Chapter 172: Eternal Life
“Big brother, what about that depression?”
“Where the hell does depression come from? All mental illnesses are about a lack of spirit or a wandering mind. Depression is also just an adjective. I’ve researched it specifically. Most people have this problem, it’s just a matter of degree. Don’t listen to others scare you with nonsense. If this illness were truly real, why didn’t ancient people have it?
It’s just an unstable mind. A bunch of lazy idiots who don’t understand anything just shove medicine down your throat, treating the symptoms, not the root cause.
The one who tied the bell must untie it. If the mind has a problem, you must start with the mind. Take control of yourself and be your own master. Bring your mind back and guard it, which is also called upholding righteousness and warding off evil. Then, naturally, you’ll be fine!
They’re deceiving these children, making them scared. A perfectly fine child, who just doesn’t know how to control their mind, gets constantly scared to death. This makes the child believe more and become more afraid, without even knowing what’s happening. There’s no method, and they’re just drugged into a daze with medicine! Oh, this makes my heart angry, what scoundrels!”
“Big, big brother, please calm down. Don’t be like them. Do you have a way for this depression?”
“What the hell method? Are you kidding me? You lazy idiots shouldn’t be scheming. Don’t believe anything anyone says, not even your own family. Because family doesn’t understand, you can only find someone else who you believe understands and trust them. They want you to get better quickly, so they tell you how to do things according to their instructions.
Damn it, don’t listen to any of that. Bring your mind back to yourself. If you want to play, play. If you want to eat, eat. If you want to sleep, sleep. If you don’t want to sleep, don’t sleep. Why are you overthinking so much?
If your mind is restless, beat it with your thoughts. Have good thoughts that make you feel good, and you’ll feel good. If any bad thoughts appear, beat them to death! How could you not get better?
How did depression get so severe? It’s all from being scared! How did cancer get severe? It’s all from being scared, then worrying, then getting internal heat. How can you possibly get better like that?
Our medical skills have been around for thousands of years. For thousands of years, there was no mention of this thing. Now it suddenly exists?
This is caused by an imbalance of energy within the body. The most powerful aspect of Traditional Chinese Medicine is conditioning energy balance. When treating illness, it focuses on what’s deficient and balances it, and you naturally get better. Western medicine treats the affected area. Combine the two methods, damn it!”
“Big brother, do you know medical skills?”
“Big brother only knows mystic arts, arcane arts, and mind control techniques, all of which are just bragging rights. I don’t know medical skills.”
“Big brother, your….”
“Hahahaha”
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“Big brother, there’s a saying: Seeing mountains as mountains, seeing mountains not as mountains, and seeing mountains as mountains again. What does this saying really mean?”
“This describes the three stages of the cultivation process:
Seeing mountains as mountains means that when ordinary people see something, hear something, etc., thoughts arise in their minds, and they treat these thoughts as real.
Seeing mountains not as mountains means that what you see is not necessarily real. To put it simply, what you think in your mind is not necessarily real. Don’t take your own thoughts as reality.
Seeing mountains as mountains again, the key point is here. This is the third state of cultivation, which is the same as an unmoving heart in samadhi. For example, when you are looking at a mountain, you can see the mountain and know that you are looking at it, but your mind does not generate a thought because of the mountain. This is all about not letting the primordial spirit move randomly.
“I understand, big brother, hahahaha. No wonder many people say this, but no one understands what it means. So it’s a cultivation method?”
“Yes, many sayings are actually cultivation methods. It’s just that many people can say them and know what they mean, but they can’t apply them to themselves. They haven’t practiced, and they don’t have a method to practice. They just know the principle. It’s like if I told you how to cook, how delicious it would be, but you’ve never cooked it yourself. Then when you brag about it, you can talk a good game, but when asked to cook, you wouldn’t even know how to turn on the stove.”
“Hehehe, big brother, you’re pointing me out, ha. When I encounter things, I will definitely pay attention and stay calm. Don’t worry, big brother.”
