Chapter 8: The Soul Emerges
Compared with the "Book of Martial Arts", the book "Tao Jing" is much more mysterious.
The whole article is full of some mysterious and mysterious truths, and most of them are about morality and precepts. If you are a monk, you should be free from distractions and not have evil intentions, and you must also abide by various precepts, such as being loyal to the king, loving the country, not spreading the Dharma indiscriminately, not revealing immortal arts, not doing evil, and many things like karma.
Hong Yi skipped all of these and ignored them. Because he knew that the ancient Taoist immortal art did not have these things. These precepts, morality, and the like are all Taoist schools that are mixed with the principles of scholars in order to attach themselves to the imperial power.
The truth of the reader, Hong Yi has read it all over the place, and he doesn't need to review it, what he wants to see now is the jīng righteousness of the ancient Taoist immortal cultivation. In his opinion, these morals and precepts are specious, different from the orthodox scriptures, and have no effect after reading, after all, they are mixed with the four dislikes.
If you read a lot of books, you will naturally get rid of the thick branches. So Hong Yi reads books and reads quickly.
"Hey, the pagoda visualization of the shell method, bathing, handwriting, chanting scriptures, mantras, gestures, these methods can stabilize the mind, and then the soul comes out of the shell?"
Just as Hong Yi was looking at the ten lines at a glance, suddenly, a cultivation method that took up a long space came into his eyes.
The practice described in the text is complex. It is called "Pagoda Visualization Shell Method".
It is the way to get out of the body, first to take a bath, tidy up the body, then meditate, recite mantras, pinch the mantras, wait for the bottom of your mind to calm down, and then visualize that there are seven very high pagodas, and you step by step to step up, and suddenly jump up at the top. The soul is out of the shell.
The spells on it are very complicated, the gestures are also very complicated, and it makes me dizzy at first glance, and it can be imagined that it will take a long time to cultivate.
"What a complicated spell, a trick. But ......."
Even if Hong Yi saw these tricks, spells, and among those spells, there were also some precepts. Just thinking about it makes me feel big. I can't memorize and cultivate at all.
"Huh?" Hong Yi suddenly remembered a passage in the Caotang's notes.
"The avenue is simple, and those Taoist priests just want to come up with complicated tricks and spells. In fact, bathing, chanting mantras, and hand tricks are all ways to calm the mind, and as soon as the reader sits down, his mind will naturally be as calm as water, and he doesn't want those things at all. ”
After thinking of these, Hong Yi had a sense of realization in his heart. A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
There is a table next to the stone room, and there is a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table.
Hong Yi sat on the stool in front of the table, poured water and polished the ink, listening to the sound of "Huo Huo, Huo Huo, Huo Huo..."
After settling down, Hong Yi spread out the paper and wrote three words "Jing" on the paper.
Between writing, there is a sense of tranquility.
Although Hong Yi can't do the realm where those university scholars can calm down as soon as they sit down, he can calm down by grinding ink and writing a series of actions.
After settling down. Hong Yi closed his eyes and visualized that there was a seven-story pagoda above his head, and when he stepped to the top floor, he suddenly jumped hard!
"Huh, there's no soul out of the shell, is it okay?"
After Hong Yi imagined a leap, he opened his eyes, but he didn't find anything abnormal, he was still himself, he pinched his hand, and he still felt it.
The surrounding environment has not changed as a result.
"Why can't the soul come out of the shell? Is there anything else that is critical? Could it be..."
Hong Yi calmed down again, settled down, and tried once, but it still didn't work.
So he fell into deep thought.
"Kick up the pagoda and jump out... The key place should be ...... here" Hong Yi comprehended the method of this practice.
"There is...."
Hong Yi's heart suddenly flashed with realization.
He closed his eyes and remembered a time when he was a child and followed his mother to the first tower in the jade capital city, "Baoyue Tower".
"Baoyue Pagoda" has a total of thirteen floors, one layer at a time, almost overlooking Yujing. At that time, my mother held her hand, and when she reached the top of the building, the wind blew, and she looked at the pedestrians below who were only the size of her fist, and she was dizzy and her legs were weak.
"That's how it feels..."
Hong Yi said in his heart: "Jump out, jump out ......"
Although it was an illusion, Hong Yi still shuddered when he recalled the situation when he was a child, and suddenly, he turned his heart sideways and jumped upwards violently!
Bang!
Heaven and earth are no longer heaven and earth!
With a leap of thought, jumping off the cliff in an illusion, Hong Yi suddenly felt his body light, as if floating lightly. The scenery in front of you is still a scene, there are books on all sides, and there are stone caves on all sides.
However, the only difference is!
Hong Yi saw his body!
To be precise, his whole person was light and fluttering, floating above his head without any weight, and he saw his body.
His body breathed weakly, his eyes were closed, as if he was asleep, and he seemed to have fainted.
"My soul is out of my body!"
A thought rose in Hong Yi's heart.
Hong Yi was not flustered, and his thoughts turned: "It is rumored that people who are weak can leave their bodies in their sleep at night. It's not a big deal. ”
Looking around, the scene was as usual, he flipped through the book with his hand, but found that his soul could not open the book at all, it was obvious that the soul was an invisible and substantial thought.
Take a look.
There was no shadow under the lamp, as if it didn't exist.
Formless and insubstantial.
"Is it a dream, or is the spirit out of the shell?"
Hong Yi was wondering if he was asleep in a dream.
Because in your sleep, sometimes something like this happens, and you see your own body.
However, what is unconscious in sleep, that is, for a moment, is too late for people to experience. And now it's man-made. You can feel the feeling of thinking out of your body.
This feeling is very mysterious. It's unbelievable.
Whew!
Suddenly, a gust of cold blew in from outside the stone room.
was blown to his body by the wind, and Hong Yi felt that he was standing naked in the ice and snow. Shivering with cold, ready to move at any moment!
At the same time, he is like a drowning man who has fallen into the water and cannot swim, falling into the ocean and will perish at any time.
Helpless, powerless.
It felt very uncomfortable and terrifying.
"No wonder, the scriptures say that the physical body is a treasure raft that crosses the bitter sea, and it turns out that the soul has left the physical body, as if it is a person who has left the ship and fallen into the sea, so terrifying!"
At this time, Hong Yi had this thought in his head, and he eagerly returned to his body.
It's not a simple matter for the soul to come out of the shell, and it's so dangerous outside!
However, he couldn't move at all, as if he was frozen, drowned and swept into the whirlpool, exhausted.
Confusion gradually blurred.
"The soul out of the shell turns out to be such a dangerous ....... "Hong Yi felt like he was going to be gone.;