"Master, I want to start my formal cultivation. ”

The sunset gradually dissipated, Nanyangzi looked at this most beloved apprentice, relieved and a little emotional, Ake's mental nature and physical qualifications are all first-class, and letting him immerse himself in those life cultivation certificates too early will kill his Dao. At the same time, he also let him follow his interests to dabble in knowledge, not to stick to the views of one family and one faction, as long as he is interested, he can learn medicine and farming......

In the blink of an eye, he was already fifteen years old.

"It's good that you've grown up, and now it's an eventful time, it's time. Nanyoko stroked her beard and nodded.

Xie Lingyun's heart was suddenly surging, his eyes flashed with excitement, he had been studying for more than ten years, and he had a dream, and he was finally about to start!

"Xie Gongyi, Lingyun disciple, from today onwards, I will teach you the essentials of cultivating the truth in this sect, and I hope you can practice diligently and preach diligently in the future. Nanyangzi looked serious, and said: "One day in the future, you will find the way you want to pursue, maybe it is to enjoy the world, maybe it is to govern the country and level the world, maybe it is to spend the world......!

The old man smiled faintly and said, "No matter what it is, no matter what you encounter in your cultivation, you must also maintain your Dao heart. This is the outline of monasticism, do you know?"

"Disciple, remember, please preach!" Xie Lingyun clenched his fists with a serious face.

"'The Tao is the way, the Tao is very good. 'The true Tao is ineffable, what can I pass on to you?'" Nanyangzi knocked him on the head, as if it was a slap in the face, and continued: "Being a teacher is just your degree of guidance, just taking you to the dock in front of Daohai, as for what boat you want to take and where you want to go, you have your own choice." ”

Xie Lingyun nodded, knelt down on his knees on the ground, pointed to the sky with his right hand, and swore sincerely: "Disciple Xie Gongyi, Xie Lingyun has learned the teachings of the master, and will never use it in vain, and will never spread the word to the bandits, and will definitely practice diligently, live up to the master, live up to the saints, and live up to the Chaotian Palace!

He said that he was going to kowtow to complete the oath, but Nanyangzi held him, his white beard fluttered, and he said angrily: "Okay, okay, you don't want to be annoyed, it's too wordy to be a teacher! The old man is not subject to your oath, the world is like chess, why do you have to give yourself so many restrictions?"

"Master, it's your business not to accept it, I swear it's my business. Xie Lingyun insisted on completing this rule of learning, put aside the master's hands, and kowtowed to his old man three times.

Nanyangzi shook his head and sighed lightly: "How did I teach a pedantic apprentice......

After the oath was finished, Xie Lingyun stood up, but he put his arm around the old man's shoulder with a smile, and said, "Master, actually, how do I know if Lu Dao was a test just now? ”

"Ha Luha, you kid is not beaten!" Nan Yangzi couldn't help but laugh heartily, reaching out and hitting his head again and again.

The two of them smiled and sat cross-legged face to face in the Flying Dragon Pavilion, ready to start cultivating. Although Xie Lingyun already had some understanding of the sects in the world and the realm of cultivation, he still said: "Master start from the beginning, the disciple is willing to hear the details!"

"Well, good, good. Nanyangzi gently stroked her long beard, and after a little deliberation, she began to speak.

"There is a saying in the "Treatise on the Essence of the Six Schools": 'Those born of mortals are also gods, and those who are entrusted are also in the form. ’

Monks in the world, no matter what sect they belong to, are nothing more than cultivating these two things: 'divine soul' and 'form'. Cultivating the soul is the work of the yin spirit of the mind, cultivating the mind and refining the nature, pursuing the enlightenment of the wonderful sense, and expecting the transcendent to enter the sainthood; Ark, you have to remember that if the power of sex is not manifested, life is empty, and if the power of life is not achieved, there is no sex. The two are like the relationship between lips and teeth, and they must depend on each other, and the monk should not be partial to cultivation. ”

"Everyone in the world knows that Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are now competing for power, so do you know what kind of attitude the three schools have towards sex and life?"

Nanyangzi sighed, and then said: "In the early days of the Spring and Autumn Period, in fact, Confucianism and Taoism were not separated, they were all derived from ancient Chinese culture, until later Lao Tzu and Confucius, two great sages, were gradually divided into two families, Taoism talked more about heaven and Taoism, and Confucianism talked more about humanity.

