Xiu Erdai's daily essays

3743_Maybe there is a giant

Me: "Could this be a giant's pot? He's cooking himself breakfast?"

Wen Chengzhui: "Maybe it's supper?"

Me: "And we are pollutants that fall into the pot, like... rat droppings?"

Zhu Jiaopei: "I think we are flavor enhancers. Spiritual power that operates regularly should be delicious."

Me: "But my Lingbao told me that although the glutinous rice ball stuffing has high energy, the taste is not good, so if the taste of the glutinous rice ball stuffing is what the giant likes, then his preference for food is different from ours, so , what we find delicious to ourselves may be unpalatable to the palate of giants."

Zhu Jiaopei: "Does the taste mean we are safe? The giant couldn't help but spit us out as soon as it put us in its mouth?"

Me: "It may also be that after chewing us up, we found that we were unpalatable, and then spit us out as crumbs."

Zhu Jiaopei: "If there is no spiritual power when chewing, we can put the broken pieces back together."

Me: "From the perspective of the energy contained in the glutinous rice balls, in order to eat the glutinous rice balls, it is unlikely that the giant chews without spiritual power. On the contrary, the spiritual power used by the giant to eat food must be higher than the attack power of these liquids around us, otherwise It's not convenient for him to drink soup."

Wen Chengzhui: "It must be more defensive than the glutinous rice ball skin, otherwise you won't be able to bite the filling."

Me: "Hong Xingui attacked when he first touched the glutinous rice balls, but he failed to break through the defense, so the giant's chewing attack power must be higher than the Jindan peak Hong Xingui's deliberate attack. It's quite dangerous."

Zhu Jiaopei: "But Mr. Pei must be able to defend himself."

Me: "It's a matter of life and death. It's better for me to be humble. Now I only guess the lower limit of the giant's eating attack power. It's hard to say the upper limit. Maybe it's Mahayana level?"

Wen Chengzhui: "Secret realms are often related to ancient immortals."

Me: "Wow..."

Aonuo: "Can you be more serious? What fairy tales are you telling?"

Me: "Fellow Daoist Ao, do you believe it? In fact, many fairy tales contain the facts of the time when the story was formed. For example, when you were young, you must have heard that in the flood that spreads all over the world, a bird picks up a stone, and a bird picks up a stone. Filling in the flood, seemingly futile and seemingly effective, trying to quell the disaster of water'. This at least reflects the global flood in the time of catastrophe, right?"

Me: "That bird is actually mentioned in historical materials, and it's not just the epitome of the public image of fighting against the catastrophe. That bird should have actually existed, and it was a monster. It was stubborn in the stormy sky full of despair. Fight hard, repeat the same action over and over again, until..."

Aonuo: "Until what?"

Me: "There has been some movement in Hong Xingui's glutinous rice balls."

Aonuo: "What... what does he do?"

Me: "Fairy tales are nice? I'll continue telling you when it's empty."

Aonuo: "coax the child?"

Me: "This description is a bit new, and I was usually coaxed as a child."

3744_ Monks should and must know themselves best

Aonuo: "Why are you and senior Wen so calm? Are you really calm or am I hallucinating again?"

Me: "Believe what you want to believe, don't think too much."

Aonuo: "What are you willing to believe? Raising the Gu Pool and the Secret Realm, I am becoming more and more distrustful of reality. Why can you trust me who have also been to these two places?"

Me: "Actually, when I first came out of the secret realm of the gap, my heart was also full of unreality."

Aonuo: "How do you eliminate those feelings of unreality? How do you make sure that you are in the real world?"

Me: "After careful research, I have not found evidence. If one day I suddenly find that I have not actually come out of the gap, I may not be very surprised, because there has always been such a doubt in my heart."

Aonuo: "But you don't seem to be panicking."

Me: "Because panic is useless. No matter how panicked I am, I trap my illusion, if there is such an illusion, I will not soften my heart and reveal redundant loopholes. If I can't see the flaws in the illusion when I am calm, then I'm definitely not able to see it even more in my panic."

Me: "If everything in front of me is false, then in order to break through the blindfold, I must be more calm."

Me: "But the more important reason why I can calm down is that I believe that if I am trapped by the illusion, my father and Yunxiazong will definitely come to rescue me. Before being rescued, all I need to ensure is my own safety and health I carefully observed my spiritual power and my golden core, compared the various theories I knew, and confirmed that I was intact over and over again."

Aonuo: "What if your judgment about yourself is also based on false information?"

Me: "Cultivators should know themselves best, and monks must know themselves best. If you can't get peace of mind through repeated self-study, then... oh, no, you are not a swordsman, you can't practice [-] million times with 'basic sword moves' 'This is a general method. Fellow Wen Daoist, how do Dharma practitioners usually meditate? Apart from meditation. It is best to let the body move, so that you can think less, do more, and feel naturally."

