Chapter 7: The Mantra
Get up early in the morning of the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the atmosphere in the Forbidden City is solemn, the guards outside the Qianqing Palace are lined up in a long column to wait, the three battalion sergeants each choose the elite to form a phalanx, carrying jade silk, cattle and sheep, melons, fruits, wine and other sacrificial supplies, all kinds of ritual utensils are exquisitely shaped, but there are not many fancies, it seems quite frugal, Chang Sihao saw that Longqing did not show up, presumably still presumably still preparing, he was not interested in sacrificial activities, knowing that the time was still early, he said hello to Liu Jinwu, and went straight to Xiyuan Sanqingguan,
An Bixun was cleaning the yard, saw him coming, hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, Miao Feng copied the scriptures on the desk, heard the movement, and also put down the pen and walked out of the main hall, seeing Chang Sihao wearing a black gauze crown, wearing a big red cloud brocade shirt, covered with flying snow heroes, the blood-red lake crepe lining was blown by the wind, and the fishy and glamorous was good-looking, and said with a smile: "You kid, but you are in good spirits again,"
Chang Sihao stretched out his arms to look at himself, thinking that even if I didn't look good, after being taken care of twice by Yin'er and Sister Gu in the morning, I should be presentable, and smiled and saluted: "How are you doing these days, the child is here to give you New Year's greetings in advance," Miaofeng is an old sister without a liver, and he also calls himself a child,
Miao Feng smiled and sighed: "The New Year is good, usually it is difficult, cough, and I am a year old," said and reached out to hold Chang Sihao's vein, separated from it, let go and said: "Okay, good, this 'Yu Wang Liu' you practice very diligently, the stagnant qi and blood have been dispersed cleanly,"
Chang Sihao smiled: "I'm ashamed to say it, I really didn't practice how you taught this guiding technique, just playing while shopping, and realized a thing or two, and then I was lazy, so I no longer used my consciousness to control it, and I handed it over to my feet,"
Miao Feng was stunned and said, "Give it to your feet,"
Chang Sihao said: "It is to use the pressure naturally generated by walking, take the soles of the feet as the heart and lungs, control the blood and breath, let the qi and blood operate by themselves, and slowly there is no need to be conscious...... Miaofeng interrupted: "How do you use the soles of your feet as your heart and lungs," Chang Sihao said: "But it is also simple, take a step, the heel first lands on the ground, and then the soles of the feet fall naturally, the five toes to the ground and grab, the soles of the feet will shrink up, and relax back when you take a step, so a shrink is similar to breathing, and it is very similar to a heart......beat."
Miao Feng interrupted again: "This mental method...... Who told you this," Chang Sihao said: "I tried it out myself, and no one told me," Miaofeng wondered in his heart: "How is this possible, the true secret of 'the breath of a true person' is a secret that has not been passed down through the ages, and it was ...... by you" was stunned for a while,
The so-called breath of the real person is a sentence recorded in the inner chapter of Zhuangzi, the original text is: "The breath of the real person is the heel, and the breath of the people is in the throat," which seems to say that the ancient real people breathed deeply, which is just a metaphor, but in fact, there is a secret to the practice.
The heel is the heel, is the foot of the sun tendon knot, people often have heel pain, in fact, the disease is not in the heel, but in the internal imbalance of qi and blood, the human organs are each other's surface and inside, there are internal diseases can be reflected in the outside, the same, if the heel is strengthened, it can also reverse the situation in the body, but the heel is a large tendon knot, it is difficult to stimulate it deeply, which requires some special methods,
Normal people take off their shoes and socks, the big toe is upturned hard, will feel an oblique tendon in the sole of the foot into the heel, rub this tendon every day, just like plucking the strings, can make the whole human body like the body of the piano reverberate and resonate, this method of fitness effect is grand, but people often can not insist, so the predecessors of the Taoist door have developed a way, the opposite: do not warp the toes, but buckle the toes down, so that the diagonal tendon adduction, as long as this consciousness is added, take steps like chicken feet, step like duck paws, shrink and release, not only convenient, and the effect is better than daily massage,
In martial arts, to practice the dantian strength, internal strength, the key lies in the word Shen, this mention, in addition to lifting the anus, jade pillow acupoint, is to lift the heart of the hands and feet, this lifting Shen and panting breath is different, but the dynamics are similar, and the same can drive the whole body qi and blood to run, play the same role as breathing, human nature likes mysterious, this method is too simple, directly written but easy to annihilate, so Zhuangzi does not write, but leaves a "real person's breath in the heel" In this way, future generations will be bored when reading, slowly study the roots, and solve the wonders, so as to obtain the treasure, and even if the inheritance of the master and apprentice is unfortunately broken, this method can also be passed on from generation to generation in the interval of the heart, and it is difficult for people with impetuousness and evil thoughts to study and ignore it, and this secret will not be discovered by them.
