Looking across the Changhuai River, the pass is vast and flat. The dust is dark, the frosty wind is strong, and the sound is quiet. The darkness is frozen. Looking back on the past, the number of days, no human power, the Zhusi River, the place where strings and songs are played, and the smell of smell. The felt village across the water
, under the setting sun, the cattle and sheep are scattered across the area. Watching the famous king hunting at night, riding on fire across the river to the bright sky. The mournful sound of drums and drums is shocking.
Thinking about the arrows at the waist, the sword in the box, and the moths in the air, how can they be accomplished? The time is easy to lose, the heart is weak, and the age is about to be zero. The sacred capital is dim. The dry feathers are far away, the beacon is quiet, and the troops are at rest. The crowned messengers are galloping.
Ambition, if it is love. I heard that the old man from the Central Plains often looked south and saw green and bright neon banners. When he came here, he was filled with loyalty and anger, and there were tears pouring down.
——"Six States Getou·Looking across Changhuai" by Zhang Xiaoxiang [Song Dynasty]
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Bai Fu walked through the gate of hell, his body recovered slightly, and he was transferred to another prison by the soldiers.
Bai Fu was blindfolded and could not tell the difference between east, west and north. He only knew that the prison car traveled for two or three days before reaching the destination. The terrain here was relatively high and it should be somewhere in the mountains on the outskirts of Chang'an.
There is no torture in this prison, and the cell facilities, food and accommodation conditions are much better than those in Chang'an City. What is strange is that the jailers here are all mute and deaf, and leave after delivering meals every day. In such a situation, I don't know how many people are imprisoned on weekdays.
Want to commit a crime?
Since Yang Yichan left, no one has paid any attention to it. The rescue has fallen into disarray, as if there has never been such a person as Bai Fu in this world...
A few months later, Bai Fu's body gradually recovered, his heart gradually died, and he no longer had any extravagant hopes of being released from prison.
Before this, Bai Fu relied on his desire for revenge to arouse his desire for survival. After being detained for several months, his desire for revenge gradually disappeared, and his irritability gradually emerged. After a few more months, his irritability gradually disappeared, and his murderous intention reappeared... and so on several times.
After struggling, Bai Fu's heart gradually returned to calm.
“The way of heaven damages more than it can and makes up for the deficiencies.”
"Loss and damage leads to inaction. Inaction means everything is done."
Time erases Bai Fu's joys, sorrows, desires and fantasies one by one. All emotions and distracting thoughts are like sand in an hourglass, leaking from the heart one by one until no grain is left...
In the years before I was imprisoned, every day I opened my eyes, I was busy with endless things: meditating, practicing boxing and sword dancing, practicing calligraphy and painting, reading poems and books, and there were still a lot of homework and chores in the Hongwen Hall. The most disturbing thing was,
Day and night in the officialdom of the capital, there are social interactions that cannot be avoided...time is difficult to allocate, and there is never enough.
When in jail, the most indispensable thing is time, and the most difficult thing to pass is time.
During the day, I look forward to getting dark so that I can fall asleep; at night, I hold the candle and feel tired of the long night.
A few months later, Bai Fu finally found a good way to pass the time - reciting. Whether it was poems and songs, classics of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, or prescriptions and medical books, or martial arts secrets. Whatever came to mind, he would recite it, and if he couldn't remember it, he would change it.
one.
"What can be turbid and clear with tranquility? Who can be peaceful and live with movement?"
Lao Dan's words were like a bolt of lightning, streaking across the sky. Bai Fu's words led to great enlightenment and enlightenment.
Just let a glass of water sit on the tea table and ignore it. The turbidity will slowly sink and the glass of water will become clear.
Live quietly and do nothing, and when the heat is up, things will happen naturally.
"Laozi" is a Taoist classic, and Bai Fu has been able to recite it from ear to ear since he was a child. After entering Hongwen Hall, under the guidance of Taifu Xu and other contemporary great scholars, Bai Fu once again worked hard to study, and he felt that this book is full of philosophical wisdom, and he learned a lot
The way to behave in the world.
At this time, I am deeply in prison, without any utilitarian purpose, reviewing the classics over and over again, savoring them carefully, chewing them slowly, and I feel that every word and every sentence is very different from what I understood in the past.
"The softest overcomes the strong, the weak overcomes the strong"; "The most soft in the world is the strongest in the world."
"The opposite is the movement of Tao, and the weak is the use of Tao."
Lao Tzu is a wise man who has the most profound understanding of the world's forces and forces. Bai Fu suspected that Lao Tzu's martial arts skills must be unparalleled in the world and extraordinary.
Such descriptions as "generous and without corners, loud and sparse, and elephants invisible" used to be half-understood, but now they suddenly become clear to me.
