Qin Yifan doesn't care about the rumors about the evil reputation here. He is just confused now, why would a cultivator get involved in something like this that should obviously not happen in the cultivating world?
"Isn't it said that one has to see through the world of mortals and stay away from the hustle and bustle in order to practice Taoism? Why do so many people still lose their lives because of greed?" Qin Yifan held a dagger in his hand and sat by the Fist Seal Lake as if talking to himself.
"Greed is human nature. No matter who you are, deep down in your heart, you will have more or less greed. It's just that some people control it very well, and some people control it very poorly." Senior Ying Jie may also have it.
While thinking about this issue, I happened to communicate with Qin Yifan.
"Shouldn't those who practice Taoism be the kind who have good control? After so many years of experience in the world of mortals, you can't even look past this. Could it be that you are not as good as those who have just started?" Qin Yifan said just now
The beginner, of course, refers to Lin Qiulu. In his eyes, many of what Lin Qiulu said were very reasonable. Could it be that what she said was false?
"What do you think cultivation is?" Senior Ying Jie retorted to Qin Yifan with a smile: "In your eyes, does cultivation mean being patient, forgetting all the worldly thoughts, and entering the great freedom of the clear sky and tranquility?"
"Isn't it?" Qin Yifan was puzzled: "Maybe I am not qualified to say anything as a martial artist, but isn't this what people in Taoism pursue?"
"Yes, and no." Senior Ying Jie pondered for a moment, and then explained slowly: "What you are talking about is the state that all cultivators want to achieve, and it is also the wish they spend their entire lives trying to achieve."
"However, a wish is just a wish. If you have reached this step, you have already seen through everything, not to mention seeing through the world of mortals, and you have also seen the origin of the Tao. At this point, there is no need to cultivate the Tao." Said this.
, Senior Ying Jie also lamented: "The problem is right here. You can't see through anything, but you still want to reach that state. If it were you, what would you do?"
"I don't know." Qin Yifan thought for a while, but without any results, he answered honestly.
"You are sincere, but don't you think about what kind of state you will reach in the future?" Senior Ying Jie asked again with a smile.
"Realms are cultivated, not imagined." Qin Yifan said this inexplicably for some reason. It was this sentence that made senior Ying Jie feel very sad.
"If I had met you earlier, maybe I wouldn't have to suffer like this." After sighing, Senior Ying Jie explained: "Wanting great success is a pursuit and an obsession. With obsession,
It will affect the foundation of the Tao. But if the foundation of the Tao is destroyed, how can we cultivate the Tao? Simply cultivating the Tao is not advisable."
"In the end, there were still some people with great wisdom who dispersed this pursuit of Tao into various professions, so there were branches such as music, chess, calligraphy and painting, medicine and divination, as well as such branches as instrument cultivation and mind cultivation.
The distinction between directions." As if introducing the history of Taoism, Senior Ying Jie talked eloquently.
"But no matter what profession you practice, pursuit is still pursuit." Sighing again, Senior Ying Jie said: "Do you think it's funny to pursue that kind of state where you don't have to pursue anything under pressure?"
Qin Yifan later listened to everyone, and vaguely felt that when senior Ying Jie said this, the cultivators had entered a paradox. Some of them didn't quite understand, so they simply didn't say anything and listened quietly.
"Suddenly, if a common man pursues such a state, he will not understand it. Even if he understands it, he will feel that it is hopeless to cultivate the Tao. So, there are people with great wisdom who break down the Taoism into several steps.
Each step is calculated as if one heavenly tribulation has been passed." After hearing this, Qin Yifan finally understood that the natural tribulation was actually the dividing line, and he didn't know what kind of changes would happen after each natural tribulation.
"The secular stage, I call it the self-stage. In this stage, all people act according to their own surnames, with joy, anger, sorrow, and love for the world of mortals. People at this time pay attention to others not serving themselves, and will be destroyed by heaven and earth. Therefore,
There are many selfish thoughts and distractions. So much bloodshed in the world that you have been involved in is all because of this." Qin Yifan understood this, but he had never heard of these stages that Senior Ying Jie mentioned, and he just happened to taste and study them carefully today.
"In the first stage, that is, before starting to practice Taoism and before the Small Heavenly Tribulation, it is natural to have a firm idea of cultivating Taoism, and not to be involved in the secular world, which affects the determination and courage to practice Taoism. Therefore, at this stage, those who practice Taoism are required to
See through the mortal world and strengthen your Taoist heart." This time, senior Ying Jie was explaining the Taoism in detail to Qin Yifan, and Qin Yifan also pricked up his ears to listen. This kind of experience is an opportunity that no one else can ask for.