At this time, Miaofeng looked at Chang Sihao's appearance that he didn't know, and he was bored in his heart, and suddenly realized again: "Yes, yes, the secret spectrum of the predecessors and sages, how is it not a record of self-realization, the descendants take the book as a teacher, according to the map, it is inevitable to draw tigers, but this child is focused on himself, all by physical feeling, anti-simple and true, but it is in response to the meaning of the sages,"
She muttered to herself these words, Chang Sihao didn't hear them too clearly, and said: "I have a question to ask you, recently I occasionally have a heartbeat and breathing that are getting slower and slower, and I feel like I'm almost stopping, but my body is not uncomfortable, I don't know why,"
Miao Feng didn't answer, pulled him into the house, brought him to the statue of the Emperor Zhenwu and said, "You come and kowtow six heads,"
Chang Sihao didn't know what he meant, but he wanted to celebrate the New Year, and it was normal to worship the gods.
Miao Feng pulled him aside and sat down, and said: "Slowing down breathing and heartbeat is nothing, all stop and people don't die, it is the normal state of my Daomen, which means that you have achieved cultivation, don't worry," Chang Sihao Daqi: "How can people not gasp and not have a heartbeat,"
Miao Feng smiled indifferently and asked: "Have you ever had the experience of cutting your fingertips," Chang Sihao nodded, when he was a child, he was digging wild vegetables everywhere, and it was common for the tips of his hands to be scratched, but I don't know what it had to do with her mentioning this, Miao Feng said: "After the fingertips are cut, if you feel it quietly, you can feel a small 'heartbeat' around the wound, and you will move," Chang Sihao said: "Yes, yes, I have had this feeling,"
Miao Feng said: "The human body is closed, why open a gap, the heart rate remains the same, but the fingertips are beating and pressurizing, have you ever thought about the reason?"
Chang Sihao shook his head blankly,
Miaofeng said: "People think that it is the beating of the heart that presses the blood to all parts of the body, but in fact, it is not true, it is actually 'Sun Luo' who provides power to the blood,"
Chang Sihao heard Liu Banyong talk about medicine, and immediately realized what she was referring to, and asked, "You mean the tiny blood vessels all over the body,"
Miao Feng nodded: " The heart is just a dam, it plays a regulating role, the real power is in the countless sources of the fine, the fluctuations they provide are small and large, it is surging, the heart of this dam is affected by the blood flow, shrinking and expanding, so that the mediocre people of the world mistakenly think that it is the source of power, your heartbeat will occasionally stop, indicating that the controllability of qi and blood has been greatly enhanced, the balance of qi and blood everywhere, there is no need for the contraction and expansion of the dam to regulate the flow, continue to practice, until the heart never stops, it is the method of true quiet, the Taoist door calls it the living dead,"
Chang Sihao listened to it thrillingly, since he was born, this heart has not stopped, and he usually doesn't care about it, but if his heart doesn't beat one day, he really doesn't know what the situation is, he touched his chest, and couldn't help but feel a little worried,
Miao Feng continued: " Don't be afraid, the lungs are the main fur, the skin on the surface of the human body, all have the function of breathing, the lungs and the heart work is also very similar, the fetus does not breathe in the mother's body, give birth to a pat on the buttocks, spit out turbidity, it activates the lungs, with this acquired qi, there is also birth, old age, sickness and death, people with good skin are naturally full of qi, so they are very healthy, and people with old skin first, skin is old, gas is insufficient, and finally only the lungs are left to shrink, that is anti-customer-oriented, the cart is upside down, the breathing is getting worse and worse, the person's energy is becoming more and more exhausted, swallow the last breath, and die, your breathing stops, indicating that the skin's breathing ability is getting stronger, so that the lungs get intermittent rest, the same as the heart stops, this is also a manifestation of the process of returning to the innate from the day after tomorrow, and when the time is deep, everything can be controlled, and it doesn't matter if the heartbeat and breathing stop,"
After she said this, Chang Sihao walked casually, covering his body, and became sensitive, as if the cold hair all over his body was being stirred by the thin warm wind, feeling fresh and weird, inexplicable, and his face involuntarily revealed a little fear.
Miao Feng smiled: "Look at you scared, okay, okay, don't worry, it's normal, there are people in the world who have a little Taoist fur, can be buried in the soil for a few days, and then the turtle breath, the fetal breath boasts, in fact, it is shallow and tight, the human body has its own miracles, what to say is normal and supernormal, shun death as a ghost, reverse death as an immortal, immortals, Buddhas, gods and ghosts, nothing more than several states of people, just like someone to be a cook, someone to be a tailor, although the things are different, the fundamental attribute of people is unchanged,"
Chang Sihao was in a trance when he heard this, and asked, "According to what you say, isn't this immortal an adult?"
