As one of the important Taoist classics, "Zhuangzi" also known as "Nanhua Sutra" tells a story called "The Cooking Ding Jie Niu".
This is what it says:
"According to the laws of nature, criticize the big problems and guide the big hips, because it is natural."
Then Wen Huijun said: "How good! I heard what the cook Ding said, and I can maintain my health."
Why do you know how to maintain good health after hearing this?
Just because "it depends on the laws of heaven, because it is natural."
Borrowing the theory of Chef Ding’s interpretation of the cow, from the perspective of spiritual practice, the human body can be divided into three parts:
viscera;
skeleton;
skin.
Some people say there is still a head?
The head is the superstructure. Before it reaches the heavenly level, it has little to do with practice. Anyway, the basic improvement of any part will be beneficial to the superstructure.
Among the three basic parts, the organs are the core, the bones are the framework, and the skin, including muscles, are the fillers.
Their importance also decreases in sequence.
It’s not that the ones ranked at the back are not important. In fact, every part of the body is important. It’s just that when it comes to practice, there must be a order from first to last. This is also what Zhuangzi said through Bo Ding, “Criticize the big mistakes and guide the big hips.” , because it is natural."
Without knowing the sequence, core, and framework, practicing indiscriminately while filling in the three major structures of the human body is like taking a knife and hacking at a cow randomly.
Can a cow be freed by chopping it randomly?
able!
But this is Gua Wa Zi, a blind man causing trouble.
In his first life, despite the guidance of the Sky Mirror, Xu Guangling was still blind in some aspects.
In the second life, a large system has been established. Regarding the sequence, the core, the framework, and the filling, he is already well aware of it. However, in terms of actual practice, Xu Guangling is still in a process of groping. He is not a blind man making trouble, but he is still Walking stumblingly.
I stumbled because there were still many ditches and bumps on the road that I didn’t understand.
It's like screwing yourself up to the point where you feel like you're dying.
But in this third life, in the basic stage of practice, Xu Guangling basically just strolled around.
Take a walk as much as you want.
At this time, since the exercises have been deduced and a set of clothes has been borrowed from the boss to cover up, the program of the Jinyi Night Walk can be started.
In the early morning, the sun has not yet risen, and dew is still hanging on the fallen leaves.
It's still very cold.
But after passing through the Condensation Realm and completing the basic stage of practice, to put it bluntly, forty degrees below zero and forty degrees above zero are the same for Ye Xiaoye's current body.
There won't be any difference in feeling.
They are all as warm as spring, or as cool as autumn.
To put it more bluntly, as long as it does not exceed the limit, his temperature is basically locked at 18-24 degrees, which is like ordinary people.
So at this time, Ye Xiaoye sat on the edge of the small stone platform in the yard without any scruples.
A certain chill came over my body, but it felt like a spring breeze.
For the entire body, what is really blowing here is not the spring breeze, but the spiritual energy.
In the middle of the small stone platform, only one meter away, the place where spring water gently gurgled was the spiritual eye. The extremely thick spiritual energy followed the spring water from the inside out.
The spring water is just gurgling, but the spiritual energy can be described as erupting.
Of course, no matter how it erupts, it is gentle due to its nature, and it is extremely gentle.
Like extremely fine raindrops, more like thousands of rays of light, centered on this small stone platform, spraying towards the entire courtyard and even outside.
The leaflets are like sitting under the showerhead.
Spiritual energy was like water or mist, spraying on his back.
Different from real water and mist, under the influence of the technique, this spiritual energy penetrated into his body without any hindrance.
Penetrating does not mean staying in the body.
Seep in from the back and seep out from the front.
If you still stay in the Condensing Yuan Realm, it's basically like fetching water from a bamboo basket.
Although the fight is in vain, the bamboo basket will be moistened, and the spiritual energy will remain on the bamboo basket.
What is a "bamboo basket"?
It is the skeletal structure of the human body.
The efficiency of practicing this way is naturally relatively low, and it is quite low.
And even if the overall score is low, there are still three, six, and nine grades among the low.
Different people have different "bamboo baskets". Some are easy for water to seep in, while some extreme ones are impermeable to water.
In the early days, most of the so-called innate talents in spiritual practice refer to this "bamboo basket".
Being able to draw water with a bamboo basket is already a blessing in this world. No matter it was the previous life or the first life on earth, it was impossible to do this because the body was directly cut off from the spiritual energy.
You have to break through that isolation first before you can draw water from a bamboo basket!
Before meeting Xu Guangling, the two old men spent their whole lives trying to get through each other, but they still couldn't really break through the isolation.
To put it simply, I spend my whole life wandering outside the gate, unable to get in.
This is also the overall situation in the spiritual world on earth.
If it has a "practice world".
But in this life, even if your qualifications are very poor, as long as you are exposed to the exercises and start practicing, you will have officially started drawing water from the bamboo basket from the first day of practice.
This is the Ning Yuan realm.
And advancing from the Ning Yuan realm to the Xuan Guan realm is like putting a small bowl in a bamboo basket.
The so-called "porch" is the bowl.
Of course, this description is actually incorrect. The bowl was not put in, but the bamboo basket was moistened by spiritual energy for a long time, and then a small seedling sprouted and grew at the bottom or somewhere of the bamboo basket, that is, "
bowl".
The seedlings sprout and the entrance hall is completed.
When the spiritual energy enters the body from the outside world, it will no longer come and go with only a tiny bit hanging on the bamboo basket, but part of it will be absorbed by the seedlings.
In other words, stay in that bowl.
At this time, the so-called qualifications and evaluation factors are different again.
The bamboo basket has become the background. The quality of the bamboo basket is no longer important, and its influence has been greatly reduced. Now it is the bowl that affects the practice.
Some bowls are large and empty, while others are not only small, but also mostly solid, or filled with other things (impurities).
Ye Xiaoye's body, in the bamboo basket stage, if rated on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest, would basically be between 1 and 2.
It's really miserable.
In his previous life, even if his physical aptitude was not good, it was still much better than this!
If there is no great master to guide his practice, then his little body will have to practice for who knows how many years before he can cross the Condensed Yuan Realm. Anyway, ten years is not enough.
Maybe twenty or thirty years may not be enough.
Even the day lilies are really cold.
After entering the Xuanguan realm from the Condensing Yuan realm, that is, from the bamboo basket stage to the small bowl (seedling) stage, Ye Xiaoye's qualifications in the new stage finally rose from 1 to 2 to between 2 and 3.
Although it is still low, very, very low, it is finally a step up from before.
This is also the characteristic given to his little body by the Jueling Xianhai.
That is to say, it was very good at the beginning, but after coming from the land of extraordinary spirits to the outside world, the land of rich spirits, the situation will gradually get better and better.
Don’t rush to be happy yet!
Because even if you are good at the end, you may not be as good as those with top qualifications.
In fact, let alone top-notch qualifications, you may not even be able to compare with those who are ordinary-level and excellent!
Of course, the final outcome is unknown.
Just like a flower that is slowly blooming, every time a layer of buds is opened, the color of the inner layer changes. As for the color of the last layer, you don't know until the flower fully blooms.
Moreover, it is still changing!
In other words, even if you cut it open from the middle with a knife, you can only see the color of its outermost layer, and there is no color inside it.
It has not been generated at all!
In the process of the flower slowly blooming, whether it is the skill, the understanding, or the external aura environment, etc., it will have varying degrees of impact.
In a sense, this is actually a game about development.
And this is exactly what a great master is good at!