Chapter two hundred and fortieth chapter gas inscription
"To move qi, if it is deep, it will be stored, if it is stored, it will be extended, and if it is extended, it will go down." This is definitely a Taoist breathing exercise.
Qigong Qigong has a history of more than 5,000 years in China. The ancients first used dance to relieve and vent physical and psychological diseases.
Since the age of human ignorance, in the primitive society where humans drank hair and blood, in order to survive and reproduce, humans have had to fight against the harsh natural environment and ferocious birds and beasts. When they contracted diseases, they could only sit back and wait for death. However, in
Sit back and wait for fate, and a very quiet and vivid pattern will surely emerge.
We know that the contrast between the amount of information in primitive human society and the information explosion in today's society is self-evident. It is precisely because primitive humans have very little information in their brains that it is easy to enter the high state of Qigong where there is no thought.
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Therefore, you can quickly and involuntarily gain a sense of Qi. This situation can also explain why in the current Qigong craze, people with low educational levels or illiterate people and children can quickly develop a sense of Qi. This is mainly because
Their minds are simpler and do not have overly complicated thoughts, so it is naturally easier for them to embrace Yuan Shouyi and cultivate the sense of breathing.
This breathing session introduces how to circulate Qi.
Han Kongque slowly explored, and as more inscriptions were translated, he learned more. The first few inscriptions were obviously the general outline of Tuna: "To move Qi, if it is deep, it will be stored, if it is stored, it will be extended, and if it is extended, it will go down.
When it is down, it is fixed, when it is fixed, it is solid, when it is solid, it is sprouting, when it is sprouting, it is growing, when it is growing, it is retreating, and when it is retreating, it is heaven. The heaven is above; the earth is below. If it goes along, it will live; if it goes against it, it will die."
Very regular text, even if there are no punctuation marks, Korean Peacock can easily translate it.
But after these words were translated, Han Kongque was confused. How come he seemed to have seen this breathing technique somewhere?
Soon, Han Kongque knew why he felt that this area of practice was familiar to him, because it was indeed famous.
Because this is the earliest recorded Qigong record discovered in China, and because Han Kongque inspired the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag and gained supernatural powers, he always wanted to find a practice method.
The qi-moving inscription is the general outline of such a technique, but the number of words in the qi-moving inscription is too few, so it is of no use to him.
However, this is the earliest existing qigong theory cultural relic in my country. It is still deeply imprinted in Han Kongque's mind. This qi-moving inscription is believed to be a work of the late Warring States Period.
This is similar to the age of the jade stele here inferred by Han Kongque. During the excavation of Mawangdui in Changsha in 1975, a piece of sapphire was discovered as an important funerary object in the tomb of a vassal king 2,500 years ago.
This piece of sapphire is the head of a staff. The performance of the sapphire is not very good. It has gray and black halo spots. It is a twelve-sided prism. It is 5.2 cm high and 3.4 cm wide. It is hollow but does not penetrate the top. It is used to put on the staff. The top
It is a circular plane, with a hole in the lower part of one side communicating with the inner belly, and the edges are polished.
On each of the twelve sides, there are three Chinese characters carved in inscriptions from top to bottom, with heavy Chinese symbols, a total of forty-five characters, describing the essentials of "moving qi". It is the earliest record of qigong found in our country, and also the earliest record of qigong in ancient China.
The earlier documentation of medical theory is now in the collection of Tianjin History Museum.
The original text of the "Xingqi Inscription" discovered in Mawangdui has a total of 45 characters. Since the instrument is in seal script and has been mottled and peeled off for a long time, there are multiple versions of the "Xingqi Inscription", some of which are slightly different.
The full text is: "When moving Qi, if it is deep, it will be stored. If it is stored, it will be extended. When it is extended, it will go down. When it goes down, it will be stable. When it is stable, it will sprout. When it sprouts, it will grow. When it grows, it will retreat. When it retreats, it will be heaven. The sky is above; the earth is above.
A few pounds are placed below. If you go with it, you will live; if you go against it, you will die."
If these words are translated into modern meaning, it would be: "This is a round of deep breathing. Inhale deeply to make it stretch downward, and when it stretches downward, it becomes steady and solid; then exhale, like the sprout of grass and trees.