Miaofeng said: "This nature, there are clouds in the words: ' Seeing is the image of the word, the form is the instrument of the word, the method of making and using the word, using the people, the people use it, the god is called the god, 'this is the origin of the first immortal, for example: the ancients lived in the cave of the leaves of the clothes, did not know how to use fire, the Suiren saw the lightning striking the tree and started a fire, this is the image, and then figured out the method of drilling wood with branches to make fire, and then taught everyone to make and use, everyone benefited, it was called God, but he was not still a person, and it was the same in the later generations, the wisdom and integrity of the gods, and the longevity of the immortals, Sun Zhenren's note "On Evil Diseases" Words: "Dozens of immortals, all because of evil diseases and immortals, is the dust is exhausted, everything I forget, there is no thought, because of the blessing of misfortune," since the immortals 'dozens of people', are they not all people," Chang Sihao said: "However, don't the immortals have magical powers, soar through the clouds and fog, and know the past and the future?"
Miao Feng laughed: "Reading through the history books, can you know the past, according to the history of the new, don't you know the future, as for the magic power, some are martial arts scenes, some are false rumors, and some are deliberately made up,"
Cultivators pay attention to the law and wealth, because the practice itself has taken a lot of time, there is no time to take care of other things, so the use of tricks and martial arts to deceive the foolish men and women to give alms, in order to earn some living expenses, Taoism and Buddhism, is a way of treating life, and the reasons for the formation of religion are very mixed, and most of them are related to politics, and many of the rules formulated are even very different from the practitioners, Chang Sihao listened to her explanation, and felt that the things that were very familiar in the brain were being subverted, and he was at a loss for a while.
Miaofeng said: "There is no need to say much about the far, you are the root of the immortal family, it is easy to cultivate, although there are a lot of self-realizations, after all, you have learned the method of guidance first, and you have the benefits of the sages, just now the first three worships are to thank you for the grace of the ancients," Chang Sihao said: "Yes, this is the way it should be," Miaofeng said: "But you have not obtained the inheritance of the authentic Taoist lineage, and you have obtained it in vain, and it is easy to deviate, and you will be punished by God, and the last three worships are to ask you to apologize for this,"
Chang Sihao couldn't cry or laugh, thinking that the gods are all absurd legends, where is the damnation, this Miaofeng has a clear mind, he was deceived by Concubine Lu Jing back then, and the whole goose is stupid, but I still believe her, and I listened to it for a long time, I knew it was so, and this head didn't knock,
Miao Feng saw that his expression was not right, and said solemnly: "The ancients did not learn art before learning etiquette, do you know the reason?"
Chang Sihao shook his head,
Miaofeng said: "People have politeness, there is prudence, only trembling, can you experience the subtlety, perceive the changes in your body, you just have a great change in temperament, obviously the mentality is not right, I am afraid of falling into evil,"
Chang Sihao made a respectful look and said, "Yes, yes, what the real person said is,"
Miao Feng's face softened a little: "Although your root instrument is good, you should also be brave and diligent, when he is in the immortal class, he knows that I am right, the previous pass on your 'Yu Wang Liu' is one of the 'Eight Methods of the Heavenly Ladder' in my Sanssouci Hall, I originally wanted you to use this technique to guide autonomy, but it was just a superficial transmission, I didn't expect you to further understand the true secret of the heart method, I think it is also a providential arrangement, today I will teach you the entire set of practice methods, and the ancestor will guide you as the seventh generation disciple of Sanssouci Hall,"
Chang Sihao thought to himself that your master Wu Dao was obsessed with fantasy all day long, and he had already hid in Hainan to talk to the gods, and you brothers who were born and died and were eight demons were also confused, I didn't want to be like this, so I got up and said with a smile: "I'm not interested in being a Taoist, so I still don't want to learn, in fact, I'm here to ...... today."
Miao Feng interrupted: "Hey, you don't have to be a monk to be a disciple of my sect, the avenue points directly to the hearts of the people, how can you stick to the principle of form, the so-called law is congenital, the body is natural, and it doesn't matter if you practice in my sect, it doesn't matter if you marry a wife and have children, you can rest assured,"
The more earnest her expression became, the more bored Chang Sihao became, nodded again and again, and laughed with her: "Yes, yes, by the way, is the liverless old queen in good health, I want to meet the old man, give her a New Year's greeting, kowtow,"
Miao Feng raised his forehead and said, "Uh...... I forgot to tell you about it, she's gone......"
Chang Sihao exclaimed: "What, she passed away, when,"