The enlightened, my heart too.There is a Tao that is a person's understanding, which can only be understood, and it is difficult to say.Each of us has different insight, perception, understanding and analysis of the world, and although these abilities can also be improved through exercise, it only increases the lower limit of the whole - the upper limit, margin, and depth of talent, which is irreversible by human beings.Whether it is Buddhism, Confucianism, or Taoism, when you cultivate to the end, you must pass the level of "enlightenment".Start from the beginning of learning: learning is to know, and when you know more, you will be able to pass, to the extreme, to think, to the end...... to be enlightened.Of course, if you are the reincarnation of an immortal or a god descending to earth, you will be enlightened when you encounter something, and you will be enlightened when you encounter something, and you will be enlightened when you become enlightened, and you will practice for a thousand miles......
That's ruthless, it's not an exaggeration to call you a "congenital master".But most of the seekers in this world are still mortals, and they still have to start from "learning" and go up step by step.The stone steps in front of the gate of Xuanqizong Mountain symbolize this "road to the Tao", and each person has different difficulties in climbing it due to their different understandings.When you first walk up this stone step, it is the stage of "learning".At this stage, every time a person takes a step on this stone step, he will feel like he is stepping on an irregularly shaped object, and if he is not careful, he will slip, but if he looks at it with his eyes, he will not see any unevenness in this stone step.When you gradually get used to this change, that is, you have reached the point of "knowing", you will move on to the next stage, that is, the path to "pass".In this section, in addition to retaining the "irregular stepping feeling" of the previous stage, the "gravity" on each stone step will also change: maybe you feel like you are stuck in the mud under your feet when you take a step, and you have to work hard to lift your knees, but in the next step, you will lift your legs too high and too hard and lose your balance.This change of "light" and "heavy" is also random, and it needs to be slowly understood and adapted by the climbers......
If you are accustomed to this, you will be able to move on to the last section, which is the one from "passing" and "thinking".From here, in addition to the anomalies of the stone steps, the environment around you will also begin to change, there will be a fairly strong mountain wind blowing around you, and the wind will continue to change direction, and there will be a thin layer of frost on the surface of the stone steps under your feet, making it easier for you to slip when you step on it.And if you're done with it, you'll be able to see the top of the mountain.Some people may ask, how did you reach the top at the stage of "thinking"?
What about "enlightenment"?
Nonsense, if you have already realized after walking the mountain road, what kind of teacher do you worship?
Moreover, in the final analysis, this stone step is just a tool to test the beginner's understanding, and it does not mean that you have really reached the stage of "thinking" after walking this stone step—walking the stone steps is nothing more than a rough estimate of the realm you can reach, and how many years it will take to reach this realm.In fact, generally speaking, as long as you can get to the "second stage", you can forget it, and then it doesn't matter if you can't go up, seeing that you almost give up, someone will come to pick you up the mountain.However, it is not excluded that there are those who have such qualifications as low......
People who can't even finish the first stage, like that, can't do anything, even if the Xuanqi Sect forcibly accepts you, you won't be able to learn anything, let you go up the mountain to do chores, and waste your life......
It's not interesting.For example, Bai Ruhong, the "silver road" back then, was stuck in the stage of "learning"; He walked for several days and nights, rolled down countless times, and really couldn't walk, but he was a special "shaft" and refused to give up, looking like he was ready to die here to show his sincerity......
The veterans of the Xuanqi Sect had no choice but to see that his previous "conduct" was particularly good, so they made an exception to lead him up the mountain, taught him a set of introductory martial arts, and counted him as a registered disciple.But this kind of special case has been this one for so many years, and to be honest, the people of Xuanqi Sect are not very kind to see Bai Ruhong, because Bai Ruhong's personality is particularly inconsistent with Xuanqi Sect's "casual" and "natural" style, so Bai Ruhong only stayed in the mountain for a few years, and was coaxed down the mountain by his master with an excuse of "you are more suitable for joining the WTO"; Before he left, the master repeatedly told him not to report the name of "Xuanqi Sect" when he walked in the rivers and lakes in the future, saying that this sect did not want to have too much to do with the world.Of course, Bai Ruhong also strictly followed his master's teachings, and he had indeed never mentioned to anyone where he learned his martial arts in the past few decades.It's a bit of a stretch......
