Chapter 112: Eyes, Ears, Nose, Tongue, Body and Mind
As for the last four aggregates, "feeling, thinking, volition, and consciousness" is more advanced. It is said that those who master the last four aggregates will have the ability to communicate with all things, visualize all things, understand all things, and even control all things. We truly forget both things and ourselves, and we blend them. We don’t know what is me and what is things!
Only those who have been able to understand that the five aggregates are empty from thousands of years ago can achieve the right result after experiencing countless trials and hardships.
There are very few such people, very few.
The next morning, the old blind man and Chen took a shower and changed their clothes, burned incense and cleaned their hands, dressed in a long robe, and sat upright in front of the hall. Chen Luo dressed up tightly, cleaned up neatly, and stood in front of the hall with his head down.
"Xiao Luo, the road to cultivation is up to the Taoist priest. In order to speed up the progress, starting today, grandpas will start a new round of secret training for you. Are you ready?" said the blind grandpa.
"It's ready!" Chen Luo said with anticipation and firmness.
"Starting today, grandpas will take you to strengthen the practice of the five aggregates. These five aggregates actually represent a kind of physical consciousness ability. After practicing the five aggregates method, people will react quickly, have sharp five senses, be clear-headed, and have stronger learning ability."
"Although you have a certain foundation for five aggregates before, you are just an entry-level master. Only when you have mastered the method of the five aggregates and achieved all five aggregates, will grandpas be assured that you will go out and explore in the future."
"Grandpa, I understand that I must practice hard and strive to master it as soon as possible."
"Don't be too anxious. The method of the five aggregates focuses on tempering. The so-called form, feeling, thinking, behavior and consciousness each represents a different experience. You need to understand and temper it with your heart to lay a solid foundation."
"Among these five aggregates, the form aggregate represents matter, so the practice is the slowest, but the form aggregate is the basis of the subsequent four aggregates. Let's start with the form aggregate today."
"The so-called form aggregate is not what we call the best color, but the form aggregate is divided into five roots and five realms. The five roots are eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body; the five realms are color, sound, fragrance, taste, and touch. They all talk about the feeling of the five senses of your body, and it is a kind of perception ability to cultivate your."
The blind grandfather said, taking out a yellowed old book and said, "This is an annotation of the Heart Sutra of Prajna that I have collected for many years. Take it back and memorize it carefully, and then try to understand the meaning of the elements in the form aggregate by yourself. If you don't know, come and ask me again!"
"Okay, grandpa!" Chen Luo took the scriptures happily, held them back to his room and began to study them.
"When Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva practiced the deep Prajna Paramita, he saw that the five aggregates were empty and that he could overcome all sufferings. Sariya, the form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form, color is emptiness, emptiness is form, feeling, thinking, action and consciousness are also like this. Sariya, the empty appearance of all dharmas, neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor purified, neither increasing nor decreasing, so there is no color in the air..."
Chen Luo is not unfamiliar with memorizing. In the past, Chen Luo could recite the articles that the blind grandfather said in full by listening to them twice. Therefore, although it is obscure for annotations of scriptures that are more than a long time ago, it is completely unfair to Chen Luo.
The difficulty is to understand, not memorize, and reading the scriptures is even more so. Most people cannot understand the profound and obscure scriptures and meanings after reading them, let alone have some insights. This requires repeated recitation over time, thousands or even millions of times, until one day, suddenly enlightenment is revealed and enlightenment is achieved.
Why do the monks in the temple have a profound cultivation level? Because they devote their entire lives to recite scriptures, this is an advantage that ordinary people cannot compare with. Mortals are forced by life and various worldly troubles, so it is difficult for them to be as pure as monks in the temple, with all their six senses and full of their bodies and minds.
A classic, from thin to thick, from thick to thin, from thin to thick, from thin to thick, and from thick to thin, repeated this many times, and even the scriptures were turned a few times, it may not be possible to master one or two of them. It makes sense that the ancients said that the three masterpieces of Weibing will eventually achieve the right result.
During Chen Luo's recitation of the scriptures, Lao Chen was not idle either and began to make various practice props according to the requirements of the old blind man. The so-called form aggregate requires one to face one's heart and correctly understand one's abilities, because everyone has a universe in their hearts, which contain a kind of power of the prehistoric world. So what is more important is to find the outlet for their own abilities, guide them to explore their potential, and exert all their abilities.
How great is a person's potential for eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body? On the one hand, it depends on human talent, and on the other hand, it is inseparable from acquired hard practice. In ancient times, a man named Ji Chang asked for advice from the archer Feiwei in order to practice archery. Feiwei asked him to practice vision. He stared at the weaving shuttle bushes and the little bugs, which lasted for four years. Then he looked at the little bugs, which had become the size of a wheel, and shot out with an arrow, and the bugs passed through the heart.
The first level of eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body is the training of vision. After Chen Luo reads the scriptures every day, he will stare at a spoon-sized prop made by Lao Chen. After the spoon is the size of a pot lid, he will change the spoon to an embroidery needle, and let Chen Luo stare at the needle nose several meters away until the needle nose is also the size of a washbasin. Then he will change the still life to a moving item, Lao Chen threw out a handful of soybean fairy flowers, and then quickly and randomly grabbed one hand, allowing Chen Luo to guess how many of them were caught. The training process is boring, but the training results are still significant.
