Any time I look back, what I see and feel will not be what I saw and felt at the beginning.

Xu Yishan in the long snowy field in the past, and Xu Yishan in the thatched cottage by the lake today, are not only separated by time and experience, but also separated by a huge gap in the level of cultivation.

Therefore, looking back at the beginning, at this moment, Xu Yishan saw and felt much more than at the beginning.

It's just that something is still like a seed buried deep in the ground, lacking certain conditions and unable to break through the ground.

Xu Yishan did not have the slightest frustration, as a disciple of the Heavenly Rank, what the teacher taught him was not only practice, but also life.

After recovering from an indescribable stillness, Xu Yishan started writing again, writing these words on the paper:

"The teacher is the Tao, and there is no Tao without a teacher. ”

"Cultivators, the first priority is the Dharma, the teacher, it is the fate, the Dharma, and the Tao. ”

This is Xu Yishan's understanding of the "dignity of the teacher".

This understanding comes from personal experience.

He and many other children of the same generation inside and outside the family, with similar backgrounds, similar endowments, and other similarities, the only difference is that he was accepted as a disciple by his teacher, while others followed the normal direction and moved forward in the family inheritance.

Walking and walking, slowly, they are far away from each other.

When he was condensing, he was a few years faster than them.

When they were in the pulse, they surpassed him for decades, and they also condescended to him for decades.

It's just that at that time, neither they nor Xu Yishan himself knew that although they were practicing together, in fact, they were not climbing the same mountain.

So the contrast between high and low doesn't actually make much sense.

The other is getting harder and harder.

The Pulse Realm may be the smoothest part of their entire cultivation process.

On Xu Yishan's side, the Tongmai realm is laying the foundation, opening up and expanding the foundation.

Under the guidance of his teacher, he took a path that the teacher had never had the opportunity to take.

Decades of ups and downs and ups and downs, ups and downs, ups and downs, all Xu Yishan's lofty and heartfelt spirit have been exhausted.

The experience in the meantime, as well as the various back-and-forth of the state of mind, is really indescribable.

Experiences like this, in the midst of suffering, are either turned into dregs or tempered into steel.

It's not just about whether you survived, but also whether you have gained a rise in the process of suffering.

Only by constantly rising and rising again can the torment be turned into smelting. Otherwise, the torment will always be the torment, even if you grit your teeth and desperately survive it, most of it will be wasted.

In a few decades, that can definitely be regarded as a "long" time, especially in the next twenty or thirty years.

Pro-conceited.

Friends and losers.

Even Xu Yishan himself was a little bit defeated.

But the practice did not fail him.

In other words, the guidance given to him by the teacher did not fail him.

Xu Yishan carried a heavier and heavier burden, bent his waist that was becoming more and more straight, and staggered up step by step with difficulty and indifferently, with his head down.

Until that night, before he knew it, he actually climbed to the top of the mountain.

In the endless darkness, the sudden light woke up his eyes that had been closed, and also awakened his heart that had been closed.

When he looked up in indifference and dazedness.

That moment.

The stars are shining brightly, and the moon is shining.

The boundless and beautiful sky seems to be set up for him alone.

Xu Yishan stood on the top of the mountain and watched in a daze.

Also unconsciously, his waist, which had been bent for an unknown amount of time, straightened up little by little, and the burden he had been carrying on his back had already been unconsciously integrated into his life.

Once, it was a burden that could not be carried.

And now, it has become the backbone and strength that supports him.

At that moment, whether it was sadness or joy, crying or laughing, Xu Yishan can't recall it now.

It's not that I can't really recall it.

But at the time, he didn't know.

Perhaps, there is sadness, joy, crying, and laughter.

Sad, happy, crying, laughing, confused, awake, crazy, and calm......

And when all the emotions gradually subsided, standing on the top of the mountain was a monk who had just entered the consciousness of the great perfection of the veins.

It was at that moment that Xu Yishan really understood what a monk is.

