Chapter 25 The Sea of ??Consciousness (1)
"Xiao Fang, do you want the nurse to put down your bed?" Old Sun looked at Fang Yi's hospital bed and shook it while eating just now, just so that Fang Yi could sit on the bed, but if he was sleeping and resting, this position would not work.
"Old Sun, no need, I'll just sit for a while..." Fang Yi smiled and shook his head. Although he could use his energy and qi while lying on the bed, the effect was not as good as meditation.
"Okay, then I'll take a while..." Old Sun had the habit of taking a nap, but he did not close his eyes immediately, but looked at Fang Yi curiously. He wanted to see how Fang Yi meditated.
Monks and Taoists use meditation to practice. Taoists call it cross-sitting or meditation, while in Buddhism it is called meditation or meditation. The posture is similar, so Fang Yi is not afraid of being seen by Mr. Sun. He immediately retracted his straight legs, his feet facing the sky, and made a cross-legged posture.
In the past, Fang Yi's cross-legged foot was a breeze, but at this time he was sore all over, and it took a lot of effort to tie his feet together. After he sat down, his forehead was no longer covered with fine beads of sweat.
"Wow..." After a long breath, Fang Yi put his hands naturally on his knees, his eyes seemed to be closed, and he began to adjust his breathing.
It has to be said that there is a certain reason for being able to meditate and practice in the same posture by monks and Taoists. The cross-legged feet make the whole person's body as steady as Liuhe Tower, from bottom to top, and sitting down like Mount Tai.
According to ancient Taoist medical principles, "the essence comes from the soles of the feet" is a supreme truth that has always been praised by traditional Chinese medicine theory.
If you feel sore and numb when sitting cross-legged with your feet and knees, it means that the nerves and blood vessels of the feet and legs are not smooth, which proves that there are potential problems in human health. As the saying goes, there is no pain if it is normal, and pain will not be smooth.
When meditating and refining qi, if you can pass the qi in the dantian from the buttocks to the thighs and knees, you will experience pain, itching, numbness, swelling, cold, and heat. When the internal energy is finally released, the pain and numbness will be cured.
The two feet of the human body are like the branches of ginseng, so coiling the two feet is equivalent to curling a ginseng or pine branch into knots, so that its hair growth ability will not be dispersed outside, returning to the root and cultivating its origin, thus making it more robust.
Therefore, the cross-legged cross-leggedness of the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism are of great benefit to entering into samadhi and refining qi and even ordinary people's physical exercises. Especially when Fang Yi's meridians are blocked, he uses a meditation posture to enter into samadhi and practice, which is much better than the natural recovery of sleep.
"This young man seems to be really cultivating aisle?"
Seeing the posture Fang Yi was posing, Sun Lianda nodded secretly. He knew the term "two-legged" position, but even among the so-called Buddhist lay Buddhists of Sun Lianda, the only one who could do this posture was so standard, then Fang Yi in front of him.
"I have never experienced practicing in this situation..." Although he closed his eyes, Fang Yi became more sensitive to the surroundings. He could clearly feel that Old Sun's eyes were always staring at him.
What Taoist meditation pursues is naturally to enter into meditation and enter into deep cultivation. Fang Yi once meditated in front of the deep mountain waterfall, so external interference is nothing to him. Now what Fang Yi wants to overcome is the impact of his own soreness.
"The immortality of the valley is called the mysterious female. The gate of the mysterious female is called the root of the heaven and earth. It is endless and cannot be used diligently..."
Fang Yi silently recited the Taoist scriptures in his heart, forcing his attention to turn from his body to his internal energy, and used his strong thoughts to guide his internal energy to walk in his body. However, this time he was walking in the Great Zhoutian, which was not only along the Ren and Du meridians, but also flowed on other meridians to relieve physical pain.
Fang Yi’s master once said that humans have evolved to this day, but they have only taken a small step on the road of evolution. The human body has endless potential. It can be said that everyone’s body is a mysterious treasure, but no one can develop it.
Whether it is the practice of Buddhism and Taoism, or seeking to ascense in the daytime or seeking to become a Buddha or an immortal, the ultimate goal is to develop one's own potential. However, modern technology is flourishing, and people focus more on scientific development, but ignore the fundamental reason why the human body can hold itself.
“It really works…”
Taking a deep breath and enduring the pain from his body, Fang Yi was running the internal energy and wandering around the world. After the internal energy was running, Fang Yi's body suddenly felt a slight ease. Although the soreness was still there, it had been reduced a lot.
When a person pays attention to something to the extreme, he will ignore everything next to him.
Fang Yi was taught to cross-legged by the old Taoist when he was two or three years old. This kind of practice had penetrated into his bone marrow. In just a few minutes, except for the occasional pain from his body, Fang Yi's spiritual consciousness was immersed in his dantian.
