Chapter 101: Si Xing often asks me, Floating on the Hanging Star River (Part 1)
Chapter 101: Sixing often asks me, floating and hanging in the galaxy (Part 1)
According to local customs, after setting off firecrackers on New Year's Eve, the whole family had to change new clothes for New Year's dinner. My family was not very well-off. Last year, I didn't ask my parents to buy new clothes for me, but only added one for my sister. But this year's situation is different. I bought a new set of new ones for my father, mother and sister from top to bottom. Although it is not very high-end, it is already quite luxurious for them. They were curious about where I got the money, so I said that Zhiweilou's business is very good. I earn a lot of money now, and I will renovate a new house for my family next year. In fact, this is not the money from Zhiweilou. When I turned around, I gave Director Gu the invoice and asked him to report it all, even if I did the last time I performed a task in Fanchang Township.
Of course, I ate supper at Zhiweilou. My parents were almost shocked when they entered Zhiweilou. They originally knew that I helped Sister Ziying open another large restaurant in Wucheng, but they didn’t expect it to be such an elegant and upscale restaurant. Sister Ziying was very enthusiastic and arranged a large private room to cook and cook in person. I think my parents always felt at a loss. During the meal, Teacher Liu and Liu Yiyi also came. Liu Yiyi always wanted to meet my parents and sister. What does it look like? Teacher Liu and my family met. When introducing Liu Yiyi, they said that she was Teacher Liu’s cousin. There was another person who came to eat after hearing the news, of course Feng Junzi.
The whole room was full of people who were so popular that they drank spicy food, but they didn't have my share, because Feng Junzi punished me for three months not to allow me to eat. Now the time is not over. It is hard to explain to my parents. I simply said that I had to do something and didn't have dinner with them. I was also worried. Once I went home, what would my family think if I didn't eat every day? When I was worried outside, someone in the room helped me relieve the siege.
Han Ziying mentioned very tactfully that I couldn’t spend the Spring Festival at home because I had something to do. Although Teacher Liu didn’t know what I was going to do during the Spring Festival, she consciously cooperated with Sister Ziying. She told my parents that the school selected me to participate in the International Middle School Olympic Mathematics Competition and would go to Beijing to study and train during the winter vacation. This was simply a huge panic, but when our class teacher, Teacher Liu, said it, my parents had to believe it.
The Olympic Mathematics Competition, referred to as Olympiad Mathematics, is known to many parents now. But my parents are just ordinary farmers and have never heard of this. Teacher Liu can do whatever he says. In short, I wear a big hat, and not going home for the New Year is simply a win for the country. In addition, I really got the first place in the class this semester, and my parents couldn't figure it out, so I was very happy and regretfully accepted this "fact".
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It was very uncomfortable to wait and do nothing. One day I couldn't help asking Feng Junzi: "What are you going to do when I open my eyes and it will be the first day of the Lunar New Year?"
Originally, it was just a joke, but Feng Junzi replied seriously: "Yes, of course there are. For example, Fahai in Jiulin Zen Temple had entered into meditation sixty years ago. If you open your eyes today, not only will the civil war be fought, but the War of Resistance Against Japan be fought, the founding of New China, the ten years of turmoil ended, and the reforms were opened up. He saw nothing, and I don't know whether there is Bodhi or not, but at least he doesn't have to worry about anything."
"What is this state?"
Feng Junzi: "I am not Fahai, how do I know?"
"I'm asking if you have any solutions?"
Feng Junzi: "Yes, of course there is. There is a method in the alchemy called the practice of form of true vacuum. As long as you sit, it is possible for more than ten days, even a hundred years. Many people have realized the truth from this. When they open their eyes, they see that things have changed, and relatives and lovers are not there. If they can control this thought, they may enter a new state."
"One day in the mountains, the world has been in the world for a thousand years?"
Feng Junzi: "Yes, although a thousand years are a bit exaggerated, it is completely normal for a few years. The folk legend 'one day in heaven and one year in the earth' is the source. If I teach you, do you want to learn? - For some practitioners, this is a shortcut."
"I still don't learn it well. I feel it's not good when I think about it. I can't imagine that when I open my eyes tomorrow morning, I will face a completely unfamiliar world. Is this the way that practitioners want to pursue?"
Feng Junzi shook his head: "No, of course not. I always feel that what we call Tao should not be to open our eyes to see a strange world, it should be something we are very familiar with. But the experience I just mentioned is also one of the processes of pursuing Tao. The most important thing is that after experiencing this process, you can see through things that were originally unsightly under the cover of the world. Using this method to realize Tao is also a shortcut."
"Do all practitioners need to experience it? Have you ever experienced it?"
Feng Junzi: "Do you look like I'm old for thousands of years old? Of course I don't have such an exaggerated practice. But everyone has to go through a similar process, which is what I call the "Hua Tiancao". You have escaped, but this human calamity still has to go through. In fact, the realm you have to go through is not a thousand years of closed eyes, but the realm of "Hua".
"What is vacuum?"
Feng Junzi shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Don't ask me, I can't say it."
"You can't tell me, how did I experience it?"
Feng Junzi: "As a disaster, you should have already had a little bit of feeling. Do you know how long you have been in Qingming Mirror?"
"I don't know, it may feel like it may be one second or ten thousand years."
Feng Junzi: "One second or ten thousand years in the world is meaningless to you in the Qingming Mirror."
"It makes sense, why doesn't it mean? What if I don't come out, what should my parents do? Ziying and Axiu are about to be anxious? Isn't Liu Yiyi very lonely in the world? And you will definitely jump up and down. And Teacher Liu, her heart will be uncomfortable."
Feng Junzi: "These are others, not you. You can't feel these in the Qingming Mirror, so they have nothing to do with you."
