Chapter 22: The Taoist Breathing Method

"So! I want to practice martial arts! I want to protect myself, I want to protect the people of the world! I want to be a real Mojia swordsman! Fight the end of the world! Kill all the bad guys! ......" Zhuang Zhou said with an oath.

"Hmmm! Very good! ”

Yang Zhu shook his head again and sighed again.

If you want to enlighten Zhuang Zhou and let Zhuang Zhou give up the old ideas, it seems! It's not a matter of two days.

"But? I think you're better suited to be a gentleman! Be an evangelist! Explain your life insights to others! Like Confucius, let your students be all over the world; Like Mozi's predecessors, let the Mohist doctrine spread all over the world and benefit the world. Because! Your head is so good! If you become a swordsman of the Mo family, I tell you, you are very likely to die early, just like your father and mother! It's a pity that you died early, such a clever man! ”

Yang Zhu patted Zhuang Zhou's back with his hand and said earnestly.

People inside and outside the house also feel that Zhuang Zhou is more suitable to be a gentleman. Be a gentleman like Kongqiu, a gentleman like Mozi, and a gentleman like Yang Zhu, spread your thoughts and benefit the world.

What is the world of contention? It's about people's hearts! Whoever wins the hearts and minds of the people wins the world!

Fighting for power, territory, women, wealth, face, children and grandchildren, etc., can only be obtained for a time and a lifetime, but not for thousands of generations, not forever!

And fighting for people's hearts is different, if you get people's hearts, you will get them forever! People all over the world will remember you for thousands of years, such as the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and the world will always remember him. Because! They got hearts!

The people's yearning for a better life is our goal!

What do people yearn for? It is a space for survival, freedom, development and creativity.

"I'm going to practice my sword! I'm going to be a swordsman. I'm going to be a gentleman too! Just like Shigong, he taught many, many people how to be human beings, trained many, many swordsmen, killed all the bad guys in the world, and let the people live a happy life! ”

Zhuang Zhou said solemnly.

In Zhuang Zhou's ideological realm, it is still necessary to kill people and kill bad people. The idea instilled in him by the bird slippery is to kill the bad guys and eliminate violence and peace and goodness, not the "non-attack" advocated by Mozi.

"Good! Good! Good! ”

Yang Zhu said, high-fived again.

"Now! Let's go eat! Tonight! I'll teach you martial arts! ”

Yang Zhu did not continue to debate the issues of Mohist academic theory and Taoist academic theory. It's useless to continue debating, it's impossible to make Zhuang Zhou understand things all at once. Although he is smart, he is only an eight-year-old earth child after all, and he can't reach it if he wants to hurry!

The Taoists of the Yang Zhu period began to study health preservation very much. When it comes to food, they don't pay attention to the delicacies of the mountains and seas, but! They pay special attention to the combination of food and drink. At that time, food was quite scarce, especially meat.

On the side of the cafeteria, the disciples prepared vegetable paste porridge for Yang Zhu and his grandson, plus a few dough.

The others also dispersed and went back to solve their own problems.

"And the dishes!"

Seeing that there were fresh vegetables in the porridge, Zhuang Zhou's eyes lit up with excitement.

It's been months, and he hasn't eaten a single bite of fresh vegetables. Pick up the bowl and swallow it in two bites. Putting down the rough ceramic bowl, he picked up another piece of dough and nibbled on it.

Yang Zhu's disciple saw Zhuang Zhou's appearance of a hungry ghost reincarnated, and went to bring him a bowl of vegetable porridge.

"Hmmm! Delicious! ”

After eating the dough, he picked up the bowl again and drank the vegetable porridge. Put down the dishes and chopsticks and pick up another dough.

"Go and give it to him again!" Yang Zhu gestured.

"Master! There's not much left in the pot, and you and Qing'er haven't eaten yet! He wasn't prepared for dinner! ”

"Bring it over! Give it all to him! ”

"Yes!"

Qing'er stood aside, looking at Zhuang Zhou's gluttony, and was so angry in her heart! I can't wait to step forward and snatch his dishes and chopsticks and snatch the dough from his hand.

That's it! Footsteps were heard outside the door.

"Master Yang Zhu! Have you eaten it? ”

A middle-aged man about forty years old walked up. He held a roasted rabbit leg in his hand and placed it on the table.

"Zhuang Zhou! Let's eat rabbit meat! I know you didn't prepare him for the night! The middle-aged man said, got up, tore the rabbit's legs into pieces, and gave a large piece to Zhuang Zhou.

"Ahh And rabbit meat! ”

Zhuang Zhou was ecstatic, and he was not polite, so he took it and ate it. He's a little kid, where does he know politeness, this was originally his home, what's polite?

After dinner, Yang Zhu took Zhuang Zhou and Qing'er to other thatched huts to talk about the scriptures with his disciples. I didn't come back until late at night, when the weather was cold.

"Zhuang Zhou! Sit down! Qing'er! Sit down! Grandpa teaches you Taoist breathing! ”

Yang Zhu took the lead in sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed and beckoned.

"Taoist breathing?" Zhuang Zhou muttered to himself.

"Grandpa?" Qing'er muttered reluctantly. She didn't want her grandfather to teach Zhuang Zhou martial arts, including this Taoist breathing method.

"Grandpa?" Zhuang Zhou asked, "Are you a Taoist?" ”

"I'm the best of all worlds!" Yang Zhu asked rhetorically: "Do you want to learn?" ”

"I learn! I learn! Under Yang Zhu's questioning, Zhuang Zhou agreed, and sat cross-legged on the wooden bed.

Qing'er reluctantly got on the wooden bed and sat next to her grandfather.

Seeing that Zhuang Zhou imitated himself and sat down, Yang Zhu nodded with satisfaction, and then began to teach officially.

"The Taoist breathing method can not only maintain health, but also increase a person's martial arts strength! It's a very good exercise! Remember! Practice every day, whenever you have time! Even when you're fighting the enemy, you have to find time to practice......"

The Taoist breathing method, to put it bluntly, is reverse abdominal breathing. It is to relax the body first, relax the mind, relax and relax and then relax. The Taoist breathing method of the Yang Zhu period is actually deep breathing, that is, from consciously taking deep breathing against the abdomen to unconsciously and naturally breathing deep against the abdomen.

"Relax! Just relax! Relax again! Let the body be completely relaxed, and then let the mind be completely relaxed, and reach a state of selflessness! Well! Good! Right now! Breathe with me! Levator anus! Tummy tucked! Inhale! Qi and blood ascending......

Attention! Zhuang Zhou! Qing'er! Men and women should be treated differently! Attention! After the man inhales, the air travels from behind, from the back of the backbone, to the back of the head and the top of the head. When you reach the top of your head, the inhale is complete and you begin to exhale. Pass through the top of the head and descend to the center of the eyebrows, the bridge of the nose, and the tip of the tongue. The tip of the tongue pressed against the root of the maxillary teeth, and then descended, and the qi sank into the dantian......"

After teaching Zhuang Zhou the method of breathing luck, Yang Zhu began to teach Qing'er the method of breathing luck. A woman's breathing luck runs in the opposite direction of a man's, which is to go up from the front to the tip of the tongue and the top of the head, and then exhale downward, and the mind is the same.

This method is the Taoist breathing method, also known as the health breathing method. To practice this method, you must have a teacher's guidance, otherwise! It's easy to get caught up. Later generations evolved into the Zhoutian operation method of Qigong according to this method, which opened up the eight veins of the large and small Zhoutian and the Qijing......