Fengming Valley inherits the Taoism through music of the piano, focusing on regulating the mind and cultivating the nature, subduing all emotions, and pursuing harmonious resonance with the sounds of heaven and earth. It has a very high intention.
Zhao Miao didn't understand music theory, but he found that every time Lu Wangji strummed the strings and played the qin, he could straighten his thoughts and harmonize his true energy. Compared with the power of forming a formation to kill, this is the essence of Fengming Valley's inheritance.
When he listened to Lu Wangji playing the harp in the countryside outside Jianjia Pass, Zhao Shui once realized a mysterious meaning. He felt like he was floating on the ocean, drifting with the current, but he could still keep his true spirit clear and unambiguous.
In retrospect, I realized that this is exactly where the difference between Immortalism and Shintoism lies.
The Xuanmen Immortal Way regards the world as a boundless ocean, in which ordinary people are trapped in customs, bound by mundane karma, burdened by daily burdens, competing emotions, and deeply harmed without realizing it. Therefore, they start cultivating immortality and strive to be conscious and self-reflective, so that they can achieve enlightenment.
A happy road.
The so-called carefree path of immortality is by no means letting one's passions and desires be indulged in, and acting arbitrarily, but rather concentrating oneness within oneself, allowing things to change externally, drifting with the tide without changing one's Taoist mind, and being mixed with the world without concealing one's clarity.
Zhao Shu once experienced this state for a very short time under the harmony of Lu Wangji's piano music. He gave up his stubborn opinions, exposed his body and mind, and always had no desire to observe the development and evolution of all things.
When you enter this realm, you can feel the endless power of creation within your body and mind. This is the beginning and end point of immortality. Only by observing things without desire can the most pure and authentic vitality be sprouted.
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But to enter such a state for a long time, it is absolutely impossible to deliberately force yourself to achieve it. If you have desires and demands, there will be benefits and benefits to all things, and it will set various boundaries for the endless achievements of creation.
Lingxiao once said: "When things become utensils, they will give up their usefulness; when people become utensils, they will lose their Taoist intention."
However, Zhao Shu also understands that this view is difficult for ordinary people to understand. How can things be used if they are not a tool? If a person is not a tool, wouldn't he be useless?
But for those who are dedicated to cultivating immortality, becoming successful is precisely to restrain the endless creation of their own body and mind, and to be restricted to death by secular rules. Even if they are rich with thousands of gold and have the honor of thousands of chariots, there is no freedom to speak of.
Therefore, immortality and immortality often require people to be transcendent and detached from the world. Such a theory that does not seek to achieve success makes it difficult for ordinary people to understand its true meaning, and it is easy to misunderstand and fallacies.
As opposed to observing things without desire, the theory of having desire to achieve things is actually the foundation of Shinto.
For people in Shinto, all things are born with their own parts and uses, that is, there are advantages and disadvantages, right and wrong. It is natural to clearly define boundaries and order for all things and categories.
But as Lingxiao said, the world is vast and the creation is endless. Even if there is no limit, there will be no limit.
Therefore, when Shinto teaches and establishes laws, it is not to cover everything, but to distinguish between the inside and outside of the laws. Those who conform to the laws are righteous, and those who violate the laws are evil.
The laws of Shinto are often similar to those of the country and the country. Shinto and humanity can be said to be mutually reinforcing each other. Therefore, the Tianxia Dynasty had to set up officials to praise and ceremonially distinguish the yin and yang of humans and ghosts. Without these, a country would be difficult to maintain.
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The so-called major affairs of the country are sacrificed to the Rong. From the perspective of the ceremonial officer, how good a country's laws are depends on what the country sacrifices.
If the sacrifice is not in accordance with the etiquette and the law, it means that the country's decrees are not thorough and the governance is unclear.
If the ghosts and gods being sacrificed covet the blood and food and extort offerings, I am afraid that the people in charge of the country will also plunder the people and enslave the masses.
If it worships evil spirits and sycophants, it can be said that the country was founded improperly and will eventually perish.
