Having initially drawn up a direction, Ronan was in no rush to start. Just like a qualified painter, he never starts writing in a hurry. Especially when we are not facing a blank piece of paper, but a deep and complex starry sky.
He flipped through the paged notebook in his hand, found a blank page, and wrote solemnly with a pen:
The first one is, start with me, and extend yourself to others.
Judging from the current situation, if you really want to revise your life sketch, the simplest and smoothest choice should be "external photos". Driver Qin is a good example. At that point, the answer is already in front of you.
But Ronan knew that this was not enough. Without the self-referential link, it is difficult to estimate the flaws in the work. The initial version of the life sketch was limited by Ronan's level of cognition at the time, and there was almost no room for further refinement. This must be taken as a warning.
But you must know: self-contemplation has always been a difficult point in spiritual practice. As the saying goes, "Self-knowledge is the most valuable thing for a person," it's nothing more than this. Last night, the master of the monastery emphasized it with similar words, and Ronan said very early on that he was not good at "self-portraits." This was not a modest statement.
Of course, from another perspective, high consumption often represents high returns. Although this approach is difficult, it is a process of defining principles and standards. Only by polishing yourself clearly can you reflect external objects more clearly. The essence of the technique of distinguishing root organs, root nature, and root mechanisms taught by the master of the monastery is here.
Ronan chose the path of "difficult first and easy later", and he had to climb the most dangerous peak. Only in this way can we lay a solid foundation and avoid the fatal crisis of the uncontrolled growth of "formatism" to the greatest extent.
After pausing for a moment, Ronan wrote another line:
Article 2: Observation first, multi-dimensional recurrence.
Ronan uses painting techniques to capture the "starry sky of life". Whether it is sketching or sketching, it is not a skill based on imagination and requires a real object of observation.
There is nothing to say, the object of Ronan's observation is himself. This is not simply a matter of looking in the mirror and tracing it, but a matter of exploring the physical and spiritual framework, taking both the form and the spirit, and also corresponding to the "star map" form.
Most of the elements involve the spiritual level, and the ideas are complicated. It is not easy to obtain them accurately. It cannot be said that we can only refer to it from multiple levels and angles such as the divine wheel, the visualization figure, the root nature and the root machine, etc., and find the greatest common denominator.
This will undoubtedly increase Ronan's homework, but since he has already given up on easy things and chosen the most dangerous path, he doesn't care about adding more burdens.
After writing these two sentences, Ronan still had some thoughts in his mind, which seemed to be unclear and difficult to fully express. He subconsciously turned the pen barrel and lifted up the yellow pages stained with sweat with his other hand.
Ronan glanced across the paged notes one by one, and then scanned more than a dozen inspiration records with a huge amount of information. After a while, he flipped through his previous handwriting, including a limited number of paintings on paper.
Excluding those records of inspiration, although his paginated notes are thick, there are not many truly meaningful things. The most valuable among them should be the two psychic drawings.
The one is slightly smaller and is the outline of the "magic symbol" drawn in school, which is more abstract.
As for the other painting, even though it has been painted into a mess with a fluorescent pen, the overall structure and related details are much more detailed, and there is a rich symbolic meaning.
Yes, that’s the “Prison Sketches.” It was a pattern that Ronan drew under the catalysis of inspiration when he was imprisoned in a solitary room on a mountain ship. Through this, he realized the mystery of "my heart is like a prison" and truly gained extraordinary power.
My heart feels like a prison?
Ronan's heart suddenly agitated, and his dark thoughts suddenly became bright: Since it needs to be revised, how can these key points be ignored?
He immediately started writing and formed words on the previous page:
Article 3: Specific and subtle, the key link.
The three principles on paper are arranged in order, and the scope of expression shrinks successively. By the third one, it has touched the substantive level and can be started.
"My heart is like a prison" plays a special role in connecting the previous and the following in Ronan's research on "Format Theory". If you really want to start, it is more appropriate to choose this node.
After being impacted and tempered by multiple events, Ronan now had a relatively clear concept in his heart: My heart is like a prison, including the format theory itself. In essence, it may be the embodiment of some kind of mandatory rules. Just like what he sensed from the deep spiritual level in the Frost River Reality Incident, it was an incredible order framework that was internalized into the physical and spiritual structure of people, and finally achieved the effect.
While studying with the master of the monastery, Ronan also found a more appropriate explanation of Eastern metaphysics:
Heaven and man are one.
In the classical Taoist scriptures, there is a similar statement, which is the so-called "man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature."
Well, he admitted that the words and sentences in Eastern metaphysics have too many meanings and often have multiple interpretations. If you have to chew on the words one by one, you may be led into the ditch.
He just used this image and drew a classic visualization figure in his notebook, which is a combination of a regular tetrahedron and an inscribed and circumscribed sphere.
Here, the inside ball symbolizes the "self-pattern"; the outside ball symbolizes the "pattern of heaven and earth", and the regular tetrahedron in the middle represents the "social pattern".
From the perspective of a pure practitioner, the social pattern can be temporarily put aside and more attention should be paid to the relationship between the self and the pattern of heaven and earth.
However, the topic itself is too big and does not comply with the principle of "concrete and subtle".
Ronan simply gave it up, no longer considering the overall framework, and only carving out the details. In other words, he gave up the big topic of "How to create the pattern of heaven and earth" and chose the following branch, namely:
How does "self-form" reflect "the fabrication of heaven and earth"?
...It still seems too big. Then continue to choose. As the levels go down, Ronan's mind becomes clearer and clearer, and the basis for his choice becomes clearer and clearer.
Don't even think about things like fundamental theories. He has not yet reached the level of "explaining phenomena and forming theories."
Discovering problems, observing phenomena, collecting data, and then summarizing the basic logic is all he can do now and in the future.
If we start from the basic phenomenon, one fact is very clear: After realizing "My heart is like a prison", what is Ronan's most substantial gain?
In the quiet bedroom, there was a low roar.
The answer is Wuchen Chain.
This incredible embodied image helped Ronan's soul leave his body, subdued the human-faced spider clone, and accumulated his first pot of gold. It also helped Ronan embark on the fast lane of uncontrolled development.
So, why is there... Oh, let's give up "why", Ronan now just wants to know, after the "star map", what shape and what kind of dark chain will be pulled out from the gestalt? Variety!
This was the first lesson he observed.
(The next update will be around 2:00 noon. The focus is on the left and right. The key is on the right.)
