After reading it through the book "Daozang", it was already dark outside, the rain stopped, and the air became particularly fresh.

Zhang Xuanqing put down the books and felt that many doubts were solved in his heart, but many new doubts were filled.

As Zhuangzi said, "My life is limited, but knowledge is limited." The knowledge in the world is endless, and people should know how to stop at the right time.

Great wisdom knows the end, small wisdom only plans, wisdom is infinite but the Tao is endless!

After dealing with a few suppers, Zhang Xuanqing sat cross-legged on the ground, put a sofa cushion on the bottom, and began to meditate according to the method taught by Sun Simiao to practice the innate Qi.

The innate Qi, Buddhism, Taoism, doctors, and Confucianism, is the primitive Qi that is born in heaven, earth, and all things. It is the basic quality that constitutes the world, and Taoism is the basis of the primordial spirit golden elixir.

In the eyes of doctors, a mouthful of innate energy is accompanied by a mouthful of innate energy. As the person grows older, the mouth of innate energy becomes less and less, and it becomes more and more complicated. Until the person dies, the mouth of innate energy will dissipate, and the same is true for Taoism.

Therefore, this Qi is not in the body, it is not outside the body, it begins with birth and dies. Its greatness has no outside, its smallness has no inside, and it is mysterious and mysterious.

After Zhang Xuanqing sat down cross-legged on the ground, he calmed down his mind, focused his mind, and became quiet, trying to pursue the state of being too empty, too little, too mysterious, and vague.

In fact, the real Taoist meditation is not like his body, and his eyes are closed and his eyes are closed. This can only be regarded as a "fake sitting" at best.

Those who truly sit must have twelve hours, stay, walk, sit and lie down. In the middle of all movements and stillness, the heart is like a mountain of Tai, without moving or shaking, breaking the four doors of eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and not allowing the external scene to enter, but there is no movement or thought of it, which is not called meditation.

However, those who reach that level are those who have profound achievements, and at the least they must be like Sun Simiao.

Zhang Xuanqing has now entered the Taoist world and cannot practice such skills. He can only strictly abide by the meditation posture in order to achieve the effect of going from the outside to the inside.

At the beginning, although there are no distracting thoughts in your heart, while sitting for a while, each thought will come into your mind. Although it is mostly thoughts of seeking the Tao, it also makes your thoughts distort. Until you think of the Taoist scriptures, "I am not afraid of thoughts arise, but I am afraid of being late." "Thoughts arise are a disease, and not continuing is a medicine." When you know that false thoughts arise, you will be awakened and unresponsive, and you will be able to reach the state of no thoughts. I immediately concentrate on my whole mind, concentrate a little, think hard and think through my misunderstandings.

Why do you need to practice Taoism?

Can you live forever after practicing Taoism?

How long does it take to truly show its effectiveness?

With all this, Zhang Xuanqing ignored the other thoughts and focused on why he wanted to practice Taoism and thought about it carefully.

In this way, although you cannot really have nothing in your heart and be empty and quiet, you can focus on your whole mind and concentrate a little, and you can eliminate other distracting thoughts. In the end, only this thought is left, which is also called "one spirit shines alone". In the realm of one spirit shines alone, there is no need to think about it. When the thought arises, it will be awakened and the heart will stop. When the false thoughts want to move, it will be suppressed and not moved; when the false mind wants to arise, it will be suppressed and not arise.

Whenever one mind is distracted, fantasies and distracting thoughts arise, and the "one spirit shines alone", we use the method of cutting off all the minds and killing all kinds of things. Let the mind stay in the mind position, and the mind is not externally dependent but quiet inside, and the environment is not disturbed inside but quiet outside.

As the saying goes, without thoughts, without thoughts, and without thoughts, you will be close to the Tao. When the mind is spotless and the mind does not arise, you will be empty and unconscious, and you will know it clearly. This skill of meditation can also be called entering the hall and entering the room.

The poem says:

I have a divine bead that has been locked up by dust for a long time.

