This idea had just come up and was dismissed by Ye Qin. Cultivation is all about steady progress, one step at a time, and he could feel that he had made great progress.
But White Bone Concept has not yet been cultivated to the extreme.
In this case, it would be a little distracting to meditate on other things. No matter how talented you are, you will not be able to make progress at the same time.
It would be better to practice the White Bone Concept to perfection before proceeding to the next step.
What he has to do now is to consolidate his cultivation and maintain his realm before leaving this state.
Visualizing all things in nature might be of great benefit to him, but cultivation requires a gradual process, and the future is long, so he is not in a hurry.
"In this state, your understanding has been significantly improved, and you may be able to try to deduce some subsequent practice directions and methods..."
Ye Qin muttered to himself, had an idea, and began to try to deduce his own cultivation method!
By the time Ye Qin opened his eyes again, more than ten minutes seemed to have passed.
It should be noted that the ancients were lucky enough to have sudden enlightenment and enter samadhi, but it only took a few minutes to realize the masterpiece of thought. However, it was already extraordinary to be in samadhi for more than ten minutes at a time, and the credit was attributed to the wisdom of the snake spirit and human being.
This extraordinary epiphany allowed him to obtain a lot of information. Ye Qin summarized it and kept reflecting on it.
"Based on the insights I gained when I entered the state of concentration, and the summary of the subsequent practice path, I can temporarily divide the early stage of practice into three stages, namely: free visualization, creation and tempering of the body, and heaven and earth practice."
"I am now in the state of free visualization, and the core of this state is to visualize any object and become my own 'only original visualization object'."
"When you can imagine the visualization object accurately and vividly, and you can't distinguish between real and false, then you can advance to the second realm even if you have achieved the visualization realm!"
"As for the next two realms, I just have some ideas for the time being, but they need to be reached before they can be known and practiced, so I won't consider them for the time being..."
Of course, there must be more to cultivation than these three realms. This is what Ye Qin deduced based on the current situation. There may be many more to come, which he doesn't know for the time being.
I don’t know the specific effects of each realm, and further exploration is needed.
Perhaps all this will not be clear until he reaches these three realms.
"I have to say that I have benefited a lot every time I entered the state of 'sentence'. The first time I entered, I found an opportunity to practice. This time I entered, the direction of practice in the early stage was deduced. I don't know when I can do it again next time. I have such an opportunity to feel the state of 'being in concentration'."
After sighing with emotion and sorting out all of this, Ye Qin felt confident, unlike before, when his eyes were completely dark and he didn't know anything.
There is also a general direction and scope of cultivation.
In terms of time and understanding, Ye Qin is now just one step away from reaching the second realm. As long as he breaks through the paper window, it is not difficult to go further.
Recalling the scene he had visualized earlier, although it was real, Ye Qin always felt that something was missing.
"What is missing?"
Ye Qin thought hard, and the previous scenes kept reappearing in his mind. He glanced at the bones next to the cave and compared the two carefully.
There was a slight ripple in the snake's eyes, and a faint light flashed through his eyes, finally allowing him to find the difference.
The white bones he visualized were too perfect, and it was this perfection that turned out to be the biggest flaw.
The white bones in the cave have been decaying for hundreds of years. Although they have not experienced much exposure to wind and sun, the decay of the bones will inevitably turn yellow and black in places.
In addition, there are countless snakes, insects, rats and ants crawling over, leaving behind tiny insect infestations that are difficult to detect without careful observation.
The skeleton of reality cannot be said to be perfect. It cannot be truly as white as jade, but it adds a bit of reality.
Ye Qin nodded with sudden realization, "So it turns out that it's precisely because the white bones I visualized have no flaws and lack of things that should be there in reality, so it's a little short of the mark."
"Because my original visualization is too distorted! I need to return to my original nature!"
Originally, his starting point was to strive for perfection and achieve perfection, but he didn't know that sometimes the slightest flaw is exactly what is needed.
It's like, the world needs cracks, and with cracks, light can shine in.
The Great Dao is fifty, Tianyan is forty-nine.
Even the way of heaven cannot achieve perfection, let alone him.
After figuring out the truth behind this, Ye Qin felt enlightened and suddenly enlightened. The hazy white fog in front of his eyes was finally blown away by the strong wind, and his altar became clear.
Ye Qin crawled to Baigu's side, feeling as if he had made an important decision.
If you want to reach the state of perfection, you must do everything yourself, not just watching.
Previously, he was blinded by the blindness and was confused by the literal meaning. He practiced the White Bone Contemplation and practiced more than just his eyes.
In the so-called visualization, in addition to vision, touch is actually also very important. To be more precise, it is necessary to mobilize the five senses of the whole body.
See with your eyes, touch with your body, experience with your heart, etc. These are all indispensable.
Previously, he was worried about offending White Bones, so he always watched from a distance, but now that he wants to understand the reason, everything is different.
"Nao Nao, I hope the girl won't blame you. If you have a soul in heaven, if you can help me cultivate to perfection, you will understand my behavior and be willing to help me."
Ye Qin stood upright and then bent down towards the bones.
It looks like a person is bowing.
Then he climbed on top of the bones and wrapped around them circle after circle.
The white bones are interspersed with the black snake body. The two contrasting colors form a strong visual conflict.
Just like one yin and one yang, they are constantly evolving and changing, vaguely forming the pattern of Tai Chi Bagua.
White bones represent death and dominate yin, while Ye Qin represents rebirth and dominate yang.
The exchange of black and white is like the reversal of life and death, and the magnetic field in the cave has also faintly changed.
Feeling the cold touch coming from below, Ye Qin felt as if a string was being plucked in his heart. His snake body kept circling on the white bones, exploring back and forth.
Even the tiny moths between the bones and the undetectable cracks, everything was seen by him, and he had a more intuitive feeling and experience.
Finally, Ye Qin stopped and circled himself in a circle on the belly of the white bones, where the Dantian was.
Dantian is the place where Taoist inner alchemy is manifested.
The ancients called the essence, energy, and spirit the Three Treasures, and regarded the Dantian as the place where essence, energy, and spirit are stored. Therefore, they attached great importance to the Dantian, which is like the "root of life."
This is why Ye Qin finally chose this place to stay and meditate.
White bones and black snakes look so harmonious.
One yin and one yang are called Tao.
Ye Qin visualized the white bones again. This time he was inside the white bones. He naturally deduced in his mind that 206 scattered bones appeared in front of his eyes, following the black and white patterns, constantly moving and changing.
Taking Tai Chi Bagua as the base, and being pulled by Ye Qin's sea of consciousness, countless bones flew towards it in an orderly manner, first the toes, then the leg bones, then the chest, then the skull...
A complete white bone appeared in front of him, which was more real than the previously visualized white bones.
The Buddha has gone through countless vicissitudes. The black and yellow colors in the bones and joints tell the story of the past, and there are no errors or omissions in the tiny moths and cracks.
Even if you are nitpicking, you can't find anything wrong with it.
This is completely the embodiment of the white bones in the cave, maybe even the deity himself is here.
Ye Qin can no longer distinguish between reality and fiction. Whether he is in a cave or in a state of trance.
True is also false, sometimes false is also true, there is no action, there is something, there is nothing.
Or was it all just a dream of his?
It no longer mattered whether it was true or false. Ye Qin only felt that his eyes suddenly opened up, as if the stone that had been blocking his heart could finally be moved away.
He looked at the bones, and the bones looked at him. The two were silent, and time passed by bit by bit.
