Chapter 145 Ge Honglu asked
Culture and education in Tang County are prosperous, and there are more than 30 civil servants in the territory alone. As soon as the brothers from the Ou family arrived in Tang County, they were busy meeting friends through literature.
Zhang Jiebin and the others finished fasting and went to Qingxu Mountain early the next morning. An hour later, the three of them arrived at the mountain gate. Immediately, a Taoist boy led the way and tied up the horses.
Bai Yuzhan asked Qian Xuzi where he was, and took them all the way to Gehong Hall.
"Slower, slower, this mountain doesn't look high, but why is it so difficult to climb!" Chen Jisheng walked for a while, feeling out of breath, and quickly asked Zhang Jiebin and Zhang Jiebin to walk slower.
After hearing this, Zhang Jiebin slowed down a little, stood on a high ground and looked around the mountains, and said: "This place has good Feng Shui, surrounded by mountains and rivers, high in the north and low in the south. Look at the river surrounding it, and it becomes a Tai Chi."
In the picture, the temples and Taoist temples are all on one side, but I don’t know what is on the other side?”
"That's Gehong Village, where Ge Hong and Aunt Bao built a cottage to treat common people's illnesses with moxibustion." Bai Yuzhan replied.
Zhang Jiebin nodded and urged: "Hurry up, Xiao Sheng, let's go to the front to rest."
The three of them continued to move forward and came to Gehong Hall. Zhang Jiebin smiled and said: "It seems that this hall is located at the white and black spot of the Tai Chi Diagram. With so many pilgrims, Qian Xuzi should not be in the hall, right?"
Bai Yuzhan nodded, went in to ask Zhi Ke, and came out and said, "Taoist Master Qianxuzi is indeed not here. He has been living in Gehong Lu since before the temple fair on March 15th."
The three of them walked back two halls, then turned west and went down the mountain to the river. In the middle of the Tai Chi diagram where the black and white fish meet, there is a bridge.
Zhang Jiebin walked on the bridge and marveled: "Every scene here is very exquisite, and it can be regarded as a model of Feng Shui architecture. I guess there must be a mountain-controlling building in the white dot among the black, right?"
Bai Yuzhan smiled and nodded, his eyes full of memories: "That's the Patriarch's Hall, which echoes the Gehong Hall. We also all received ordination and studied scriptures there."
"The Patriarch's Hall!" Zhang Jiebin looked at it for a long time before looking away and said, "We are going north, right? I don't think Qian Xuzi will be in the Patriarch's Hall."
"Yes, we have to continue heading north."
Chen Jisheng shouted: "You still have to go up the mountain? Then why did we come down just now?"
Zhang Jiebin laughed and scolded: "You are a bird, how can you fly from one mountain to another? You can tell by looking at the direction of the river that there is no way to cross it, otherwise why build a bridge here?"
Chen Jisheng muttered: "Then why do you have to build the temple in this barren mountain? Wouldn't it be more prosperous if it was built in the city?"
"You don't know this. There is really no place with more incense than our Qingxu Mountain for hundreds of miles around. Every year at the temple fair, hundreds of thousands of incense devotees come to make wishes and fulfill their wishes, at least at the Qizhou Yaowang Temple Fair.
Ten times."
"Why is this happening? Instead of going to a nearby place, you go so far away?" Chen Jisheng felt incredible.
"Let's go. If you can't figure it out, think slowly." Zhang Jiebin said with a smile.
The three of them continued to climb the mountain. After turning several bays and climbing over several ridges, Ge Honglu appeared in front of them.
The smoke curling up inside the house blends into the clouds and mist all over the mountain as soon as it rises, forming a harmonious natural scene.
Zhang Jiebin thought of himself back then and shouted again: "Old Qianxu, I'm here!"
A Taoist who was about thirty years old came out of the hut. He read the Taoist name and said, "I have met my Taoist friends and two good believers. The Taoist Master has invited me!"
"I've met Taoist friends!"
"I've met the Taoist priest!"
When Chen Jisheng saw that the two eldest brothers had returned the gift, he also said, "I've met the Taoist priest!"
The three of them followed the middle-aged Taoist priest and walked in. Zhang Jiebin immediately saw Qian Xuzi wearing a blue Taoist robe. Compared with ten years ago, he was a bit older, but he looked more immortal and Taoist.
"Little friend, are you here?" Qian Xuzi smiled.
Listening to this familiar voice, Zhang Jiebin felt as if he had returned to the lively Qipan Street again, and smiled unconsciously: "Old Qianxu, you have broken your promise. You promised to see you in three years, but it has already been ten years."
"Hahaha, little friend, just because you haven't seen me, doesn't mean that I haven't seen you. I also know that you went to Liaodong."
Zhang Jiebin was very surprised when he heard this, and blurted out: "You really returned to Beijing, why didn't you come to see me?"
