"Senior brother, I have seen all living beings in the square outside the main hall, why do I still need to investigate this phenomenon of no living beings?"
On the third day after breaking through the realm, Li Ye returned to Minghui's Buddhist hall and stared at the last second level of the "Phaseless Dharmakaya" in a daze.
The abnormality caused by Li Ye's breakthrough night did not have any impact on Prajna Temple. After all, as soon as Haishi arrived, the temple turned off the lights and took a rest, leaving the energy to get up early for morning classes the next day.
Only Minghui knew about Li Ye's breakthrough, and Qingxu of Xuantian Temple only saw the strange phenomena of heaven and earth on the south slope.
After breaking through the seventh level, Li Ye felt that not only his physical strength had more than doubled, but his state of mind had also risen to a new level.
He no longer asked Wuyou to clean the stone steps outside the mountain gate for him. Instead, he took the broom, lowered his head to clean up in the morning, and picked up the homework that had been neglected for a long time.
At this time, he looked more like an ordinary little monk. He was dressed in monk's robes, and there was no trace of Qi flowing in his body. Even his physical strength could be freely controlled. He looked like a little monk who had just entered the mountain.
The monks who got up early and went to the temple saw the crowd in the square and knew that Uncle Li, who had gone out to practice, had come back to sweep the floor.
Everything was just like the morning he left.
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Li Ye sat in the courtyard for two days to calm down, and finally came to Minghui's Buddhist hall with excitement.
"What does it mean to have a phase? What does it mean to have no phase?" Minghui, who was sitting in the Buddhist hall, lit a column of incense and looked at Li Ye and asked.
"Senior brother, please clarify." Li Ye carefully put away the last two levels of thoughts and raised his head to ask for advice.
Minghui held the prayer beads in her hand and thought for a long time, thinking about how to tell him.
Looking at Li Ye, he said: "The seventh level is soul refining. The so-called soul refining means that the soul and soul are united. The soul is derived from your sea of consciousness. In Buddhism, it seems that there is no human form and no soul."
"I see, it seems that I should come here earlier to ask for advice from my senior brother." Li Ye looked at Minghui and said with a smile.
Minghui looked at him with a smile, pointed to the sky with her hand, pointed at Li Ye, and then continued.
"It means the unity of heaven and man, understanding the mystery of heaven and earth, and understanding the impermanence of life. Have you not understood the sea of gods since you broke through?" Minghui looked at Li Ye with a smile.
Li Ye was startled, and quickly calmed down, looking inside... After a long while, he murmured back: "So, the Nascent Soul in my Dantian has been transferred to this divine sea?"
At this time, in Li Ye's dantian, the golden Yuanying with closed eyes, three lines of pill lines, had disappeared.
A golden little man appeared in his divine sea. He was closing his eyes and breathing like an unborn baby.
Ming Hui looked at Li Ye's surprised look and smiled. She was happy for Li Ye's breakthrough and for the successor of Prajna Temple's Buddhism.
Holding the flower in his left hand, he continued: "To derive the primordial spirit, those who practice Taoism need to break through to the state of distraction. The Taoist priests of Xuantian Temple also called it the fetal god, and Buddhism calls it the primordial spirit."
"It is very different from the Yuanying before you. The Yuanying can only exist in your body, but the Yuanshen can leave the body. As long as the Yuanshen does not die, the physical body can be rebuilt."
"Dang!" Minghui's words were as shocking as a thunderbolt sounded above Li Ye's head.
After being stunned for a long time, he muttered to himself: "Then I have refined a life?"
Ming Hui was also stunned, and then came back to her senses.
He clasped his hands together and said, "That's good, that's good. Junior brother has a soft heart. It's a pity not to become a monk!"
Sighing twice, he continued: "Logically speaking, junior brother, you have refined a dragon that has a chance to rebuild its life, but you said that the dragon soul has lost its self-awareness and cannot resonate with you. From this point on, From a perspective, junior brother, you can’t be considered as taking the initiative to refine a life.”
"I see, but even if it is like this, I will inevitably have a guilty feeling in my heart. I would like to ask my senior brother to make it clear." Li Ye clasped his hands together and looked at Minghui and replied.
Minghui looked at him with compassion on her face, nodded and said.
