Peng Zu was a grandson of Emperor Huan in ancient times, and by the end of the Yin Dynasty, Peng Zu was seven hundred and sixty-seven years old, but he was not old at all.
When Peng Zu was a teenager, he liked to be quiet, had no interest in things in the world, did not pursue fame and profit, did not like luxurious carriage and horse clothing, and regarded self-cultivation as the top priority. When the king heard of his high moral character, he asked him to take up the official position of doctor.
However, Peng Zu often used illness as an excuse not to participate in official duties. He is very proficient in nourishing the body, often taking "water laurel mica powder" and "elk horn scatter" and other Dan fang, so his face is always as young as a teenager. However, Peng Zu's mentality was very stable, and he never said that he had cultivated the Tao, nor did he pretend to be confused by gods and ghosts.
He was pure and alone, rarely traveling around, even when he was traveling, and he was alone, and people did not know where he was going, even his servants did not know where he went. Peng Zu has a car and a horse but rarely uses passengers, often does not bring road fees and rations when he goes out, and walks for dozens or even hundreds of days, but when he returns, he is still very healthy as usual.
Usually, he often sat quietly and held his breath, and his heart guarded Dantian sat upright from morning to noon, gently rubbing his eyes with his hands, gently massaging all parts of his body, licking his lips with his tongue and swallowing saliva, transporting dozens of times of qi, and then reaping the rewards and rushing to walk and laugh. If he occasionally feels tired or uncomfortable, he uses the method of holding his breath to cure the patients in the body, so that the qi transported in the chest is spread to all parts of the body, whether it is the nine tips on the face, the five internal organs, the limbs of the hands and feet, and even the hairs on the body, let the qi go one by one. At this time, you will feel that the qi runs in the body like a cloud, from the nose and mouth to the end of the ten fingers, and after a while you feel very comfortable throughout the body.
When the king went to visit Pengzu, he often did not inform him, secretly left some treasures and toys for him to reward and left. The king's reward to Peng Zu was tens of thousands of gold, and Peng Zu also accepted it, but immediately gave them relief to the poor people, and he did not keep them at all. (Note: True cultivators should not be greedy for money)
There was also a person named Cai Nu, who had also been cultivating since she was a teenager, and was already two hundred and seventy years old, looking only fifty or sixty years old, and she was also very proficient in the art of cultivation. The king let the concubine live in the concubine's palace, built a magnificent palace for her, and rewarded her with a lot of gold and jade. Once, the king asked cai nu to take a luxurious carriage to visit Peng Zu and ask peng zu for the main points of cultivation and how to prolong life.
Peng Zu said, "If you want to ascend to heaven and become an immortal official in the Immortal Realm, you must always serve Jindan." Jiu Zhao and Taiyi both ascended to heaven in daylight because they often served Jindan. However, this is the highest in Taoism, and the king of the world cannot do it. The second is to nourish the spirit and take herbs, which can live forever. But we can't engage in those magic tricks that drive ghosts and spirits and fly in the wind. If you don't understand the principle of yin and yang, even taking medicine has no effect. Regarding the principle of yin and yang intercourse, you can only rely on yourself to deduce the experience, how can you say it? So I think you're asking strangely.
I was a widow, my mother died at the age of three, and I caught up with the Inuyasha Rebellion, and fled to the Western Regions, where I stayed for more than a hundred years. I have lost my parents since I was a teenager, and since then I have lost forty-nine wives and fifty-four sons, and I have suffered many times, which has damaged my vitality. Regardless of hot and cold, my skin is not shiny, the nutritional care is also very bad, the shape is thin like dead wood, I am afraid that I will not live long, plus what I have seen and heard is also very shallow, there is really nothing to publicize to others.
There is a Young Spirit gentleman in the Dawan Mountains, who is said to have lived for a thousand years, still like a boy, who can walk five hundred miles a day, who can not eat for many years, and who can eat nine meals a day. ”
Cai Nu asked, "Then what kind of immortal is Mr. Qingjing?" ”
Peng Zu said that he was just a man of enlightenment, not an immortal.
Any immortal can either plunge into the clouds and fly without wings, or can ride a dragon to ride the clouds directly to the heavenly court; or can change into birds and beasts soaring in the clouds, swimming in the rivers and seas, flying through famous mountains and rivers. There are also some immortals who feed on the yuan qi of heaven and earth, or eat the immortal medicine Lingzhi, or go in and out of the world so that mortals cannot see that they are gods; or hide their own figures so that people cannot see. Some have extraordinary bone features on their faces, strange hairs on their bodies, and are lonely and do not associate with mortals.
However, although these immortals have an immortal lifespan, they are too far away from human feelings, completely isolated from the human world, just like birds and finches become toads, pheasants become mirages, have lost their own reality, become a strange thing, with my stupid idea, I do not want to become that kind of immortal.
To cultivate Taoism, one should eat luscious food, wear soft and gorgeous clothes, understand the principle of yin and yang communication and change, and can also be an official, and cultivators should have strong bones, a very shiny complexion and body skin, although old and not weak, the older they are, the more things they see. For many years in the human world, cold and hot rheumatism can't hurt, ghosts and spirits dare not commit crimes, five kinds of weapons and a hundred kinds of poisonous insects can not get close, other people's praise and criticism do not care, these are the most valuable. (Note: with the light and dust, mixed with the world)
Even if you don't know how to cultivate, as long as you have proper cultivation, you can live to be one hundred and twenty years old. If you know a little bit about Taoism, you can live to be two hundred and forty years old. If you know more Taoist techniques, you can live to be four hundred and eighty years old.