, grows upwards, and reverses the path when going deeper, retreating to the top. In this way, the heavenly mechanism will move upward, and the earthly mechanism will move downward. If you follow this path, you will live, if you go against it, you will die."
The full text describes the entire process of internal qi movement when practicing qigong, and the system is quite complete.
This inscription mainly explains the practice of Xiao Zhou Tian Gong and the precautions when performing it.
It turns out that the inscription on the movement of qi is the earliest extant cultural relic related to qigong. The jade article has no name. People in the contemporary qigong circle call it the "jade inscription on the movement of qi", also known as the jade inscription and the inscription on the movement of qi.
However, the Tianjin Museum disagreed with this name because it was not a jade worn around the waist, but a decoration on the head of the cane, so they named it "Jade Staff Decoration with Xingqi Inscription."
Of course Han Kongque knew about such a famous thing, but he just didn't expect that such a big discovery could be made in such a remote mountain village.
Compared with these jade tablets and those big golden copper jars, they are really scummy things.
Liu Xu smiled when she saw Han Peacock, who was so excited that he couldn't help himself and was trembling all over.
This was the first time she had seen Han Peacock behave like this. It turned out that Han Peacock didn't seem to care much about anything, as if he had seen through everything. But this time, these inscriptions and seal characters made him so rude. No need for Han Peacock.
He said that Liuxu also knew that they had discovered something extraordinary this time.
Seeing villagers carrying jade monuments in the distance, Liuxu pulled Han Peacock to calm down: "What on earth are these? How could they make you so excited?"
"Qigong, Taoist qigong inherited from the Warring States Period 2,400 years ago." Han Kongque said in a low voice.
"Taoist Qigong? Is this thing very useful to you?" Liu Xu asked.
When Han Kongque saw the villagers put down the jade tablets and left, he said: "Of course it's very useful. You don't think qigong is a lie, do you?"
"Isn't it?" Liu Xu looked at Han Peacock and said.
"Of course not." Han Peacock replied firmly.
"No? Have you practiced? Otherwise, how would you know it wasn't?" Liu Xu asked.
Han Kongque looked embarrassed: "It turns out that I have practiced it, but those qigong circulated on the Internet are not very reliable, so I have not practiced it, but this one is different now. This was passed down from thousands of years ago. According to this practice
You can’t go wrong with qigong.”
Liuxu was speechless. But Han Kongque continued: "If you find it annoying, go and play with He Xiangshan and the others for a while. I will study these jade tablets carefully. If I am successful in my practice, I will teach you."
Liuxu said helplessly: "I don't know where you got such confidence. Well, you can study hard here!"
After watching the catkins go away, Han Peacock calmed down and studied these jade tablets.
Since these jade tablets are neatly laid out on the bottom or edge of the pool, as long as one piece is removed, the others can be easily removed.
Soon, while Han Kongque was studying the Tuna stele, many other jade steles had been delivered.
Han Kongque looked at them one by one, and he easily discovered that there are six Taoist exercises including listening to the breath, keeping quiet, taking food, and fasting. If you add breathing and breathing in the room, there are already six.
Of course, such exercises must be in complete sets, but they can also be practiced individually. When all seventeen jade tablets were placed in front of Han Kongque, Han Kongque already knew that this must be an early Qigong practice method.
The content of the practice mainly includes fasting, sitting and forgetting, preceptorship, guidance, breathing, listening to breathing, breathing, keeping quiet, contemplating, keeping one, fasting, taking food, living in the room, walking Qi, fetal breathing,
There are seventeen steps including outer elixir, inner elixir and so on.
Xinzhai is the beginning of practice. On this jade tablet, there is the general outline of this practice. Otherwise, Han Kongque would not know how to arrange these seventeen jade tablets.
From the arrangement of this Taoist Qigong, we can also see that before breathing, there are four steps of practice: Xinzhai, Zuowang, Yuandu, and Guidance. Therefore, practicing Qigong is not that simple.
Many people often don't know this. Qigong, which is widely spread nowadays, often starts with breathing and breathing, which obviously increases the difficulty of successful practice.
