No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 174 Seeing the Truth
What a pity?
Xu Shun didn't say anything, and Lu Xingxing didn't ask.

"I haven't eaten fish for a long time. Let's go fishing today?" Xu Shun suddenly said, looking at the lake.

Lu Xingxing shook his head and said, "I don't fish, and I don't eat fish!"

"Then let me go fishing!" said Xu Shun.

"Okay, I'll watch!" Lu Xingxing nodded and said.

He knew that Xu Shun was not fishing, but was regulating his breathing and digesting his energy.

Other people's magic power is obtained through cultivation bit by bit, but his magic power is obtained by killing people.

Just like a skinny man suddenly gaining muscles, he has to adapt. Xu Shun is now adapting to his rapidly increasing magic power. The most important thing is to make the magic power match his cultivation.

Golden Elixir and Foundation Establishment are both relatively special stages for cultivators.

The foundation-building period only lasts for a few dozen days, and all the cultivation in the Qi training period is converted into one's own foundation. The Golden Core stage may only last for a few dozen days, while others may last for several decades.

This stage is called the Golden Elixir Stage.

There is no early, middle or late stage in the Jindan period, nor is there first, second or third level.

The Jindan stage is the Jindan stage. As long as "I am the tiger" and "the dragon of Tao" are meshing with each other, they are both in the Jindan stage.

It's just that the meshing gears are bigger or smaller, but there is no fundamental difference.

It makes no difference whether a cultivator in the Jindan stage has more or less mana.

Because you haven't reached the next stage, see the truth.

"Truth" means "true self".

The "god" that the cultivator visualizes in the state of spiritual communication and the "tiger" in the dragon-tiger realm are both part of my "self" and not the real "self".

The hardest thing for a person to recognize is himself.

Because I have so many thoughts, I often do good things when a thought arises, and do bad things when a thought fails.

Only when making important decisions can you know what choice you have made and what kind of person you are!

Even when making a choice, the body reacts faster than the brain.

I will regret it afterwards, but at the time, I didn’t think too much about it.

What is the real "me"?
What is the real "me"?
In Taoism, "true self" includes "god" and "primordial spirit", and has three concepts of "morality", "original" and "spiritual treasure". Therefore, after seeing the truth, one can verify the primordial spirit.

In Buddhism, the “true self” includes concepts such as “appearance”, “emptiness” and “nowhere to go”, so after seeing the truth, one can attain Buddhahood.

Before Xu Shun traveled through time, there were concepts of "id", "ego" and "superego".

In any case, “I” is not simply “I think” or “thought”.

For a monk, having clear thoughts means becoming possessed.

Because the world is also changing, the world is not static, and "I" will change with the changes in the world.

Is there anyone who remains unchanged from birth to death?

Under the impact of the waves of the times, who can escape the changes in this world?
What you see is not necessarily true, and “thoughts” are not necessarily correct or true.

Acting according to your thoughts is like a blind man riding a blind horse and running around aimlessly.

A cultivator must not only maintain his original heart in the times, but also be within the times and not let his three views collapse due to cognition, leading to a situation of being possessed by demons!
How can we make our mind and thoughts as flowing as water?

How can I ensure that I won't become evil and obsessed because of one incident or some twisted idea?

How can we ensure that we see our true self, rather than our false self?

Face yourself, understand yourself, question yourself, and master yourself. It is not a sudden enlightenment, it is not to understand the "true self" immediately, but to constantly argue and dialectically.

Dialectics is action, and the road is to prove the "true self" and to prove one's own way!

Cultivation is about practicing and acting!

What you say must eventually be put into action!

This is what the monks in the stage of seeing the truth should do.

From this we can see that the true method of a cultivator is to continuously improve his cultivation, explore himself and the world, and ultimately ascend to heaven, while the method of protecting the way is completely for the purpose of killing.

Therefore, some cultivators in the Jindan stage may suddenly understand their "true self" one day and begin to see the truth.

Some cultivators have not understood their "true self" for decades, or are unwilling to face their "true self" and have remained in the Golden Core Stage.

In spiritual practice, you can deceive others, but you cannot deceive yourself.

Xu Shun did not lie to others, and naturally did not lie to himself. He traveled through time and space and came to this strange world.

Originally, he wanted to become an immortal. How wonderful it would be!
But when he came into contact with the world of immortal cultivation, he felt that it was very different from his worldview. Before crossing over, he was just an ordinary person, and most people in this world were ordinary people.

He felt that compared to another battle, cultivating immortality could be given up.

Especially the fact that the world of immortal cultivation had gone from having some problems to being "almost gone" was a shock to Xu Shun.

In his previous life, he couldn't even kill a chicken, but now he is extremely skilled in killing people and destroying corpses, and killing monks of the same level is easier than drinking soup.

Everything changes with the times.

Such are the times.

He just thought that cultivating immortals was very abstract, but now thinking back, cultivating immortals is not abstract at all.

This era is abstract!
He wants to find them and together they can set things right in this abstract world.

There was still a question in his mind.

What if... you can't find it?
What if you can't find them?
What if they're not here?

Xu Shun calmed himself down and said to himself solemnly:

"Then become them!"

"Finish what they didn't finish!"

With a "clang", Lu Xingxing was fiddling with a fire by the river when he heard a strange sound coming from Xu Shun.

That was the sound of a sword.

A black sword light flew out from Xu Shun and turned into a black monster, which looked like a tiger but not a tiger, and like a dragon but not a dragon. It carried the will of death and roamed between heaven and earth.

The sword light flew out and returned to Xu Shun's heart.

The sword is the blade of the heart, the will in the heart, and the manifestation of "I".

A sword energy exploded around Xu Shun like a ring. Fortunately, Lu Xingxing had been prepared and hid far away. He knew that it was the "my domain" of the Jianzhen cultivator!
The dragon and tiger monks fought each other, the golden elixir monk meshed the heaven and the earth, and finally after seeing the true monk, he replaced the heart of heaven with his own heart, and replaced the "heaven" with "I", extending the "I" beyond the body.

It is "my domain"!
This area is also "me"!
“I” is complex. Human hair, blood, muscles, magic power, even urine and feces are all part of “I”. So why can’t a region be “I”?
In "my domain", the black sword energy was looming, and Xu Shun's will was implemented in every corner of "my domain".

Free and unrestrained, although the road ahead is bumpy, he is not afraid of difficulties!
A strange feeling surges from my heart!

This is seeing the truth!
Wonderful!

　From here, we can see that this is what I wanted to write from the beginning. There is no point in being abstract for the sake of being abstract.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)