If you really understand the principle of cultivation, you can live forever and not die, but you just can't become an immortal. The most fundamental way to prolong life is not to hurt the body and mind: to adapt to the climate change of the four seasons of winter and summer heat, so that the body will always be comfortable; to be suitable for beauty and leisurely entertainment, do not be tempted by greed, so that your heart can be safely clean; for the carriage and horse ceremonial clothing when you are an official, you are content and not greedy, which can make you single-minded; music painting makes people pleasing to the eye, so that your mood can be enlightened.
All of the above can be used to maintain a good life. And not being able to grasp these measures will hurt yourself. The saints of antiquity, fearful of stupidity, did not grasp the measure of things, and were immersed in the river of desire, and thus cut off the source of human desire. Therefore, some very noble monks do not sleep with their wives, and some of them do not share beds with their wives.
Even if you take a hundred pairs of medicines, it is not as good as a person lying quietly and cultivating alone. Listening too much to music can make people deaf, and eating too much delicious will ruin people's tastes. If you have some moderation in everything and correctly handle the relationship between unimpeded and blocked, you will not only not be able to reduce your life expectancy, but also gain benefits.
All these things are the same as the use of water and fire, and if they are used excessively, they are bound to suffer. People often do not understand that if the meridians are damaged, the blood qi is insufficient, the internal organs are weak, and the marrow brain is not solid, the body is bound to get sick. And this disease is precisely because of external injuries, such as weather changes or excessive wine color caused by internal damage, and not people themselves will be sick.
Too much thinking, too much use of the brain, too much worry and too much joy, too much sadness, anger and anger, too much desire, yin and yang can not be coordinated, these can hurt people, but excessive intercourse between men and women is the most hurtful. This may seem strange at first glance, but it is not. Men and women complement each other, just as heaven and earth are born together.
Therefore, the affairs between men and women should pay more attention to nourishing the spirit with qi, and cannot be excessive and lose coordination. Heaven and earth can never be ultimate according to the law of the handover of yin and yang, and if people lose the harmony of the handover, they will be harmed. If one avoids harm and obtains the art of yin and yang harmony, one obtains the path of eternal life. Heaven and earth are combined day and night, and there are three hundred and sixty handovers a year, and the yang of heaven and the yin of the earth are fused together, so that all things breed endlessly.
If people can conform to the Heavenly Dao, they can live forever. The second is the spell of tuna luck, and whoever gets this spell, the evil qi cannot infringe on him, which is the root of cultivation itself.
There are more than 1,700 other methods such as Tuna guidance, shadow keeping, and so on, as well as which direction the head should be facing when sleeping in the four seasons, constantly reviewing one's faults, sleeping and getting up morning and evening, etc., which are not the true meaning of monasticism, but can only teach those who are new to monasticism to get started.
If a person can cultivate his body and cultivate his luck, then all the gods will come to his heart. If you can't cultivate yourself very well and make your body very weak, then the gods will naturally leave, and no matter how sad they are, they will not keep the gods.
If cultivators cannot find the most fundamental truth and go to the end of the book, those who have attained enlightenment solemnly point out that they still do not believe it, and if they do not carefully read those books that explain the true cultivation principles, they say that the books are too shallow, and when they see most of the classics on the Celestial Realm and the Northern Gods, they will be too difficult to understand and not to study, and such a person will not gain anything until he dies, is it not a very sad thing?
There are also people who are suffering from worldly affairs, but they are not willing to leave the world and go to the mountains alone to live and practice. This kind of person is teaching him the method of monasticism, and he will not practice it seriously, because they do not have the sincere intention of a benevolent person, thinking that as long as they close the door and practice the kung fu of breath in the house, do not want to do ordinary things, and temper their diet, they can attain enlightenment.
My ancestors wrote the "Nine Capitals", "Jie Xie", "Teachings", "Tao Form", "Hidden Keeping", "Wuwei", "Enlightened", "Four Poles", "Nine Spirits" and other classics on Taoism, with a total of 13,000 articles, which are used to teach those who are just beginning to learn the Tao, you can use them with reference. ”
The cai nu got these points of learning from Peng Zu, and when she returned, she taught them to the king, who tried it very well. After King Yin obtained Pengzu's Daoist techniques, he kept it secret, and issued an order in the country that whoever dared to spread Pengzu's Daoist techniques would be killed, and he also wanted to kill Pengzu so that his Daoist techniques would be lost.
Peng Zu knew that after he left, he didn't know where he went. After more than seventy years, I heard that someone had met Pengzu in the western part of the quicksand country. King Yin did not insist on practicing according to Peng Zu's Daoist techniques, but he also lived for more than three hundred years, and his strength was still as strong as that of a fifty-year-old man. Later, because he got a demon woman Zheng Shi, he was arrogant and lascivious, and finally lost his Taoist deeds and died.
Folk legend says that anyone who spreads Peng Zu Daoshu will be killed, which refers to the fact that King Yin forbade the transmission of Pengzu Daoist Technique. Later, there was a Huang Shanjun who practiced according to Peng Zu's Daoist techniques, and had already lived for hundreds of years, and his appearance still looked like a teenager. After Peng Zu became an immortal, people recorded his exposition and became the Peng Zu Jing.