What kind of state is it when Taoists say "meditation" or Buddhists say "meditation"? When outsiders talk about this issue, they often have a misunderstanding that it is an unconscious state of sitting there thinking about nothing and not knowing anything. In fact, the situation is completely different, whether it is "quiet" or "fixed", the consciousness is sober, and the deeper the concentration, the more sober the consciousness will be.

I often hear people say that so-and-so old monk is so good at kung fu that he can meditate and sleep, which is close to nonsense. Because meditation and sleep are completely different things, one is in a state of consciousness and is not drowsy, unconscious, and not ignorant and desireless. Of course, there are many kinds of states of "stillness", especially Buddhism, which is more complicated, and the four meditations and eight concentrations that we hear most often are. As for the kung fu of meditation and mindfulness, the gentleman taught me "Xinzhai" and "Yingning" in "Zhuangzi" at first, but I didn't realize that the last step was "sitting and forgetting". Because Shang Yunfei intervened, he taught me to stop my mind and breathe, help me extinguish my movements, and when I sat down, I entered the realm of "First Zen".

Since then, Feng Junzi has never specifically told me how to enter meditation and tune my mind, but has taught me the mental methods and mantras of each realm in the Dan Dao step by step, and in each of these realms, the mental state when entering meditation is different, but he did not deliberately give a name to describe it. Perhaps it is no less complex than the four meditations and eight concentrations of Buddhism, but the cultivation of the Dan Tao does not deliberately emphasize only personal experience.

In the same way, different people who meditate may be in completely different states of consciousness, which is not visible to others. For example, some people may be cut off from all external interferences, and their consciousness is the inner lightness of the mind, while some people may be separated from the inside and outside of the body and mind, forgetting that they only have all things, and some people may be pure, knowing everything around them and what they have born, but leaving no traces.

And I'm in a very special state of meditation right now. I was meditating in the bamboo hut of Jingwu Cave Heaven and felt that there was no difference between the inside and outside of the body and mind. Since you have reached the realm of Jintang, the unity of the primordial spirit and the consciousness of the god does not matter, cut off the outer edge and retract inward. I only feel that all things in heaven and earth are one with me, I am one of all things, and heaven and earth are not heaven and earth, and they are one with me.

Entering this state of concentration, I only feel that the fluctuations of the aura around me are one with external objects, and there is no longer a distinction between them, and the boundary is not just mutual induction. Because when I got up and sat down, I clearly felt that after the completion of Jindan, the pure body and mind, the spirit and consciousness were one, and the aura of the whole body was collected between one thought, and I still looked like an ordinary original person. Feng Junzi didn't lie to me, after the realm of this golden soup matured, the aura around this body is not a big problem, and if you want to accept it, you can accept it.

I didn't continue to live at Sister Ziying's house, but went back to school. Sister Ziying said that my original bedding was old and should be replaced with a new one, so I took the new set of bedding that I had prepared to school. I thought about it, and instead of putting these things in the dormitory, I took them to a bamboo hut in Jingwu Dongtian. Since I want to use this place as a cultivation cave, of course, I must be prepared to set up camp, and sometimes I will stay here overnight and not go back. For several days, I often meditated and practiced in the Jingwu Cave. The realm of "golden soup" is already well understood.

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The next few days were calm, so to speak, very calm, and calm, which made me a little uncomfortable. I've just experienced so many things, and all of a sudden it seems like nothing is gone. Sister Ziying and Ah Xiu are still running the noodle shop as usual, and no cultivators are there to disturb me. If the only thing that has changed is Mr. Liu, Mr. Liu's eyes when he sees me are obviously different from before, and every time he enters the classroom, he nods at me gently, this action is only I know to greet me.

The most annoying thing is the wind gentleman, I have been waiting for him to pass on my delusional kung fu, but he is like no one, he goes to school as usual every day, and he seems to have forgotten about it. I waited for three or five days, and finally I couldn't wait, and when school was out, I asked Ah Xiu to go back to the noodle shop first, and I blocked the wind gentleman outside the west gate.

"What are you doing? Do you have something to do with me? Say I have to go home for dinner!"

I can't do anything about him with this attitude, so I can only smile and ask, "Feng Junzi, do you have time lately?"

