Chapter Seventeen Refining Qi and Cultivating Thought
Lu Changsheng's father was a strange man, and his situation was very different from that of Lu Changsheng. All the villagers in Wugu Village respected him because his profession was a burial master.
There are many common names for funeral masters. Because Wugu Village is a Miao village, it is also called Mo Gong. The traditional title for funeral masters among the Han people is Mr. Feng Shui.
There were many books hidden in his father's cabinet. Each one was dated. Most of them were about burial techniques and Feng Shui, but one of them was the most peculiar. When Lu Changsheng got this book, he treated it completely as a book.
Let’s take a look at Liaozhai.
However, this book describes things in much more detail than Liaozhai, such as how ghosts and gods come, what happens to people after death, and even introductions to various ghosts, etc.
This is also the reason why Lu Changsheng likes this book, but he only read half of it and stopped reading it. The reason was not because of his limited cultural level, but because his father did not let him read it.
After peeking at this book, Lu Changsheng was hung up and beaten.
He remembered that after being beaten, his father sternly warned the two brothers that no one was allowed to peek at any books in his cabinet. If there was a next time, it would not be as simple as being beaten.
Although the timid Lu Changsheng was curious, he was more afraid of being whipped by a bullwhip, so he didn't dare to peek in to read it. However, he remembered some of the contents recorded in the book until now.
Now feeling the crisis, Lu Changsheng desperately wanted to get this book, even if it meant going against his father.
About a few days later, Lu Dahai came back. What made Lu Changsheng speechless was that Lu Dahai came back carrying a whole box with a Chinese brand lock on it.
"Why did you carry it all over?" Lu Changsheng looked strange.
"I'm illiterate, so I didn't say hello to dad when I got home. I stole the box from his room while he was out. By then, dad would have thought that there was a thief in the house, and he wouldn't have to be beaten when he went back." Lu Dahai said honestly and kindly,
"Whatever book you want to read, you can read it with confidence."
Lu Changsheng looked at his eldest brother, who said he was stupid?
So, the two brothers found a hammer and pried open the lock. When they saw the books inside, Lu Changsheng's eyes almost lit up. He didn't know how precious these books were before, but now he found that many of them were on the Internet.
The oldest of them may date back to the Ming Dynasty.
You must know that it is not easy to preserve these books until now. Not to mention the war years, but also the period when the Four Old Ages were destroyed, many ancient books were burned. Except for a few of them that were too old and were damaged by time, most of them were damaged by time.
Most are well preserved.
Lu Changsheng couldn't wait to open "Yin Yang Ghost Record" and looked at it. It happened to be the one he had read before. While he was happy in his heart, he did not forget that this was at school, which happened to be Saturday, so Lu Changsheng made up a lie, saying that school
It was too noisy, so he asked his eldest brother to take him to the small rental house they rented before.
So, the two of them left the school carrying the books. When they arrived at the rental house, Lu Changsheng cleared out the books and arranged them one by one. The book that interested him the most was "Yin Yang Ghost Chronicles".
Lying on the bed, Lu Changsheng read attentively. Now he is different from when he was a child. He has experienced more things, and his thinking will broaden a lot. Especially the effect of the ghost coming out of his shell has enhanced his memory and made him a lot more capable.
, so almost all the content inside can be understood at a glance.
His browsing speed was also amazing. In about half an hour, he could read an ancient classical Chinese book with about 60,000 words, word for word, but when it came to introducing ghosts and immortals at the end, there were only a few strokes.
It made him feel very unhappy.
Because he did not find a specific method of cultivation, it just said that ghosts and immortals can freely walk in the human world, and can use the essence of the sun and the moon to achieve the magical power of creation.
However, there was no explanation at all about how to create creation and what kind of magical powers it had. At this point, everything was considered over, which made Lu Changsheng very disappointed.
Putting down the book, Lu Changsheng was very unhappy. He accidentally glanced at other books. He thought in his heart that he only selectively saw the book "Yin Yang Ghost Record" and didn't have time to pick it. Maybe there were unexpected things in other books.
Maybe there will be a surprise.
So he started to read, and an ancient book called "Burial Technique" fell into his eyes. His father was a burial master, and he was always talking about it. If something strange happened in the village, the villagers would know it.
He went to find his father, so when he was a child, Lu Changsheng thought that his father had great powers.
But just because his father has great supernatural powers, he is often looked down upon by the villagers. Therefore, Lu Changsheng has some hatred for this father in his heart. If it were not for the kindness of raising him, and the eldest brother is so good to him, I am afraid that Lu Changsheng will come out.
Afterwards, I never wanted to go back to that village for the rest of my life.
