Under One Person, the little witch only wants to collect elves

Chapter 35 Greed and Madness
Completely away from the ferry turmoil, Yan Huan finally checked into the hotel. Unfortunately, after tossing and turning for most of the night, he only had six hours left before check-out. After thinking about it, he felt that it was enough time to get some sleep.

After practicing "life" kung fu, one of the obvious feedback from the body is that he sleeps less and deeper, and feels full of energy and has no desire to sleep. Although he has less time, his spirit is just as good as before. However, Yan Huan doesn't like this reversed day and night schedule. As soon as he opens his eyes, it is already noon, and he has missed the whole day in his sleep.

If it were possible to practice cultivation in dreams, what a wonderful thing that would be!

After checking out, Yan Huan left his luggage at the hotel and went out without taking anything with him.

The time of writing of the Miaojiang Gu Master's classics has not yet been clarified, and the boundaries of Qingzhou cannot be determined. Yan Huan can only rush around like a headless fly, but since he has arrived in Yantai, he will definitely not be able to avoid Penglai Pavilion.

It just so happened that this "First Pavilion in Jiangbei" had a strong mythological atmosphere, so he thought of going for a visit, perhaps he could get some exposure to the immortal world.

This place is a few kilometers away from Penglai Pavilion. It takes about twenty minutes to take a bus and walk there leisurely.

The journey was not far, but it was early summer and the weather was pleasant. Many people came here to travel, and the cars on the road were almost crowded into a sticky porridge.

"It happens to be the terminal, so I'll find a seat at the back and use this time to sort out what Brother Xiao said."

Yan Huan glanced at the bus stop map and thought to himself.

After waiting for a while, the car arrived.

Looking at the crowded heads of people on the bus, Yan Huan frowned, after all, he was still naive.

The car is so crowded that it's a relief to be able to squeeze in, let alone find a back seat.

"Sorry, please make way!"

"Brother, please move the bag in your hand! Grandma, please move your cart a little, I want to borrow your way!"

Yan Huan barely squeezed in, holding onto the hanging rings, swaying from time to time with the inertia of the car body.

"It's so hot, who sprayed such strong perfume, and these are leek buns, ahhh, the smell of body odor and sweat..."

"Why are there a few aunties who keep rubbing against me?"

It’s time to practice...
Yan Huan calmed down and tried his best to disconnect from the noisy and stuffy environment.

"When one is born into a state of tranquility and meditation, the four afflictions are present, and greed, arrogance, ignorance and views increase." He remembered what Xiao Zizai had said.

According to Yan Huan's understanding, this sentence should be persuading practitioners not to create unnecessary karma due to "greed" and to know when to stop during their practice.

"Come to think of it, Brother Xiao seems to have such a past."

Yan Huan suddenly thought of the background information of the temporary worker candidates. Although he didn't know whether the information was true or not, the matter about Lingyin Temple did make some sense.

It is said that Xiao Zizai became a disciple of Master Jiekong of Buddhism in order to suppress his inner demons. At that time, he did suppress his inner demons through practice, but the momentary excitement and joy made him too greedy for Zen, so much so that he turned a deaf ear to Master Jiekong's advice and increased his practice in private.

The consequence of being too greedy for Zen is the strong development of "ego".

All thoughts in human being are due to "self-attachment" and "self-opinion". One night, Xiao Zizai's inner demons took over and he killed his fellow disciples. The monks could not bear to break the Buddhist precepts and were cautious in their actions. Master Jiekong came upon hearing the news but did not kill Xiao Zizai. Instead, he took over the Great Compassionate Hand taught by him in his mortal body.

The meridians of his mentor were completely destroyed, and Xiao Zizai was freed from his inner demons. Afterwards, Jie Kong made a vow with Xiao Zizai and let him go down the mountain.

After returning to secular life, Xiao Zizai lived a normal life for several years, but after he almost killed his girlfriend one time, he ran away in a panic.