"Experience in the world of mortals means that those who practice Taoism can understand through experience that the heart of heaven is unpredictable, but the path is promising. When you have experienced the experience of the world of mortals, read all the various situations in the world, and look back at all living beings, you will naturally have a sense of inadequacy.
Such thoughts." Senior Ying Jie said slowly, giving Qin Yifan time to think slowly.
"With this idea, everything in the world is no longer an obstacle to one's Taoist mind, and one can naturally enter the next stage easily. This state can also be called selflessness." When talking about this word, senior Ying Jie explained it.
: "Of course, this is my fabrication. I don't know how others understand it." Qin Yifan nodded to express his understanding.
"At the next stage, people's true nature has returned. It is no longer the state where I think I look down upon everything and nothing in the world can hinder my practice. At this stage, I call it my true self." Senior Ying Jie proposed a new one.
stage, Qin Yifan was shocked. Maybe this was the reason for those situations.
"At this stage, I really came into contact with the masters of Taoism. Only then did I realize that it was so absurd that I thought I could see through the world of mortals and regard the world as nothing. I was the real frog in the well. As a result, human nature revived, and greed and hatred appeared again.
Stupid. To put it bluntly, this stage is just a half-empty stage, which is not enough compared to the previous stage.
, more than compares to those below. You can show your talents to the people below, but you have to look up to those real masters." When saying this, Senior Ying Jie still had a little ridicule: "Of course, in this ego stage,
Only then can you truly understand what spiritual practice is and begin to understand why there is a stage of experience in the world of mortals.”
"Some people who have not practiced enough are affected, so another world in the eyes of a cultivator appears. They snatch magic weapons and secret books, all in order to make themselves stronger. It is not the same as the world you are in.
What's the difference? If we have to classify them, this is just a flying world." At this point, Qin Yifan fully understood why those people's situation happened.
"At this time, the real danger begins when you are going through the tribulation. There are countless selfish thoughts in your heart, the Taoist foundation is unstable, and there are many inner demons when you are going through the tribulation. Therefore, only one out of ten people can survive this stage." Qin Yifan
Completely agreed, couldn't help but nodded.
"Because of the danger of the Heavenly Tribulation, many people are looking for ways to improve their cultivation in order to ensure their own safety. Little do they know that the more this happens, the more dangerous the Heavenly Tribulation becomes. Therefore, many people do not dare to improve their cultivation at this stage.
, for fear of causing heavenly catastrophe. Once there are any master secrets left, they will go and see if there is a chance." Qin Yifan can completely hear the regret for these people from the words of senior Ying Jie, but he just doesn't understand, since this
So, why don't you point those people out?
"Guide? They also have to believe it. I'm not one of those bald donkeys, so why should I accumulate merit? I would like to stick my warm face to the cold buttocks of those stubborn people. Besides, even if I have to accumulate merit, it is easier to save those ordinary people.
, there are also higher merits, why waste it on these people who defy heaven." Listening to his tone, it was obvious that he had done such a thing before, but the man didn't appreciate it. Even Qin Yifan couldn't help but feel sorry for that ignorant person.
The person shook his head.
"Smart people will start to experience the world of mortals again." Speaking of the solution, Senior Ying Jie had a feeling of regret: "In the world of mortals, in the copper furnace of heaven and earth, you will once again temper your Taoist heart. You must overcome your ego.
After someone’s birth name, surviving a calamity is as easy as reaching into a bag to retrieve something. Unfortunately, I didn’t understand at the time that I had to survive this calamity with a narrow escape.”
Qin Yifan wanted to know how Senior Ying Jie survived the calamity, but he couldn't ask, so he could only continue to listen.
"After the stage of self, the realm is different again, and you enter the realm of selflessness." Senior Ying Jie became excited: "True freedom, worldly distractions can no longer affect the original mind, this is the real beginning of Taoism.
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Qin Yifan couldn't help but find it funny. Countless people thought that they had not stepped into the door of monasticism, but in the eyes of senior Ying Jie, those people were all laymen. Everyone laughed at fifty steps and laughed at a hundred steps. It was funny.
"As for the next realm, I don't know yet, but the Heavenly Tribulation at this stage is also more terrifying." Qin Yifan believes this, otherwise Senior Yingjie would not have suffered under the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, and his realm is still not energetic enough.
, it’s just that I still can’t see through it.
"Senior, I think a truly open-minded person no longer cares whether he can survive a calamity or not!" Qin Yifan said this out of nowhere. After hearing this, senior Ying Jie said,
He didn't speak for a long time, obviously lost in thought.
"Seeing a mountain is a mountain, seeing a mountain is not a mountain, seeing a mountain is another mountain. I think, senior, I understand a little bit." While senior Ying Jie was meditating, Qin Yifan also figured out a lot of things and blurted out.