Amidst the shock, Shi Xuan could not help but resist the warning from Taoist Yujing.
These resistances stem from the little bits and pieces of realization that I have practiced for more than 20,000 years, from the firm path, the intersection of dragon and tiger, from cutting through illusions, clarifying the mind and nature, and achieving the soul. After the forty-nine tribulations, gods and humans declined in five stages, and he attained enlightenment, the life experience of Daluo.
If you follow what Taoist Yujing said, all these past experiences will become false and meaningless. Since you have to kill your true nature to be able to follow the Tao, what's the use of being firm on the path? What's the use of knowing your mind and seeing your true nature? Controlling your true nature What's the use?!
As if seeing Shi Xuan's resistance and hesitation, Taoist Yujing turned sideways, looked at Shi Xuan, and walked towards Shi Xuan step by step:
“How can you understand your true nature without being firm on the path?”
“How can we truly kill our true nature if we don’t understand our true nature and grasp our true nature?”
"Taoist masters follow the natural way, combine Taoist cultivation with Taoist heart, and remove all kinds of acquired contamination, in order to reach the point where you can truly kill your nature, return to your innate nature, and combine the virtual with the Tao."
"In the past, regardless of the cultivation techniques or the cultivation of Taoist mind, it was all about laying the foundation for this step. It was a means, not an end."
"By clinging to the past, you have confused the difference between means and ends. You have taken means as ends and been deceived by illusion."
"Maybe you still don't understand?"
The oppression is getting bigger and bigger, and every sentence speaks directly to Shi Xuan's Taoist heart, making Shi Xuan feel like he can't breathe. Everything he said seems to be correct. Is he really obsessed with the past and confusing means and ends?
Under the questioning of this Taoist heart, Shi Xuan felt that his Taoist heart began to waver. He suddenly felt that "this is true now but yesterday was not".
Just when Shi Xuan's Taoist heart was completely shaken, some pictures suddenly flashed through his soul:
Grandma Yu, who is leaning forward and backward with a smile, free and easy;
The enlightened mountain man who is free and unrestrained, kind and humorous, as unruly as the wind;
Ziyun Daojun, a swaggering, humorous and childlike person;
The solemn, easy-going, and approachable former and future Buddha of the Precious Light;
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I know these half-step golden immortals who have witnessed the practice of heretics and clearly understood that the nature is self-empty. None of them seem to kill the nature. Only when they use the self-emptiness of the nature, their breath is ethereal. Just like the great road.
On the contrary, Demon Lord Kong Fang, who was judged by the Enlightenment Mountain Man to have taken the wrong path, even though he did not use his true nature to be empty, he was still cold and cold as if he were plundering the road!
With these half-step golden immortals and jade in front of him, Shi Xuan's wavering Taoist heart began to stabilize. As his thoughts turned, things in the past that seemed ordinary but actually had profound meaning emerged one by one.
On the Tianji Peak of the Penglai Sect, Master Mo Yuan said some words when explaining to himself the foundation of Taoism:
"Among these many worlds, there are those who kill their fathers, mothers, brothers, brothers, wives, and children, kill all the people, achieve the path of killing, and finally create a world through creation. There are also people who give up the opportunity to become enlightened for the sake of their wives and children, and after reincarnation, But they made rapid progress and achieved enlightenment in a short period of time. Can you say which of them is higher and which is lower?"
"In the end, the ultimate goal of cultivating one's mind is to be able to change one's nature at will to correspond to different things, just like the Tao."
These two sentences are known to most monks in all worlds, but now that I think about them, they really mean a lot.
Then, Shi Xuan thought of what Granny Yu once said to him: "When you have no way forward in the future, think more about the foundation of your practice."
I have cultivated myself to this level step by step. What did I rely on? It is great perseverance, great wisdom, great determination, a firm path, a clear mind and true nature, and a stick to my true nature.
How can we completely deny the past, deny all our understanding of spiritual practice and the Tao, and give up on our own nature just because of what Taoist Yujing said?!
As his thoughts turned around, Shi Xuan's Taoist mind gradually stabilized.
Taoist Yujing walked closer and closer, his voice was not loud and his tone was calm, but he felt more and more intense:
“If you don’t kill your true nature, how can your true nature become empty?”