Qianxuzi shook his head and sighed: "In the seventh year of Wanli, when I was traveling in the north, I heard about Tanyangzi. I wrote to Wang Shizhen and Wang Xijue one after another to dissuade them, but nothing happened. I had to go to the south of the Yangtze River to warn him in person. When I rushed to the south of the Yangtze River, I found out what happened.
It’s no longer possible.”
When Zhang Jiebin heard that it was the sensational daytime ascension incident seven years ago, he said: "The things about gods have existed since ancient times. If you dare to verify it in public, Tan Yangzi is indeed a strange woman."
Chen Jisheng was the only person present who did not know about this far-reaching event. He shouted: "What are you all talking about? Why can't I understand a word of it?"
Zhang Jiebin ignored him and just asked: "May I ask Qian Xuzi, are there really gods in the world? Can people really ascend?"
Qianxuzi smiled: "The world respects me as the ancestor of the Eastern Sect, and I seem to be comparable to the Southern, Northern and Central Sects. Do you think I am a human or an immortal?"
Zhang Jiebin thought for a while and answered truthfully: "In terms of merit, he can be called an ancestor, but in the final analysis he is still a human being, just not an ordinary human being."
Qian Xuzi nodded and said: "Since the Jin and Tang Dynasties, the road to outer elixir has proved to be impassable. Now all our sects are practicing the inner alchemy method. It is the inner alchemy road created by Ge Xianweng."
"Neidan means internal training. The so-called internal training can be summed up in one word. It is as long as it exists!"
The young Taoist Bai Yuzhan fell into deep thought after hearing the words.
Zhang Jiebin repeated: "Mianmianruocun?"
After a long time, the young Taoist said: "Master Taoist, you are telling us not to be too persistent? Tao gives birth to all things but does not fight. Now we have been taught!"
"The immortality of the Grain God is the mysterious female. The gate of the mysterious female is the root of heaven and earth. If it persists, it will not be used diligently." Bai Yuzhan read a section of the Tao Te Ching, also bowed to Qianxuzi, and said: "Disciple
FK U."
Seeing that both of them understood, Zhang Jiebin was not in a hurry, but he was a little unsure and said: "You mean you don't want to argue and don't force it, right?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I am just an ordinary person now. I only know that practice lies in cultivating the mind. As for whether I can ascend in the future, I may know in the future, but I don't know now."
Qianxuzi's words failed to fully explain Zhang Jiebin's confusion. He continued to ask: "As far as I know, the way of the pre-Qin Dynasty is the way, but the way of the Han and Jin Dynasties is the way of the gods. Whether it is external elixir, inner elixir, magic, medicine
, all of them are the way of immortals and the way of immortality."
"Today's Taoist schools have more Taoism inherited from the Han and Jin Dynasties, but less Taoism from the Pre-Qin Dynasty. I dare to ask, sir, which Taoism do you practice?"
Zhang Jiebin's questions were very resounding.
But Qianxuzi smiled: "A poor Taoist learns from hundreds of schools and gathers the strengths of hundreds of schools to form a family."
Zhang Jiebin asked: "What is the difference between the Eastern Sect and the Northern and Southern Sects?"
Qianxuzi said: "It's very similar, with some differences. The Southern Sect emphasizes the cultivation of life first and then the nature, while the Northern Sect emphasizes the cultivation of nature first and life later. However, I advocate the cultivation of both nature and life. All three of them cultivate the nature and life at the same time."
"I have traveled to many places over the years, and I have found that both the monks and the Taoists are diverse and have chaotic inheritances. Although I am a layman, I belong to the lineage of the Supreme Pure One, but now I belong to the True One. But I don't know the secret. Can you shed some light on it?
"Zhang Jiebin thought for a while and said.
Qian Xuzi nodded, walked around the house, and said after a while: "The formation of the current Taoist structure, in a nutshell: the two sects in the north and south returned to Quanzhen, and the three mountain talismans returned to one. From then on, the foundation of what is now Beiquan was established.
Really, Nan Zhengyi’s pattern.”
"The Shangqing lineage, with Maoshan as its sect, is one of the three mountain talismans. It majors in talisman, which is different from our major in inner alchemy. But Zhengyi has been in charge of the world's Taoist sects for a long time, and it has long been difficult to distinguish between you and me."
Zhang Jiebin suddenly understood: "In other words, the biggest difference between Quanzhen and Zhengyi is whether you major in inner alchemy or talismans?"
Qianxuzi nodded and said: "Don't say that it's hard to tell the difference between you and me, even Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism are the same. If you have time to wander around Qingxu Mountain, you will find that even though this is a Taoist resort, there are also many temples.
There are also many palaces and temples in nunneries and Buddhist resorts.”
"Okay!" Zhang Jiebin replied, and then continued to ask: "Since the Taoist priest doesn't know whether there are gods, can mortals really pray for rain, can talismans really cure diseases, and are thunder spells really true?"
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