Chapter 178: Traveling alone

Tao is everywhere, and virtue is cultivated everywhere. To view Tao with common sense, Tao is also a common person. To view customs with Tao, custom is Tao.

For more than three months, after taking the train to leave the capital in June and getting off the bus halfway, I started walking and wandering, many cities, villages, mountains, wilderness, etc., all leaving my footprints.

I completely forgot that I am a cultivator. Before I could do anything, I almost didn't use any of my supernatural powers to restrain my cultivation aura. I was so ordinary that I could not be more ordinary.

During this period, I would experience everything around me at all times. I even worked on a construction site in a town for half a month, just to make money and buy some fun local things.

When I left the capital, I only had a few hundred yuan on it. After leaving the train ticket, I only had a few dozen yuan left. The card my cousin gave me was also on it, but I had never used it.

Like a wanderer, I try to experience everything with the ability of an ordinary person.

I never deliberately entered into meditation and practiced again. However, through daily life, survival in the wild, communication with others, etc., as time goes by, I gradually feel that my Taoism has become more diligent than my deliberate practice.

Tao is always there. I think the way I walk is Tao, and everything around me is Tao.

Over the past few months, my inner world has gradually become very quiet, peaceful, solid and calm. Although I am mostly in the world of the world, I feel that I am spotless.

My state of mind is clearer than ever before, like a clear moon, a clear mirror without dust... I finally realized what a true vacuum is.

Then, I reflected everything around me with my inner world, observed everything at all times, and felt that I gradually realized something. I no longer had any confusion in my heart. Everything was so clear, peaceful and natural. And I, under the condition of restrained supernatural powers and spiritual consciousness, gradually began to communicate with all things. This is the real vacuum.

This experience made me feel more transcendent than everything.

It seems that the Tao... is getting closer and closer to me.

I finally understood the concept of the Chinese Taoist fusion of nature: the communication and integration between man and nature will gradually balance and perfect your body and mind, and nature is the most perfect existence. Only by returning to nature can one create a perfect life.

Gradually, I felt that my life was very beautiful and my life was very peaceful and solid.

In the past, I thought I had seen through the world, but now I never think about these things anymore. I just want to base myself on the reality of life and inspire my cultivation in this life.

When I was working on the construction site, I was surrounded by men from all over the world. The stingy contractor almost squeezed everyone's time and energy.

"bitter!"

This is the word I heard the most.

On the day when the salary was paid, I saw "happiness" in everyone's faces.

I found that the "hardness" in other people's words is the "hardness" that is called "hardness" from the intensity of labor, but I feel that "hardness" is a kind of tempering deep in my heart. To be honest, with my life in the past twenty years, I was completely unwilling to go to a construction site for half a month, but I still tried it. I tried to hone my temperament to meet my own self-cultivation requirements. This is the "hardness" for me.

It seems that in essence, I am still a true spiritual practice.

Think about it, I am nothing. In ancient China, some practitioners even went to the fireworks to get rid of their desires, so they tried to hone themselves between desires and Taoist hearts. Some monks went out to beg for alms, just to hone their own nature.

A thousand families traveling alone,

To fulfill one's life, it will pass through the spring and autumn.

No matter how painful it was along the way, my mind and nature have gradually reached a state of brightness, just like the moonlight in the sky, the moonlight in the sky is full of the vastness, and others work hard, and finally get the money. But for me, such a "suffering" and the final result is the great joy of the inner world.

The increasing training has caused my face to change at all. The legendary saying that the practitioner will become more and more handsome as his Taoist practice improves, has not been reflected in me at all. If you ask, what has changed the most in the past three months is my own eyes.

When I occasionally look in the mirror, I feel that the calm sea seems to be seen in my eyes, and it seems to be a treasure in the vast universe.

Also, my temperament has changed a little. I don’t know if it’s because I am a little weird. After three months of training, I look very natural and harmonious in every move.

Of course, I won't keep wandering like this.

Just when the money I had left was a few dozen yuan, I ended my own journey and carried a bus to Shanghai with a pack of gadgets full of my bored carvings.