"If you don't get rid of all nature, how can you achieve the path of non-nature?"
"If you don't completely give up your own existence, how can you combine the virtual with the Tao?"
"The reason why the insights from past practice are false is to set off the truth of today."
"Do you understand, or don't you understand?"
Standing in front of Shi Xuan, Taoist Yujing had no expression on his face and stood with his hands behind his back. He was slender and not tall, but he only had the intention of filling the universe.
The light and peaceful question made Shi Xuan couldn't help but recall everything Taoist Yujing had said before. It was so right and so persevering that it was the basis of Taoist practice.
"My understanding of spiritual practice and the Tao is consistent with the foundation of Taoist practice, but it is completely different from that of Yujing Taoist."
"The Great Dao not only has no nature, but also contains all natures!"
"But he is Taoist Yujing. He is a senior sage who has cultivated step by step and successfully overcome the three difficulties of cultivation. He is a real big man who has truly taken that step and is in harmony with the Tao. He is the master of creation who can evolve the three thousand avenues by himself.
, and everything he said seems to be true, without any falsehood. In terms of his realm and his understanding of the great road, it is much higher than mine."
"How can my understanding of spiritual practice be as good as his?"
"It seems self-evident who is right and who is wrong?"
Although Shi Xuan was very confident in his own cultivation experience, he was facing Taoist Yujing, who could be called the most stunning figure since the beginning of the universe, and was praised by countless monks as a true cultivator.
He is the authority, he is the avenue!
Comparing the two, Shi Xuan's Taoist heart was shaken again. Taoist Yujing had practiced step by step to another realm of creation. How could his understanding of cultivation be comparable to his own?
People, Ziyun Daojun and others can compare.
Could it be that I really can’t let go of all my past experiences, including my spiritual practice and understanding, and have developed an obsession?!
He questioned himself, and in comparison, Shi Xuan was sometimes shaken, sometimes firm, sometimes he felt that all his experiences were real and not false, sometimes he thought that what Taoist Yujing said was true, and that he had his own success ahead of him.
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During this period of vacillation, Shi Xuan became more and more inclined to his own understandings about spiritual practice. This was because he had gained it steadily step by step. It was extremely solid, real, and was the foundation for his progress.
Compared with it, even if the other party is the Lord of Creation, it seems a bit ridiculous and false!
"My nature is the 'nameless beginning of all things', to return to nothingness, to return to the beginning. To accommodate all true spirits, include all natures, and to treat teachers, disciples, friends, etc. as the core. It is tolerant of the great road I have realized.
How similar are all the natures?! Why should I give up these realizations and follow the path of killing the nature as taught by Taoist Yujing?"
With this tendency, Shi Xuan once again thought of Granny Yu's words:
"The three difficulties of practicing. Golden elixir, Yuanshen, and Hedao are all rooted in one's own nature and path, and each has its own fate. Therefore, no matter which method or elders, they will only briefly talk about it.
Focusing on the details after taking the first step, rather than how to take the first step, is afraid that the disciples will have intellectual obstacles and regard others as themselves. If you want to succeed in that way, it will be extremely difficult."
"Can't you regard others as your own?" Shi Xuan was suddenly startled and saw the key point.
At this time, Taoist Yujing asked again:
"You still don't understand what the great road is?"
Shi Xuan suddenly said: "Understood."
Taoist Yujing didn't speak, just looked at Shi Xuan.
Shi Xuan smiled freely: "Senior, yours is the great road. Junior, mine is also the great road."
Taoist Yujing's path is his own road to heaven, pointing directly to eternity, but for Shi Xuan himself, it is a wrong road and a dead end.
Your way is not my way!
As Shi Xuan answered, the "Taoist Yujing" in front of him gradually dissipated and disappeared into the void.
Shi Xuan already understood what was going on.
This is "the envy of heaven and the envy of all the 'out there's"!
No wonder Grandma Yu wants to remind herself not to let her true nature be deceived by heretical practices.
It turns out that the "Dharma" of the heretical practice is the various enlightenment insights engraved in the void universe. They are the enlightenment insights left by the great people who successfully took this step in the past and became one with the truth.
When a Half-Step Golden Immortal approaches Hedao, the void universe will turn these realizations into itself and come to perform the Dharma. The first Half-Step Golden Immortal approaching Hedao will encounter an outsider who performs the Dharma.
