"There is no concentration beside consciousness", "There is no concentration anywhere".
"There is no place to live but the heart is born."
This is a saying originating from Buddhism on earth. Xu Guangling’s current state of mind and consciousness is roughly like this.
After achieving the heaven and earth aperture, breaking the final boundary between heaven and man, and completing the true unity of heaven and man, the next step is to merge the three fundamental apertures, namely the life aperture, the consciousness aperture, and the heaven and earth aperture into one.
This step took Xu Guangling twenty-four years in his first life and three years in his second life.
It took Xu Guangling three days to come to this third life.
After completing this step, all the information in Xu Guangling's physical and mental system is placed in or mapped to the root aperture.
And this fundamental orifice is neither inside nor outside the body. It can be inside or outside the body. It is "where the heart is, that is, where the orifice is."
In a sense, it is equivalent to making a copy of your own physical and mental information, which exists between heaven and earth.
This step is also a critical and fundamental step compared to achieving the Life Aperture and being promoted to Grand Master.
Why did Xu Guangling think that just because he was a "holy", he could stand up to a "god" in a small way?
Just because of this step.
Because after completing this step, it can no longer be destroyed from a purely material level.
The fundamental aperture that houses all the body and mind becomes the main body of life, and this fundamental aperture is formless. Then, the real body has become a copy. Even if this copy is destroyed, it does not matter, because as long as necessary, a thought
In the meantime, a new body will be born.
So now, the body of Xu Guangling, or Ye Xiaoye, is truly the same as the other children on the island.
Doing this is not purely because Xu Guangling is playing with the world, but has something to do with his state of mind and consciousness.
After the union of heaven and man, in a sense, his mind became a mirror, reflecting everything in the induction, and his consciousness also took shape in response to things.
That night, when he moved into the new dormitory and found that the dormitory was an old room that had not been occupied for a long time, but there was no dust accumulation and no odor, Xu Guangling's mind and consciousness was like a drop of water, dripping down the sky and the earth.
In this boundless sea.
Water droplets scatter in the sea.
This "water drop" contains all the content related to "cleanliness" in Xu Guangling's consciousness.
Including the most impressive cleaning of the room in the first life, at the beginning of practice, including earlier cleaning at school and home;
Including understanding of various bacteria that breed inside and outside the room;
Including all the exercises, gist and various realizations related to the practice after the practice has passed the "plenty" stage and reached the "purity" level;
There are many, many other related ones.
If necessary, these "water droplets" can spread deeply between heaven and earth. Then, what echoes from heaven and earth are various enlightenments and contemplations about "cleanliness", which are very likely to contain many Xu Guangling's thoughts.
Ideas or directions that have not been thought of before.
If we paraphrase Laozi's words from "Tao Te Ching", it is exactly "if you are in a trance, there are images in it; if you are in a trance, there are things in it."
And this is Xu Guangling’s current thinking and Xu Guangling’s current practice.
When spiritual practice enters this stage, to put it simply, it is like moving from the classical age of knowledge to the era of the Big Explosion of Knowledge, and it is an indescribable super big explosion.
Knowledge is no longer precious and rare.
What is precious is the establishment of the system.
What is rare is the grasp of direction.
So in the last life, Xu Guangling said to Gan Congshi, I have the "Wan Dharma Sutra".
Is it true?
Really.
It wasn't there when I said it.
But if you want me to take it out, and I really want to take it out, then it will be there in the next moment.
This is the "unity of man and nature".
This is "Concentration at the Boundless Place of Consciousness".
This is the "mysterious and mysterious, the door to all mysteries".
All the things that we absorbed and learned when we were mortals and extraordinary ones have become insignificant, so small that they have become just seed-like existences, with countless contents and countless seeds.
Just take a random seed and "plant" it in this world, and you can see a sapling slowly sprouting, and on this sapling, every leaf and flower is filled with related thoughts and enlightenments.
But how far the sapling can grow depends on the degree of mental investment and the time of enlightenment.
To put it simply, it is not infinite.
It is still heavily restricted by realm and level, and is also related to "seeds".
Some seeds themselves are poor, so even if you put a lot of effort and time into them, you may not get much in the end.
Therefore, we still need to learn and absorb to constantly renew the "seeds".
It’s just that after entering this level, the object of study and absorption, the most important object, is no longer books and other people, and it is no longer the world and all things, but "heaven and earth" itself, or, to use a more mysterious term,
, is to seek for "Tao".
Cultivation, cultivating in the realm of the unity of nature and man, is to seek knowledge and ask questions.
In this case, various daily behaviors were the "introduction", triggering Xu Guangling to enter the corresponding practice.
For example, when he moved into a new dormitory, that night, his "cleaning" power took a step further.
Another example, after starting to run
"How can an ordinary person's body use ordinary means to harmonize the body's qi and blood to the greatest extent under the premise that it is ordinary and not extraordinary?"
"Kaitianbu is originally a slow walking pace. Can it be improved and applied to running?"
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A large number of similar seeds were nurtured in Xu Guangling's calm environment.
Therefore, for Xu Guangling, there is not much difference whether he transcends this world as a great master or is reincarnated as a real nine-year-old ordinary child. It is still practice.
In his previous life, Xu Guangling chose the former more often.
In this life, Xu Guangling decided to let this body walking in the world grow and develop bit by bit in the most authentic way.
In a sense, this is actually learning some lessons from previous lives.
Reaching the sky in one step means that it is difficult to show up. But if you show up, you need to face all the masters in this world.
Then, whether it was confrontation or compromise, neither was to Xu Guangling's liking.
And growing up step by step, moving up step by step, and in this process, showing his existence to the world bit by bit, is the general purpose that Xu Guangling has set for himself in this life.
This is to correct some of the shortcomings of the previous life.
This is also the strategy of keeping a low profile in this life.
This world is not simple.
Whether it was the weird and unpredictable jelly layer when he first entered this world, or the place where he was born in this life, the equally weird and unpredictable place of extraordinary spirits, all of this showed Xu Guangling that this world was not simple.
So, "keep it quiet".
This is the best response.
Let him, this seed, absorb all the nutrients it can in this world and grow slowly.