When people were in Qin, the advantage was mine

Chapter 67 Cultivation
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Life is still going on, and the only difference from before is that there is an extra princess of Zhao State in the Luoyang Lord's Mansion. Of course, everyone only paid attention to it during the few days they came in, and no one mentioned it again after that. After all, it was not the official residence. Shi Shi is just a little girl who doesn’t even have a status.

Of course, no one said anything about Ying Chen being arrogant. She was just a princess of the Zhao Kingdom. Now to the Qin Kingdom, Ying Chen was no different from the King of Qin. In fact, Ying Chen did something that the King of Qin could never do or could not do in some aspects. Things to do.

Benevolence and righteousness, this quality is not something worthy of praise for a king, it is not even a good thing.

Duke Mu of Qin has already shown everyone that a monarch who is benevolent and righteous will only ask for trouble. As long as your own merits are sufficient, these small problems in private ethics are not worth mentioning at all. There are only some "unappreciated talents" who feel that they are How powerful a person can be to hold on to these things.

As long as adults have seen reality, they will understand that the so-called benevolence, justice and morality are nothing more than face projects. Only those who build a good reputation are qualified to build face. Otherwise, in the eyes of everyone, this becomes self-reliance and self-righteousness... …

To put it bluntly, Mu Qiang, this is a common characteristic of living things. As long as you are strong enough, there will be enough people to clean up the ground for you.

After all, people always think that this act of washing the ground will allow them to establish some kind of special connection with the person they admire, and he will also gain... pride from it.

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The backyard of Luoyang Jun's Mansion.

Without the war, Ying Chen was naturally idle, or in other words, he had been idle most of the time in the past few years.

And in this free time, Concubine Yan naturally started the teaching of Yin and Yang that she had promised before.

"The Yin Yang family's realm cultivation is divided into five levels: alchemy, illusion, mind control, astrology, and soul-changing. Almost all of the Five Spirit Xuantong have mastered the illusion. The five elders can generally reach the third level of mind control, and the protector You need to reach at least the fourth level, Luna is currently on the fourth level, and I have reached the fifth level." Concubine Yan introduced.

"As for the headmaster Donghuang Taiyi, his realm should have reached the ultimate realm of heaven and man pursued by the Yin Yang family, and belongs to the same realm as the Taoist unity of heaven and man."

Jiang Hushang refers to the master realm as the unity of heaven and man, which is actually wrong. The unity of nature and man is a realm unique to Taoism, just like the limits of heaven and man in the Yin Yang family. The cultivation realm of each sect is different. The so-called First-class and second-class are just nicknames. This kind of title only represents internal strength and skill level, but does not represent strength.

The reason why there is such a false distinction between martial artists as first-rate and second-rate is because those fake people in the world have fooled people. Real martial arts sects will not use the terms first-rate and second-rate internally.

Just like the Mohist mentality has ten levels, there are also ten levels of realm, and their highest realm is universal love.

But Taoism...

"Taoist cultivation does not talk about realm." Ying Chen said.

"However, this kind of practice barely has six realms."

"Six?" Concubine Yan was stunned.

She has never heard that Taoism has realm divisions, because even though Taoism is divided into two sects, heaven and man, they all have one thing in common, which is not to compete with others.

Martial arts itself exists for fighting. Taoist martial arts focuses on internal strength, which is one's own practice, rather than fighting with others. Therefore, Taoist martial arts has no realm division except for the unity of nature and man.

However, Ying Chen, Bei Mingzi's direct disciple, should know more.

"The first level is knowing color as color."

"Being attached to things leads to greed, wandering in life and death, and never losing sight of the true way. At this stage, you want certainty in everything, your material desires are inflated, and you are obsessed with getting and winning."

"I don't know that I don't know."

"The second level is to know that emptiness is emptiness."

"After the second stage, head-to-head encounters, bumps and bruises, I began to look inward, understand the gaps, understand that there is no eternal first and best in the colorful world, and began to improve my own cultivation and spiritual realm."

"Know that you don't know."

"The third level is that the sky is color."

"Different ideas have a mutually reinforcing relationship, and there are also some that are quite bad. I have no established self-values. I absorb both the good and the bad. I am unable to distinguish and summarize. I start to get confused. I know that some things are empty and some are wrong, but I am influenced by them. It affects the color that was originally on the normal track.”

"Know that what you know is wrong."

"The fourth level, bright color is emptiness."

"Tao generates all things, that is, color is born from Tao. Trace back to the source and look at the essence. Everything has its own reason for existence. At first, you can't argue without arguing. With the fire eye, you can recognize the truth. Understand the rules of human nature and the operation of things in the world. Slowly look away and form One’s own set of values, impeccable, unified both physically and mentally, internally and externally.”

"Know that you know."

"The fifth level, colorless."

"Continuously correct yourself, expand into unknown areas, no longer rely on what is in the world, start to create and sublimate, and consciously self-discipline. Reaching this level is a step from the materialistic realm. You begin to understand that in addition to the things that are tangible and visible, There is still a lot to ask for, and there is another meaning. Slowly discard the color, and the important state is conscious self-correction. Only by knowing how to relax and have self-discipline can you be free and happy."

“Know that you know only so much.”

"The sixth level is empty."

