Chapter 278: Golden Elixir Avenue, Dual Cultivation of Sex and Life
Gathering the heaven and earth, the creation comes, and the sun and the moon are refined into ashes.
The golden man said nothing when the beautiful woman died, and the yellow woman was still in the womb.
The lead furnace slowly nurtures the real gold liquid, and the earthen pot first dries the mercury.
The mercury heart refines the spirit and also the dragon nature, and the lead body condenses the qi and the white tiger life.
There is no yin inside and outside, and the jade mirror in the light of all things.
In the stable carriage, Xu Xin recited the main mantra of the Golden Elixir Fire Hour Secret in a low voice. This is a Taoist secret that is no less than the Yijin Jing magic skill in practice. If you can comprehend the highest realm, you will have the hope of "attaining the Tao and ascending to become an immortal."
However, compared with the Buddhist and martial arts dual cultivation of the Yijin Jing magic skill, it emphasizes practice and also has extreme martial arts. The "Golden Elixir Secret" pays more attention to practice. It is a real Qigong secret. The internal Qi cultivated has poor destructive power. If you want to have strong martial arts, it depends on the practitioner himself.
Although martial artists are also a kind of practice, those who can achieve success in martial arts are ultimately only a few. In terms of destructive power and combat power, warriors are better than those who practice Taoism and Buddhism, but in terms of longevity and other aspects, warriors are not comparable.
Xu Xin has entered the Xiantian realm, which is an extremely high realm in both martial arts and cultivation. With Xiantian cultivation, you can achieve twice the result with half the effort. He only took a few glances at the Golden Elixir Art and he had already entered the door.
In a moment, the true qi in the body flows, yin and yang, creation... the hazy purple air permeates the carriage. This is the "purple air" that countless Taoist practitioners crave. It is extremely magical and has great benefits for strengthening the foundation and nourishing the essence.
It is difficult for Taoist practitioners to produce a "purple air" after practicing for decades.
Xu Xin is good. With a thought, the carriage is filled with purple air. At this time, if an ordinary person sits in the same car with him and breathes a few more breaths of purple air, his life will be extended by at least a few years.
"Very interesting, the Great Dao of Golden Elixir, the dual cultivation of sex and life, a practice that is constantly improving and perfecting!"
Xu Xin kept reading the "Jindan Jue" and had a deeper understanding of this practice.
The Southern School of Golden Elixir, the inner alchemy kung fu, uses all the energy to polish and protect the practitioner's own sex and life, that is, to pursue the realm of the saints in the "Huangdi Neijing" "lifting the heaven and earth, grasping yin and yang, breathing essence, independent guarding the spirit, and muscles as one".
The inner alchemy in the Great Dao of Golden Elixir is another kind of Taoist thought developed by Taoism after the Sui Dynasty, which is different from the outer alchemy.
Before the Sui Dynasty, Taoism did not have the concept of inner alchemy.
However, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Taoists had the concept of refining qi, and the internal cultivation methods such as fetal breathing, guiding, moving qi, and thinking were already there at that time.
The term "inner alchemy" was first seen in the "Spirit Sword" titled by Xu Xun of the Eastern Jin Dynasty: "Taking qi and regulating the throat with inner alchemy".
"Gu Shen Lun" says: "Holding the body fluid and chaining the Qi, expelling the old and taking in the new, entering the Niwan above and pouring into the Dantian below, is called the inner elixir. Yang Long Yin Hu, wood liquid and gold essence, meet and cook and chain, which is called the outer elixir. People who practice Taoism first achieve the inner elixir, and then chain the outer medicine. When the inner and outer correspond, they will become immortals.
It was not until the Kaihuang period of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty that Luofu Mountain Taoist Qingxiazi Su Yuanlang said that he had learned the inner elixir from Maoshan Da Mao Zhenjun and got his secret. He wrote "Dragon Tiger Golden Liquid Returning Elixir Tongyuan Lun" and "Zhi Dao Pian", advocating the way of inner elixir. Since then, Taoism began to rise in the way of inner elixir.
Later generations called the external alchemy advocated by Ge Hong the outer elixir, and Su Yuanlang's inner elixir, and since then there has been the theory of inner and outer elixir.