In some words, after entering the realm of enlightenment, Xu Yishan seemed to have an adventure.

In fact, there are no adventures, all he has is what happened before.

And it was those encounters that made Xu Yishan advance by leaps and bounds in the enlightenment realm, as if driving a small boat down the Nu River.

All he has to do is take the helm.

Practice, practice, others are the more difficult they cultivate, the slower they go.

And after he got through the passage of the vein, it was sudden, difficult to easy, slow to fast, at a speed so fast that he couldn't even believe, swishing, swishing, and then rushing through without stopping.

Rushed straight into the stairs.

Turn around and look down.

Inside the family, outside the family, in the past, those peers or elders who walked in front of him with a proud posture have long been left behind by him at this moment.

In front of him, there was no one.

Xu Yishan didn't look down for too long, or did he just turn around and glance casually?

After a glimpse, the dust is gone.

Xu Yishan, who turned around again, was carried by his teacher and taken to the spiritual realm before he could mutter.

Dayao Mountain Spiritual Realm.

What kind of experience is it like to be accepted as a disciple by a Heavenly Rank Great Cultivator?

It's a pity that there is no Zhihu in this world, otherwise Xu Yishan would probably be able to stand up and answer.

The answer is:

Give you the most brilliant teachings.

Give you the deepest legacy.

In addition to that, give you the best external conditions.

The place where the aura is abundant is the spiritual land.

Where mountains and rivers gather, there are countless spiritual lands.

The spiritual realm is essentially a spiritual land, but there are too many beyond the spiritual land, and in the spiritual realm, "the spiritual energy gathers and flows by itself." ”

The entire Southern Continent, spanning an unknown number of thousands of miles, and an unknown number of countries, is just the five spiritual realms, and it is also the five holy places.

The aura in the spiritual land is divergent.

Therefore, don't look at the spiritual land, the grass and trees are beautiful, but in fact, people do not benefit much from it.

Of course, this is relative to the spiritual realm.

In the spiritual realm of Dayao Mountain, Xu Yishan is not the host or guest, but simply in a way of sojourning, living in a deep and simple place, or even only living in the deep and not in the house.

In the twenty years of spiritual life, he knew no more than two people from Dayao Mountain.

That's real meditation.

In the spiritual realm, Xu Yishan's cultivation is like a fish in water.

And it is a fish that has been thirsty for a long time and jumps into the boundless water.

Drink generously.

Swim freely.

Most of the monks in the world, when they enter the ground level, they are all like they are stuck in the quagmire, and it is difficult to move forward, but for Xu Yishan, after entering the spiritual realm, he completed the first and middle stages of the ground step in a smoother way than the previous enlightenment realm.

"The dignity of the teacher. ”

"The land is like the sea. ”

"Heaven's grace is immense. ”

Xu Yishan has already appreciated the first two.

And the last one is yet to be experienced by him.

On this day, in the grass hall, Xu Yishan slowly wrote these words, wrote slowly, recalled slowly, and thought slowly.

Once, he had been slow.

Once, he was also fast.

And now, whether it's fast or slow, it's all cultivation and life.

Xu Yishan doesn't care much about the fast and slow.

A monk who has attained the highest level is only one step away from the real "great monk".

In this step, Xu Yishan believes in both the teacher and himself.

From the beginning of his cultivation to the present, the teacher has arranged everything for him, from condensing qi to channeling the pulse, from the meridian to the enlightenment, and from the human level to the ground level.

"From the Earth Stairs to the Heaven Stairs, this step is completely up to you. Yishan, can you cross over?", the teacher said to him that day.

Xu Yishan's answer that day was, "Teacher, I can!"

And today, at the end of the day, before leaving the thatched hall of the book house, the last word Xu Yishan wrote was:

All the way to the flat beach to the dangerous beach, all the way to the water and climbing.

If there are no mountains and rivers, how can you look idle and laugh.