Although the main content of breathing is breathing, which is also the key to Qigong. The main method is abdominal breathing, but not many people can persist in it. If you practice it consistently, it will not be difficult to reach the highest state of unity between nature and man.
Therefore, this step may seem simple, but in fact it is a very advanced level. If you don’t have a good foundation, it will be very difficult to achieve this step.
If you practice from the beginning of mental fasting to exhalation step by step, and if you continue to practice in this way, you may be able to finally cultivate the inner elixir.
Of course, if Han Kongque did not have the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag in his hand, then he would not believe that this qigong could really cultivate inner qi. However, the more mysterious Xuanyuan Water Control Flag has come out, and another Qigong appears.
There is no big psychological barrier to the law.
Seeing that the surroundings were clean, Han Kongque hid in an unoccupied room, intending to test whether this technique was useful. After all, he had been looking forward to obtaining such a technique for many years, and now that he got it unexpectedly, he was already surprised
A little impatient.
Han Kongque studied the first jade tablet carefully, and after reading it twice, he wrote down the words on the jade tablet.
This jade tablet has the largest number of words, except for a general outline, which is the practice method of Xin Zhai.
Xin Zhai, "Zhai" means pure heart, Xin Zhai refers to the inner purity and tranquility. The term Xin Zhai first came from "Zhuangzi. Human World": "Only the Tao gathers emptiness, and emptiness means the heart is fast."
It means: the great road is extremely empty and quiet, so the human heart should be pure and tranquil in order to be in harmony with the great road. Therefore, the real fasting method taught by Chinese Taoists does not mean fasting by eating vegetarian food on the outside, but refers to the inner purity of the heart. This is also the cultivation of Chinese Taoism
The place of supreme meaning.
It can also be seen from here that this technique should have been produced after Zhuangzi, that is, at the end of the Warring States Period, which is consistent with the time of the part of the Xingqi Ming discovered in Mawangdui.
Xinzhai is the introduction, and it is actually about cultivating the soul. Of course, in modern terms, it is about cultivating spiritual power.
Mental fasting is visualization. Of course, you are right to call it meditation.
Visualization is to imagine something in your mind, anything will do.
If we talk about something simple, it's like mental arithmetic. The simplest one is of course one plus one equals two. If you practice with mind, you have to imagine an arithmetic formula in your mind, that is, one plus one equals two.
Go step by step in this way until it becomes extremely complicated. In this calculation process, how each step is calculated can be seen in your mind before it is considered successful.
It's like you listed the calculation formulas in a notebook and it's clear at a glance. If you can clearly see the entire calculation process in your brain as if it were written in a notebook, you have achieved the highest level of mental arithmetic.
In this way, it is equivalent to imagining the calculation process that was originally done on the notebook by hand in the brain. If you can clearly show the entire calculation process and steps in the brain, then the first step of visualization can be regarded as
Small success.
This kind of cultivation method is very simple, the great way is simple, the great way is emptiness and tranquility, but it is not easy for ordinary people to do it, so in order to keep their brains pure and quiet, and in harmony with the great way, they naturally have to find some way.
The simplest way is to let your brain do one thing seriously. As long as you are serious, other things will naturally disappear from your mind. If you practice slowly in this way, you will eventually be able to practice to the point of emptiness and tranquility.
The extent of the avenue.
This kind of concept is very easy for Han Kongque. After all, when he first received Xuanyuan's water-controlling flag, he kept asking for water in his heart.
At that time, he and Zhou Meiren were trapped under construction debris for thirteen days. During these thirteen days, they not only had to face the fear of darkness and the torture of hunger, but the biggest torture was thirst.
Thirteen days without drinking water. They will definitely become a human being. Fortunately, it rained at that time. They relied on the rain to support them for a long time. In the end, they really couldn't hold on anymore. Han Peacock had only one thought in his unconscious mind.
, that means water.
As a result, his obsession triggered the Xuanyuan water control flag hanging around Meiren Zhou's neck. This is actually the power of visualization, or the power of the soul.
Now after ten years, Han Peacock's power has become much stronger, so it is very easy to do some preliminary visualization.