Now the dust is gone and the light is born, shining through the mountains and rivers.

When Zhang Xuanqing truly reached the concentration of mind and thoughts, and his spirit shone alone, he felt that he had come to a world of nothingness, surrounded by darkness and chaos, and nothing was left. Only in the center of the world, there was a white light, like a pearl, radiating brightly, making the empty room white.

In an instant, after the light burst, I felt that the mountains, rivers, earth, and the voids in all directions disappeared and returned to nirvana. Unconsciously, darkness was nowhere, light was nowhere to be there, there was no reality or emptiness, no form or emptiness, and inaction and right concentration. However, a stream of air slowly gathered, neither cold nor warm, nor existed, and seemed to be true or illusion, but he knew in his heart that this was the "innate Qi".

I don’t know how long it took, but when Zhang Xuanqing was awake and opened his eyes, the rising sun was rising and the purple air came east. In a blink of an eye, a night had passed.

Looking at the rising sun outside the window and experiencing the feeling of aura, Zhang Xuanqing felt a sense of wonder.

This innate qi is indeed not in the body or outside the body. It is a very mysterious feeling, as if it is in the body, and as if it is not there. It is not the true qi that entrenches the dantian in the martial arts novels he expected. It is neither warm current nor cool. In short, it gives people a feeling of being there, not being there, not being nothing.

Just like the Taoist saying that the secret hall is in the dantian, some say it is in the eyebrows, and some say it is three inches outside the tip of the nose, and there is no specific position at all.

The same is true for the innate Qi, as if it is everywhere, and as if it is nothing. If you want it to be in the body, it can appear in the body; if you want it to go outside, it can be preserved outside. But if you want it to be specifically pointed out where it is, it has no specific resting place, no specific place to close, no specific place to settle. It only feels that it cannot be dissipated by the wind and cannot be exhausted by the sun. It is real "existence", and it is also a illusory "nothing".

No wonder Sun Simiao said that it has no attack power. This "qi" is between existence and non-existence. In the future, it may form, and disperse, it will become qi. However, at this time of birth, it is completely a state of "Tai Chi".

Tai Chi is not Yin and Yang, but the state before Yin and Yang, and there is no distinction between Yin and Yang. The pattern of Tai Chi Yin and Yang fish is circulated in the world, which is only convenient for people to understand. Unexpectedly, people in the world are ignorant and have caused a big misunderstanding.

For example, the statement about Tai Chi in some novels, saying that one side of the Yin and Yang Qi is stronger than one side, the Tai Chi state will become unstable, which is completely nonsense.

Yin is strong and Yang is weak, and Yang is strong and Yin is weak. These two words only refer to the rise and fall of Yin and Yang. However, Yin and Yang at this time belong to the "two qualities".

Yi has Tai Chi, which gives birth to two yin and two yin gives birth to four images, and four yin gives birth to eight trigrams. The two yin refers to "yin and yang" in classical philosophy.

When the world begins to open, everything is chaos, which is Wuji, Wuji gives birth to Taiji, and Taiji gives birth to two qualities.

Tai Chi refers to the vital energy that is mixed with yin and yang, and the initially integrated Yumu.

This vital energy can be called the innate qi!

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Closed his eyes and realized the innate Qi. Zhang Xuanqing suddenly felt a strange thing coming from the wounds of his body. He opened his eyes and looked down at his left shoulder. After a tossing yesterday morning, the gauze bandaged here was somewhat loose, looking through the gap to the wounds of his shoulders, but he saw that the wound had scabbed. Zhang Xuanqing was not surprised, but a trace of understanding flashed.

After several times of eye fatigue, a cool feeling in the body went to the eyes to relieve fatigue. Zhang Xuanqing knew that his body was a little unusual now. Now it seems that that coolness can not only relieve fatigue, but also speed up the healing speed of his injuries.

However, although his injuries were not serious, they were not light, especially his left shoulder, and even severe abrasions. Although the wound has scabbed, it still cannot recover completely, and Zhang Xuanqing ignored it.