“It’s enough to remind yourself. This kind of thing isn’t achieved overnight. You might remember today, but then something happens with the people around you and you don’t use it. You need to remind yourself: next time, be calm and discover it promptly. Be down-to-earth and take it step by step. Don’t get arrogant and show off after learning a little bit. Hiding your brilliance is the key, and playing the fool is how you catch a tiger.
“Okay, big brother. You go ahead with your business, hehe. I’m going to go beat up some distracting thoughts. For the past two days, a silly lecherous ghost has been bothering me while I watch videos, so I’m going to go beat it up.”
“Hahahaha, go ahead. Remember that saying: Control thoughts are king, self-deification, be your own savior.”
“Yes, I remember, big brother. Big brother, you should rest. Get plenty of rest. Boundless blessings.”
“Boundless blessings.”
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After putting down his mobile phone, the boy continued with his usual activities.
Sometimes the boy slept only five or six hours a day, or maybe three or four hours, it was unpredictable, and sometimes he slept longer.
Seeing this, Wang Fei asked him, “You only sleep that little, aren’t you tired? You should sleep a bit more.”
“I’m not tired. My spirit is abundant, so I’m not tired. Sometimes when I just wake up, I feel a little tired, but after a while, I’m full of energy, hehehe.”
“Why aren’t you tired even though you sleep so little, while I’m tired even after sleeping a lot?” Wang Fei asked again.
The boy chuckled; “Because I nourish my spirit. With abundant spirit, even if I sleep little, I’m very energetic. How can I describe it to you? For example, my mind doesn’t wander. I just see what I see, and I don’t overthink. Even while I’m talking to you now, I don’t need to think about anything. My thoughts and consciousness are just there, not moving. I consume less energy, so naturally, I’m energetic.”
“Okay.”
Although the boy tried his best to explain it simply to Wang Fei, looking at her expression, it seemed she couldn’t quite grasp how to achieve that anytime soon.
The boy didn’t rush to explain it to her or call her anything. Over time, the magnetic field would naturally influence her.
The boy saw that many people nowadays liked to sleep less and then practice meditation. They would sit in meditation for a long time, which was no different from sleeping. Or they would be half-asleep and half-awake. They slept for six hours lying down, and then they sat there and slept for half the day, damn it! They thought that practicing for a long time could lead to eternal life.
Eternal life means that a person’s consciousness can stay in the mortal world for a longer time through cultivation, and their physical functions can remain very good. When these two are combined, a person will have an incredibly long lifespan, living in the world for a long time. This is the true meaning of longevity.
Their method is also a form of cultivation that preserves the primordial spirit from wandering randomly, and it’s also about nourishing the spirit to slow down the consumption of consciousness.
For example, meditating blocks external things, so you are not disturbed by them. Going to some mountain to hide away from the mortal world in search of purity is just changing the environment, using the environment’s influence, and so on. It’s all the same.
But some people foolishly forget one thing: the mortal world is not outside the world; it is within everyone’s heart. Even if you haven’t experienced anything, just thinking about this and that in your heart is like crossing a thousand waves. What mortal suffering are you talking about? All that suffering is your own inner suffering. It’s all nonsense. If the heart doesn’t move, where does suffering come from?
Moreover, ascension while living and ascension upon nirvana are two different things.
Ascension while living refers to the soul upgrading and sublimating.
Leaving this world is another matter; it’s a return to the Great Dao, meaning returning to the energy wave pattern. Or returning to the will of the Great Dao. After consciousness returns, it no longer projects downwards, meaning it doesn’t make mistakes and isn’t beaten down. Generally, one doesn’t come down unless they want to experience things, because it’s easy to come down but difficult to return.
What about hundreds of lifetimes of trials and tribulations, and so on, are all descriptions of not having returned. It’s not something to brag about, it’s not worth boasting.
If it were so amazing, would it take so long to return after each descent for experience? Damn! It’s nothing. I’ve only had a few lifetimes: one as a monk, one as a Taoist, one as a madman, and a big idiot trapped by love, constantly drinking.
Laozi then parted the clouds and saw the blue sky, hehehe. What was my name again? Liaochen, Wuyou, Jie Wuchen.
Hahahaha……
