On the third day of the first month of the first month of the year of Xinmao, I sent the senior brother who had been in the mountains for many years to return to the mountain, along the way two people walked on the snow, in the process of walking, talked with the senior brother, benefited a lot, I sent him to the valley of light and shadow, the senior brother went to the path of light that he pursued and had already found, and I returned to the darkness to continue to find my way.

The most difficult time for the restoration of the Jinxian Temple, the senior brother has been insisting on the Jinxian Temple, it is very hard work, after the restoration of the Jinxian Temple is basically completed, the senior brother entered the deep mountains to cultivate, pursue the Tao he recognized, and retreat in the meridian valley. Only during the New Year and festivals came back to help, and then talked with the master and brothers to get together, and then returned to the mountains.

The elder brother pursues the practice of escapism, realizing the Taoist heart in nature, cultivating oneself, getting close to heaven and earth, pursuing a state of ethereal and nothing, returning to one's own heart, which is an enviable life and a life without concern. Deep in the bone marrow of every Chinese, there is actually a dream of retreat.

It's just that in the process of practicing, I come into contact with more and more believers, for example, Fan Qi said, "Does everyone who converts to religion have ever had an unforgettable pain in their hearts?" I think there is also a certain amount of truth, in the course of practice, listening to the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of the believers, reflecting on their own joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and their own mentality is constantly adjusting; I felt that, compared with my own heart, I had a feeling of whether to let the believers come to the Taoist temple or bring the Taoist temple to the believers. Even now, I have been wandering, on the way to seek the Tao, I have been behind the door, hiding the door and looking out; in the end, do I leave this door by myself and let the believers find the temple by themselves? Or do I close this door and pursue the purity of the hidden mountains and forests? Or do I open this door and let the believers come in and bring the faith out? The dream of many Taoist friends is to cultivate immortals, supernatural powers, and spells, just like the second ancestor of Zhonglu and the ancestor of Chongyang. The purpose of my cultivation is not to cultivate immortals, not to be immortal, not to be magical, but to be truly myself, to find my own heart, to be able to walk calmly and without shame, from nothing, to nothing, when I turn into dust, there is no worry, no obstacles, no obstacles, and I go away.

At the moment, there are still worries and fetters for me, and in the process of wandering through the door, stepping in, opening the door, or taking it out is the biggest problem.

In the process of practice, more contact with the religious world, but also know more problems, there is a saying called ten old Taoists nine strange, which means that most Taoist priests are a little weird, many times Taoist priests give people a feeling of being unapproachable, or profound, or quirky, or mysterious, or lazy, and even have the same problems as Buddhism, using the temple as a tool to make money, and ignoring the faith itself, Taoism has many problems, but it is not because of these problems that we ignore Taoism and do not agree with traditional culture; In terms of the form of operation, the two may be the same, but in the pursuit of the purpose, they are completely different, one is for faith, and the other is for business.

No matter what the opinion is, Taoism is all around us, when you appreciate a thing, you will magnify its advantages, when you are bored with a thing, you will magnify its shortcomings, the person you love the most and the person you hate the most, is often a person, when you love him, any defects can be ignored, when you hate him, any advantage is not a reason, treat it indifferently, like tea and water, in order to last; treat religion too, everything has advantages and disadvantages, traditional culture also has the essence and dross.

On the issue of feudal superstition, Xingyang also said that traditional does not mean superstition, and superstition literally means blind belief, blindly following other people's opinions, and being misled by others. Obsessed and unable to extricate themselves, blind superstition Traditional culture is superstition, blind superstition science is also superstition, Xingyang has seen a lot of devout believers, but what I am most opposed to is superstition; science is to make progress in the continuous discovery of errors, from the scientific point of view, to be able to correctly treat religious beliefs in order to establish a complete outlook on life, science and faith are equally important, blind belief in science and blind belief in gods are the same terrible; many people have a kind of wariness of traditional things, thinking that our backwardness is caused by traditional culture, but forget that we have been ahead of the world for thousands of years。

For some of the traditional scientific systems of Taoism, we should use the way that modern people can understand, through the scientific language to let the believers understand, so that those who are interested in traditional culture can understand, so that people who specialize in traditional science have rules to follow, in addition to improving themselves morally, I want to make Taoism develop in today's society, but also must complete the docking of scientific knowledge system, so that more people can treat traditional culture correctly.