After breakfast and experiencing the innate Qi for a while, Zhang Xuanqing practiced the next practice: through the nine orifices!

The Great Dao first practices the nine orifices, and the nine orifices are originally at the coccyx point. First, it rushes from the soles of Yongquan, and the Yongquan gradually reaches the knee. One person's body has 360 bone joints and 84,000 pores. There are three gates behind: coccyx, Jiaji, and Jade Pillow. The coccyx is at the head of the pan below Jiaji, and is located between the end of the coccyx and ****. The key point that connects the nine orifices is this coccyx point.

The connection of the nine orifices here is not what is mentioned in martial arts novels to open up the meridians. In traditional Chinese medicine theory, the meridians in the human body are naturally connected. As the saying goes, "If it is connected, it will not hurt, and if it is connected, it will not hurt." It can be said that an individual is a genius who has all the meridians in martial arts novels.

If someone's meridians are blocked, it is a disease. If it is really as mentioned in martial arts novels, the meridians in the whole body are blocked and the true qi needs to be practiced, then I'm sorry, you don't need to practice, because at this time you are already dead and can't die anymore.

To penetrate the nine orifices, to put it bluntly, it stimulates the acupuncture points in the body, strengthens the nine orifices, and surpasses that of ordinary people. It is like foot therapy. Some acupuncture points on the soles of the foot, but some acupuncture points on the heart and some lungs. Traditional Chinese medicine theory has never been used to treat any disease, but to find out the cause of the disease. Even if your head hurts, you can use acupuncture to stab your feet, it is not uncommon in traditional Chinese medicine. The key acupuncture points that penetrate the nine orifices are the coccyx point between the end of the coccyx and ****.

The coccyx acupoint belongs to the Du meridian, and it is not the Ren meridian. In traditional Chinese medicine theory, each acupoint does not exist in an individual, but is connected with certain other acupoints, and finally forms a dense meridian network in the human body.

To stimulate the coccyx acupoint, you should not start directly from the coccyx acupoint, but start from the Yongquan acupoint at the soles of the foot, pass through the knee, to the coccyx, and then to the Baihui Niwan Palace on the top of the head, which is the upper Dantian. Then turn from the Du meridian to the Ren meridian, reach the Jinsuoguan Pass on the nose, and then go down to the throat. There are twelve sections of the throat, so it is called the twelve-level building. Passing down the twelve-level building to the Zhenzhong acupoint, then to the Qihai of the Dantian, and finally complete a cycle. This step is called the Taoist Xiao Zhoutian in the Civil and Military Affairs. In martial arts novels, it is called the so-called opening of the Ren and Du meridians. When the skills reach the innate level, you can become a master.

However, Taoist practice emphasizes the most innate nature, and avoids acquired things. It focuses on the sub-form and not the original form, and does not focus on the original form. In fact, this method of connecting the nine orifices has fallen into the inferiority of some Taoist scriptures, just like the "third-grade alchemy technique" mentioned by Chen Niwan, so Zhang Xuanqing was confused at first.

However, now Zhang Xuanqing has cultivated the innate Qi and has a general understanding of the innate Qi, and the situation is different.

The innate Qi is not something that people can recognize with common sense. Everyone has it, but it cannot increase or decrease. It is used infinitely without endlessly. In other words, you can master the innate Qi, but you cannot increase it through practice, and there will be no consumption when using it. At least Zhang Xuanqing is like this now.

The Tao Te Ching says: Tao produces one, one produces two, two produces three, and three produces all things. This innate qi is the "one" among them. Therefore, the heaven gets one to be clear, the earth gets one to be calm, the god gets one to be spiritual, the valley gets one to be full, all things get one to be born, and the marquis and kings get one to be born, and the heaven and one to be born. As for how this "one" can produce two and three, there are no specific steps in the Tao Sutra, and it is not something that Zhang Xuanqing can understand now.
Chapter completed!