According to the Complete Works of Wang Yangming, "The Dragon Field is among the mountains and spines in northwest Guizhou. Snakes are poisonous, poisonous, and it is difficult to talk to the righteous. All that can talk is putting all your eggs in one basket in central China. When I was in No Country for Old Men, the teaching mode began to exist in the soil. When Jin repented, he could get rid of his own gains and losses, but he still felt where will you go's thoughts, so he swore to himself on the stone pier:' I just need to wait for my life!' Live silently day and night, in order to be quiet; For a long time, my chest was sprinkled. My followers are all sick, so I take water from my salary to feed them, and I am afraid of depression, so I stay with songs and poems; It is unpleasant, polyphonic and winding, mixed with laughter, and you can only forget that it is a disease. Because some people think,' What can a saint do here?' Suddenly, late at night, I realized the purpose of the governor. I'd be surprised if someone talked in their sleep. When I first learned the way of being a saint, I was self-sufficient and it was wrong to look for reasons from things. "
It talks about "realizing the purpose of understanding things", so many experts and scholars think this is "dragon field understanding" If "Dragon Field Understanding" only understands things, it is too superficial. You know, before Wang Yangming arrived at the Dragon Field, there was a morning glow on his chest, which was extraordinary and refined. Since he was a teenager, Mr. Yangming has been struggling for the way of being a saint, hoping to learn from him. Once he was ill with bamboo for seven days and "got nothing". In Longchang, the frustration of officialdom, the honor and disgrace of life, and the pursuit of Liu Jin, the enemy, are not things, only the idea of life and death has not been solved. It can be seen that enlightenment in Longchang is a matter of life and death.
When Wang Yangming was in Longchang, he found a local Miao people to dig a cave for him and cut down trees to make coffins. He put it in a cave and lay in a coffin at night, experiencing the darkness of death. His body and mind were as silent as death, and his essence, qi and spirit gradually improved. The people who followed him at that time fell ill in such a bad environment. Mr. Yangming's thin body is not sick, but he can boil water to cook and sing for sick believers.
Finally, one night, Mr. Yangming was lying in the coffin, and suddenly he felt that the meridians of his whole body were wide open and the empty qi was integrated. A huge airflow from the middle of the road went straight to the top of the head, whistling through the night sky. "It is also wrong for a saint to seek more happiness from himself." This is the famous "Dragon Field Enlightenment".