Feng Junzi looked at me with a smile on his face: "It depends on what happens, if there is a benefit, I will have time, if there is a benefit, I will not have time." ”

I heard something in his words, so let's take the initiative: "I want to invite you out for a drink, I don't know when you are free?"

Wind Gentleman: "I'm free at all times...... You kid said that you would invite me to drink once a month, and now it's October, why haven't you moved? Is there something to ask me to wait for a hurry to remember?"

"No, no, I wanted to invite you for a long time, but there were too many things a while ago...... "It turns out that this kid still remembers that after he heard that I had a "allowance", he asked me to invite him every month, and he really didn't invite him this month!

It is better to choose a day than to hit the day, since he said that this kind of thing is free at any time, it is clear that he is talking about today. Where are you going? I still want to go to the food stalls in Wucheng with him, but Feng Junzi doesn't do it, he has to go to Sister Ziying's noodle restaurant to drink. He said to me: "I heard that your noodle restaurant has changed its signboard and become a Shiji restaurant, and a few special dishes have been added, I must try it, don't tell me that you are reluctant, I will help you save money!"

"But Sister Ziying doesn't sell alcohol there!"

Feng Junzi: "Then I don't care, I have to eat and drink, what trouble do you have to solve." I'm telling you I'm not going to be satisfied if I don't drink this well......"

There's a reason why Shek Kee doesn't sell alcohol. The proprietress Han Ziying is charming and charming, even the child of the gentleman knows the nickname of "Wonton Xi Shi", and now there are more sexy beautiful girls A Xiu, even if she doesn't eat here, she is still beautiful and delicious, no wonder business is getting better and better. Of course, it's not entirely a good thing, it's not too chaotic here at the school gate, but there are always small people or pretentious guys who want to beat these two beauties. As for the result, of course, there is no good fruit, and the goblins who have eaten for five hundred years have never seen anything? What can't be dealt with? But I don't sell alcohol here, and I still don't want diners to drink too much, and if you can get into trouble, you won't cause trouble, this is Sister Ziying's consistent principle.

Feng Junzi had to drink here, and he had to change it to someone else, Sister Ziying and Ah Xiu had already found a way to drive him out, but there was no way to take him. I stood with the Wind Gentleman and waited for a while until the table was empty, and then sat down. I went to the back kitchen and told Sister Ziying that I had something to ask for the Wind Gentleman, but the Wind Gentleman insisted that I invite him to drink here. Sister Ziying shook her head and smiled, went out, walked to the side of the Feng Junzi, lowered her head and asked in a low voice, "What kind of wine is the Wind Great Immortal going to drink today?" ”

Feng Junzi laughed in a low voice: "Lao Chunhuang is ironed and then put it on...... You tell Ishino that if I can't drink this wine, don't blame me for not helping him......"

At this time, Ah Xiu had just collected the accounts of a few guests, walked up to the wind gentleman and asked, "What do you mean by drinking well?"

Wind Gentleman: "A good wine that I haven't drunk is a good wine." ”

Sister Ziying paid for Ah Xiu and asked Ah Xiu to go out to buy wine, Ah Xiu went to the store across the street to buy two bottles of Lao Chunhuang, and went to the back kitchen to prepare hot water to scald the wine. While scalding the wine, he muttered in his mouth: "Haven't you ever drunk a fine wine? Lao Chunhuang, should he have drunk it?" What should I do?" It seems that Ah Xiu is always dissatisfied with the wind gentleman in her mouth, but she is still very jealous in her heart, and she doesn't dare not care about what the wind gentleman says.

Sister Ziying said to Ah Xiu: "Let me come, you go to the front to greet the guests." ...... If only I had prepared something today. ”

When I heard this, I was reminded of something. I ran to Feng Junzi and asked in his ear, "Feng Junzi, did you give me three Yellow Bud Pills last time in Liqiao Wei, do you still have them on you now?"

Feng Junzi: "I originally gave you three grains and gave three grains to others, and now there are three grains left, why do you want to beat me Huang Yadan idea?" Are you too unparticular, you should ask the proprietress for it!"

"Don't care if I'm particular or not, if you want to drink good wine today, give me a yellow bud pill, and I will definitely let me drink a fine wine that I have never drunk before." ”

Feng Junzi's eyes lit up: "Really, you don't lie to me?"

"When did you see me lie to you?"

