Chapter 3 The Avenue of Perception
It rained heavily for several days, which was not suitable for breaking the formation, and Zhang Xun was helpless. I suddenly remembered that in my previous life, I had read a lot of fantasy and cultivation novels, which often mentioned that between heaven and earth, Taoism is everywhere, as long as you observe carefully, there will always be gains. Zhang Xun thought, no matter whether the authors in those novels are written correctly or not, they are idle anyway, so it is better to try. So there sat a foolish scholar under the eaves of the gate of the house, sometimes looking up at the dark clouds in the sky, sometimes bowing his head and closing his eyes to listen to the thunder, sometimes staring at the torrential rain pouring down without blinking, and sometimes staring at the lightning as if it were coming. Fortunately, there is no second person here, no one laughs at him, hehehe! Sometimes Zhang Xun will wonder if it is because of such a crazy master, and he has whimsical ideas from time to time, to put it mildly, it is crazy.
In this way, three days later, the rain began to lighten, and Zhang Xun did not gain anything at this time, but he also knew that this matter would not be in a hurry. But now that the rain is light, it seems to be a good opportunity, so I calmed down and looked for that hint of rain. I don't know how long it took, Zhang Xun seemed to have entered a painting, only to see the rain falling, moistening the growth of all things. Zhang Xun knew that he had reached the realm of subtle observation, but it was difficult to rely on this, and he was still far from comprehending the true meaning of rain, after all, feeling and comprehension were completely two different concepts. Zhang Xun closed his eyes and began to ponder, how to comprehend it? For a long time, his character of liking to bite and chew words has played to his advantage, yes, rain is still water in essence, since the rain can't be understood for the time being, then put it aside first, and just talk about water. As soon as he talked about water, Zhang Xun naturally remembered the description of water in the Tao Te Ching: "Good is like water." Water is good for all things without fighting, and it is evil for everyone, so it is more than the Tao. Dwelling in a good place, a good heart, a good heart, a good word, a good word, a good governance, a good work, and a good time. The husband is indisputable, so there is no especially. "Yes, water is good for all things, water can carry boats, and it can also overturn boats. Water has the power to create and to destroy. The power of water is infinite, but it does not affect its own body at all, and it acts on all things. Water is all-encompassing, so it can be big. The way of water is undoubtedly a great avenue, Zhang Xun only realized a trace of the true meaning at this time, but the rain trail can be understood a lot, and it can be regarded as a little harvest in the past three days.
The next morning, Zhang Xun walked out of the free house, found that the sun came out, and was ready to walk to the bamboo forest to prepare to break the formation, inadvertently seemed to feel that the surrounding air was much fresher, and then looked at the bamboo forest, there were a few more traces of Tao rhyme that blended with heaven and earth than before. Zhang Xun is a person who likes to observe natural phenomena and to trace the essence of them and figure out the causes and consequences. If you don't understand, you should think, ask or even turn the book to inquire, and then reason by yourself, you have to figure it out. Just like now, when the rain is sunny and the sky is clear, he finds a trace of change in all things in the natural world, so he is not in a hurry to go to the bamboo forest mouth to enter the battle and break it, but sits on the spot and thinks. He first thought about Liangyi (this should be the pot of Wudang Taiji Zhang Sanfeng in the previous life, speaking of Zhang Sanfeng, it is definitely a generation of legends, and it is a household name in China, especially Jin Yong's "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", which is even more popular in the Chinese circle of the world, which can be said to be where the Chinese are, and everyone knows them. Even in the 21st century, Taijiquan and Taiji Sword have been widely spread in some schools, and even formed a Taiji culture. It's just that the stick always says that Tai Chi is theirs, and Zhang Xun in his previous life was not obsessed with Tai Chi. One yin and one yang is the way, the solitary yin is not born, the single yang is not long, the big to the changes of heaven and earth, to the small circulation of the human body, all the changes of yin and yang. The way of yin and yang is the existence of the law of heaven and earth, where is the current Zhang Xuneng to understand, the ancestors dare not touch it easily. Sure enough, as Zhang Xun thought more and more about yin and yang and Tai Chi in his heart, he gradually couldn't control it, as if he had gone mad. Fortunately, the jade pendant left by the drunken Taoist was not simple, and he felt that the host state was very dangerous, so he shone brightly, as if he had accumulated strength, and turned into the appearance of a drunken Taoist and yelled at Zhang Xun, "The Tao is natural, don't force it." Idiot, don't wake up yet. Zhang Xun was lost in the path of yin and yang at this moment, and only woke up when he heard this roar, and then spit out another mouthful of blood, obviously suffering from the backlash. It's just that Zhang Xun didn't have time to pay attention to these at the moment, looked up at the drunken Taoist phantom and asked, "Master, are you back?", but unfortunately the phantom didn't answer, so it didn't feel right, and the phantom was quickly dissipating. With just one breath, the phantom disappeared, and a talisman fell to the ground. I saw that there were three bars in the lower right corner of the rune paper, two of which were very eye-catching, and the top bar was indeed dull. The fool now understands not to mention Zhang Xun, it turns out that the master left a talisman seal, just to prevent him from indulging in it when he comprehends the way of heaven and can't extricate himself, and uses the secret method of the Dao Gate to give him a slap in the face to relieve the misfortune of going mad. And this talisman can only be used three times, it is a means of protection for him by his master, and if he uses it less than once, he will be gone when he runs out. Zhang Xun had just suffered a backlash, obviously he couldn't break the formation now, and returned to the room where he was lying on the bed with tired steps, recalling the situation just now, and said with a wry smile, "This is what Lao Tzu said is ignorance, recklessness, and fierceness." Hey! It seems that I am still a little impatient, and it is better to let the matter of breaking the formation take its course! Starting tomorrow, I will not do anything else, practice calligraphy, draw flowers and birds, and nourish my mind. ”
A month has passed, Zhang Xun practiced calligraphy every morning and drew in the afternoon, completely calming down. This month, Zhang Xun is quite satisfied with his harvest. First of all, the wounds of the backlash have been healed three days ago; secondly, he has a deeper understanding of calligraphy and painting, and over time, he has formed his own style, unlike the original pure imitation of others, no matter how good the handwriting is, the improvement of his literary and Taoist cultivation is not of great significance to the improvement of his own literary and Taoist cultivation; finally, Zhang Xun is now going to that station, there is no need to do anything, and a scholar's temperament is born, which he is particularly satisfied with, after all, he is determined to be in Wendao.