"Why has nothing to do with me? It's all about me, everything is caused by me."
Feng Junzi: "What kind of 'I' are you talking about? Is it the 'I' in the Qingming Mirror, or the 'I' that everyone in the world is concerned about, or the 'I' who has all done, or the 'I' that lying on the bed at that time? This is a question that every practitioner needs to think about. What is 'I'? If you don't want to understand, your level of practice can only reach the 'Jin Tang'. After the real person, you will be the true self. Only by finding the true self can you continue to practice the 'fetal movement' and 'baby' in the four twelve levels of the building."
"The 'I' you said are all 'I'! I also know the difference. Which of these different 'I' is the real self. Maybe none of them, maybe all of them are... You don't teach me."
Feng Junzi smiled: "I can teach you all the states in the stage of the alchemy path, but only this 'vacuum' is without mental methods and no mantras. Everyone needs to experience it themselves, so it is called 'vacuum heavenly tribulation'. But you just said something like that, and I think you have already realized it. If you sit in the Jintang realm and practice meditation, you may one day enter the vacuum. Only when you can break through the obstacles of this vacuum, I can continue to teach you other things."
"No, don't you still teach me the techniques of outer furnace and cauldron and room?"
Feng Junzi scratched his head a little embarrassedly: "I originally wanted to teach you this, but I haven't studied it thoroughly yet. I'll study it again..."
Damn! How to study such things? This is not something that a person can study, so he can only go to Luxue to study. This kid was angry that Luxue would not come to him, so he would no longer go to Shenmulin. He did not go there during this period. It seems that he can't study anything for the time being.
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Huangshan is not far from Wucheng and is about 300 kilometers away. It only takes one day to take a bus. But it is quite troublesome to find Danxiasheng and his wife. The key is that I don’t know where their cave is. Master Dan did not tell me the specific location, but only said it was a secret place on the hillside of the Dan Peak.
I can't go early, they are not here. Master Dan only said that New Year's Eve must be there. But I couldn't go that day. I have never heard of visiting New Year's Eve since ancient times. I only visited early on the first and first day of the New Year, which is considered a New Year's greeting. After the 23rd Kitchen God Festival on the twelfth lunar month, I started preparing things. In fact, there was nothing to prepare. I took out four red fruits from Jingwu Cave Heaven, including the one that just matured.
The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month is a traditional day for the Kitchen God sacrifice. Some places in the north are also called Little New Year. But now the times are different. People in the city will not go to sacrifice gas stoves, but just come as a lively festival. Zhiweilou's business is very good this day. Ziying is still busy during dinner. I didn't eat at first, but A Xiu said that Sister Ziying would sacrifice to the Kitchen God Sai, so she would also bring me to watch the fun. The two of us sat in the gentleman curry and chatted. A Xiu asked me: "Brother Shiye, you are going to Huangshan Yidan Peak during the Spring Festival, okay?"
"Axiu, you're still here to help you Sister Ziying, and Liu Yiyi's can't do without people's care. She almost doesn't know anything. I'm not going to play, I'm going to do business, I don't know if it can be done. Can you stay here?"
A Xiu pouted and nodded: "Okay, I listen to Brother Shiye. By the way, have you been to Huangshan?"
“I haven’t been there.”
A Xiu: "I heard that the mountains in that place are very dangerous. In winter, snow falls on the cliffs and freezes. You must be careful when walking a hundred-foot cliff."
A Xiu's words suddenly reminded me of a question - how can I climb the alchemy peak when the mountain is closed in winter? It is said that no one has been here since ancient times except Huangdi, because there is no way to climb. It is actually not difficult for modern people to reach the top of the mountain, just take a helicopter. I don't have a helicopter, and the Danxiasheng and his wife do not live on the top of the mountain, but in the cliff. Although I know how to practice magically, there is naturally no problem with ordinary difficult mountain roads, but I can't fly after all, so how can I get up? No, practitioners must have their own Taoism, otherwise how could the Danxiasheng and his wife get together in that place?
I pondered and asked Axiu: "Walking on a hundred-foot cliff? I don't know how to do this! How did Danxiasheng and his wife get up?"
A Xiu asked me strangely with wide eyes: "Brother Shiye has already achieved great success in the golden elixir. Why don't he even know this? Has no one taught you?"
"What are you teaching me? Do you teach me to fly in the sky?"
A Xiu: "Flying in the sky? Why do you want to fly in the sky? Huangshan is not in the sky! Just walk on the ground. That day we went to Feijin Peak together. My brother clearly learned the art of shrinking the ground, and climbing to the top is faster than anyone else."
"The technique of shrinking the earth? No, I call it divine movement... It's my own name, but it is actually a method of internal breathing..."
A Xiu smiled: "Don't talk to me about any names, they are actually similar. My brother has learned to control things and has also reached the realm of real people, right?"
"Yes, so you can fly up the mountain?"
A Xiu: "It's not Fei. Brother, I ask you, you know how to control things, so can you control the mountains?"
"Of course not, how can the mountain be moved!"
A Xiu: "Of course you can't move Liandan Peak, but what about every rock? That's within your spiritual sense."
"On the alchemy peak, every rock is integrated with the mountain. Even if my spiritual sense is enough, I can't move it away?"
A Xiu: "Didn't you just need to move the rocks away? Wouldn't you just move yourself away?"
When Ah Xiu said this, I suddenly understood that this is the so-called "the shape of a large piece of the world". Feng Junzi taught me, but his teachings were too profound and directly taught me to "picking the sun". And my spiritual sense could not really touch the sun, so I could only use the method of "observation". But a mountain is different, and every inch of rock is at my feet, and I can control it. Of course, I can't move such a mountain, but in this way, it's not the mountain that moves, but I am myself.
Chapter completed!