Fa Hai walked into the small courtyard with light steps. Before he entered the door, he faintly saw Xu Xian reciting some strange poems through the window.
"Sitting alone in the study, making a wife with both hands, I am ashamed to mention it to outsiders. If I change my left hand to my right hand, I will divorce my wife and marry her again. Every bit of it will fall to the ground, and my whole body will feel so comfortable and my bones will be blurred...ah!"
Seeing Xu Xian's intoxicated look as if no one else was watching, Fahai couldn't help but shook his head secretly, "Hey, when you are young, you don't know how valuable the essence is. When you are old, you look at the sky and shed tears!"
Fahai let out a dry cough and walked straight into the room. When Xu Xian heard Fahai cough, he was immediately embarrassed. He hurriedly stuffed the remaining scrolls in his hands under the bed, picked up the ancient books on the table and pretended to read aloud.
"The book has its own golden house...the book has its own thousand bells of millet...the book has its own Yan Ruyu...ah, the old master is here!"
"Chinese, Confucian, literature conveys the Tao. You have been on Jinshan Mountain for a while, reading every day to understand Taoism, but you don't know where you are going?" Fa Hai nodded slightly, but did not point out Xu Xian's embarrassing things.
When Xu Xian heard this, his face suddenly turned bitter. Since he went to Jinshan with unlimited hopes a few months ago, he had no idea that Xianghai would just leave him here to study behind closed doors every day, never mentioning the path to immortality. This made Xu Xian infinitely disappointed.
When I saw Fahai taking the exam, I couldn't help complaining: "Master, you said that I have a special constitution and cannot cultivate my Qi step by step. I can only study and refine my Taoist heart every day, so that like the Confucian sages, I can enlighten the Tao in one day and become a saint instantly. However,
How long will this cultivation last? You still don’t know what Taoist heart is?”
Although Xu Xian was only ten years old, he had indescribable red lips and white teeth. He was so handsome that even women were jealous. Fa Hai glanced at Xu Xian's face, shook his head slightly, and glanced at the white spots on Xu Xian's waist and clothes calmly.
If there is any pointer, "What is the heart of the Tao? Only when you see through everything can you transcend everything. If you can't even see through the beauty of women, how can you have your heart set on the Tao? For you, color is empty. When you look at the beautiful hair of the gods and the beautiful eyebrows of the beautiful women,
When your beautiful nose, fragrant lips, fragrant shoulders, willow waist, pert buttocks, and beautiful legs are all in vain, then you have the Taoist heart.”
"My beautiful hair, beautiful eyebrows, beautiful nose, cherry lips, fragrant shoulders, willow waist, pert buttocks, and beautiful legs are just floating clouds? How is this possible? Why is it that every time a kid thinks about a beautiful woman with a face like jade, he can't restrain his restless heart and desire..."
When Fahai saw him on the day shift, Xu Xian's face was full of embarrassment. However, when he heard Fahai's words on Taoism, he felt despair and extremely depressed. For the past ten years, he had been facing the beautiful master day and night every day.
Being trained and seduced by him day and night, he is now extremely precocious and has no resistance to women.
"Hey, I know you can't do it, but..."
"Master is a scholar of heaven and man, is there a shortcut to the south?" Seeing Fahai hesitate to speak, Xu Xian was like a drowning man grabbing a life-saving straw.
"Of course there is a shortcut, otherwise why would your master send you to Jinshan? But not everyone can take the shortcut. It depends on whether you have the understanding and patience."
"Young man, you are willing to give it a try!" Xu Xian's eyes could not be described as firm.
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On the bank of Taihu Lake, on the top of a peak, Fa Hai and Xu Xian stood facing the wind.
"The so-called cultivation of immortality is nothing more than human beings following the earth, earth following heaven, heaven following Tao, Tao following nature, and the so-called nature is among the mountains and rivers."
Fahai pointed to the mountains and rivers in the distance and said. Looking at Xu Xian's confused look, he couldn't help but smile, "Throughout the ages, the cultivation sects' favorite way to test their disciples' understanding is to look at mountains and rivers..."
