The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 41
The back mountain of Tongqing Temple, next to the waterfall.

"Old monk, after talking for a long time, you still missed the point? How should you practice?"

After listening to a long speech about "Entering the Tao", Pei Wende realized that the whole topic seemed to have been completely distorted.

Because until now, Zen master Lingyou has not explained the specific method of practice.

Pei Wende even feels that "entering the Tao" is not necessarily the first step in practice, otherwise the difficulty is too high for ordinary practitioners.

This is like a person's interests and goals. If you can combine interests, goals and work, you will get twice the result with half the effort.

But you can't stop working because you haven't found your interests and goals, or you're dissatisfied with your current job, right?
The same is true for practice. Not every practitioner can find the "Tao" that suits him at the beginning.

At the very least, at this stage, Pei Wende has only found a temporary goal and determined the path he wants to take in the future, but he is still far from being able to "enter the Tao".

Pei Wende can only be called "entering the Tao" if he practices his own goals in future practice and does not deflect the goal due to external interference.

"Cultivation starts with cultivating the mind. There are thousands of ways to practice, but none of them can avoid the word 'quiet'."

Obviously seeing Pei Wende's impatience, Zen Master Lingyou with a faint smile on his face didn't make too much of a fuss, and finally started to talk about the most important thing.

"A calm mind leads to the gods, only 'calm mind' is the only shortcut to practice..."

"The Taoist scripture says, to the extreme of emptiness, keep quiet."

"The Buddha also said that form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form, form is emptiness, emptiness is form..."

"Keep the seal of meditation, contemplate your own Buddha, calm your mind, and naturally pass through the spirit."

"..."

Not to mention the lotus flower tongue, the Sanskrit sound, and the blessing of magic and supernatural powers.

Zen Master Lingyou simply quoted scriptures and explained to Pei Wende what "quietness" is, and he already had a feeling of enlightenment.

From Taoism's "Tao De Jing" to Buddhism's "Heart Sutra", Pei Wende was surprised to find that he had already started a certain sense of "practice".

Back then, when he first faced ghosts like ghosts, Pei Wende didn't run away like ordinary people.

The kind of "calmness" that is not chaotic in the face of danger is actually the most preliminary and basic "quietness".

Only with a calm mind can we maintain ourselves, and when faced with desperate situations, we can do what others cannot, and burst out all kinds of incredible "miracles" in the eyes of ordinary people.

Only when the mind is calm can all things be enlightened, and when faced with strange things, they can quickly find and understand their forms of existence, and gain insight into their essence and weaknesses.

This is the advantage of Pei Wende and the others, and it is also the subtle influence of Zen Master Lingyou in the past 16 years.

However, it is not enough to just understand the function and principle of "mind tranquility".

What really allowed Pei Wende to get started quickly was the way of meditation and seal formation, which was developed by the ascetic monks in secret practice for hundreds of years, and was specially used for "calmness of mind".

Knot the meditation seal to meditate, and sit with Sakyamuni in meditation...

To understand it in a way that the game can express, once you learn this set of meditation and seal-making methods, the character attributes will immediately increase your comprehension +1 and wisdom +1.

"So, is that the first step in cultivation?"

Inexplicably, he recalled Huiji's state of concentration when he taught the Dharma from heart to heart, and Pei Wende felt that what Chan Master Lingyou was going to explain next was how to enter that state.

"You don't have the understanding of your senior brother, so it's better not to be too ambitious."

Knowing what happened in Mulian Temple a long time ago, Monk Lingyou could only sigh helplessly.

"The trance state you felt before is your senior brother's 'meditation', and it may not be suitable for you."

Zen Master Lingyou was telling the truth. Even with his subtle influence over the past 16 years, Pei Wende has become a seedling that is very suitable for cultivation.

But compared with Hui Ji, who was born with a Buddha mind and enlightened to Taoism, there is still a big distance.

At the very least, Pei Wende's experience during this period of time proved this point. He couldn't simply use the "Zhan Ding Seal" to enter the state of meditation, and then calm his mind and enlighten his mind.

That kind of practice method of reaching the sky in one step is only suitable for geniuses, not for ordinary people like Pei Wende.

"Why do I feel that you despise me?"

Seeing this, the self-aware Pei Wende smiled wryly.

Even without the interference of evil spirits, Wen Wende didn't think that he, who came from later generations and had complex thoughts, could ascend to the sky in one step and enter that state of trance easily.

In contrast, Pei Wende is now looking forward to the practice method that Zen Master Lingyou will teach.

Because that is the steps that a normal practitioner should go through.

What Pei Wende doesn't know at this moment is that even what he considers to be "normal practice steps" are extremely abnormal in the eyes of other practitioners.

After all, in this era, there are very few schools of practice that first ask the heart, then ask, and finally explain the specific practice methods in detail.

Usually, the first step for other practitioners is to meditate under the guidance of the master.

Then in this process, gradually understand the efficacy and principle of meditation, combine it with some kind of miraculous changes that have occurred in oneself, and conceive or practice related supernatural powers and spells.

As for the question of asking the heart and entering the Tao that Zen Master Lingyou attaches great importance to?

That is a question that the vast majority of practitioners who have thoroughly understood the cultivation methods of their sect and want to learn from the strengths of other families to make further breakthroughs will consider it.

"The practice of our lineage is easy to say, but difficult to say."

"Practice the true self, form the seal of Zen, and cast a golden body!"

"Using the 'method of three channels and seven wheels' to achieve the way of detachment, this is the core practice method for a teacher."

The current Pei Wende has already met the first condition of practice—practicing the true self.

The rest are all hard work, and Zen Master Lingyou has no doubt that the other party can do it.

"Finally the main event!"

With a sudden shock, Pei Wende knew that what Chan Master Lingyou was going to tell next was the real method for practitioners.

"The three channels and the seven rounds are where the energy channels of a person are located, and they are also the secret treasures of the seven central centers of the human body..."

"When you open it, you can communicate with ghosts and gods and understand the power of yin and yang. The 'five eyes and six supernatural powers' of Buddhism are almost all based on this foundation."

"And the 'method of entering concentration' of our vein has been improved for hundreds of years, and can easily distinguish the location of the three chakras and seven chakras."

"If you can fully open them, you will be able to cast a supreme golden body and achieve the fruit of Arhatship."

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"hiss!"

Under the waterfall at the back of Tongqing Temple, just as Zen Master Lingyou was explaining the "Three Wheels and Seven Meridians" to Pei Wende in detail, a small blue snake with its eyes closed suddenly opened its eyes.

It is none other than the green-scaled serpent that appeared in Mulian Temple back then.

The little green snake originally just followed Pei Wende quietly, trying to find out why the other party could resonate with the evil energy of the earth veins, and to find out the direction of his future practice.

Unexpectedly, by mistake, he actually overheard the authentic Buddhist secret method!

This is much more important than a thousand-faced painted skin, earth veins, and evil spirits for a monster whose cultivation method is completely groped by itself. It is no wonder that the green snake is so excited and excited.

—Recommendation ticket—/—Monthly ticket—

(End of this chapter)