This is easy to say, but very difficult to actually do.
If you want to calm down your restless mind, you need three conditions: one is consciousness, the other is strength, and the third is state of mind.
Consciousness is to know why the mind is uneasy. If you don't even know the reason, it will be difficult to take the next step.
After knowing the reason, you still need enough strength or ability to get rid of this negative state. Otherwise, even if you know the reason, you will still have no choice but to do anything.
In addition, the cooperation of the environment is also required.
If the external environment you face is too unbearable, even if your abilities are so powerful that you are still helpless, so at this time, you need "luck".
Xu Guangling told this little story to Xu Tonghui just casually, to give him a small eye-opener, but he did not expect him to "enlighten immediately" after hearing the story.
For a cultivator, if you want to feel at ease, there is another shortcut that is not a shortcut.
That is to start with yourself.
The mutual transformation of body and mind is the basis.
And there is another foundation, that is, the mind is built on the platform of the body.
If the body is stable enough, strong enough, agile and vibrant enough...
Then, it is very difficult for the mind to enter a negative state.
"Go into seclusion and cut off the outside world." After telling the short story, Xu Guangling said to Xu Tonghui.
If the grasp is not yet determined, it is better to eliminate the hustle and bustle of the world, so that the mind can not see the desires but not be chaotic, so as to clarify my quiet body; the practice is firm, but also should be mixed with the dust, so that the mind can see the desires but not chaotic, in order to cultivate my perfect body.
Cai Gen Tanzhong said this.
In previous lives, it was not easy to break through the "body". Not to mention Confucianism and Buddhism, even Taoism, which focused on body cultivation, also incorporated a lot of content on mind cultivation.
Various fasts and rituals actually use certain means to calm and clear the mind.
Of course, it is precisely because the vast majority of people have nothing to say about physical breakthroughs that many of the contents of mind cultivation cannot be in-depth and can only be at the level of lv0 and lv1.
Therefore, it is either general or intolerant, it is either empty talk about morality, or it is empty talk about inner demons, etc., thus truly moving towards "idealism".
As a result, even though it started from practice in the beginning, as time went on, it had nothing to do with practice.
Far away from the fundamentals, away from simplicity, toward the absurd, toward the grotesque, toward the likes of gods, goddesses, and witches, and toward the so-called crooked ways of Buddhism.
In Taoist canon, this part of the content accounts for three to four tenths.
If the main trunk of a big tree is cut down, as long as the roots are not dead, it will still sprout, send out many buds, and grow a large cluster of unproductive tree branches.
This is the basic overview of past lives, the field of practice, and mind cultivation.
Confucianism is no exception, Buddhism is no exception, and Taoism is no exception.
There is no exception at home, and there is no exception abroad.
However, although there is nothing to talk about in terms of height, in terms of breadth, there are all kinds of things, extending a "heart" in various directions.
Even many secular scholars or philosophers who have nothing to do with spiritual practice have thought and elaborated on such issues.
This sentence in Cai Gen Tan is a simple example.
Although this life is a world where spiritual practice is widespread, the content of cultivating the mind has not been seen on the human level.
Is this strange?
No!
It is precisely because of the great practice of spiritual practice that this situation has occurred.
Since the body can enter, the mind is useless.
"Cultivation of the mind", at least at the human level, is a "heresy".
What is the mainstream of spiritual practice in this world?
It means condensing Qi, unblocking meridians, and opening up the orifices.
Condensate Qi and cultivate Qi and blood.
To unblock the meridians, after the body's qi and blood become strong, they are born. "The pure and light ones rise to heaven", giving birth to pure qi, and then use this qi to open up the meridians of the body.
The orifice is the node of the meridians, and it continues to develop on the basis of opening the meridians.
And these three levels have nothing to do with the "heart".
Then, these three levels of cultivators already account for 90% or even 99% of the entire cultivation world.
What is the understanding of "heart" among earth-level cultivators?
Xu Guangling still didn't know yet. Although he threw out the script, it was mainly for idle entertainment, but there was also a small temptation in it.
He already had a pretty good understanding of the human level situation through the banker and Qingshui City.
So far, his tentacles have not been able to extend to the ground level.
However, the situation has opened up.
The communication channel with the upper level of the county, that is, the county governor's office and the seven major sects has been opened. In the future, it only needs to be carried out slowly.
This is a bit fast.
Xu Guangling originally planned to gradually open this passage over three to five years.
There's no rush anyway.
Let alone three to five years, even thirty to fifty years is completely within the acceptable range.
There are many means, including story books, medicinal herbs, Xu Tonghui's own practice progress and communication with other practitioners... any of these can pave the way.
No way.
There was a little accident.
The fool Xu Tonghui and the fool Xu Yishan, the two fools, accidentally caused this situation to happen prematurely.
This is both good and bad.
The good thing is that the goals originally planned for the medium and long term were achieved all at once.
The bad thing is that the goal comes too quickly and the preparations are not done yet.
Whether he or Xu Tonghui, their level is still too low and they are not qualified to communicate with people on an equal footing. They can only seek disguised equality through other methods, but in any case, communication must be restricted.
There's no way around it.
The levels of cultivation are there.
Just like you and your dog, you can talk to it intimately, you can have a deep relationship with it and even share life and death with it, but you cannot seriously communicate with it to discuss study issues, work and family issues, or world peace issues.
What limits this kind of communication is not your feelings, but simply the level.
level of intelligence and knowledge.
At the moment, although it is a little unexpected, it is actually not harmful. Just take it step by step and watch it.
Previously, through the storybooks in Juxing Tower, Xu Guangling judged that the world, or the cultivation environment of this place, was at the end of the Silver Age.
This judgment has also been temporarily supported in the matter of mind cultivation.
The human level does not involve cultivating the mind.
I don’t know whether to step into the earthly steps, but I definitely have to step into the heavenly steps.
Among the upper echelons of the world’s spiritual practice community, this would not be a secret, let alone a secret, but would definitely be common sense!
There is no doubt about this.
However, this common sense has not spread to the lower levels and bottom of the spiritual world.
Is this a monopoly on spiritual resources?
You can think so.
In other words, the upper management may have some considerations in this regard.
But overall, it's quite positive.
It would be a bad thing if the upper echelons of the spiritual cultivation world spread this knowledge to the lower levels, but then controlled it at the really critical level of self-cultivation.
The knowledge of mind cultivation is popularized, and then through upper-level means, through assessment, selection, etc., the lower-level practitioners are gradually transformed into "researchers of spiritual practice knowledge", allowing thousands of practical practitioners to turn from reality to virtuality.
Turn the entire lower-level cultivators into a resource.
A resource for mind training and spiritual knowledge research, designed to serve the upper classes.
By then, if such a situation occurs, it will not even be considered the Black Iron Age.
But it can only be regarded as the dark ages.
Now, it's okay.
There is also light.
And the light is not very weak.
This also means that at present, the upper-level cultivation resources in this world are not very scarce, and there is no need to excessively overdraw the resources from the lower-levels and completely lock the upward promotion channels of the lower-levels.
The truth may not be the case, but there is a high probability that it is not wrong.
That's good.
Even if it is a bit rough, there is still a way to go.