With his father's ability, it was easy to silence the villagers, and he was already in this business. If he said that Lu Changsheng was not a disaster star, then he was not, but his father had always been
He remained silent and never explained to the ignorant villagers, even if he told a lie, he was unwilling to do so.
Even when he was bullied and his eldest brother stood up for him, his father would beat the two brothers first without asking the reason.
Moreover, it had been so long since he had a car accident that his father had never come to see him, which made Lu Changsheng feel that he was too heartless...
So holding these books, Lu Changsheng felt a refreshing feeling of revenge in his heart. Didn't you let me read them? Then I had to read them, and I had to read them all.
Lu Changsheng was very proud at first, but the more he read, the more frightened he became, because the things recorded in the book "Burial Technique" were so horrifying that even Lu Changsheng was dumbfounded after reading some of them.
Burial skills not only include the selection of acupoints for burial, but also include the practice of salvation. A skilled burial master can communicate with the ghosts and gods and send those who died abnormally to the gate of hell, so this is an industry that deals with ghosts and gods.
This line of work seems simple, but it is very difficult to implement. If it is a person who died normally, it will be very simple to come up with a set of procedures, but if it is a person who died abnormally, it will be difficult. It can even be said that
Danger.
Lu Changsheng was stunned when he saw the end, because the last sentence of the burial technique actually read, "As a burial master, you will fight against the world; if you are not rich in life, you will not surpass life in death."
The general meaning is that everything a funeral director does in the human world is karma, and this karma is called sin in Buddhism, and it is called going against nature in Taoism. Therefore, he cannot be rich while alive, and he cannot be rich after death.
Transcendence.
If he hadn't had the experience of the ghost emerging from its shell, Lu Changsheng would have thought this was nonsense, but after experiencing this, he understood that what was written in it might be true.
However, he didn't pay attention to it. Instead, he picked up other books. The more he read, the more frightened he became. The things recorded in them were even more terrifying than those recorded in the book "Burial Technique". He finally found the secret of the ghosts and immortals.
The method of cultivation.
This book has no date, no signature, and does not even have a title, but it contains information on how to practice Taoism to become an immortal.
The first method is to guide and convince the body by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to regulate the body. This book divides the human body into a small universe, and heaven and earth is a large universe. The small universe of human beings communicates with the large universe of heaven and earth, and absorbs the essence of heaven and earth.
With the power of cultivation, you can become an immortal and immortal. To put it simply, it is refining Qi.
The most interesting thing about this book is that it completely subverts the traditional understanding of gods. The world thinks that gods need to be worshiped, but this book explains the opposite concept. Gods do not need to be worshiped, and gods are just ginseng.
Understand the creation of the universe and reach the ultimate form.
Before reading this book, Lu Changsheng had always believed that gods were above human beings and were innate. However, looking at history, it seems that each of the gods in Chinese Taoism has developed through cultivation or worldly hardships.
Man becomes god.
Therefore, this book indirectly made his mind jump to a new level, giving him a feeling of enlightenment, as if some kind of burden that was weighing on him was suddenly lifted.
"Everyone in the world has an ordinary heart. On the one hand, they hide ghosts and on the other hand, they serve gods!" After reading this, Lu Changsheng felt a little enlightened.
People continue to do ghostly things that go against their souls, but they desperately hope to be saved, so they hide ghosts while offering sacrifices to gods, hoping for peace of mind. How can such a person become a god?
Therefore, the cultivation of this first method must be both physical and mental. First, the mind must transcend the level of mortals in order to communicate with the universe of heaven and earth. Finally, it must guide and convince the Qi and cultivate the body to achieve the immortality of gods. If the mind has not reached the
At a certain level, just thinking about using guidance and persuasion to cultivate and become an immortal, in the end, what you get is just a false journey to immortality.
From ancient times to the present, there are too many people who want to become immortals through cultivation, but only a few have succeeded. Why saints can be called saints is because their hearts have already transcended the common world and have reached the point where they do not respect gods and do not hide.
In the realm of ghosts, even gods would not dare to offend them when they see them, but instead treat them with friendship and courtesy.
Guiding and convincing qi is related to qi in actual operation, so people who practice using the first method are called qi practitioners. From ancient times to modern times, there have been many famous qi practitioners, and they are also easier to practice.
Method.
But the second type is completely different, called Cunsi. This is a method of cultivating the soul, which is also called meditation. It calls the soul back into the body to fuse it, so as to achieve the point where the mind has no distracting thoughts.
Cunsi is a cultivation method and a starting point. Emerging from the shell is the first realm, followed by nine smaller realms such as ghost soul, soul wandering, shaping, transformation, driving, yang soul, possession, and reconstruction.
But what disappointed him was that this book did not mention the realm of ghosts and immortals. It only said that after the ghost reaches the realm of re-creation, ghosts and immortals can naturally become ghosts and immortals...
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