Chapter 6 Speaking
"Xiaobai! I didn't expect that your qualifications to practice Taoism are so good. After months of hard practice, I can catch up with most of my life in cultivation." It has been several days since the Ma Family Ancestral worship of the ancestors. My second uncle sat next to Baiya, looking at Baiya who was building a paper man, and said with emotion.
Bai Yatou didn't raise his head, and kept cutting paper for the paper man, and casually said to his second uncle, "Second uncle, you said too seriously. If you weren't old and your magic power had subsided so much, how could I catch up with you!" Indeed, if a person who practices the Tao fails to cultivate immortals in his body and attains the Immortal Fruit, he will always be a physical mortal body. Even if practice helps prolong life, the mortal body will always be As an ordinary womb, sooner or later, the physical energy will be exhausted and the life span reaches its peak. It is really difficult to achieve success in cultivation. Many people who practice Taoism and Buddhism have already transformed before their physical bodies have been fully cultivated. Therefore, there are many different ways of practicing Taoism in the path of cultivation. Some of them use their own physical bodies as the main body to practice the soul, some use the soul as the main body to practice the body, and some choose one of them to practice.
Among them, there are relatively many people who are mainly souls. After the body decays, those with souls can choose to join the Underworld Yinsi to work, or the upper God Realm Heavenly Mansion to serve the gods and heavenly mansions. Of course, there is another premise for these two, that is, they have good or merits to be with them. In that case, they can continue to practice in Yinsi Heavenly Mansion, and they can also earn more merits or yin virtues to protect and bless them. In that way, they can focus on the incense and vows of sentient beings to practice the divine way, and the incense and vows of incense are immortal.
That is why so many practitioners have eliminated demons and defended the way, punished evil and promoted good. Even ordinary people know how to do good deeds and accumulate good virtues. There is a saying in Buddhism that says "Sow good causes and get good results."
Those who are mainly physically harsh, and need to use natural treasures to assist themselves in order to achieve sufficient and complete vitality. In this way, they can maintain their physical body for a long time. As long as the road to enlightenment continues, ascension will be just around the corner.
Refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, refining emptiness into Taoism. These words are often seen on the real world online, but only when you truly practice Taoism can you understand how difficult these sixteen words are. Although the number of words is not large, it is the summary of the cultivation of Taoist masters.
Most Taoist priests who walk in the world are still in the stage of using objects to cast spells. Whether they are exorcizing ghosts, catching demons and subduing demons, they have to borrow Taoist magic weapons such as peach wood sword, Bagua mirror or soul-catching bell. The most common ones are borrowing talisman formations to communicate the protection and blessings of gods in the sky. The stage of using objects to cast spells will be divided into two levels, with the distinction between casting spells by mantras and casting spells without mantras. Taoist priests who cast spells by mantras must recite Taoist scriptures and mantras before casting spells, because their own magic power is insufficient or If the Tao is not practiced enough, you have to chant a mantra and ask for help to bless it or to cast it. However, those who do not have a mantra can recite it silently with their hearts. Their own magic power is sufficient and their Taoism is profound. You can use your method to impart the method without chanting the scriptures and mantras. Among them, the different experiences of each person's practice of Taoism, the different Taoism sutras they practice during the Taoism, the profound magic power they practice, and even the differences between Taoism sutras and karma, the different merits and karma of each person, and other differences will make Taoist priests at the stage of using objects casting.
After using objects to cast spells, there is another great realm, that is, communication with the world. The methods they have learned have become their own way, and they can begin to communicate with the nature of the world without the need to use the help of immortals and gods. The art has been formed by itself and the law has been established by itself. The two are dependent on each other and are real magic. Taoists at this stage can be said to be extraordinary and out of the world, and are often no longer walking in the world, and often practice in the blessed world of the cave.
The second uncle's Taoist art is also at the stage of using objects to cast spells. He was able to reach the level of casting without spells, but because he was too old and his body could not support him, his magic power gradually faded, so he slowly retreated to the level of casting spells with spells. It should be noted that practicing Taoism is like sailing against the current and not advancing, he retreats. As the saying goes, practicing immortals and Taoism is to go against the sky.