When the internal energy passed through Fang Yi's chest wound, Fang Yi's body trembled slightly, but when the internal energy wandered past the wound and continued to walk around the world, it quietly formed scars at the wound that was bandaged by gauze, which was several times faster than the recovery of a normal person.
However, the great circumference that Fang Yi traveled through was strictly speaking cut corners because he had not opened many acupoints. Otherwise, according to the Taoist cultivation system, Fang Yi would have entered the realm of refining qi and transforming into gods, which was also the second stage of internal alchemy.
Taoist Qi refining is divided into several stages. The first stage is called the foundation building of a hundred days. The purpose is to open up the Ren and Du meridians so that they can produce internal energy and walk around the world. This is the foundation of Qi refining and practicing Taoism. It is like building a foundation for a house. After building a foundation of a hundred days, they can naturally enter the stage of refining essence into qi.
In fact, what is said in martial arts novels are difficult to reach the sky, and after opening it, it will be invincible in the world. This is somewhat exaggerated. Opening the Ren and Du meridians will only make your internal energy smooth and strengthen your body, and your strength may not be much greater than that of ordinary people.
Not to mention the hermits living in the mountains and rivers, even in the city, many martial arts practitioners have opened up the Ren and Du meridians to produce a sense of qi. Just like Fang Yi's master has an old friend named Nan who opened up the Ren and Du meridians when he was in his teens.
However, after the old Taoist priest built a foundation for 100 days and reached the realm of refining essence and turning qi, the old friend of the old Taoist was influenced by various temptations from the outside world. Since then, he has never been able to turn back and calm down to practice. Although he has made a huge name in the outside world and is called a master of his generation, his cultivation is difficult to go further.
Fang Yi was building the foundation at the age of ten, and now he is in the cultivation level of refining essence into qi. However, he has been focusing on his mind for more than ten years, and his cultivation level is higher than that of his master's old friend. He is only able to open up some acupoints to run the Great Wall without any obstacles, and enter the realm of refining qi into gods.
"Sea of consciousness, forget it..."
When Fang Yi's internal energy came between his eyebrows below the Baihui point, he naturally had to walk around, but this was because Fang Yi did not open up the sea of consciousness here.
The sea of consciousness relies on the sea of consciousness under the Baihui acupoints of the human brain, between the eyebrows, and deep behind the seal hall, those who have achieved qi refining are nourished by qi warming every day, and can see the qi of the human body over time. People have five internal organs, each of which belongs to the five elements, open up the five senses and qi is flourishing on the face, which is commonly known as introspection, and can control their own body even more.
The sea of consciousness is divided into four layers, usually called shallow, middle, deep and bottom. In the shallow areas, they can only recall some messy past events. Some are deeply remembered and some are not concerned about at the time. These past events will appear in the shallow.
Everyone has different things in the middle of the sea of consciousness, but they are very organized, just like archives being stored in categories and can be read at will.
However, it is already dangerous to enter the middle level of the sea of consciousness. The mental power required is far more than that of ordinary people. People with weak mental power will often become unconscious after entering. The obsession recorded in many classics is actually caused by the backlash of mental power by the sea of consciousness.
The depth of the sea of consciousness is very magical. There are endless spiritual treasures hidden there. Being able to enter the depth of the sea of consciousness means that more brain parts have been developed than ordinary people, or awakening the potential of human sleep, or other magical things.
For example, the Taoist divine powers of heavenly eyes and the Buddhist six supernatural powers are actually produced from the sea of consciousness. Those masters and monks and masters enter the sea of consciousness through continuous cultivation and further develop their own potential.
In the Taoist cultivation system, if the mental power can still return after being able to fully enter the depth of the sea of consciousness, it is proven that it has entered the realm of refining qi and turning into gods. There are many people who have built foundations in a hundred days, but refining qi and turning into gods is a threshold for practicing Taoism, and few people can cross it.
As for the bottom of the sea of consciousness, it corresponds to the realm of refining the gods and reversing the virtual world. Apart from the legendary immortal masters such as Zuo Ci, Zhang Daoling, and Ge Hong, it seems that only Zhang Sanfeng from the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty could reach this level.
Fang Yi's cultivation is now only in the stage of refining essence into qi, so he does not dare to enter the sea of consciousness too deep, because according to the master's words, if he does not have a certain strength to explore the sea of consciousness, he may destroy his soul.
However, just as Fang Yi was running his inner energy and trying to detour, a huge suction force suddenly came from his sea of consciousness. Before Fang Yi could react, his mental power, which was much stronger than ordinary people, was sucked into the depths of the sea of consciousness by the suction force.
"Wuliang, what's going on with this... what's going on?"
Fang Yi had also entered the shallow and middle levels of the sea of consciousness before. When he entered the middle level, Fang Yi could still feel the connection between his thoughts and his body, and could break away from the sea of consciousness and enter the body at any time.
Chapter completed!