Wen Chengcone bounced a water polo into the air, and the water polo exploded into multiple small water polos, which in turn exploded into small water polos, which continued to split until they merged into the glutinous rice ball water.

Wen Chengzhui: "It's all the same. Practice the basic techniques repeatedly, without using your brain, just watch the effects of the techniques over and over again, similar but different."

3745_When you get flustered, go back to the beginning

I said to Aonuo: "Look, that's it. When you feel flustered, go back to the beginning, what you learned when you first came into contact with cultivation, and the mood when you learned it, as well as the current mood, and the basics of each training. Moods, to recall them, to reproduce them."

Me: "The foundation is very important. It is the root. It is not only the cornerstone to climb upwards, but also the hand to hold the kite string. When you don't know what to do next, go back to the basics and practice from scratch, and you will be clearer .If you are still not clear enough, practice a few more times.”

Aonuo: "Is it really effective to train without thinking?"

Me: "It's very effective for me, because my brain is not good. Instead of thinking about it, it's better to do it in a down-to-earth manner. Dreams will end up as random thoughts. At least practicing the basics will not have side effects."

Aonuo: "Is it true that there will be no side effects if you practice the basics without restraint?"

Me: "Well... I can't think of what the side effects could be. During the qi training period, it may also cause excessive fatigue and muscle damage due to too much training. After the foundation building period, even if you keep practicing except for sleeping time, you can practice for a year and a half. Can the spiritual power always be maintained at more than [-]%? And [-]% of the spiritual power is enough to keep the body healthy."

Me: "I don't think it's easy to practice physical or spiritual damage with only basic training, because the basics are only a few moves, and you can even go through it in a minute after you are proficient. Practice for a day without interruption? A month? A year? Get bored before you do yourself any harm, and unconsciously focus on other things."

Me: "Oh, being bored is also a kind of spiritual injury. If you are bored, do something else instead of pushing yourself too hard. Cultivation is an interesting thing, be happy."

Aonuo: "...Aren't we talking about distinguishing illusion?"

Me: "The conclusion is that you can distinguish by recognizing yourself."

Aonuo: "If you can break the illusion just by looking at yourself, why are there still so many people stuck in the illusion and can't get out? If no matter how complicated and profound the illusion is, as long as you see yourself clearly, you can break the illusion, then the level of the illusion What's the point?"

Me: "I think the answer to the first question is that many people get lost in the scenes created by the illusion, and their minds are completely attracted by the false scenery, and they don't even look at themselves, let alone see clearly; The answer is that the higher the level of illusion, the more it will prevent you from seeing yourself clearly."

3746_ Get as much results as possible with as little effort as possible

Wen Chengzhui: "Illusions often appear together with demons, because illusions often need to stimulate your thinking and use many pictures in your consciousness to construct the content of the illusion. What you care about the most, what you fear the most, what you like the most...all can What causes your mood to change greatly are all the bricks and stones that generate illusions."

Wen Chengzhu: "It has nothing to do with your thinking at all, and only reflects the preferences of those who arrange the illusion. Yes, but it is more used as a training ground or a competition field, and rarely used as a means of attack, because we generally respect it. The attack method is to make the best use of the situation, to get as much results as possible with as little effort as possible, so digging out the enemy's weaknesses and attacking them is much more effective than blindly showing off one's own strengths without considering the enemy's actual situation."

Aonuo: "What if you can't find the enemy's weakness?"

Me: "Then we can only continue to search while showing off our strengths. If you are lucky, you may win the opponent before you find it? When you are crushed by strength, you don't need a lot of skills. But then again, if you already have Shouldn't it be easy to crush the opponent's strength and find out the opponent's weakness? Is it difficult for the Jindan stage to find the weakness of the foundation stage?"

Aonuo: "Do you know what my weakness is?"

Me: "Your psychological problems are all written on your face, as if you can easily know it without cultivation? Didn't your classmates sympathize with or laugh at you because of this?"

Aonuo: "My classmates are not so boring."

Me: "Then what are the regular entertainment activities in Mitangyan? Will gossip be included in the general entertainment items?"

Aonuo: "This is the privacy of our Mitangyan, I won't tell you."

Me: "Actually, I know the private content of Mitangyan. I just asked you to be polite. Hey, do you know the Xu family, a family of cultivators? For example, Xu Qing, whose cultivation base is similar to yours."

Aonuo: "I know Xu Qing is your mission target."

Me: "I think you and Xu Qing have similarities. You two may become good friends, but it may also be the opposite, because you are too similar and hate each other."

Me: "We can tolerate and even enjoy many problems in ourselves, but when the same problems appear in others, we may not be able to tolerate them. So what we enjoy is the convenience brought to us by that problem, but in fact we I also know that those conveniences are based on inconvenience to others."