Chapter 178: Dou Qi Transforms Into Wings
Many fellow Daoists have recently asked the boy many questions, about mental issues, physical discomfort, and so on.
The boy wants to tell them, don’t just read fantasy novels about how things are. If you have a problem, seek medical attention first, don’t be misled. When medical skill cannot help you, consider the reasons within yourself. Have you thought about something bad, or are there bad habits influencing you? After repentance, you must resolve to change.
Then communicate with yourself and comfort your soul, apologize to yourself. Have you not been driving this vehicle well, only knowing how to use it and forgetting its maintenance?
You can also meditate, relax your body, calm your heart, nourish your spirit, and smooth your Qi. Forgive those who have hurt you in the past, don’t hold onto them, discard those burdens, block those negative emotions, stand tall and move forward.
Someone asked the boy; Big Brother, didn’t you say meditation isn’t about sitting still? Didn’t you say it’s about the Primordial Spirit being still?
The boy wants to tell him;
Not everyone can easily achieve constant Zen Meditation. You haven’t even broken illusions yet, so you must first practice breaking illusions and cultivating character and temperament. Also, remember, meditation is about the Primordial Spirit being still in meditation, but it also brings benefits. Don’t think you’re something just because you read novels. If you can relax your body at all times, have a calm heart and smooth Qi flow, and don’t overthink, then you can naturally do anything. But you haven’t even reached the beginner stage, so don’t expect to reach the heavens in one step. When you need to stop and be quiet, stop and adjust yourself quietly. Even the boy occasionally sits still with his eyes closed to recuperate.
Meditation is for practicing that. If you don’t understand, you won’t practice it, and it will be a wasted effort. But meditation itself is a way to relax, adjust yourself, and contemplate.
No matter what predicament one encounters, one must raise their fighting spirit. Those concepts in some fantasy novels about fighting spirit turning into wings refer to a person’s fighting spirit and ambition! Fighting spirit turning into wings means that when you can continuously improve your fighting spirit and ambition, this fighting spirit will be like wings, carrying you to fly through life.
A strong person must have a heart that never admits defeat, is tenacious to the end, refuses to give up, and dares to fight heaven.
There’s a saying: “Fighting heaven is endlessly joyful, fighting earth is endlessly joyful, fighting people is endlessly joyful.” When applied to cultivation, it speaks of the arrogant spirit of a strong person in the world.
Borrow this saying and apply it to yourself: fighting heaven means fighting your inertial thinking, fighting earth means fighting for control of your body, and fighting people means fighting the wickedness of human nature, including your own wicked side.
Righteousness and evil have always been irreconcilable. Upholding righteousness and warding off evil is the cultivation principle for all righteous cultivators. The power of wickedness is like a paper tiger, not frightening. What’s frightening is lacking the courage and spirit. If you have courage and spirit, cultivate yourself into a Precious Sword, a Precious Sword imbued with Vast Righteous Qi. When the sword is not drawn, it rests in the Land of Ruin. When the sword is drawn, who under heaven can contend with it! Dignity is only found on the edge of a sword! Truth is only found within the range of a cannon!
All the wickedness in my heart will eventually turn into a departed soul under my sword, or surrender to me and be used by me. Using wickedness well is also goodness, it depends on who is using it.
When a righteous person uses an evil method, the evil method becomes righteous. When an evil person uses a righteous method, the righteous method also becomes evil. Upholding righteousness and warding off evil means establishing a kingdom for yourself within your soul!
It’s not that there’s no battle in peacetime, battles in peacetime are even more cruel! If you don’t become king, you will be trapped by various things in life. You might suffer from depression, schizophrenia, or unbearable physical discomfort. The source of all these stems from your cowardice.
As the saying goes, “A general’s success is built on the bones of ten thousand soldiers.” Conquer yourself and become king!
The difference between a coward and a hero lies in their spirit and courage! One cowardly person drags down a whole group! If you have a guilty conscience, all sorts of villains will bully you. If you have resolve, your ambition will soar for thousands of miles!
Everything you have originates from your own spirit! Your fighting spirit is also like this!
Raise your spirit for me! Lift your proud and unyielding head! Pick up the sword in your heart to become a strong person, grip the hilt tightly and tell yourself!
If I want to succeed! Even the Heavenly Emperor cannot stop me! Even if I have to grind my teeth, I will gnaw off two ounces of flesh with my gums! I will swallow my own broken teeth along with them! Born Towards Death, there is no retreat! Live when you must live! Die when you must die! Fearless of Life and Death! Fight your way to a strong person’s path in your life, and fight for a Pure Land for yourself! Where your heart leads, it points directly to Heaven and Earth!
On this journey, all unwillingness, all melodrama, all difficulties will become stepping stones on my path to becoming king!
I will use whatever comes my way to strengthen myself, devouring all negative energy and allowing righteousness to grow wildly within me. If you don’t want to be swallowed by the negative forces within yourself, then swallow them instead! You are not good to me? Hey, I won’t argue, I won’t get angry, and I won’t hold resentment. I will still face the sun.
My true heart was exchanged for trouble, damn it, I don’t want it anymore! I’ll find another one to give, still melodrama? Damn it! I don’t want it anymore, I’ll find another one! Afraid of losing? That’s not me! The word “lose” is not in my dictionary, nor is the word “cowardly.”
Those who hurt my heart, breaking it into pieces, then I will reassemble my heart! Shattered again, reborn again, shattered again, reborn again! If I want to live, no one can stop me!
What the hell is this painful living? Damn it! I will live freely and joyfully! What the hell is this thing or that thing I can’t get over? Damn it! There is nothing I cannot get over! I am a king! Not a damn sheep! You have misperceived me! You think a little hardship will make me cowardly? Will make me submit? Damn it! I don’t know what submission is!
My fighting spirit is endless, my ambition is as high as the heavens, I climb step by step, step by step, pushing through everything! No one can stop me!
Am I too young? Am I too old? Damn it! I will always be that stubborn and unyielding young man! There’s no such thing as age!
If I want to build a rocket, I can. If I want to go to university, if I want to get a doctorate, even if I’m sixty years old, I can if I want to! Nothing is impossible! Only whether you dare to do it!
The founder of Laoganma started her business at the age of 49. Jack Ma began his path to success at 35. Li Jinyuan founded Tiens Group at 60. The boy began to achieve enlightenment in his thirties!
When Jiang Ziya was young, he diligently studied astronomy and geography, military strategy, and the ways of governing the country. He was knowledgeable and talented. Even in his sixties, with white hair, he was still seeking opportunities to display his abilities and ambitions.
Why be cowardly? What to fear? Go for it! Unconvinced! Just unconvinced! Even at eighty years old, it’s useless! Just unconvinced!
If depression troubles me, I will confront it! I will study diligently, research tirelessly, and become an expert in curing depression myself, and then cure myself!
What the hell is schizophrenia? I refuse to be convinced, I will live as myself! Damn it! I am Number One Under Heaven! I am the most awesome! I am the greatest!
Whatever tries to trap me, I will study it, I will fight it, and by defeating it, I will become my own king!
