to eat in this kitchen. I don't know if there are wild fruits or anything like that here, so the disciples should go and pick some to satisfy their hunger. ”
Hearing this, Zhang Xingzhi stretched out his hand and patted his forehead, and said with annoyance: "Blame for the teacher, blame for the teacher, I actually forgot that you are still a mortal in the flesh, and you have to eat every day, and I didn't think of preparing some food for you." ”
Then he stretched out his hand and pointed to the outside of the house and said, "Go to the teacher's room, near the door, there is a box with some silver in it, go and fetch it for me." ”
Luo Yin agreed, left the main hall, and came to the first wing room in the east, and after entering, he saw a box near the door.
He opened the box and was surprised to find a large pile of gold, silver, pearls, jade, jade, etc., which was so bright that it almost blinded his eyes.
Looking at these gold and silver jewelry, Luo Yin's saliva was about to stay, and he said in his heart, obediently, there are so many gold and silver jewelry, he has never seen so much money in his life, and it makes people's hearts flutter when they look at it.
Determined, he closed the lid of the box, picked up the entire box with great difficulty, left Zhang Xingzhi's room, and walked towards the main hall.
Entering the main hall, he put the box heavily in front of Zhang Xingzhi, and then said, "Master, the things have been taken." ”
Zhang Xingzhi glanced at the box on the ground, and with a wave of his sleeve, the lid of the box opened by itself. He looked at the gold, silver and jewelry stacked inside, and said, "How is it, do you feel uneasy to see these yellow and white things?"
Luo Yin honestly talked about his feelings, and said: "It is true that as the master said, when I saw so much gold and silver, I almost lost my mind, and the disciple has never seen so much money when he lives so big." ”
"For us monks, the treasures of heaven and earth, the exercises, and the magic weapons are precious things. These gold, silver and jade stones are just some dung, you don't need to take it to heart at all, and when you cultivate to a certain level, you won't need such things anymore. Zhang Xingzhi smiled at Luo Yin.
"The reason why there are still some for the teacher is that they were only used when this temple was built before, and I thought that I might need to repair the temple in the future, so I kept it. ”
"The disciple is just a mortal, and it is inevitable that he will be tempted by money, which is also normal. Luo Yin also smiled.
Zhang Xingzhi made a gesture at the pile of gold and silver, and a piece of silver flew into his palm, and said: "In a few years, when your cultivation increases, these things can be as many as you want, and they are no different from the stubborn stones on the side of the road." Leave this ingot of silver for the teacher, and I will go to the city to buy some food for you later. As for the rest of the gold and silver, you will take it. ”
Luo Yin was stunned for a moment when he heard Zhang Xingzhi say that he wanted to give him those gold and silver, and said in his heart: "Shizun shouldn't come up with some kind of problem to test me, is it a test that I want to treat money like dung?"
The thought in his heart turned and he hurriedly shook his head and said, "The disciple doesn't want these yellow and white things, please take them back." ”
Zhang Xingzhi pointed at Luo Yin and scolded with a smile: "This time, the teacher didn't take into account that you are still a mortal and forgot to prepare food for you, so this time I will go to the city to buy food for you." In the future, if you run out of food and go down the mountain to buy it yourself, will it be difficult for the teacher to help you buy it every time? You can take it and use as much as you want, and you don't need to say anything to me. ”
When Luo Yin heard this, he felt that he was really thinking too much, and to Shizun, these gold and silver were as worthless as the soil on the ground. And after a few years, maybe I will be like him, and I will no longer take these turbidities to heart.
Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "After that, the disciples will go down the mountain to buy the food items they will spend, so there is no need for the master to bother." ”
Zhang Xingzhi didn't say much, took the ingot of silver and walked out of the main hall, stepped on the flying sword, turned into a clear light and disappeared into the sky.