This immortal family I haven’t seen for a long time was the one I rescued in Jile Temple...
Chang family leader, Chang Tianlong!
I saw that he still looked the same as before, looking at me with a smile, and there was a kind of free and unruly look in his eyes.
At this moment, my chest felt like it was blocked by something. I felt my whole body shaking and my throat was choked. I unconsciously took a step forward, wanting to talk to him more.
In my heart, there are so many words and so many questions that I would be unhappy if I didn’t express them.
However, before I could speak, he waved his hand at me and then disappeared.
Somewhere in the dark, a voice seemed to come from my ears.
"You are practicing well, but you are still a little bit behind. Now that the seal has been loosened, I can come and help you, but I cannot stay for a long time. You must remember that the true meaning of practice does not depend on the appearance, but on the heart."
This voice lingers in my mind for a long time.
Probably, this is the happiest thing for me in the past half year.
In particular, Chang Tianlong told me that the seal has been loosened. Does that mean that the day for me to return home is getting closer?
Everything seems to be moving in a better direction.
In the next period of time, I paid close attention to the process of spiritual practice.
Nanjing is the ancient capital of six dynasties, with outstanding people and places. Although the yin energy is heavier, the spiritual energy is also more abundant.
In the spring of March, everything revives.
Some people say that when the spring breeze arrives in March, the whole of Nanjing is waiting for the cherry blossoms to bloom.
This is absolutely true.
We can't live up to the wonderful spring scenery. Anyway, I had nothing to do. In late March, I drove to Jiming Temple to see the cherry blossoms.
The continuous cherry blossoms are like a boundless sea of flowers, with pink and white cherry blossoms alternating with clouds and clouds, lining Jiming Temple and surrounding ancient buildings, making it even more elegant and ethereal.
I also went to Qixia Mountain to see peach blossoms.
It is said that the landscape of the Peach Blossom Stream in Qixia Mountain has been spectacular since the Song Dynasty. There are still inscriptions by people from the Song Dynasty on the cliffs and forests on both sides of the Peach Blossom Stream, as well as poems praising the Peach Blossom Stream left by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty during his southern tour.
Entering Qixia Mountain, looking from a distance, the mountains and forests are covered in pink, as pink as clouds and as red as fire, it is very beautiful!
Walking through the peach forest, you can see willows and peach blossoms everywhere, which makes you feel like you are in a paradise.
For almost half a month, I wandered in the mountains and forests, trying to feel what Chang Tianlong said: the true meaning of practice.
As the saying goes, "Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature."
This sentence comes from Laozi's "Tao Te Ching", and Uncle Ma once told me about it before.
The general meaning is: In the vast universe, humans are supported by the earth, so their actions should follow the laws of the earth.
The earth is covered by the sky, so the earth should always follow the laws of the sky and move.
However, "Tao" is the refuge of heaven, so heaven also imitates the laws of "Tao" and circulates endlessly.
"Tao" is the mother of all things that reincarnates the heaven and earth. Its nature is inactive, and its development and changes are natural. Therefore, "Tao" is the behavior that imitates "nature".
Therefore, the essential characteristic of Tao is nature.
So you see, most of those true Taoists hide in the mountains, return to nature, and find the true meaning of "Tao" in nature.
And "cultivation" is actually a process of finding the "Tao".
If you find it, your practice will be successful.
After being in contact with nature for a while, I really felt a lot of different experiences. It seemed that my whole body and mind had been purified, and my body felt much more relaxed.
It feels really good to cultivate your body and soul.
During this period of time, Lao Zhangtou didn't come to see me. I guess this old guy has made some money recently and doesn't have to work so hard to set up a stall every day. He should be living quite comfortably.
Oh, by the way, the company where I first worked also received news during this time.
The boss won the lawsuit, but the boss's wife only received a small share of the property and ran away with a pretty boy.
She originally divorced her boss because of the pretty boy's instigation.
But even though she got involved in the company's money, she never escaped the law and spit it out.
It is said that the pretty boy dumped her very quickly, leaving the boss lady with nothing to gain in the end.
So, the company called me and told me that it was now operating normally and that if I was still willing to work for the company, I could continue to work.
This news is quite happy. After all, the car I drive is still owned by another company. As a person, you must not forget your roots.
I went back to my old job and ran shopping malls for a while, picking up all the jobs I had left behind and recruiting those salespeople back.
Of course, some of them have found new jobs, so they will be recruiting again.
The company has also paid all the wages that were previously owed.
What surprised me was that I also made up for the past few months. I was so touched.
So I earned another amount of money. Although it was not much, it was also a good thing for the company.
After about two more months of busy work, everything is back to normal.
Looking back on the experience of more than half a year, it is like a big dream.
But the only unhappy thing is that the weather is getting hot again, and Nanjing has turned on the stove mode again.
On this day, when I got up in the morning, I felt a little uncomfortable in my chest, probably from the trachea, and I also had a bit of a cough.
In fact, it was already like this last winter. During that time, I was homeless and wandering around without thick clothes. Nanjing was very wet and cold, and I shivered from the cold every night in the hotel.
Then I kept feeling uncomfortable in my trachea and would cough occasionally, but I didn't take it seriously. I just took some anti-inflammatory medicine and it gradually got better.
But it's hot now, why do you feel uncomfortable again?
Thinking about it carefully, it must be because the weather is hot and I turn on the air conditioner every night, so I might have caught a cold.
After enduring it for a few days, I felt more and more serious, so I went to the hospital. When I checked, I was shocked to find that I had chronic bronchitis.
I know this disease very well. Basically, it cannot be cured. It is most likely to be lifelong. As long as the weather is not right, or there is some inflammation and allergies, it will attack.
My grandfather had this disease before, and it is also very common in the Northeast. Because of the cold weather, many elderly people have this condition. It is commonly known as Lao Chronic Brachiitis. In Northeast dialect, this disease is called Laohouba.
I remember when I was a child, almost every village where my family lived had several laohouba.
But I'm only in my twenties, so I'm already an old man?
Hey, it seems that it was all caused by the cold last winter. I regret that I was so careless and thought that the winter in Nanjing was not cold. As a result, I got this problem from the cold and became chronically ill at a young age.
But I had no choice but to go to the hospital for injections every day, almost seven or eight days in a row, but it still didn't work.
This disease is really annoying.
That day I went to the hospital for another injection, and there happened to be a new nurse who was a little nervous. She tried to inject it several times but it didn't go in.
To be honest, it hurt a lot, but I still comforted her with a smile and told her not to be nervous and to prick slowly, as everyone has this process.
The little head nurse had pretty hair and big eyes. She smiled at me sheepishly and tried two more times before it finally got inserted.
I also breathed a sigh of relief, and then she brought me a newspaper and asked me gently if I felt any discomfort.
I didn't know at this time that another accident was about to happen.