"To the extreme of emptiness, keep quiet and sincere",
There is nothing in the heart, which is emptiness, and the absence of thoughts is tranquility. The "extreme emptiness", a state of emptiness that is difficult to achieve even in seclusion and hard practice, was easily broken through by Bai Fu in prison.
Qingcheng Xuanmen's heart method is originally Taoist Kung Fu. Once the Tao is concentrated, the empty room will become white.
"The heart is empty and still, just like an empty house." Not only did he make a breakthrough in Taoism, Bai Fu even realized the true meaning of "emptiness" in Buddhism.
"Void pole" is also the "emptiness" of Buddhism. To give up emptiness is called emptiness, and even the nature of emptiness is emptied. It is so uncomfortable to be empty and empty. It is natural and gradually enters the state of "should have no place to live and have its mind"
"Zen state.
The heart is like a void, where all demons do not invade, and the Tao and Dharma are unified.
When Bai Fu stops wanting anything and empties everything, some changes grow quietly like sprouts.
Bai Fu's lower limbs slowly began to feel. The Yongquan point on the sole of his foot became numb and itchy, like a spring that had dried up long ago, with spring water gurgling out.
Bai Fu's internal strength and true energy have been stolen by the soul-stirring demon girl A Qi using the power-transforming method. It's like the water in a lake, which has been drained dry and withered.
And this spring is hope. Although the water flow is small, as long as it keeps gushing out, one day it will be able to fill the big lake and make the big river surge.
Lao Tzu, Buddha's profound philosophy is like a ray of light that illuminates the dark night. It is also like a ladder that allows Bai Fu to climb up step by step from the abyss of suffering.
My body and mind are restored and I am getting better day by day.
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one year later
The white scabbed wound is completely healed, and after the blood scab falls off, scars with dragon scale patterns are left on the skin.
The marks of the branding iron on his face gradually faded away, but the scar on his forehead between the eyebrows was too deep, leaving a mark.
"tick"
When Bai Fu meditated, he could hear the sound of water dripping from the ceiling of the cell, just like the rhythm of his heart. Just when the water dripped on the stone slab, a drop of water dripped into the inner lake, and there was a slight change in the Dantian, echoing it.
Bai Fu's ears are so strong that he can hear the sound of the wind passing through the woods, and it can penetrate into the space without being thick. He can hear the sound of the wind blowing on the grass, and the strong wind knows the strength of the grass. He can hear the sound of the birds flapping their wings, walking against the wind, and soaring upward.
Bai Fu could also hear the footsteps of the jailer. Strangely, this prison seemed to only contain him, because he had never heard the voices of other prisoners.
Bai Fu vaguely heard someone calling him somewhere in the distance, but the voice was too weak to be heard.
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the second year
Falling leaves tell us about autumn.
During the snowfall season, Bai Fu closed his eyes and meditated. During the meditation, his soul seemed to be able to leave his body. Bai Fu saw the falling snowflakes and the spinning of the snow petals.
Only then did Bai Fu realize that there are many shapes of snowflakes, one is hexagonal, long and thin, like a needle. The other is hexagonal, like crystal flakes. Each snowflake has a different shape. The world is so big, but the shape is different.
No snowflake is exactly the same.
Bai Fu could see the speed of the raindrops falling and the size of the gaps between the raindrops. He could also see the appearance of the jailer, doing nothing all day long.
Bai Fu could see the birds and animals in the canyon forest:
The moment when the falcon swoops down, its perfect and reasonable arc and trajectory are faster than any movement technique. The lizard catches insects and sticks out its tongue faster than any sword technique. The tiger hunts and uses the control of every muscle when culling...
The most powerful martial arts are those that follow Taoism and nature. Grandmasters from generation to generation have created martial arts based on the universe and all living things, and they can also go back to the starting point and improve these martial arts.
Since his debut, Bai Fu has learned a lot. In addition to Qingcheng's Kungfu, he has also dabbled in Tang Sect and Shaolin Kung Fu. Even the Sword Master and Sword Demon have taught him everything. In addition, Taifu Xu, the senior of Changsun Yanxing
He also taught many techniques in gardening, calligraphy, painting, music, etc.
Bai Fu's hand tendons and hamstrings were picked, and his martial arts has been abolished. He may be like an ordinary person in this life. If he were outside prison, he would never have any thoughts of martial arts again. But there is nothing to do in prison, so he can summarize all his efforts.
General Bai Fu reviewed all the battles he had fought since he started practicing martial arts, and played them over and over again in his mind, trying to find out the shortcomings and improve them. Which sword moves can be simplified, which body techniques can be refined, how to invade and attack, and how to defend the mountains.
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Bai Fu played the following blind chess game, playing against himself. Unknowingly, he progressed bravely and diligently in martial arts.
The voice calling me appeared again, sometimes distant and sometimes close, but I couldn't hear it clearly.