Xu Xian heard the words and said curiously: "Master, I have heard the saying of looking at mountains and rivers, but the mountains and rivers are right in front of you, how can you test your understanding?"
With the breeze blowing, Fahai shook his head and explained: "The so-called enlightenment is your understanding of Tao and nature. There are three realms. The first level is to see mountains as mountains and water as water. The second level is to see that mountains are mountains and water is water.
A mountain is not a mountain, and looking at water is not water. At the third level, looking at a mountain is still a mountain, and looking at water is still water. If an ordinary person cultivates truth and fails to reach the third level, it can be said that there is no hope for a lifelong path!"
Xu Xian originally thought that Fahai had some special method to test his understanding, but he didn't expect it to be the most common method of looking at mountains and rivers. This method is recorded in many ancient books, and he has tried it countless times. Unfortunately, it has always been
, let alone the third level, he couldn't even reach the second level.
"Looking at mountains is not mountains...looking at water is not water..."
In Xu Xian's eyes, mountains are mountains and water is water. How can there be anything else?
Xu Xian stared for a long time with a frown on his face, but as usual, he gained nothing. Suddenly, he saw Fahai beside him, who was smiling but not smiling, holding a pearl of wisdom. He couldn't help but feel blessed in his heart, and prayed to Fahai, "You are stupid, please ask Master."
Taught me!"
"Children can be taught." Fa Hai laughed when he heard this, stretched out his palm, and two polished glass lenses appeared in his palm, "Use them to see again!"
Xu Xian suddenly felt as if he had found a treasure. He carefully put two glass lenses on his eyes and looked up again. He saw that his eyes were dim and the mountains and rivers in front of him were overlapping and illusory, as if they were no longer the same as before.
"Master, if you look at the mountains, they are not mountains, and if you look at the water, they are not water. I did it!"
Seeing Xu Xian's extremely excited look, Fahai shook his head slightly. The glass lenses in Xu Xian's hands were a pair of reading glasses in his previous life. It would be strange if he was a mortal with his naked eyes, and would not be confused when he wears reading glasses.
"Take it off again and take a look..."
"Ah! Look at the mountain or the mountain, look at the water or the water! Master...I finally realized it!!"
Xu Xian held the glass lens like a baby, with tears in his eyes, and screamed hysterically, as if he wanted to vent all the frustration and unwillingness of the past ten years at once.
"What have you enlightened?" Fa Hai remained calm and asked coldly: "Without this lens, can you still enlighten?"
Fahai's words were like a wake-up call, and Xu Xian suddenly woke up from the extreme excitement. He felt as if his mood had fallen from the clouds, and he was so choked that he could hardly raise his head.
"Chinese, I just want to tell you a truth. Even if you have no understanding, you can still achieve the Taoist heart through external forces! The beautiful hair, the eyebrows, the beautiful nose, the cherry lips, the fragrant shoulders, the willow waist, the buttocks and the beautiful legs are all clouds. This state of Taoist heart is for you
It’s not unattainable, it can be achieved completely through external forces!”
Fahai's tone softened slightly and he said seductively, "You have a special constitution and cannot practice step by step. Sudden enlightenment is the only way for you to achieve immortality! But to achieve this step, the key is to find the external force to change yourself.
And stick to it unswervingly with the spirit of stepping on a stone to leave a mark, and grasping an iron to leave a mark. In this way, maybe within a few years, you will become a being that everyone looks up to! Once you realize the Tao, you will become a saint immediately!!"
"Once you realize the Tao, you will become a saint immediately!!" Xu Xian couldn't help but murmur to himself after hearing this. Over the past ten years, the ridicule of his friends and the ardent expectations of his sister and master seemed to be in his ears, "I can never
To live up to the expectations of my sister and master, I want all those who laugh at me to look up to me. Even if the road ahead is full of difficulties and dangers, I, Xu Xian, will definitely become an immortal through hard work!"