Chapter 184: Getting Richer And Richer
“I’ve got it, Big Brother.”
“Mm, people must continuously learn. When you go to school, work hard and climb up.
Even if you’re not going to school, accumulate wisdom and improve your cognition. When your wisdom grows, you’ll be able to avoid being self-righteous, and then you’ll be awesome. Wisdom is a method of cultivating good fortune, and I am also continuously learning and growing. Oh ho ho, learning makes me happy! Ya ha ha ha.”
“Hahaha, my Big Brother who grows upward!”
“Absolutely, hehehe. In life, although I don’t get hung up on anything and am at ease, you still need to make some plans for yourself. Like getting some insurance, paying a bit depending on the situation. When your desires are low and you’re easily satisfied, you still need to have some security, because we still need to play in the mortal world. And there are many times when you know too little. It’s not like some masters who go into the mountains and eat whatever they find. When wisdom is insufficient, even if I go into the mountains, I’ll easily get confused from hunger. At most, I’ll be able to endure hunger a bit longer than others, hehehe. So, continuous learning allows people to survive tenaciously in various environments, which is the King’s Way. This isn’t about fearing death, but about wisdom.”
“Okay, Big Brother, I will definitely study hard and improve myself every day.”
“Mm-hmm, don’t dwell on things like liking money. Don’t carry any burden. It’s right to like money; money will increase if you like it, and it will distance itself if you dislike it.
As long as you don’t break the law or act recklessly, having a lot of money allows you to do many good things. As long as you can cultivate yourself well and don’t get lost when you have a lot of money, then money will become your energy to help more people. Don’t see money as a sin; it’s just a form of matter. True sin lies in the unscrupulous human heart. Therefore, you must correct yourself well and become richer and richer through wisdom. I don’t want anything else; whether you are filial to me is your business. As long as you uphold your bottom line and don’t do evil, that’s enough repayment for me.”
“Definitely, Big Brother. I won’t do bad things even after I have money, you can rest assured.”
“I hope you can remember this. Don’t get lost. Although the human heart is fickle, Big Brother believes in you. You can uphold your bottom line.”
“Rest assured, Big Brother, I will absolutely not disappoint you.”
“By the way, if you feel lost and don’t know how to proceed, just stop and rest for a while. Sometimes people live at too fast a pace and can easily become irritable. It’s not a bad thing to stop and calm down sometimes, but you can’t lose your fighting spirit just because you rest for a bit; consider it a buffer.
If you don’t know what kind of job to do in the future, find an industry you like and study it. At the very least, it can ensure you have food and clothing, and a guarantee for your future life. Don’t envy others or crave what they have on the way. Keep your focus on yourself. As you become better and more awesome, everything else will also get better.
No amount of money can buy your happiness. Work hard to become rich yourself. Don’t worry about whether you’ll have a lot of money; just focus on working hard.”
“Okay, Big Brother.”
“Mm, don’t mind Big Brother talking too much. Big Brother is thinking about your future.”
“I understand, Big Brother, I know.”
“Alright, let’s stop here for now. You go play; Big Brother needs to study.”
“Okay, goodbye Big Brother.”
“Okay, goodbye.”
Let’s say, it’s only when a boy acts as the Big Brother that he says this. If parents were to nag like this, the child would have long since gotten annoyed.
But there’s no choice. Who told the boy to be the Big Brother? How can he not plan for the future life his younger brothers and sisters will face? If the family doesn’t listen, and he doesn’t say it, then what will happen if the child suddenly feels lost in society or in life? What if they don’t know how to proceed? This is not what the boy wants to see.
Cultivating the heart is primary, but career and ambition are also essential; these are like fertilizer for nourishing a flower.
The thing the boy likes to do most is study. The more he cultivates, the more he likes to study. He has experienced the warmth and cold of human feelings in this mortal world and deeply knows that relying on oneself is better than asking others. Being awesome is not as good as being awesome yourself.
If you don’t want to bow your head in front of others, then walk forward with your head held high. If there comes a time when you truly need to let go of your face, you should let it go and not dwell on it.
Effort is not for the sake of face, but to enhance your confidence and face the unknown with composure.
I don’t know when it started, but the boy often feels a pleasant warmth in the soles of his feet, as if he’s being massaged, and he can activate it on demand. It’s super fun. Some say this is because the Qi within him is very pure.
Generally, after the Heavenly Cycle, and after opening the crown of the head, when one cultivates to a certain extent, they will feel great heat in the soles of their feet, indicating that the energy at this level of the body is very pure.
The Heavenly Cycle refers to the second stage in the cultivation of the Inner Elixir in ancient Qigong traditions, which is the process of Qi transforming into spirit.
Opening the crown of the head is a realm in Daoist cultivation, signifying that the cultivator has reached a new level. There are two types of opening the crown of the head: one is a noticeable sense of emptiness in the body, and the other is a noticeable external aura. This state implies that the cultivator has entered the stage of refining spirit to void or a state of profound emptiness and stillness, where the body feels transparent and empty, the mind is calm and peaceful, and one can sit still for a long time with no distracting thoughts.
The boy has never practiced these two things. He has only continuously cultivated until his Primordial Spirit is still and his mind is free of distractions.
For example, when Wang Fei was on night shift and suddenly got her period in the middle of the night, the boy went to bring her sanitary napkins. However, not knowing when Wang Fei would be able to come out, he sat outside, squatted, and walked for over two hours. He didn’t feel any irritation at all and even felt comfortable outside at night.
Or, when the weather is very hot and he’s playing outside, the boy doesn’t get annoyed. He even feels it’s nice to bask in the sun. He enjoys whatever comes his way. Even if he comes home to find his neck sunburned and a bit painful, sometimes shedding a thin layer of skin, he doesn’t get troubled and just continues with what he was doing. It heals in a few days.
If his hand accidentally gets a small, deep cut and bleeds quite a bit, he will suck on it with his mouth and then apologize to the energy within himself, saying, “I’m sorry, brothers, Big Brother wasn’t careful and hurt you. Big Brother will be careful next time.” By the time he comes out of the supermarket after buying a pack of cigarettes, the bleeding has stopped completely.
He’s strange. If he accidentally bumps into a table, he will apologize to himself, saying he didn’t control himself and caused his internal brothers to get hurt. He will also tell the table that it’s not the table’s fault, but his own for bumping into it, not the table bumping into him.
Don’t misunderstand, this guy isn’t crazy. He’s just telling the truth. Usually, after doing this, hehehe, not only will there be no resentment, but the bruised spot will heal without him even noticing. He’s just that awesome with healing attributes. Ya ha ha ha ha.
Besides continuously cultivating to keep his Primordial Spirit still, he occasionally dissolves any passive emotions that arise. Although these don’t affect him much, he doesn’t let them touch him. Those passive emotions are biological habits caused by past emotional patterns, or mystically speaking, ignorant karma, or even just some stray electrical signals passing by. By dissolving them, and practicing for a long time, the passive ones will stop coming, hahaha.
Sometimes, if he suddenly feels a bit cold somewhere, this guy will also adjust his Qi to ward off the cold.
He has never stopped cultivating and will deliberately observe things to test his practice. For example, he’ll look at a beautiful woman and continue to practice without developing evil thoughts, immobilizing even biological reactions. It’s a bit like the Immobile Zen practiced by the old Dharma Master. The only difference is that the boy didn’t find a large green snake to touch himself, ya ha ha ha ha. He just controls his thoughts to achieve clarity, allowing his body and mind to relax and become calm, thus repelling external evils.