It should be the paradoxical truth of the void universe transforming on its own.
For the great figures themselves, every kind of enlightenment is the true truth and the path to enlightenment is smooth, but for other monks, it is a crooked road and a dead end.
Once you are confused by these enlightenment insights, the fate of Demon King Kong Fang is the same. There are even some half-step golden immortals in the realm of heretics who are confused by the enlightenment insights without knowing it. After all, Taoist Yujing has such extreme enlightenment insights.
It's rare to see him, and it's also rare to see Demon Lord Kong Fang behave like this clearly.
The so-called heretics, except me, are all heretics!
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Looking at the dark void that became calm around him, Shi Xuan smiled slightly and recalled what "Taoist Yu Jing" just said one by one, discarding the false and retaining the true.
Since it is his enlightenment and enlightenment, it must contain the secret of harmony.
Shi Xuan combined his own experience with the experience of witnessing the failure of three half-step golden immortals to join the Way, and the experience of a future Buddha who attained enlightenment as the Tathagata, and gradually understood how to achieve the emptiness of one's true nature and how to take the step of joining the Way.
"Since your true nature is empty, you should still kill your true nature. However, this 'killing' is not the 'killing' of Taoist Yujing. It is more extreme than the thought of retreating and the true nature manifesting itself. Let your true nature be in a state of emptiness, and let your true nature disappear.
The Dao Fruit Qingyun has a subtle connection with the Dao."
The state of emptiness is both mysterious and mysterious. It seems to be placed in the void, and it seems to be converging consciousness in the deepest part of the Taoist heart. It is both, and it is a kind of understanding that Shi Xuan gained after seeing through the heretic performance.
"And taking one step to join the Tao is what Taoist Yujing said: kill yourself and your self-existence. But if you lose yourself and your self-existence, isn't it like committing suicide and falling completely? What can you do to join the Tao? With Kong Fang
What’s the difference between the Demon Lord and the Great Dao?”
"No wonder only the Tathagata of Baoguang who has completely let go can successfully merge with the Tao. His nature is just like nothingness, and still retains some traces of existence. The Enlightenment Mountain Man who cannot achieve complete emptiness, Taoist Master Ziyun, fell into the step of joining the Tao.
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"But if you completely let go and kill yourself, even if you don't have yourself anymore, where can you find that glimmer of hope?"
Shi Xuan roughly understood the step of joining the Tao, but he increasingly felt that it was extremely difficult and dangerous. He had to completely give up his own existence and completely merge into nothingness. This was really no different from committing suicide.
After all the emotions in his heart calmed down, Shi Xuan began to try to emptiness his nature.
His nature turned into nothingness, into an uninitiated state, accommodating all thoughts, and Shi Xuan gradually fell into darkness.
The consciousness of nature spreads inwards and outwards, internally returning to the depths of the heart of Tao, and externally integrating into the surrounding Yin and Yang Dao.
If you are not careful with such a move, your nature will be damaged and your soul will be backlashed.
When Shi Xuan's true nature consciousness carefully integrated into the Yin-Yang Avenue, he suddenly had a wonderful feeling. He was outside the body and looking at the Yuanshen inside the body at the same time.
After making contact, the "Qing Yu Yu Da Yin and Yang Qingyun" in the Yuan Shen suddenly came to life, and there was no sense of shortcomings anymore. It seemed that the incarnation of the Yin and Yang Dao had arrived.
But just when Shi Xuan realized the mysteries of "nature is self-empty", something changed in the Yin-Yang Dao.
The consciousness of Shi Xuan's nature, which has been integrated into the Yin-Yang Avenue, senses another nature that has long been integrated into the Yin-Yang Avenue. It is pure and comfortable, peaceful and peaceful, colorful in color, and as clear as glass.
Such a nature is incompatible with the Yin-Yang Dao, and is being greatly repelled, even causing slight fluctuations, which makes the natural consciousness that cannot sense each other come into contact, allowing Shi Xuan to directly sense him!
"Tao Ancestor of Annihilation?!" Shi Xuan recognized his identity with some shock. He had actually reached this step long ago!
When Shi Xuan sensed him, he naturally sensed Shi Xuan too!
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