"Furthermore, maybe this immortal dragon soul is destined to be with you, and maybe one day it will be reincarnated in your body. You never know. Everything is determined, otherwise you wouldn't be able to refine this dragon soul."
"That's it, it's done. It's useless to say more." Li Ye sighed again: "Senior brother, what does this have to do with the relationship between all living beings?"
After listening to Li Ye's doubts, Minghui nodded, picked up the tea cup and took two sips.
Xiaoyun: "The eighth level is qi refining. This qi refining and the qi refining of the path of cultivation are two different realms. Practitioners refining qi is nothing more than sensing the true qi of the body, and then refining the true qi in the meridians of the body until Build the foundation.”
"But the Qi refining of the "Shadowless Dharma Body" is to refine the true essence and the power of the physical body. Buddha said that all living beings can refine their Qi, and their Qi and blood can be unified to escape from the mortal body."
Hearing this, Li Ye was overjoyed, scratched his head and said with a smile: "Brother, so to speak, the Nascent Soul has transformed into the Soul. Next, I have to practice the method of refining Qi for all living beings. Then I can use the true energy in my body to recover." Have you practiced?"
Li Ye couldn't help but be excited because he didn't have to wait until he reached the ninth level to break the restrictions in his body.
Seeing his surprised look, Minghui couldn't help but shake her head and poured cold water on him.
"However, it does not restore your realm. You can try to combine the power of your true energy with the physical body, but you cannot use the power of your true energy because the restriction in your Dantian is still there."
"How could this happen? Then I am not a destined person, but I still can't break the imprisonment in my body?" Li Ye looked at him and murmured.
"It's just that because you have derived the soul, your physical body will be much more powerful than before, and your understanding of the world will be more profound. This will be a great help to your future practice."
Minghui patiently explained to him for a long time, just to let him understand more. Don't accidentally become a demon because of a momentary break that messes up your spiritual state of mind.
"It seems that your husband and the old monk from the Great Buddha Temple had expected this day, and they were really ruthless."
Li Ye, who had been doused with cold water, couldn't help but complain.
"Junior brother, just be content. It should be noted that Senior Brother Poxu has been practicing for hundreds of years, and the mental methods of the eighth and ninth levels do not require much external force. You don't need to worry about the elixir being hard to find. ."
Li Ye sighed again and replied softly: "I'm already very patient. I've been doing this for several years."
"As long as you understand the mysteries of heaven, earth and all living beings, and refine your body's strength with water-milling skills, you can complete the most difficult practice in Buddhism. Even senior brother and I are overwhelmed by such an achievement!"
Minghui couldn't help but sigh.
"That's it. If you press it, I can practice with peace of mind and no longer have to think about other things." Li Ye said with a smile.
"We are tired of the sufferings of the three paths. Born in the heavens, this is the appearance of all living beings. All living beings are like dust. I am among you, and you are among me. I will be born after you die, and you will be born after I die. Junior brother is me, and I am junior brother. .When junior brother has cultivated this eighth-level mental method to perfection, he will have the opportunity to leave his mortal body and cultivate into a golden body."
"This kind of understanding is so mysterious that I can't realize it until that day. It seems that I can only practice it honestly and ask my senior brothers for advice."
After listening to Ming Hui's words, Li Ye deeply felt that the eighth level of mental training was more difficult than the seventh level.
The way of Buddhism is mysterious and mysterious. Even if you are as smart as him, you can't figure it out for a while.
Minghui waved his hand and said: "Junior brother has just broken through. It's really not appropriate to think too much. You should relax and do whatever you want. If it's really boring, you can practice your "Fuhu Luohan Fist" more intensively, which will also be a waste of time. method."
Li Ye nodded and said: "Senior brother is absolutely right. In recent days, I have been focusing on practicing swordsmanship, but I have lost a lot of my Buddhist skills. Next, I have to practice hard."
Having said this, Li Ye chanted a mantra, turned the ring, took out the black sword embryo, and placed it in front of Minghui.
"Is this the heavy sword you tempered with earth fire and cold pool?" Minghui picked up the sword embryo and put it in his hand to look at it carefully.
Li Ye chuckled and said, "This was refined by chance."