Today, the world believes that there are four kinds of Confucianism, one is called ancient Confucianism, they are Confucian orthodoxy, and they pursue the true Confucian and Mencian ways, with the Analects, I Ching-Biography, and Mencius as the most important classics. ”

Another is called Han Confucianism, it is said that in the Han Dynasty, there was a group of Confucian scholars who made some changes in their ideas to cater to the imperial power, so that their Confucianism became the first of the hundred schools. These people are good at studying the study of exegesis, breaking the sand pot in everything to ask the end, asking the earth and asking the heavens and asking the ghosts and gods, and they have participated in yin and yang, magic numbers, star calculations, feng shui, Qimen Dunjia, and the heavenly and earthly branches...... and other aspects of the study of reason, qi, imagery, and mathematics, which is an extension of Confucius's commentary on the Book of Changes. In terms of the experience of being a teacher, some Han Confucians are very admirable, and some are very annoying. ”

"There is also a kind of so-called Confucianism, which has only emerged in the last one or two hundred years, and these people have newly injected the classic ideas such as "University" and "The Mean", and distorted the "Analects" and "Mencius" sentence by sentence, advocating what 'preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires', as a teacher, I hate and despise these people the most, even if there is a great Confucian of science standing in front of me, I have said so.

They interpret the Confucian classics out of context to meet their own political needs, and they appropriate the theories of Taoism and Buddhism to create the so-called science, and at the same time slander the Taoist Buddha.

Most of these people are very pedantic and unkind, and they despise life skills too much, so that they are powerless, but these nerds and antiques account for the largest part of the current Confucian scholars, which is a pity!"

"The rest of the group is called Xinru, which is also an emerging school of Confucianism, and they attach the most importance to the Mencius classic, believing that Mozi's Tao of 'putting the top of the heel to benefit the world' is too much, and Yang Zi's Tao of 'not pulling out a dime to benefit the world' is also too much. Whether it is absolute selflessness or absolute selfishness, the world can't do it, it's not good, but should be 'heart is reason, conscience', you like 'kissing the people and loving things' is also one of their propositions.

These Confucians have the style of ancient Confucianism, and they have their own new insights, and they also confront those Confucians everywhere, and I really appreciate them as a teacher. ”

"So is it? Xie Lingyun smiled, if he is a Confucian student, it is either an ancient Confucian, or a heart Confucian, and it is definitely not a Confucian.

It was getting late, but Nanyangzi was speaking more and more energetically.

"Now some pedantic Confucians, with a distorted sentence of 'Zi Bu silent, strange power and chaos', come to attack the absurdity of the Taoist Buddha, that is really absurd!

When did Kong Sheng stop believing in gods and monsters? He just didn't talk about it, he agreed with Gongsun Qiao's saying, "Heaven is far away, humanity is far away, and it is not Soor." The way of heaven is so profound and far away that if you don't even understand the humanity that is close to you, how can you talk about the way of heaven? But Kong Sheng also said that 'when you hear the Tao, you can die at night', the master's heart is so resolute, in comparison, my generation is really ashamed!

In general, the ancient Confucians were all life and life double cultivation, the soul and the body were not biased, and the pursuit of mastery of the six arts 'rites, music, archery, royal, calligraphy, and mathematics', among which archery and imperial were general refers to martial arts and the art of control, that is, the life skills;

With Confucianism again, he paid more attention to etiquette and books, and became a nerd who was red tape all day long, and he only had some sexual skills, and his life skills were completely gone. And Confucianism is also heavy on sex and light on life, not because I don't want to cultivate life, but because Confucianism's numerology has almost all been lost.

Confucius and Mencius have always been rare about life, Confucian numerology is not a secret transmission of words, except for Nanhua Zhenren (Zhuangzi) has mentioned some on behalf of Mencius, and Mencius said 'I am good at raising my Haoran Qi' and other words, as for how to cultivate this Haoran Qi, there are very few Confucian scholars in the world who know now. ”

"Well, it's sad. Xie Lingyun couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, he still wanted to find out what Haoran Qi was going on one day, he was really afraid that all the Confucian scholars would become those sour Confucians who opened their mouths and closed their mouths to be "ridiculous, ridiculous".

"Hehe, the current situation of Confucianism is roughly like this; what about Buddhism, the situation in Tianzhu, let's not talk about it, since it was introduced to our Middle Earth Shenzhou, from the beginning of the name of 'Futu Dao', to now in the past thousand years, Buddhism has been in the Middle Earth, the south orange and the north orange, there are a total of ten sects of manifest religion and esoteric religion. ”

"There's no good tea!" Nanyangzi suddenly laughed, swallowed his saliva, and continued: "Manifest teachings refer to sects where the teachings are clear and the scriptures are open, including the Pure Land Sect, the Three Treatises Sect, the Tiantai Sect, the Chengshi Sect, the Kusha Sect, the Huayan Sect, the Faxiang Sect, the Vinaya Sect, and the Zen Sect. ”

"Among these nine sects, the Pure Land sect and Zen sect have the largest number of followers, and they are also the most powerful Buddhist sects now.