Feng Junzi: "I didn't bring it with me, you wait for me, I'll go home and get it...... You tell the proprietress to make the dish first. ”

Feng Junzi's house is not far away, but it is estimated that he encountered some trouble when he returned home, who can let the child run outside without eating? In short, it took more than half an hour for him to hurry back. I was waiting at the door of the store, and he ran over and put a yellow bud pill in my hand, and his tone was a little reluctant: "You take this, but you must make good wine!"

I walked to the back kitchen with Huang Yadan, Sister Ziying had already prepared the wine and food, and I didn't know where to get a very chic celadon wine jug, and the blanched Lao Chunhuang was in the wine jug. I opened the lid of the flask to put the yellow bud in it. Sister Ziying's sharp eyes stopped me: "Isn't this Huang Yadan Shiye, what are you going to do?"

"Soak in wine? Grandpa Jin from our village told me that this Yellow Bud Pill can be used in wine to replenish qi and nourish the spirits, and can also invigorate blood and beautify! It also has a wonderful effect on the flavor of the wine, and I have tried it at home, and it is absolutely amazing!"

Sister Ziying: "Put Huang Ya Dan in wine, most of the medicinal power is gone...... It's really a waste of good things, whose Huang Ya Dan is this?"

"The Wind Gentleman just brought it. ”

Sister Ziying: "Then let him be, anyway, he just wants to drink." It is not cost-effective to soak it in this way, if you want to turn the medicinal power into the wine, you must soak at least ten catties of wine in the best heat. You wait, I'll ask Ah Xiu to buy a few more cans. ”

Lao Chunhuang is not a liquor, and I can't tell what kind of liquor it is, it should be close to Huadiao and other rice wines. The golden amber fragrance is mellow and the length is not deep, but the stamina is not small. The finest old Chunhuang is a pound and a half jar in a small clay pot. Ah Xiu bought a total of six cans before and after, adding up to twelve catties, Sister Ziying didn't know where to take out a jar with a bulging belly, poured the hot twelve catties of old Chunhuang into it, and then put the yellow buddan into it.

"What kind of wine?" said the Wind Gentleman, sniffing and walking into the kitchen, staring at the jar.

"You go back and sit, this is Lao Chunhuang, but it's definitely Lao Chunhuang that you haven't drunk...... Wait for a while before the wine and food are served. ”

I sat outside with the gentleman and waited for a while, and by this time the dinner had gradually passed, and there were far fewer guests. Feng Junzi was waiting impatiently, Ah Xiu picked up the curtain and walked out of the back kitchen, put the two dishes on the table, turned around and went back to serve the dishes. Soon, a table of wine and dishes was served with two meat and two vegetarian dishes, and four hot dishes were not served in the middle, but a plate of cold dishes was put in the middle.

"What kind of dried bamboo shoots are these? Why have I never tasted them? Not only the fragrance of bamboo branches, but also the smell of yams and shiitake mushrooms!"

Sister Ziying: "This is from Axiucai, I haven't seen it before...... It is indeed different to stir-fry diced meat. ”

"Is this preserved fruit, so delicious?" said the Wind Gentleman as he took another bite of the cold dish.

Sister Ziying: "This is a golden jujube given by Grandpa Shiye Shiye, a pickled golden jujube." ”

Feng Junzi: "It's okay, just make these dishes, it's worth waiting a little longer! You go and get busy with yours, just have Ishino to drink with me." ...... Come on, come on, Ishino has a drink, this wine smells and the taste is fascinating. ”

The Wind Gentleman said to toast, and after a cup of stomach, he drank several glasses of wine in a row, and then forgot to pour it for me in his hand. I only heard him let out a sigh: "Did you use Huang Ya Dan to make good wine? I really didn't expect that Huang Ya Dan can be soaked in wine, and how many catties of wine can be brewed in one grain?"

"The old Chunhuang you drink now is a total of twelve catties of your yellow bud pill, Sister Ziying said that the medicinal power is just right. ”

Feng Junzi: "Then I still have two grains, you ask the boss lady to soak me for another twenty-four catties, okay?" I'll keep them and drink them later." ”

Feng Junzi only administers medicine, no matter how much he buys alcohol, he is obviously blackmailing me to buy him twenty-four catties of Lao Chunhuang. I nodded in agreement and asked, "You originally had nine Yellow Bud Pills, three of which were given to me, and who did you give them three grains of soaking wine?"

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