Everything in the world has a wonderful instinct, that is, the potential of "having to carry on the family line"! For example, a bamboo plant blooms in large numbers before it dies, so that future generations can continue.
Humans and all animals and plants have the same instinct, so when human nature loves for a long time, it is easy to run out of life and walk into the road of death.
Taoist doctors believe that people have "three treasures", namely essence, qi and spirit. Vitality is the foundation of life and the three elements to maintain human life activities. People should: be full of energy, full of spirit and full of vigor. Only by nourishing the spirit can the human body develop healthily and have fewer diseases.
So, how do Taoist doctors keep their spirits well, and what are the good methods?
First, what is spirit?
1 Beijing
Refers to all nutrients in the human body, which can be divided into congenital and acquired. Congenital essence comes from parents, and acquired essence comes from diet, which is mainly managed by the kidney and is often called "kidney essence". "When people are born, they become refined first". Essence is not only the basic element of human body, but also dominates the whole process of human growth, development, reproduction and aging.
2 qi
It is a delicate substance necessary to maintain human life activities and a driving force to promote the functional activities of human viscera. It is not only the representation of matter, but also the expression of function. Qi has important functions in the human body, such as bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new, warming the viscera, resisting external evils, preserving essence and blood, transforming nutrition, etc. "People's life depends on this gas." Qi can be endless, and if it is endless, the human body will be healthy and disease-free.
Three gods
Refers to a series of mental consciousness and thinking activities of the human body, which are dominated by the heart. The mind is the supreme commander of the human body, and God occupies its primary position. The heart is full of gas, strong in gas and weak in gas. Therefore, "Spirit Pivot Evil Guest" said: "The heart is the master of the internal organs, and the spirit also abandons it. ..... If you are heartbroken, you will go, and if you go, you will die. "
Second, how to recharge your batteries?
Exquisite, full of gas and vigorous spirit are the guarantee of health; Deficiency of essence, qi deficiency and mental fatigue are the causes of aging.
Although essence, qi and spirit have their own characteristics, they are an inseparable whole. If they exist, they only exist, and if they die, they all die.
Zhang Jingyue said: "People who are good at keeping in good health must cherish their vital essence. If they are full of energy, they will be healthy. If they are healthy, they will be less sick. "
Chen Ming Jiru pointed out in "The Language of Keeping Skin Healthy": "Essence can be angry, qi can be spiritual, and essence can be spiritual. Keeping the essence and storing qi, storing qi and nourishing the spirit is the key to longevity. "
Some doctors think that essence, qi and spirit are the "inner three treasures" and ears, eyes and mouth are the "outer three treasures". In order to preserve health and prolong life, it is necessary to "always make the inner three treasures not for logistics, and the outer three treasures not for temptation but for disturbance". Therefore, the key to maintaining essence, qi and spirit lies in self-cultivation. The heart is pure and has no desire, the heart is not chaotic, the feelings are not moving, and the gas is not consumed.
The rest method in qigong is to control the body and mind through self-regulation, which is a good means to nourish the vitality of the human body. It requires high concentration of thoughts, meditation, getting rid of distractions and relaxing all over the body, so as to achieve the goal that all thoughts are empty and make the cerebral cortex in a protective and inhibitory state. If you do it for a long time, you can get the effect of maintaining your spirit. Exquisite, energetic and vigorous. Old people can be young and prolong life, while young people can stay young and delay aging.
In short, it is very important to preserve health and prolong life, especially to pay attention to the maintenance of "God". In daily life, we should always be cheerful, open-minded and emotionally stable to avoid the invasion of mental illness.
Eating and sleeping is the name of wealth, which is called five desires by Taoism, but actually corresponds to five elements and five internal organs:
1, wealth is the golden lung;
2. The color is water and the five internal organs should be kidneys;
3. False name is the five internal organs of fire;
4, eating for the soil and the five internal organs should be spleen;
5. Sleep should be the liver for the five internal organs.
Of the five desires, color, food and sleep are the most difficult to get rid of, and Buddhism and Taoism all have corresponding transcendence methods and realms.
Ancient Taoism said: the heart is full of lust, appetite and sleep. In fact, it is a process of constantly enriching the corresponding zang-fu organs, and finally realizing the happiness of fire and water and surpassing the five desires.
1 pure and full of lust.
Corresponding to the 100-day initial repair stage of Taoist foundation, after the four customs of wine, color and wealth have passed, the lust has been broken, and the essence has been continuously consolidated, and it has returned to the state of not diarrhea;
2. I am full.
Corresponding to the intensive cultivation and refinement of Taoism, that is, the advanced stage of the 100-day foundation of Taoism, the lust is finally turned into samadhi, which opens the channel of direct communication with the cosmic energy-the so-called "gas collection" mark, which can achieve the effect of not eating. In ancient times, there was also a saying of eating. Careful analysis shows that general food also corresponds to the function of stomach and spleen, and Huangdi Neijing thinks that it corresponds to the nature of heaven and earth, which is closely related to the soil position in the middle palace.
God is too tired to sleep.
The ancients called it the "sleep-cutting demon", which corresponds to the process of spiritual cultivation in Taoism. If this process is done well, you can also stay up at night. In fact, this is related to the penetration of the midvein caused by entering the viscera and the midvein. Most people can only enter the 12 meridian, so the meridian flow is regular, and it will inevitably fluctuate at a certain time, which will cause people's psychological and physiological rhythm in a day, and sleep will also occur for this reason. When entering the midvein, the meridians of the whole body will collapse.
Generally speaking, only after the primary stage of basic trapping is completed can it be refined and refined; Only when refining is completed can we be satisfied without thinking about food, and can we refine without thinking about food; Only after refining the spirit, will you feel uneasy and not sleepy, can you refine the spirit and return to emptiness.
Nowadays, every path of practice is crowded with devout practitioners: health, yoga, oneness, reiki, tuka, religion, angel, galaxy, guiding spirit, light and love ... It is good to be a practitioner, but once you crown yourself with the authority of a certain practice/skill/sect, you will become paranoid.