Let's go back to Huangdong.Brother Huang is indeed not stupid, not long after walking up the stone steps, he figured out the law of the first stage.But knowing the rules, it doesn't mean that you can get by, adaptation requires a process, you have to practice, as for how long it takes to master it, then you can see talent.Huang Donglai and Sun Yihuan both belong to the kind of people who think they are highly talented, but they are slightly different in this area - when Sun Yihuan is learning things, he usually can't wait to say "I understand" about something that he knows nothing about, and then deceive himself, and then go further and further down a wrong path, and reach a strange realm that may not even be taught by the person who taught him......
Huang Donglai is the type whose body can't keep up with his brain, and it's easier said than done; When he learns something, he may really "understand" it quickly, but what he already understands at the theoretical level is difficult for him to do when he actually does it.This is similar to the feeling when you usually watch professional e-sports players play games live, maybe when you are a bystander, your thinking is very clear, your consciousness is above the grandmaster, and you can guide a master group player from the perspective of God, but in fact, when you go up to play by yourself, your brain is blank and the bronze group operates, and you can be beaten by a gold group.In the end, I can only use the sentence "I just don't have time to practice, if I practice hard, I will already be invincible" to comfort and convince myself.However, when Huang Donglai has one thing that is still worth affirming, when he is really willing to work hard and practice, or when he has to practice, he can still slowly let his body keep up with his brain.Right now, anyway, he has drunk the "Guiyuan Dew", his physical strength is very full, and he has already walked to the mountain gate, it is absolutely impossible for him to give up this opportunity to "cultivate immortals" to go back, in that case, all the hardships he has suffered before will be in vain.So, he started his journey to the top.One day, two days......
By the third day, Huang Donglai's eyes had changed.In the process of constantly slipping, tumbling, climbing and sliding again, his mentality has been repeatedly polished between collapse and revival.Gradually, he will no longer be depressed by slipping, nor will he have too many mood swings because of the upward breakthrough, in a more elegant and concise way, this is called "pampering and not shocking", in the words that everyone likes to see and more down-to-earth, it is - a "shake" is awakened.Finally, at dusk on the third day, with the help of muscle memory, that is, the tactile response that has penetrated deep into the bone marrow, Huang Donglai fully adapted to the stone steps of the first stage, and thus opened the second stage......
Supposedly, at any time after that, as long as he chooses to give up, someone will come to pick him up the mountain.But......
Due to the abnormal change in mentality, Huang Donglai at this moment has no intention of giving up at all.The sudden appearance of the rules of gravity did not make him waver, he just started a new round of groping and practicing more cautiously.Chunchen Zixin, who was observing him on the mountain, said: "It's bad, I shouldn't give him Guiyuan Lu, look at his posture, he is preparing to go for seven days and seven nights." ”He guessed correctly......
Huang Donglai continued to walk like this, and at noon on the sixth day, he successfully came to the third and final stage.In fact, he is really lucky, ordinary people walk on this stone step for three days at most, and then they don't give up, they don't die of exhaustion and thirst, but Huang Donglai has more than four days more time than others to challenge, and he has always been in a state of physical strength.The key is that his mentality has not collapsed, or he has not completely given up when he has collapsed, and he can regain his strength every time, which is another important reason why he can keep going.However, he was not able to complete the stone stairs after all.By the evening of the sixth day, Chunchenzi couldn't stand it anymore, so he simply parachuted over, carried Huang Donglai up the mountain, and lied to him, "You have already passed the test when you come here, so you don't need to continue."
Huang Donglai also believed it, after all, he didn't know what the situation would be, if he knew, maybe he would still ask, "Uncle Shi, I should be able to last a day and a half, how about you let me try to reach the top?"
”This kind of requirement comes ......
In any case, at this point, Huang Donglai finally "succeeded in apprenticeship" and officially entered this Shu Mountain-Xuanqi Sect.