The common people chant a sentence of Amitabha Buddha all day long, it is the Pure Land Sect that is believed in, it is based on the teachings of reciting Buddha with one heart, and after death, you can live in the Western Elysium realm as the teaching, created by Ma Ming Bodhisattva, Nagarjuna Bodhisattva, and Shiqin Bodhisattva, and after being introduced to Middle Earth, it was carried forward by Master Huiyuan, and the sutras are mainly based on the Sutra of Amitayus, the Sutra of Amitabha and the Theory of Passing Away.

And Zen Buddhism is naturally more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but also for the teacher's favorite sect of Buddhism, when the Buddha smiled, everyone did not understand, only the Venerable Jiaye smiled, so he got the Buddha's golden robe and bowl, but also created a line of Zen Buddhism. Later, Bodhidharma came to Middle-earth, crossed the river to Songshan with a reed, and became the first ancestor of Zen Buddhism in Middle-earth. It is based on the teachings of not preaching outside the teaching, not setting up words, pointing directly to the hearts of the people, and becoming a Buddha by seeing nature, etc., and the world's likes to talk about mantras and play wits are all derived from this.

Later, Matsu Daoyi and Baizhang Zen Master and two apprentices had the merit of creating the jungle system of Buddhist temples, breaking the precepts to buy fields, and ploughing the fields for their own food, so that the monasteries no longer need to beg for food from the people, but self-improvement, which is also the atmosphere of Middle-earth. ”

Hearing this, Xie Lingyun remembered the lay monks in Qixia Temple, the Three Treatises Sect has already practiced the jungle system, and those who enclose the fields have become rich men, and it is estimated that the ancestral Songshan Shaolin Temple of Zen Buddhism is no better, he muttered: "I didn't expect to bury the root of the bane, so that the current monk is not like a monk, but like a philistine businessman." ”

"What does this have to do with Daoyi and Baizhang?" Nanyangzi immediately shook his head and smiled, stroked his white beard, and sighed: "Disciple, from ancient times to today, the more you go, the narrower and more impetuous people's hearts become, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism."

Not to mention the jungle system, only to talk about the cultivation of life, in fact, it is recorded that the Buddha also has the method of cultivating life, but up to now, the vast majority of these monks only practice sexual exercises, except for the use of meditation, meditation and other methods as the basis for practice, the rest are the results of wisdom; as for the life exercises, they usually only practice the 'Ana Ban Na method', which is a method of breathing and breathing, which can strengthen the body, but at most they can achieve physical strength, just like some Jianghu martial artists.

As soon as I talked to them more about the merits of life, I retorted that it was empty, hey, I really don't know if it was the teacher's mistake or if they were wrong.

However, as the teacher knows, the Buddha once said: 'Two hundred years after my destruction, the clothes will not be passed on, and the Dharma will be circumferential and sandy.' There are many who understand the Tao, but few who practice the Tao. There are many reasonable, but few reasonable. In other words, one generation is not as good as the next, and from the Buddha's death to the present day, how can it be more than 200 years? Now the world seems to be full of temples and incense, but the real great monks are rare. ”

"Hmm. Xie Lingyun nodded silently.

Nanyangzi continued: "I won't say much about the teachings of the other seven sects of Xianjiao, but in addition to these mages, lawyers, and Zen masters, there are also those esoteric lamas.

Esoteric Buddhism, also known as Tantra, also known as Shingon Buddhism, refers to the fact that teachings and scriptures are not taught publicly. There are many huge differences between Tantra and the Sutra sects, for example, they are also dual-cultivated, as far as I know, the cultivation method seems to be similar to our Jindan Dao, the so-called 'body, mouth, and mind three tantrics corresponding', that is, you can enter the holy from the mortal, that is, the body becomes a Buddha.

However, hundreds of years ago, the Emperor of Dali adopted the advice of his ministers and ordered the demolition of Tantric temples all over the world and the expulsion of Tantric monks from Middle-earth, because they were too strange and practiced not any Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism, but demon Buddhism. This is probably the result of a battle between Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and the Tantric monks all ran away and were divided into two branches, one of which fled to the overseas Dongying side, which was called the Eastern Mi, and the other that fled to the Tufan side, which was called the Tufan Mi.

Since then, they have all been illegal demon monks in Middle-earth, rarely appearing, and the last time they met a tantric lama was more than thirty years ago. ”

"Master, you've calculated it, I haven't seen it. Xie Lingyun smiled.

"Hehehe, you'll definitely see you later. Nanyangzi also chuckled, saying that those bald lamas are like fairies, it is really funny, he smiled: "The current situation of Buddhism is roughly like this, and we, Taoist priests, have to talk about it again." ”