Perhaps after the second uncle's life is exhausted, he can rely on his own merits or good deeds to either make a good job in the underworld to choose to practice the divine way, or be reincarnated into the six realms of reincarnation and enroll in a good fetus.
"Xiaobai, now your Taoist cultivation can be regarded as my true teachings, but you are still quite short of paperwork!" The second uncle looked at the troubled paper man at Bai Ya's hand and couldn't help but say helplessly.
Bai Ya looked at the paper man in his hand who was getting worse and worse, and his expression on his face made him laugh at himself with even more depressed expression, "Second uncle, there is nothing I can do about this. I have been stupid and inflexible since I was a child. Maybe I don't have the talent in this area at all."
To be honest, Bai Ya asked her second uncle to learn from her master, which was mainly for the Taoist arts. Paper-breaking is just an optional attachment to him. After all, if you really want to learn paper-breaking, you will learn it in the real world. The handmade method is not only simple and easy to learn, but also more exquisite and considerable. Therefore, when the second uncle taught Bai Ya paper-breaking, Bai Ya often thought about how to pronounce this mantra or how to pinch the handprint. He had never learned paper-breaking at all.
"Xiaobai, you may not understand the skills of paper craftsmanship. For ordinary people, paper craftsmanship is a mortal craft that makes money to support their families. But for us monks, paper craftsmanship is the best way to ask for directions in the underworld for many people who can walk through the yin and yang worlds." The second uncle was a mature master, and he probably knew that Bai Ya did not pay attention to paper craftsmanship, and he couldn't help but slowly explain the essence of paper craftsmanship.
Paper-branching, paper-branching has many different titles among the people, such as thorning, paper-branching, paper-branching, paper-branching, paper-branching, color-branching, etc. The broad sense of paper-branching includes colored doors, spiritual sheds, stages, shops, store decorations, plaques and figures, paper horses, operas, dance tools, kites, lanterns, etc. The narrow sense of paper-branching refers to funeral paper-branching, mainly refers to paper-branching, money trees, gold and silver mountains, archways, gatehouses, houses, poultry and other paper-branchings that are used for sacrifices and funeral activities.
Paper thorns are mainly divided into four categories: one is the statue of gods (large thorns burned in front of the tomb when they are buried), the second is the figure (children and girls, opera characters, waiters, etc.), the third is the architecture (spiritual house, gatehouse, archway, car and sedan, etc.), and the fourth is the "underworld treasures" (food vessels, offerings, auspicious items and auspicious animals).
After death, people enter the underworld to find the underworld to report. Paper is an underworld weapon, which can be made with bamboo strips, reeds, sorghum stalks, etc., and burn and sacrifice to the deceased. Let the deceased use it in the underworld. For mortals, paper is just for sacrifice, but it is more useful to practitioners. For example, the ghost-raising technique in Maoshan can increase troops and armor for the ghosts they drive, and increase combat effectiveness. For example, when opening the altar to communicate with the Yin and Yang realms, it can be used to deal with the Yin roads. Even some monks who have a soul that can be successful and can leave the body of Yin God or Yang God, if there are no qualified magic weapons available, they can also make some Ming tools to make do with it. At least they are better than those who come empty-handed!
So basically every Taoist priest can make paper, not be very proficient, but just be proficient. Otherwise, why can so many Taoist priests can tear into human shapes by taking a piece of yellow paper, and can wove into human shapes by using some straw thatched spears at will.
After explaining, the second uncle looked at Bai Ya and asked with a smile, "Do you still have to learn it seriously?" Then, without waiting for Bai Ya to answer, he said to himself, "If you don't understand the law of the underworld, you will know it's too late after death. It's the same for being a human being and a ghost, and you will look at money!"
"Second uncle, I want to learn it. I will learn it very seriously this time." Bai Ya was not stupid, and after understanding so many truths, he immediately answered confidently.
In the following days, except for the necessary practice of Taoism, Baiya will learn to learn paper-making, cutting paper, grinding, building frames, and dipping paper. Perhaps, when you return to the real world, Baiya can try to open a paper-making shop by himself.
Chapter completed!