There is such a passage in the morning and evening class: the true heart and pure Tao is the sect, for example, the heaven and the moon are the same; The essence of the gods in the body of the medicine, everyone is full of profits, and can know the mixed return air channel, and the golden tripod yellow buds are born day by day.

As the carrier of religion, the destination of the soul, the carrier of faith, and the place of cultivation must be there, and the Taoist temple must be stored in zài, so that the world can be given a place of faith, and there should also be seclusion and accession to the WTO, but cultivation does not mean self-isolation, "everyone is full of profits and losses" There are missionaries in the West, and there should also be their own missionaries in the East, who will pass on the moral concept, no matter what kind of course the development of society has reached, no matter what kind of height the society has reached, as long as we put our own spiritual cultivation in the first place, even if we make mistakes, we can move forward more calmly.

If one day, like the Buddhist countries in Southeast Asia, every child in our country can come to the Taoist temple to study during the holidays, or when you are lost and painful, you can go to the Taoist temple to seek a spiritual refuge. Senior brother understands that you support you, help you analyze the problems of the store, provide help, and then you go to the society, pass on the good thoughts to the society, when you encounter difficulties, the Taoist temple as a safe haven for him, when you are rich, the Taoist temple as a platform for him to help others, you go to the Taoist temple, you can also help other people in need of help, this qiē may inevitably have utilitarian mixed in the middle, but with faith as the guiding direction, guide more people to the good way, help more people, the Taoist temple becomes an open harbor, you are the sailing ship of the far, to replenish your spirit, in order to better move forward, then, Xingyang death without regrets。

Our nation should have more monks, the so-called monks, that is, to be able to come from the red dust to the Taomen, and then go out from the Taomen, bring out good thoughts, guide more people to come, stick to their beliefs, whether rich or poor, they can support each other, monks and monasticism should coexist and absorb each other's nutrition, just like Yin and Yang Taiji, monks and monks should pay equal attention, everyone can become a monk.

What is the root of wisdom? Towards the good is the root of wisdom, and the ungood is empty talk; where is the fate? Encounter is the fate, intersect is the fate, and the Datong society is the ideal state pursued by the sages, and in this way, we may be able to achieve the relative sense of Datong in a small scope while retaining ourselves.

The unit of measurement at the end of the feast of life is how much is wrong, as long as you do it, then basically how much you do and how much you are wrong. Be a good person, scold a bad person, be a bad person, scold a good person. I cultivate the Tao, not to be an immortal, but to be the truest version of myself, to be able to walk calmly on the road of life. Senior brother walked towards the light, and I returned to the darkness, wandering around the Taoist temple and the door of Hongchen, constantly thinking about the question of whether to walk in or take out.

Is this road bright or dark, am I doomed, spurned by everyone and even spurned by my fathers and fellow villagers? Or do I really find my own heart? I can't understand now, and I don't think about it anymore, I just want to go forward step by step on this road, to the end, or I will walk into a dead end alone, or find a way for my friends to go down together. If I am on a dead end, it means that I am wrong, and my friends can learn from it, criticize and criticize it, and use it as a negative teaching material, and also remind others not to go wrong; if I go right, my friends can explore this road together.

Shiyu said to me, "Master, time will slow down eventually, and you will be allowed to examine yourself. In the struggle between yourself and yourself, you keep giving up and struggling, your fate is constantly changing, maybe the ambitions you have had have have have been let down by the years. What you wanted in the past, even if you didn't have it, can afford to give it up. The past you will shake hands with the present you, the present you will quietly coincide with the past you because of the same loss, and the future you are waiting for you.

I hope that it is really like what Shiyu said, the future me is waiting for the current me, and the current friends are also waiting for me in the future.

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