Minghui looked at the unformed sword embryo, couldn't help but smile, and secretly marveled.
He said quietly: "This Xuan Iron and Wuwai Iron are both extremely difficult to find in the Five Realms. I don't want you to have both of them in your hands. These two materials are extremely hard. If you think about it, you can only use the earth's fire." Only then can you refine it.”
"And the dragon's bone is an extremely yang thing. Without the cold pool, it would be impossible to extract the dragon soul from the dragon bone. I didn't expect that this combination of heaven and earth would appear in my junior brother's body. This is not a miracle. It's so good. ! So good.”
"It's just that as a result, junior brother, I will inevitably have to travel between Xuantian Temple and Prajna Temple in the future, and my practice of Buddhism will be less."
Li Ye sighed secretly, you really can't have both fish and bear's paws.
Minghui nodded when he heard this, then shook his head, looked up at the Bodhisattva on the Buddhist altar, and thought to himself.
After a long while, he said: "The practice of Buddhism is the same as your practice of making swords. They both pay attention to one step and one step. You can't practice day and night. Junior brother, you do what you did before the bench, practicing in two places without delay. When you make a heavy sword, It’s almost done, then just feel free to practice in the temple.”
Hearing this, Li Ye reached out and patted his head.
He smiled and said: "My mind is getting more and more confused as I cultivate it. Fortunately, my senior brother has given me some guidance. However, there is something I don't understand, so I would like to ask my senior brother for advice: What is the state of this union of heaven and man?"
After listening to this, Minghui thought for a while and replied: "The so-called unity of heaven and man refers to the unity of heaven, earth and man. It is not a pure unity of heaven and man. The unity of heaven and man refers to the unity of heaven and man. Nature, nature and man are both opposites and one, and man imitates nature and conforms to nature.”
"...Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, heaven follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature. Heaven and earth are both concrete manifestations of nature, so heaven is also nature, and nature is called heaven."
"Just like your cultivation, only after reaching the golden elixir realm can a mortal have a chance to comprehend the heaven and earth. Only after reaching the Nascent Soul can he absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and turn it into his own. Only after reaching the distraction realm can he comprehend at a deeper level. To the mysterious union between oneself and the celestial body.”
"Just like when you practice the seventh level of the Formless Dharmakaya and realize that your soul is integrated into this mountain, and your soul soars proudly beyond the nine heavens, at a certain time, you can feel that you are the same as this mountain. "
"The knowledge comes only after learning, and the more profound truth requires you, my junior brother, to slowly understand it through endless years of practice. This is the explanation of the sentence you asked before: 'Words are broken'."
"If you don't understand clearly, the more I talk about you, the more confused you will become. If you understand, you don't need me to explain too much to you. You need to know that some truths are more likely to lead to ambiguity the more they are explained. This is what the Buddha talks about in Buddhism. The mysterious meaning of 'the unspeakable, the unspeakable'."
Ming Hui said softly.
As if listening to the sound of heaven, Li Ye couldn't help but hold the lotus in his hand, his face filled with joy.
After a long while, he continued: "Sir said that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. What I heard from my senior brother today saved me the effort of reading several volumes of scriptures. I will remember this with gratitude."
Minghui smiled and said: "Senior brother is just a few years older than you, and has read a few more scriptures. Some principles may not be as clear as yours. It won't be long before your junior brother will be able to surpass us and become a leader in the five realms." legend."
"Legendary? I just want to be able to practice quietly, and one day I can go home and be with my family. Just live quietly." In Li Ye's view, the road to legend is not what he thought, but those in Fengyun City Life is the foundation of happiness.
Minghui smiled and praised: "From a certain perspective, this idea of junior brother is a manifestation of the unity of nature and man."
Li Ye was stunned and blurted out: "Tao follows nature?"
"Yes, it is a natural manifestation of Taoism. It's just that you don't know it, junior brother." Minghui replied softly.
"Brother, how can I integrate this Taoism and Buddhism into one?" Li Ye looked at him and asked in a daze.
Minghui was stunned, looked at him and said, "Well, let's wait until you have time to ask old man Xuantian Guanqingxu for advice. It's too early to say this now."
When Li Ye heard this, he thought about it. There were too many principles to practice, and the time was still long, so he couldn't be anxious.
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