If the ghosts are not gods, the gods do not hurt people, if the gods are not eaten, and the laws are fulfilled, then the country and the country can enter a peaceful world.
If Liang Tao wanted to create a Taoist country on earth, both the laws and regulations for governing the country and the people, and the laws and regulations governing the world were all indispensable. However, he had great ambitions, and in the future, the Taoist country on earth would be dominated by him. He was both the Immortal Lord of the Cave Heaven and the
The earthly god-king tries to master both immortal and divine realms.
If it were in the past, Zhao Shu might have felt that Liang Tao's grand vision made some sense, but it was just that he might not be suitable for it.
However, after personally experiencing a painful lesson, Zhao Shui gradually understood that even if he is as brilliant as the tribute officials of the past generations, what he pursues is the short-term stability under the existing laws and regulations, and even generations of people have to think hard and lose their souls to maintain the laws and regulations.
Trying to set up rules and regulations in the ever-changing world, and only oneself can dominate, will probably not bring any good results.
Liang Tao may have been trying to find the key to lasting peace between opposite ends, but Zhao Shu was not sure whether he had found it.
"Okay, that's good."
Lu Wangji's voice interrupted Zhao Shu's deep thought. When he came back to his senses, he found that the piece of Lushui Yinchen fir had been cut into a musical instrument by himself without knowing it.
Looking down, I can see that the inside of the instrument's groove is not flat, but twists and turns, with undulating peaks and banks, the peaks and banks are messy, the pond is deep, and the wood texture is lifelike, as if you are looking down at a vast mountainous area with deep valleys and ravines.
Under the guidance of Lu Wangji, Zhao Shu condensed the golden spirit with his bare hands, whittled the wood and cut the qin. Later, Zhao Shu's mind escaped into a mysterious realm, and after thinking about it for a while, his hands continued to move, and he accidentally cut the qin instrument.
"Strange." Zhao Mian murmured to himself: "Am I observing things without desire or am I becoming something with desire?"
Jiang Ru, who was waiting on the incense burner and making tea, didn't know what was going on. Lu Wangji pondered for a moment and said: "It should be between desire and non-desire. Such a musical instrument is completely natural. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a miraculous craftsmanship."
Zhao Miao was stunned at the same place and made no move. Lingxiao said: "If you are in a trance, there is an image in it; if you are in a trance, there is something in it."
Hearing this, Zhao Shu suddenly felt his heavenly spirit tremble, and his true energy flowed out of his body involuntarily, blowing away the wood chips around him, and the black beads rolled into the mud balls, rising up without any hindrance.
The surge of true energy in the body is not intense, but its momentum is far-reaching and long-lasting, like a rushing river that is out of control.
The black pearl rose into the mud ball, and Zhao Shu's eyes went blank at first. All things in the world disappeared, and everything around him suddenly turned into nothing. But then the heaven and earth returned, and all the sounds vibrated in the acupuncture points all over his body. The instrument at hand was playing without strings, and the Cong Cong was playing.
The sound echoed in the mountains and forests, the stream outside the pavilion harmonized with it, and the trees in the mountains sang in greeting.
In an instant, Zhao Shu felt that all things in the world were unfolding before his eyes like a scroll. In the surrounding area, branches were swaying and leaves were falling, insects and ants were walking, wind was blowing and water was flowing, dust was flying and motes were flying, every detail was visible and within reach.
But even though all things and phenomena were pouring into his eyes and brain, Zhao Shu didn't feel any confusion at all. At this moment, his state of mind was peaceful and transcendent, and his power was incredible.
"Congratulations." Lu Wangji was the first to notice that Zhao Shuxiu had entered the country.
Zhao Shu concentrated his mind and adjusted his breath, and the true energy released from his body sometimes turned into water, fire, wind and thunder, flying around the pavilion, and sometimes turned into various clones with different appearances.
Gently raising his hand, the true energy formed into a curved talisman and seal, like a bird returning to the forest, flying down on Zhao Mi's palm. The five colors were dense inside, and the purple energy was intertwined on the outside, shining brightly.