"It is very difficult to reach this state. After all, in life, you must live without being happy with things, without being sad with yourself, without increasing or decreasing, without birth or destruction. It can be said to be without desires and desires, that is, the unity of nature and man." "The thoughts that arise in the heart are unconscious, and they are all good thoughts. If the mind is clear and the nature is clear, there is nothing to seek, and you will attain the Tao and ascend to heaven."

"It doesn't matter whether you know it or not."

This is the serious practice of Taoism. Those so-called martial arts techniques are nothing more than the unexpected gains of the Taoist predecessors in order to practice themselves. All external means are secondary. The ultimate and only purpose is to improve oneself. Chase the inner.

It’s just that people need to live in this world, and Taoist disciples also need to live. Therefore, Taoist things have gradually become “secular”. The Yin Yang School is the ultimate embodiment of this “secularization”. They no longer pay attention to their own practice and turn to And pursuing external power is the limit of heaven and man.

No one can say who is right or wrong among these paths. After all, no one has truly reached the peak. Even if he has reached it, no one else has seen it, because the Taoist sages, without exception, have all disappeared.

Lao Tzu looked at the water and saw that the best was like water. As a result, he left Hangu Pass in the west and disappeared directly.

Liezi walked against the wind, and he really went with the wind.

Zhuangzi dreamed of a butterfly, and at the sixth watch, it turned into a butterfly and flew away without a trace.

No one knows what happened to these old Taoists, what they saw, what state they had reached, and why they disappeared?

But at least these people have achieved the unity of nature and man. Therefore, in order to follow the traces of their predecessors, the descendants of Taoism regard the unity of nature and man as their goal.

However, Bei Mingzi achieved the unity of heaven and man, and even witnessed the disappearance of Zhuangzi that year, but he still knew nothing about the path after the unity of heaven and man.

He also reached the unity of heaven and man in martial arts, but he still didn't feel anything, so he tried to integrate the limits of heaven and man from the Yin Yang family, hoping to find some ideas.

"It turns out that Taoist practice is like this. Concubine Yan was taught." Concubine Yan said in confusion.

The Yin Yang family's cultivation is all for reality, or in other words, attachment to external objects.

If one were to follow the Taoist cultivation realm, the people of the Yin Yang family would probably all be on the first level, knowing that color is color. After all, Yin and Yang cultivation would not be possible without a heart that is obsessed with power.

"It's just bragging." Ying Chen shook his head.

"Nowadays, there are only a few old men in Tianzong who are still willing to practice according to this realm. Young people, even Tianzong disciples, mostly have their own persistence. What they focus on is not themselves, but skills. "

"As for Renzong, under the guise of my pursuit of a better society, everyone is doing it for their own fame and wealth, deceiving themselves and others, and what they say is better than what they sing."

The separation between the two sects of Taoism, heaven and man, was initially due to different understandings of Tao.

Renzong pays attention to joining the world and inherited Laozi's will to pursue a better society.

Tianzong pays attention to being born from the world, advocating the way of heaven, doing nothing, and manpower is small. There is no need to be obsessed with what is right or wrong at the moment. Nothing is absolutely good or bad.

However, after hundreds of years of development, Tianzong was okay. He was born when he said he was born, and he never paid attention to the disputes in the world.

But the Renzong became more and more worldly and utilitarian, so much so that not only the Tianzong looked down upon the Renzong, but also the Yin and Yang family also looked down upon the Renzong.

The current state of Renzong has nothing to do with Taoism's tranquility and inaction!

To put it bluntly, Taoism originally played with philosophy. Both Laozi and more recently Zhuangzi played with philosophy. But Renzong, they played with sociology and even developed a set of routines with the mission of saving the world. .

"May I ask, Lord Luoyang, what state is he in now?" Concubine Yan asked curiously.

"I should be in the colorless realm now." Ying Chen said.

"However, the old man Bei Mingzi said that I should be between colorless and empty, so my martial arts realm has reached the unity of heaven and man, but I can still practice yin and yang that can only be practiced in the first realm. Technique."

"The old man said that I was not pure. If I could let go of the secular world, I should have the opportunity to pursue the realm of Taoist sages, but I just did it half and half."

Speaking of this, Ying Chen looked helpless, "You don't even know that Donghuang taught me how to travel as a dragon in the soul, but the moment I really learned it, the old man Bei Mingzi was ready to kill Donghuang. "

"What are you talking about? I don't want to walk on the main road. I was dragged by Donghuang to walk on the single-plank bridge. The road ahead is worrying..."

In fact, if Donghuang Taiyi hadn't taught him Soul Xilongyou back then, which prevented him from entering the true unity of heaven and man, now he... I'm afraid he would have really reached the realm of Wu Kong without desires or desires.

He doesn't even know what he is clinging to, and this kind of clinging is vague.

He doesn't understand, he can't figure it out, so he can only do what he wants to do. Now, whether it's military power or leading public losers to do things, it's actually just to kill time.

He never thought about making the Qin Empire indestructible, because this thing itself was impossible.

I have never thought about becoming a saint, because the existence of saints is anti-human.

However, the world has misunderstood him too much, thinking that he is a good person who serves the country and the people, but in fact he is not, he is just seeking fun.

And what these people misunderstood the most about him was that he was not a womanizer. Seriously, what bastard spread that?
When did he say that he was no longer a womanizer?Depend on!
(End of this chapter)