As luck would have it, he met a knife-wielding robber. Perhaps with a "just" reason, Xiao Zizai killed him. This temporarily suppressed his inner demons. After that, he turned himself in to the company's "bunker" and became a temporary worker, completely starting the path of walking on the line with a crime.

"The principle of greedy Zen and the state of greed in spiritual practice is the same. If you are too obsessed, you will fall into delusion. It sounds like it will test your spiritual cultivation more."

Yan Huan thought about it in light of Lao Xiao's experience and found that this was actually not difficult to understand.

It’s still the “degree” that people often talk about.

If one's practice lacks even a little, the heat will be insufficient, and one will be too greedy and reckless, easily going astray.

Cultivation is really difficult... But the truth is indeed like this, just as it is written in martial arts novels, those who have learned the secrets are the ones who don't care about them at the beginning.

Take Gou Ge for example, he was able to cultivate the top level of Buddhist internal skills and comprehend the Tai Xuan Sutra of the Island of Heroes. Is it because he is stupid?
Well... a little bit, but actually more importantly, Dog Brother’s state of mind was reconciled with those magical skills from the very beginning.

Since you intend to comprehend the supreme truth, but become complacent when you have achieved success and mistakenly fall into "self-attachment and self-centeredness", you have failed from the very first step in your cultivation.

Row!
Yan Huan understood the delusion.

But what about this madness?

In my opinion, I am not at all crazy.

"Sister, do you think I'm crazy?" Yan Huan's heart moved.

"Xiao Huan, can you first tell me what madness is?"

"Arrogant, arrogant, and insolent... something like that."

“Not only that, some madness is outward, while some is inward.” After saying that, Jin Jing’s clear and bright voice disappeared.

Reserved?

mad···

Yan Huan pondered over a few words and suddenly remembered something.

Zhang Jingqing, an old Taoist priest of the previous generation, also described Zhang Zhiwei, a Taoist priest of the Tiantong Sect, with just one word - crazy!

"But the old Taoist priest does have the capital to be arrogant."

Yan Huan had no idea who this title was for. To Zhang Zhiwei, to put it bluntly, it meant that he was second only to one person when he was happy, and second only to one person when he was unhappy.

What is the “top”? It means that only the sky is above, and no mountain can compare to it.

But Zhang Jingqing's evaluation of Zhang Zhiwei's madness is not madness in the traditional sense. According to this old Taoist priest, when he was young, Zhang Zhiwei had his own "person" in his mind, and he had his own thoughts on "what is cultivation" and "what is being a human being". Apart from that, he did not think much about some things in the outside world, and he did not even care about them.

Leisurely, a little bit lazy, a little bit chic and uninhibited, "arrogant", can be said to be crazy!
But this "arrogant" spirit did not mean looking down on anyone, but that it was simply not necessary. When he was young, he had no rivals among his peers. At the Lu family's birthday banquet, he slapped the once famous Lu Jin and made him cry.

Zhang Jingqing was a role model for a teacher and was able to recognize Zhang Zhiwei's "madness", which led to him going down the mountain to gain experience later.

Because he does not compete, no one in the world can compete with him. This is probably the important reason why Zhang Zhiwei can be called "the best".

"Hmm~"

Yan Huan looked at himself and found no clue.

After all, if it were an ordinary person, and they really had Zhang Zhiwei's life cultivation that had been tempered to the extreme, they would probably be even crazier than him!

Of course, the word "狂" here means literally.

"So what went wrong?"

"Is it because I am fine and Brother Xiao is planting a demon in my heart?"

This sounds a bit like a conspiracy theory, but of course it’s impossible!
Yan Huan's meditation was broken, "Sister Qingming, good sister, please give me some hints."

Just a little bit, I will figure out the rest by myself!

Ding Dong!

At this moment, the bus's noisy electronic announcement sounded, "Dear passengers, Penglai Pavilion West has arrived."

(End of this chapter)