Chapter 18: Qi Cultivation
In this chapter, we will mainly talk about the so-called Qi Cultivation.
Ordinary people cultivate Qi, mostly by adjusting the position of internal Qi through breathing methods, to achieve a state of adjusting Qi and Blood, and to obtain some special abilities through adjusting the state of Qi and Blood.
This is similar to accelerating metabolism, or transferring the position of Qi and Blood to enhance energy activity patterns in specific parts of the body, and so on.
As for immortal cultivators, they mobilize the energy of Qi not only by adjusting breathing but also by adjusting thoughts.
Adjusting yourself to a state of anger will cause a large secretion of adrenaline.
Besides helping you improve your combat power, adrenaline has other unique skills. It can also help you numb pain, reduce fear, increase excitement, and make your vision clearer than ever before. Strength and reaction speed will increase dramatically compared to normal, allowing a person to rapidly become active from a near-death state in a very short period of time.
But remember not to overuse it, as excessive use will have the opposite effect.
Similarly, other emotions will have similar effects.
This method of mobilization requires no pre-activation time and can be mobilized in an instant. It can be used with ease.
The emotional power mobilized here is not about truly getting extremely angry or extremely sad.
It is only about mobilizing that state; it’s not about actually making you angry.
When you are truly emotional, your mind doesn’t work properly and it will obscure your own judgment.
The state during mobilization is similar to drunken boxing; it’s the same principle as being drunk in appearance but not in spirit.
Outwardly, one may appear to be in a rage, but inwardly, one remains calm, knowing that this is just a method and not that one is truly angry.
One can adjust the level of anger, or the strength of the energy, according to the actual situation.
If you can achieve this, you have already become a different kind of being.
Superhuman, self-controlled at will.
Don’t take your thoughts too seriously, and don’t take your emotions too seriously, because all emotions are caused by thoughts.
When cultivating this, don’t do it too frequently, or rather, you don’t need to deliberately practice it. Just set for yourself that under a certain state, a certain emotion will be triggered.
For example, when I am startled, or when I feel a trace of fear in a certain situation, I will instinctively display an angry glare.
Instantly widening my eyes, clenching my fists, and sometimes my hands are already extended.
Fortunately, my concentration is strong enough that I can stop in time. Otherwise, if someone suddenly appeared behind me or patted me without my knowledge, I might instinctively attack them.
In other words, if you deliberately set a certain conviction for yourself in life, it will be automatically triggered at critical moments.
When this kind of reaction can be automatically triggered, it is called instinct.
If you observe carefully, you can see that the shoulders of most people are unnatural; many people tend to lift them slightly upwards.
Or they are awkward when they droop, not very natural.
Qi cultivation requires constant relaxation, both physical and mental, so that you feel very light and comfortable in your body.
This is the optimal state for a person.
While using emotions to control and adjust your body’s state, you must also ensure that you can always adjust back.
Achieve the ability to summon it when needed and dismiss it when not, freely and easily.
Of course, the so-called method of using Qi does not only refer to mobilizing energy through emotions.
You can also be very powerful when you are physically and mentally relaxed.
For example, if you accidentally hit your arm when you’re not paying attention, the more you focus on the injured spot, the more it hurts.
Then, if you actively shift your attention to another place, after a while, you will find that the injured spot doesn’t hurt as much.
This is also the use of Qi, which is the principle of using shifting attention.
For example, if you have a sore throat and are coughing continuously, you can shift your focus to somewhere else. The more you forget about your throat problem, the more you can block out the discomfort in your throat.
You can even reach a point where you feel nothing at all.
This is also one of the ways to use Qi.
I don’t know if any of you have seen Stephen Chow’s movie “From Beijing with Love.”
During one mission, due to betrayal by a teammate, the character played by Stephen Chow was shot in the thigh.
Upon returning, Stephen Chow asked the woman to dig out the bullet from his thigh with a knife. However, there was no anesthetic at the time, so it had to be done manually.
Stephen Chow took out a movie titled “Adults’ Reproduction Education Biological Science for Men and Women’s Single Combat” and watched it intently.
This greatly reduced the pain in his leg, and he even occasionally let out a few comfortable moans.
This is also a way of using Qi, to numb one’s pain nerves.
Also, during the Three Kingdoms period, when Second Master Guan’s left arm was shot, Hua Tuo scraped the bone to remove the poison from his arm. Second Master Guan focused on playing chess, enduring the excruciating pain that ordinary people could not bear.
They are all based on the same principle.
Deliberately using thoughts to conjure emotions or shifting thoughts elsewhere, amplifying or blocking bodily sensations, are all ways of using Qi.
Qi is the various energies within the body. By controlling this energy, you can achieve various states.
The way to control energy lies in thoughts.
It’s similar to the state of changing thoughts at will that I mentioned earlier, just used at different moments.
The strongest energy that truly makes one unaware of pain is called indifference.
If you can bring this emotion up, let alone hitting yourself somewhere, even taking a knife or two won’t change your expression.
Because you don’t care at all, your attention is not on yourself at all.
Sometimes I even feel that under certain specific conditions, this emotion can be even greater than the energy of anger.
Because if you’re too angry, you don’t know pain, but when you’re indifferent, you know you’re in pain, but you just don’t care about it. You’re completely in a “whatever happens, happens” state, as if daring someone to break your leg, and your face is expressionless.
I think even Brother Jesus would be impressed by this.
Because what is emitted is not the fiery temper of anger, but a complete killing aura and a coldness emanating from the bones.
Sometimes, if you provoke someone who is easily angered, it might not be a big deal.
But provoking someone who is terrifyingly indifferent can be dangerous.
Those who kill without blinking and can chat and laugh after doing evil are all people who are extremely indifferent to human nature.
What about “rainy night butchers” and cannibalistic demons? Most of them are indifferent, or even inhumane.
Therefore, the emotion of indifference should not be used lightly unless absolutely necessary. Otherwise, if you do something earth-shattering, you will likely be taken out early.
That will cut off your path of immortal cultivation. In the next life, you might not be reborn as anything. Perhaps you’ll be human, perhaps a horse or a pig, or perhaps a dung beetle. Therefore, cultivate a kind heart and good thoughts, and do not do evil, lest you eat shit in the next life.
Amitabha! Well said, well said!