I was sitting next to me with a young man with glasses, a very enthusiastic person. As soon as I got in the car, he asked me, "Hey! Brother, are you going to Shanghai too?"

"Yes." I nodded and looked at it for a moment. The young man with glasses looked like a little white-collar worker, very thin, very pale, but in good spirits.

"My name is Kangjian, Healthy Kang, Healthy Kang." He introduced himself.

I couldn't help but feel happy when I heard his name.

"My name is Zhang Santong." I also reported my name. This time I went on a trip, I also thought about changing my name to avoid trouble. Finally, I would like to forget it. The matter of stealing a surname and changing my name is not my style.

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After a conversation, I learned that Kangjian had graduated from university for several months, and this time I planned to find a job in Shanghai. I also made a temporary decision to tell him that I was also looking for a job in Shanghai.

Kang Jian is really a very enthusiastic person. He knew that I had not settled in Shanghai. After arriving in Shanghai, he pulled me and insisted on finding a place to live together.

I told him that he didn't bring any money, and he was stunned for a moment, laughed out loud, saying it's okay, he can get it over to me first. I don't have the absolute kindness of him.

In this way, Kang Jian and I spent most of the day finding a very inconspicuous guesthouse to book a room. The boss here said that most of the people who live here are college graduates who just came to Shanghai to work or look for a job.

After everything was settled, Kang Jian asked me: "Santong, did you graduate from that school?"

I smiled and said, "I dropped out of school after a year of college."

"Ah!" Kang Jian was surprised when he heard my answer, "Brother, why didn't you finish college? Did you bring your resume when you are looking for a job? Tsk! You kid, you must have not brought your resume, I'm convinced you."

Kang Jian asked me again: "Why should we find someone to apply for a fake certificate and make a fake certificate according to my graduation certificate? Otherwise, how would you find a job?"

I said, "It's okay, let's talk about it then."

Kang Jian looked helpless. Finally, at his suggestion, we found a picture club to make some simple resumes after using supper, and my highest education column only wrote about it in high school.

In the next two days, there were several large-scale talent job fairs, with a large crowd of people, and there were many talents coming to participate in the job fairs. It seemed that most of them were college students who graduated this year.

When I came to find a job, I had no intention of finding any goals or directions. With my high school resume, I didn’t hand over a resume at the first job fair. Following the abortion, my interest was more on observing the talents around me.

In the afternoon, I returned to the guesthouse with Kang Jian and told each other about the situation. He handed out all the more than 30 resumes he had received. After knowing my situation, Kang Jian sighed and said, "Brother, you must lose your face and cast a big net. How can you find a job if you don't attack?"

At the second job fair, I handed all my resume to the companies at the job fair. This time, I selected salesmen from some companies. Kang Jian said that based on my education, those who are a little more decent can only be salesmen.

"Sorry, our company's ultimate requirement is undergraduate."

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Many recruiters of companies immediately threw it aside after seeing my resume, and then didn't look at me directly. Some recruiters were quite enthusiastic, while others directly despise me and insulted me... I just thought this was also a training for myself. Facing it calmly, my heart was still so calm. Because I only looked for a job and just honed my heart, not for survival.

Kang Jian studied computer science and was soon hired by a company. However, after attending two job fairs, I didn’t have a single call. Kang Jian was very happy and anxious, and I was anxious that I didn’t find any work. Whenever he saw me in a state of no rush, he grabbed his hair in distress.

In the next few days, Kang Jian started working and collected a lot of employment information for me through the Internet, but when the other party heard that I was a high school graduate, he hung up the phone.

At this time, I finally realized that if I was not a monk, it would be a problem to survive alone in this society. Could it be that I could not even find a job without graduating from college?

Kang Jian said that the most basic requirement for being a white-collar worker is that at least he also needs to graduate from a college. He told me tactfully that jobs such as waiters, cleaners, and security guards may be more suitable for me.

I thought to myself, it doesn't matter to me any job.

So, I attended four job fairs, read a lot of newspapers and online information, and almost ran all over Shanghai City. In the end, I was hired by a group.
Chapter completed!