Zhang Xun learned a lesson from the last time he realized that the Dao of Heaven and Earth suffered a backlash, the Dao is now far away from him, he warned himself not to be too ambitious, for a long time, he still focused on physical training, and minored in Wendao. After all, the body is the capital of the revolution, and Wendao is the ideal he is fighting for, and the two are compatible and indispensable. Although he used up all the three bottles of pills left by the master in the training room of the jade pendant space last time, Zhang Xun felt that it was nothing, after all, the pills were still an external force, and if they were used too much, they would lose more than they would lose. So this time, Zhang Xun decided to rely on his own perseverance to constantly break through his limits.
Another half a year has passed, Zhang Xun is practicing every day, he not only practices according to the movements on the wall, but also uses the methods he knows on the earth to train special forces. Every time I practice, I stick to the limit, and then after a short break, I go to read the books I read in the past few years, review the old and learn the new, and I am not bound by the books of my predecessors, dare to question, and dare to have my own opinions. This is the truth of Yasheng Mencius's "believing in books is better than having no books". This cycle goes on and on, every day without interruption, until today, after breaking through the limit again, the foul-smelling black mud-like impurities came out of the body again, but the amount was less than one-tenth of the last time, so this time Zhang Xun only washed it three times and washed it clean. Seeing that he finally had healthy bronzed skin, Zhang Xun smiled again. For him who had never passed sports in his previous life (the most embarrassing thing was a shot put, the physical education teacher saw the distance I threw and said, "yes, it's rare to pass this time! The audience laughed, and later learned that the shot put I threw had just hit the girls' passing line), which was extraordinary. After talking about physical training, let's talk about Wendao, the progress is not small, no matter which way, after breaking through the shackles, it will naturally progress by leaps and bounds. And Zhang Xun is a human being, this is his biggest advantage, and he naturally has to grasp it well. Zhang Xun has gained some gains in the past eight years, which seems to be accidental, but in fact it is inevitable.
And what Zhang Xun didn't know was that whether he was successful in physical training or made progress in literature and Taoism, these were not his biggest gains, and it could even be said that these gains were completely a drop in the bucket compared to his real gains, and they were not worth mentioning. So what has Zhang Xun's real harvest in the past six months? In the past six months, he has been studying books and practicing his body at the same time, which can be described as one article and one martial arts, one gallop and one gallop, alternating yin and yang; moreover, he has always broken through the limit, lifted his shackles, and surpassed himself, which is secretly in line with the avenue of Taiji Yang and Yin and Yin and Yang. More importantly, these are not deliberately done by Zhang Xun, but naturally, this is what Taoism talks about inaction, and to put it more elegantly, that is, "there is a heart to pick flowers and flowers do not bloom, and there is no intention to plant willows and willows." As a result, Zhang Xun formed a Dao heart in accordance with nature in half a year, and it was an innate Dao heart, not the kind of acquired Dao heart that was deliberately and forcibly. The former is in line with the way of nature, and heaven and earth agree with it, while the latter is indeed against the way of nature, and forcibly break the shackles by force, and heaven and earth do not agree. What's more, Zhang Xun has been breaking through the limits for half a year, challenging himself, and firmly believing in himself, which is also the process of continuous stability of the Dao Heart, in short, now Zhang Xun's Yin and Yang Dao Heart has been unswerving and has been recognized by heaven and earth. This means that once Zhang Xun starts to cultivate the truth, his path will be very smooth, and the cultivation of the truth will look at the cultivation and the second look at the state of mind, and the cultivation can be practiced hard, and the state of mind will not be so easy to improve. And the further it goes, the greater the impact, as the so-called thunderstorm is easy to pass, and the heart is difficult to eliminate. The drunken Taoist is a clear example. And Zhang Xun is now in a very high state of mind, not to mention that it is congenitally perfect, and he still has mastered the top five Yin and Yang Dao, once he starts to cultivate the truth, there is no bottleneck at all when he cultivates for refinement, and there is no danger. However, it was thirty years before Zhang Xun walked to the world of cultivation, and it was then that he knew what a great harvest this half a year had been for him.
Zhang Xun has been practicing since he has been successful and has improved his literature and Taoism, these days he is more in line with nature, he is now more about looking at the sky, the right place, and doing whatever is suitable. After another two months, on this day, there was a sudden induction, and the breaking of the formation was today. Zhang Xun knew that this was not so much intuition as providence.