Su Yuanlang proposed the theory of "dual cultivation of sex and life", emphasizing the comprehensive training of mind and body, which further promoted the development of the theory of inner elixir.
Regarding the stages of inner alchemy practice, the methods of various Taoist schools today are different. Generally, they can be divided into several stages: refining oneself to build a foundation, refining essence to transform qi, refining qi to transform spirit, and refining spirit to return to emptiness.
Xu Xin remembered that Chen Zhixu, a Taoist of the Quanzhen Northern Sect in the Yuan Dynasty, said in Volume 4 of "The Essentials of the Golden Elixir": "These are all nothing but the three things of spirit, qi and essence. Therefore, the three things interact with each other. If they are in harmony, they will become a human being, and if they are in harmony, they will produce elixir.
What is harmony? One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things. Therefore, emptiness turns into spirit, spirit turns into qi, qi turns into essence, essence turns into form, and form becomes a human being.
What is in harmony? All things contain three, three return to two, and two return to one. Those who know this way can relax their spirit and guard their form, nourish their form and refine their essence, accumulate essence to transform qi, refine qi and combine spirit, and refine their spirit to return to emptiness, and the golden elixir will be formed."
The several realms described here are also common in martial arts. Nourishing the form and refining the essence are external exercises to strengthen the body and exercise the physical body.
Accumulating essence and transforming it into qi, and refining one breath internally, is about refining internal qi. The internal force of a warrior is also a kind of internal qi, and the internal force and internal qi are constantly refined, and the "true qi" obtained in the end is the great achievement of this stage of practice.
Refining qi and combining spirit, that is, refining qi into spirit.
The three flowers gather at the top of the head, and the mysterious gate is all connected.
Rebelling against the innate, longevity is hopeful, this is the foundation of the great way, the beginning of everything.
It is said that in ancient times, a hundred days of foundation building and refining qi can achieve an innate body.
Xu Xin is a little bit unconvinced by this statement. Perhaps there is such a method in some very high-level immortal worlds, such as "Yitian" and "Tianlong" where innate is extremely rare. Just go to sleep, there is everything in the dream.
The final refining spirit and returning to the void golden elixir is just formed, and Xu Xin is still exploring, what exactly is this so-called "golden elixir"?
With a thought, he took out the relics of the sweeping monk. To a certain extent, the place left by the "Buddha" sweeping monk is most likely the "golden elixir".
Although there are differences between Buddhist and Taoist practices, there is mutual communication in the advanced practice paths.
The ancient practice methods should be different from the current ones. The inner alchemy method of the Golden Elixir Avenue was developed later, seemingly to adapt to the practice environment of later generations, but it can still connect with the ancient methods.
So... the Golden Pill Jue he saw now was a summary of the wisdom of countless Taoist masters throughout the ages. From some ancient annotations, Xu Xin also saw a lot of other kinds of knowledge, which greatly increased his knowledge.
"Empress, the official said that you should go back first..."
The slow-moving carriage slowly stopped. Xu Xin heard the eunuch's shrill voice outside and sensed a familiar breath. He walked out and took a look, but it was Queen Meng who was blocked outside the Chongshen Temple. Zhao Xu Tonight didn't really want to see the queen that his grandmother had chosen for him.
"If the officials don't want to see me, then you can bring the cakes to the officials!"
Queen Meng did not insist, and just asked the palace maid behind her to take out a food box. It seemed that she was bringing food to Zhao Xu.
"this……"
The two eunuchs who came out to summons hesitated for a while, but they knew that the emperor was "doing business" inside, and bringing the queen's pastries there... was very troublesome.
"Immeasurable Heavenly Lord, Qingfeng of the Xiaoyao sect, has met the Queen."
At this time, Xu Xin walked over and saluted the queen. There were two nominal owners in the palace, the emperor and the queen. Their status was the most respected. Except for their elders, everyone else must salute when they saw these two.
When Xu Xin opened his mouth, Queen Meng recognized him and finally did not scream in surprise.
"Queen, I am going to meet the officials. I will bring these cakes to the officials!"
"Excuse me, Master Qingfeng."
Meng looked blankly at Xu Xin taking away the cakes, and replied with a guilty conscience. Seeing Mr. Xu entering Chongsheng Temple under the leadership of two eunuchs, she was confused. She did not stay there any longer and ordered Gong E to return to her palace.