Zhao Miao studied the talisman seal for a moment, then with a palm of his backhand, he printed it between his eyebrows, directly into the palace of his brain, and merged with the mysterious pearl to become the soul text of his life. His originally withered appearance immediately glowed with radiance, and his face became jade-like.
Zhao Shu did it all in one go, almost without thinking, and without any deliberate pretense.
"Until today, you have entered the path of immortality." Lingxiao said.
Zhao Shu asked secretly: "I thought the level of rising from Xuanzhu to Niwan would be very difficult. Didn't you say before that I had to break through the illusion to make a breakthrough?"
"How can you get the truth without going through great illusions?" Lingxiao said bluntly: "And do you think this level is easy? How many people in the past and present have not been able to rise to the level of Niwan for a long time. Could it be that they have experienced less training and hard training than you?
Huh? If I hadn’t spent the past few months facing the wall and practicing hard, how could I have broken through the qin-playing skills in one go today?"
Zhao Shu secretly said so. Unknowingly, it had been three or four months since he came to Shixi Paradise. During this period, he had not heard anything about foreign affairs. Apart from studying piano music and music theory with Lu Wangji, he was in seclusion and faced the wall. He was almost disturbed by illusions.
numbness.
Lingxiao continued: "What you lack is actually a little bit of opportunity. Only when you start cutting the harp today will you be able to achieve complete enlightenment. The harp instrument is completely made of nature, which shows that you have put in enough effort."
If it were Zhao Shu in the past, he would have been overwhelmed with pride when he heard Lingxiao's praise, but now he just smiled faintly.
"It seems that our Marquis Zhenming has made great progress again." Jiang Ru brought a cup of jade cup fragrant tea knowingly: "It's a pity that we don't have many people here, so we can't gather the mountains to shout congratulations."
Zhao Shu smiled and said: "I don't want to be known in Qishan to cultivate in seclusion. What's more, we who cultivate immortality don't do it to show off."
Cultivation of immortality and self-interest is not selfish as ordinary people think. Many selfish behaviors that ordinary people think of, such as showing off and being greedy, are actually coerced by the worldly desire for fame and wealth, and the original intention is not peaceful. In the eyes of those who cultivate immortality,
On the contrary, it is not "selfish" enough.
The so-called selfishness is nothing more than my body and mind, and the rest is irrelevant.
Zhao Shu suddenly discovered that with his breakthrough in cultivation, his perspective on things was different from before. Some things that he couldn't understand in the past were now self-evident and revealed at a glance.
For example, Liang Tao may have reached his state, where his body and mind are vast enough to accommodate the heaven and earth, and he will in turn have the desire to tamper with the heaven and earth and take charge of creation. Just speaking from this idea, there is no praise or criticism, but what he did was
When it comes to reality, when all sentient beings are involved, we can no longer ignore right and wrong.
Zhao Shu also understood why Lingxiao was so "indifferent and ruthless" to ordinary mortals. This kind of ruthlessness is more about not making decisions for others on your own initiative.
Everything in the world has its own reasons. Don't encourage others to do good without suffering others' suffering. In the past, Zhao Shu could not help but wishfully define right and wrong for others. On the one hand, he had good intentions, but on the other hand, he often ignored the facts.
Looking back, he chose a similar method to Wang Miaoshou to kill Gao Pinggong and his son. In the past, Zhao Shu would never have done it with his character. But by doing it, he broke the old habit and stubbornness.
This is the beginning of attachment, so that we can overcome the obstacles today.
As you practice diligently, you often feel a kind of pleasure that is difficult for ordinary people to understand. It is not an exciting and intense pleasure, but a sudden enlightenment and transparency.
After putting the top and bottom of the piano together, Zhao Shu asked, "Do I still need to put on the gray tire and surface paint?"
Lu Wangji shook his head slightly: "This piano has passed through your hands, and the bones, veins and veins have been transformed from the mortal world. Why use ash powder to make paint?"
