Chapter 35 (1/2)
Hua Lanting and Lin Xianjing live in the same room. Tonight, both of them are a little restless and sleepless for no reason, so they get up in their clothes, go to the terrace outside the house, make a pot of wine and sit down to enjoy the snow.
It's dark outside and the snow is flying. Lin Xianjing said, ”the weather here is strange. I wanted to make a divination to predict the good and bad luck of this trip, but the divination is messy and difficult to form. This rarely happens.” Hua Lanting said, ”yes, I can't settle down. It's really strange here.”
Just when they were silent and looked at the sky, the door next to them rang, and Yi LiuNian and Zhuge Yun also came out. ”If you want snow later, can you drink a cup of nothing?” Yi LiuNian shouted, ”it's not interesting for you to be so elegant, but you don't call us.”
Lin Xian Jing replied, ”the lonely mountains and drinking alone on a snowy night are so artistic that you don't have to ruin the scenery. It's just casting pearls before swine.”
Yi LiuNian's face turned black: ”cow, please play the piano? It's so ugly. The cow didn't say anything. People who play the piano against the cow are sick.”
”Ha ha!” Hua Lanting said with a smile, ”ZHUGE, do you think it's more painful for cattle or people to play the piano to cattle?”
Zhuge Yun said expressionless, ”Qin is the most painful.”
”I'm the most miserable!” the voice of Mu hurry rang out behind them. When the four looked back, Mu hurry and Yiyun led the four women of Feng Qingjun to come.
Mu hurriedly continued to reprimand: ”it's you boys who don't sleep in the middle of the night. Your voice is still so loud. Don't you know that Taoism pays most attention to health preservation? Haven't you heard that a disciple surnamed Zhao of a sect recently stayed up late to drink and died suddenly? How did I teach you these useless things?”
Yi LiuNian licked his face and said, ”manager mu, I don't allow you to say that about yourself. What you teach is useful? When it comes to staying up late, I sincerely advise you not to be surnamed Zhao in order not to die suddenly!”
Mu hurriedly smiled after listening: ”smelly boy, don't talk nonsense. It's useful for you. Go and call some plates of beef and pour me a glass of wine. Tonight will be the night dinner before experience.”
Yi LiuNian hit the snake with the stick: ”Mu Lao, I think you should add the word please. It seems polite.”
Mu hurriedly kicked falsely: ”be polite to you. Please bring me the beef and old wine quickly. Is that ok?”
”Well, OK, it's my treat. As long as you check out, it's all right.” Yi LiuNian went down to order.
The crowd then took their seats. After the wine and dishes were ready, the men pushed cups and changed lamps. The woman drank and whispered. Hua Lanting suddenly asked, ”you just talked about health preservation, but we are restless here. It is difficult to cultivate ourselves and sleep. How should we raise this life?”
Mu hurriedly thought about it and replied, ”your question is a little big. I'll try to answer part of it first.”
”First of all, there are no more than three situations: one is immersed in the troubles of the past, the other is trapped in the delusion of the future, and the third is that external forces affect your mood“
” In either case, in fact, you are competing with yourself and in an uncomfortable state. Your spirit consciousness is not in harmony with your life body at the present moment, or on the one hand, your heart feels that you should fall asleep and expect to fall asleep, but on the other hand, your body is affected by the complex thoughts in reality and cannot enter the state of sleep at this moment. To put it bluntly It's all your own trouble. ”
”No one in the world can hurt you. It's yourself who really stabs you.”
”Of course, this is because you haven't practiced to be free, and I don't. freedom is the ultimate goal pursued by our practitioners. Maybe there is a higher goal on this, which is not what you and I can imagine at this stage.”
”But in terms of health preservation, there is a simple state that ordinary people should have experienced, that is, they are about to fall asleep but they are not asleep. It seems that they have entered a dream, but you can hear the people next to them“
”This is a critical point. If you hold the state of that critical point, you can communicate with heaven and earth, absorb energy and accumulate strength from all things in the world, and then release it with some methods and skills, which will be manifested in the functions of skill, magic and martial arts. ”
”The world is composed of different life forms, information exchange methods, a variety of materials and energy, resulting in different cultivation methods and factions.”
Yi LiuNian added: ”sometimes when I meditate or stand at a stake, I will enter a state of sitting rather than sitting, standing rather than standing, waking rather than waking, empty rather than empty, urine rather than urine, but I will soon get out.”
Mu hurriedly said with a smile: ”the words are rough and the reason is not rough. The longer you keep the state, the deeper your skills and the stronger your control over your spirit and body.”
Hua Lanting asked, ”the Taoist family believes in eternal life, attaches importance to the flesh and seeks freedom; the Buddhist family believes in reincarnation, attaches importance to ideas and seeks liberation. So which is more important, the spirit and the body?”
Mu hurriedly replied: ”That's the same sentence. It's like a blind man touching an elephant. No matter Taoists, Buddhists or demons, demons, ghosts, spirituals, etc., we just have different population forms, different positions, different entry points and practice paths. Maybe there are differences between high and low, order, good and evil, good and evil, forming a competing relationship, but we all want to pursue in essence Some form of immortality. ”
Yi LiuNian asked confusedly, ”doesn't it mean that good and evil don't coexist? Don't we come here to destroy the people of the evil way?”