Mental arithmetic is simple, and he can easily complete still life visualization. After all, with such a powerful brain, simulating a static picture in the brain is just a matter of memorizing the complete details of the next picture.
After being able to visualize still life, he began to visualize scenery, from scenery to animals. This was the biggest difficulty.
This is like computer drawing. The initial mental arithmetic is just some lines. Later, the scenery is already a frame, and when it becomes the scenery, you can naturally draw a picture.
If you visualize the scene as an animal again, and it is a moving animal, it is already considered a 3G animation.
Han Peacock slowly entered a state of forgetfulness. At this time, his mind slowly sketched a picture of a tiger descending the mountain. Although the tiger did not move, it was just a picture, but the momentum of anger rushing over the mountains and rivers,
But let the tiger show off vividly.
When a tiger descends from the mountain, what it wants is the aura of swallowing up mountains and rivers, what it wants is that unparalleled natural domineering power.
If someone comes into the room at this time, they will find that Han Peacock's whole body seems to have turned into a tiger descending from the mountain, about to choose people to devour. This momentum is extremely frightening.
This is having a tiger at heart.
When Han Kongque woke up from his trance, the lights in the room were already on, and the sky outside was pitch black. What had he done just now?
Han Kongque immediately thought of the tiger in his heart, and then his whole temperament changed significantly.
There is a tiger in his heart, and his body shape also changes with his heart, making his aura become as domineering as a tiger.
"What a good thing!" He was still a little uneasy at first, but now, Han Kongque was able to confirm that he really got the treasure this time. Even if he couldn't get the jade tablets, he just got the inheritance on them, which was enough to make him sleep.
To wake up laughing.
Han Kongque stood up slowly and moved his hands and feet. He had been doing it cross-legged for an entire afternoon, but his hands and feet were not numb at all. Before this, he had never dared to imagine.
It turned out that he had also meditated cross-legged, but even with Han Kongque's physical fitness, he could not persist for long, because if he meditated cross-legged for only a short time, his legs would become numb due to the blockage of qi and blood, and then he would suffer from backache.
Back pain.
But today, he had been sitting for seven or eight hours, and he didn't feel the slightest bit strange in his body.
"This Heart Fasting Method is really a treasure." Han Peacock secretly rejoiced.
It must have been when he visualized the tiger that his own Qi and blood flowed. Only in this way could his body not feel sore and numb.
With a tiger in his heart, even if his body does not move, as long as the tiger in his heart moves, his body will be able to move along with the tiger in his heart, so his body's energy and blood will be driven. This is cultivation.
When Han Kongque came to his senses completely and no longer thought about cultivation, Han Kongque discovered that there was a note on a desk in the room.
"You are really capable. You just did this for an afternoon without saying anything. Is it really true that you have entered samadhi? Okay, I believe you. Remember to teach me Qigong when you wake up. There is food on the table. When it is cold,
Heat it up yourself, there is a gas stove and catkins in the side room next to it."
Han Kongque felt a warmth rising in his heart. He was not hungry yet, so he might as well go find Liuxu to talk about life and ideals.
However, the smug smile on Han Peacock's face soon disappeared. He saw on the back of the note, there was a string of small words: "He Xiangshan and I went to bed first. I really don't know when you will wake up. Wake up."
Send me a text message and remember to eat."
Han Kongque was speechless. This must have been Liu Xu's worry, so she added a message at the end of the note when she came to see him again.
"Oops! I missed the opportunity to talk to the beauty!" Han Peacock lamented and ate the food on the table.
When he was full of wine and food, he even thought about being warm and lustful, but there was no chance at this time. Since he was in good spirits, let's study hard again!
Without any distracting thoughts, Han Kongque walked out of the house again, came to those jade tablets, and memorized the words on those jade tablets, word by word, into the depths of his brain.
Han Peacock believes that only what is recorded in his mind truly belongs to him. Otherwise, Han Peacock will never be able to sleep tonight.
No longer worried, Han Kongque sat down cross-legged again, intending to visualize the tiger in his heart, but just when he sat down and wanted to visualize it, something suddenly moved in his heart.
Can he visualize the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag at this time? What will happen if he visualizes the Xuanyuan Water Control Flag? (To be continued...)