After saying that, Lu Wangji took out seven silk strings, which she personally refined, carefully wound and tied them tightly, then adjusted the tightness, and then began to play with them to test the sound.
The sound of the piano is extremely clear, and those who listen to it will feel at ease and forget all their worries.
"When I hear this fairy music, my ears and eyes feel refreshed!" Zhao Shu sighed.
"It's not in tune yet, I'm making you laugh." Lu Wangji smoothed the strings and asked: "This piano is from your hand, what do you want to name it?"
Zhao Shu was not pretentious, he knocked on his knee and said: "The phoenix swims in the blue sky and sings a song in the sky. How about we call it 'Biluo Sky Song'?"
"What a name!" Jiang Ru also praised.
Lu Wangji said: "Is this name too ambitious?"
"The pattern on the body of the piano is like overlooking the mountains and rivers, which is what you can see when Feng travels over the blue sky." Zhao Shu explained: "When you see the magnificent scenery, you can feel it and sing it. It is called singing in the air, and I think it is just right. And the music played by this piano is not extraordinary. It is the hidden rhyme of the sound of nature, its ups and downs, clear and turbid, its ups and downs, its twists and turns, and its mistakes make it into a song."
Lu Wangji was silent for a moment, then looked down at Xinde Yaoqin and said, "Since it's you who gave me the name, it's certainly not wrong."
When Jiang Ru saw the two of them asking and answering, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and said with a smile: "You guys, you have to quote scriptures when choosing a name."
"It is a rare treasure, so naturally it should be commemorated." Zhao Shu said: "This instrument happened to be made by me when I entered the realm of cultivation. It is a rare opportunity."
Zhao Shu knew very well that it was almost impossible to reproduce the magic weapon made by such a chance. This was not limited by the level of the skill, but by the integration of understanding of the creation of heaven and earth, which was mysterious and indescribable.
"Oh, Fairy Lu got such a precious Yaoqin, and I still don't have anything else." Jiang Ru held her chin up, looking jealous.
Zhao Ming smiled bitterly and shook his head: "You are from Chongxuan Hall. How many magic weapons have you had at your disposal?"
"Marquis Zhenming, since my little girl is helping you take care of the flowers and garden, can you also get me a decent magical weapon?"
These days, the three of them have been together in the same place and have become familiar with each other. It seems that Jiang Ru rarely takes off her disguise and her words begin to become careless.
It was not that Zhao Shu was unaware of Jiang Ru's affection, but he had a grudge in the past and was unwilling to face it. Now his mentality has changed and he is much more calm.
"Fellow Lu Daoist uses the harp to enter Taoism. A harp needs to be practiced with for a long time. It is like a magic weapon of one's destiny. Naturally, it requires a lot of effort." Zhao Shu smiled and said: "Both you and I have a bunch of magic tools and charms in our hands. , if you are not careful and refining additional magic weapons, it will become cumbersome and cumbersome."
Jiang Ru pouted her lips, as if she was dissatisfied. Zhao Shu could only say: "Forget it, if you really want a magic weapon, then go find the treasures from heaven and earth, and I can try to refine it according to the physical properties of the spiritual material. "
Zhao Shu was not trying to please Jiang Ru, but wanted to prove his level of cultivation and skill in weapon refining.
Immortal cultivation means observing things without desire, but it does not mean abandoning the use of worldly tools. The so-called using nothingness as a use and cultivating the truth through falsehood is precisely because we can observe things without desire, so that we can gain insights into the hidden physical properties and opportunities for change of all things, and thus bring the opportunities for change into full play. Coming out and using it is the method of making a weapon and the skill of refining it.
Zhao Shu guessed that the reason why teachers Zhang Duanjing and Shi Huoguang were proficient in refining magic weapons was probably because they understood the state of mind of looking at things without desire and using them for nothing. Once they get the treasures of heaven, materials and earth, they will naturally have all kinds of wonderful ideas. Just start refining the weapon and go straight to the key points without all the complicated details.