After persisting in this training for a while, Chen Luo has gone from making frequent mistakes to no problem at all, and has developed a pair of golden eyes. In the end, clues a hundred meters away cannot escape Chen Luo's eyes.
Xiao Yuer is also smart and smart. Seeing that Brother Chen Luo was practicing happily, he also practiced with him. Unexpectedly, he practiced too. Although he did not reach Chen Luo's level, he was far ahead of ordinary children.
The next subject was to train the ears. Old Chen used a black cloth to cover Chen Luo's eyes, and then created various sounds, allowing Chen Luo to guess, as the saying goes, to distinguish the position of the sound and to recognize the source of the sound. After another month of training, Chen Luo felt that his hearing was much clearer. Even if he blindfolded his eyes, he could accurately distinguish the birds in the sky, the fish in the water, and the insects on the ground.
Then there is a comprehensive training of the nose and tongue. Grandpa Chen took out all kinds of magical flavors like a magic trick, such as sweet, sweet, bitter, spicy, fresh, fragrant, salty, and light. Chen Luo tastes and remembers them one by one. This is a devilish training of taste, because there are about 100,000 flavors in the world. What Chen Luo wants to do is that as long as he smells them once, this smell will be remembered in his heart and will be expressed in one mouthful next time he encounters them again.
Then, it is physical training. This is Old Man Chen's specialty. When training his eyes, ears, nose and tongue, Old Man Chen, the head coach, pulled Chen Luo to run 10 kilometers a day after finishing his homework, and then ran back to the iron gate of the suburbs of the city.
During the special physical training, because of the foundation of the ever-changing Phantoms before, this training program did not take much effort and achieved rapid results.
Finally, there is the training of "consciousness". The so-called eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, the most difficult thing is consciousness cultivation.
The cultivation of consciousness mainly depends on sensation.
During this period, Chen Luo recited the Heart Sutra in a fixed manner and studied the meaning every day. He felt more and more that the ancient Heart Sutra was powerful. As he read it, he couldn't help but feel enlightened.
Chen Luo felt that the person who created the Heart Sutra must be powerful in the world, otherwise how could this be done even in just 260 words, summarizing everything. Even those who interpret the Heart Sutra are amazing.
Of course, Chen Luo's realm has not yet reached its level. During the training, he used the black jade pillow as his pillow every day, and he absorbed the jade soul without interruption when sleeping. He gradually developed a habit of absorbing the jade soul, just like breathing, and no longer needed to do it deliberately.
This training took one year. After this year's devil training, Chen Luo felt that his skeleton had completely grown, his height had erupted, and his body was much stronger than before.
During Chen Luo's concentration in his practice, the blind grandfather came to check the progress from time to time, and occasionally pointed out the questions and gave some advice. This helped Chen Luo a lot of help in the path of cultivating the five aggregates. Now Chen Luo exudes a keen aura all over his body, and unconsciously, his every move has the ability to sense everything, as if the whole world belongs to him.
This is the charm of all five aggregates, and it is time to accept the homework.
In a blink of an eye, it was the day for Chen Luo to assess.
On the day of the assessment, Old Chen got a pocket from somewhere, and the pocket was tied, and it was filled with various small animals. Old Chen left Chen in the house, then opened his pocket, closed the door, and said to Chen Luo: "Xiao Luo, today's assessment is a comprehensive assessment. The method is very simple. You must not destroy items or harm any animals when you blindfold your eyes. However, you must catch all the animals in your pocket and put them back into your pocket, which is considered to be a test pass." After that, Old Chen took out a piece of black cloth and blindfolded Chen Luo's eyes.
Insects were trapped in the house, and they flew around when they were frightened. Some crawled, some flew around, and some buzzed around. Unfortunately, the doors and windows were closed and they could not fly out anyway.
Chen Luo sat cross-legged on the mat, quietly realized it, and said, "Grandpa, there are 16 kinds of insects in total, I'm going to start catching them."
Chen Luo reached out and quickly picked the nearest butterfly from under the eaves. The butterfly struggled but could not escape. Chen Luo gently put the butterfly back into his pocket and continued to grab other insects.
During this period, some moths hid at the highest point of the roof. Chen Luo flew over and seemed to be able to see them. They could be accurately caught every time. There were some dragonflies flying around, and Chen Luo reached out and grabbed them steadily. Some crawling ground dragons were so scared that they hid in the gap and did not dare to say anything. Chen Luo sniffed, and then accurately positioned the ground dragons according to the taste. In about one incense stick, more than 16 species of more than 100 insects were captured and put back in their pockets.
"Grandpa, you've caught them all," Chen Luo clapped his hands and reported.
"Not bad!" The blind grandfather and Old Chen smiled, "When talking about this talent in martial arts practice, our Xiaoluo said second, no one dared to say first. The hard work of our family this year has not been in vain."
"Then grandpas, what will I do next?"
"Emotional, thinking, action and consciousness!" The blind grandfather smiled. The last four aggregates that are all connected to the five aggregates may be easier for you.
Chapter completed!