No abstraction, no cultivation

Chapter 40 Practice
Taoist Lan looked at the two people who were thinking and continued, "When you have a clear understanding, keep visualizing 'I' in your sea of ​​consciousness."

"That is 'God'."

"To control the law with 'God' is to be in the state of being ...

The combination of internal and external cognition is the worldview. The worldview visualized through the exercises is visualized as "God".

It is precisely because of the integration of the monks' worldview that it is possible to mobilize magical power and produce supernatural powers and spells.

God is not outside, but in the heart.

After understanding it, you will naturally understand the gods.

"Master, if a cultivator reaches the spiritual realm, and as his practice and knowledge continue to grow, the 'spirit' in his heart changes?" Xu Shun asked, "What should we do then?"

The formation of world view is a complex process, which is influenced by many factors such as personal growth background, education, social environment, cultural traditions, and historical experience.

A person's worldview may change subtly when they are in their teens, twenties, thirties, forties or fifties.

Then won’t the monks change?

Does a thirty-year-old monk have the same worldview as a three-hundred-year-old monk?
People are not stones, how can they not change?

"Hey! My disciple, you are really smart." Lan Daoren praised Xu Shun for a rare moment and said, "So only after the golden elixir is one able to see the truth, and only after seeing the truth can one have the primordial spirit."

"You will know all this later. But there is a situation where a monk suffers a huge shock in a short period of time and his mind is broken."

"It's called the Broken Heart."

Xu Shun was speechless after hearing this. What is Gou Ba's Heart-Smashing Tribulation? Isn't it just the shattering of one's three views?
past life...

Xu Shun thought of people with shattered values, who might take revenge on society, become neurotic, or turn evil.

"Master, three views... no. Will the head of a cultivator with a broken mind explode?" Xu Shun asked.

"Huh?" Lando was stunned.

"The Broken Heart Tribulation will only cause a cultivator's cultivation to decline greatly and lead to infatuation, but it will not cause his head to explode." Although Taoist Lan did not know why Xu Shun asked this, he still answered Xu Shun's question.

"Ah? Wouldn't it be that the magic power would surge into the brain, and the brain couldn't withstand too much magic power, and then explode?" Xu Shun said.

He remembered the setting of a novel in his previous life, which said that a monk or something had accepted too much knowledge that subverted his worldview.

The head will explode.

"Such situations are rare. I have never seen them before." Lan Daoren had no idea of ​​Xu Shun's imagination and answered seriously, "Most of the time, they are just crazy. A few times, they explode and die."

"...Crazy? It feels worse than a headshot!" Xu Shun muttered.

Taoist Lan glanced at Xu Shun who was mumbling to himself, and then asked, "Zicai, Zisu, do you think that in the realm of spiritual enlightenment, is the "divine" or the "transmission" more important?"

Zi Su thought about it and said first: "It should be 'God' that is important."

God represents the world view and the monks' understanding of the inside and outside, so of course he is important.

When Xu Shun heard Lan Daoist ask this, he said, "Could it be 'tong'?"

"Of course it's '通'. 通 means to connect or arrive." Lan Daoren said, "It's difficult to travel. It's difficult to travel."

"How many ordinary people want to go to the top of the mountain, but the mountain road is dangerous and difficult to travel."

"How many monks want to ascend to heaven and become immortal, but the road to heaven is difficult to climb."

"Many bald donkeys have made great vows, but they are all empty promises. The world remains the same. It's not that they don't want to do it, but that they can't do it."

Can't do it...

Who doesn’t want to cultivate immortality? But without a good foundation, one cannot sense spiritual energy and cannot practice.

Even if one is able to practice, without a teacher and enlightenment, it is very likely that one will die at the end of his life.

Don’t these people want to do it?

Are these people unwilling to pay?
But I can’t do it!
Ideals are full, but reality is skinny!

So there is a way to get there, and even if it means eating shit, there are people who will try it.

This is the "possible path", and the process of walking on it is "communication".

Tongshen, so this is what it means.

No wonder monks regard communication with gods as the starting point of spiritual practice.

"Master, being unable to do something is somewhat similar to what the Buddhists say about not being able to obtain what you want." Zi Su said after a little thought.

After all, he had been a bald donkey for a few days. "There are thousands of different people, but the difficulties and distress they encounter are similar, it's just a matter of understanding." Lan Daoren said: "The difficulties of cultivation are there."

“Some people saw it and passed it by easily.”

“Some people were stopped where they were.”

The plumber outside the door looked at the snow falling from the sky again, saying nothing.

"What the bald donkey cannot ask for is different from what we cannot do." Lan Daoren often criticized the bald donkey and said, "Asking for something is different from doing something."

Everyone has things they want but cannot get, and everyone has things they cannot do.

To ask means to ask others for help.

To do it is to try it yourself.

The difference between them made Xu Shun savor it carefully.

The reason why he agreed to take Lan Dao Ren as his master was because of Lan Dao Ren's positive attitude: the road is difficult, but I want to try.

Don't be afraid, take action.

You can't achieve your goal just by thinking or talking.

Anyone can say something about it. Chuanbao even said if you vote for him, he can reach the moon!

But how to do it? How to achieve it? That is the key!

How can you reach a thousand miles without taking small steps?

In the few months since he became Lan Daoist's apprentice, Xu Shun has worn out several pairs of shoes, walked through mountains and rivers, and walked roads that he had never walked in his previous life.

Practice, practice!
That's it!

Xu Shun had some insights in his heart.

"Master! Cultivation is about practice and action." Xu Shun bowed respectfully to Taoist Lan.

At this moment, he truly understood what cultivation meant.

He has gradually changed his previous life's understanding of cultivation, and his understanding of cultivation is closer to that of Lan Dao Ren.

"I'm glad you understand." Lan Daoren looked at him and said.

Like master, like disciple.

It is better to lead by example than to repeat the truth a thousand times.

This is his way of teaching.

He doesn't want his apprentice to learn from him completely, but he hopes that his apprentice will learn what he wants to say and do, and wait for his apprentice to grow up and walk his own path.

It would be even better if I could surpass him!

"Master! I understand too." Zi Su also said from the side.

His experience was also quite complicated. Now that he had a master like Lan Daoren, he had a new understanding of the divine.

He was previously stuck at the stage of building his foundation and had no time to cultivate to the level of a god. His understanding of the level of a god was merely to develop magical powers.

To cultivate magical powers and to manipulate them is to reach the divine realm.

This is his perception and also the perception of the pipeline people.

It was not until Lan Daoren explained the meaning of "communication with the gods" that I realized how ridiculous my understanding was.

"Real person!" The pipe man could no longer control himself.

He entered the hall and knelt before Lan Daoist. He kowtowed three times and then begged:

"I am ashamed to have eavesdropped on the Master's teachings! But I have some doubts in my heart, so I beg the Master to explain the Dragon-Tiger Realm to help me resolve my confusion."

"I am willing to serve you like an ox or a horse, and serve you like a servant!"

Zi Su felt mixed emotions. After becoming Lan Daoren's disciple, he was afraid that a country monk like him would be looked down upon by the Taoist priest.

Now... his status is as different from that of the pipeline man as heaven and earth.

This is the charm of cultivating immortals!

(End of this chapter)