? There is a teacher who has a Taoist technique that allows you to escape from the earth at night to hunt for treasures. You can see where certain treasures are buried, especially the treasures in tombs. Generally he does not appear easily. When he escapes in search of treasure, he must light a lamp where he meditates and never extinguish it. He would escape and disappear from the house in an instant. Several disciples took turns guarding the lights in the house. In the middle of the night, because the disciples were sleepy, the lamp went out several times. After it was discovered, it was relit.
?The teacher suddenly appeared when the sky was about to dawn. He asked his disciples: "I walked some nights. Didn't you keep the lights on?" The teacher was able to tell how many times the lights were turned off and how many times they were turned on. The disciples were surprised. It turns out that the light from the lamps lit here is useful for the teacher "outside".
? Is there any escape technique? When I was young, I heard an old aunt in my family say that her brother had practiced Qimen Dunjia and knew how to escape. He would draw a door on the wall, go in, and people would leave. If you read books like "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", you will find that there are many similar stories written in ancient books. For example, "Laoshan Taoist" talks about escape techniques. I have seen Yang Degui, a modern man who knows one of the "escape arts" called "portation technique". Many people exposed him on the Internet, saying that his escape technique is fake and a magic trick. On the last day of 2011, Yang Degui performed a escaping skill at my house. All the props were provided by me. He also took off his shirt. There was no possibility of cheating. He moved an antique out of thin air into the porcelain pot used for cooking rice and soup in my house. . I wrote about this in my blog post back then. Last night, I was looking for a poem I wrote in 2011 in my document home, and I also found an article I wrote about Yang Degui performing escaping arts at my house. Yang Degui told me that his teacher Zhu Yuangao knew the escape technique that makes people disappear in an instant.
?Is there such an escape technique? There are many ancient novels, Taoist materials, and folk rumors. Don't talk nonsense, just listen to it. When I tell you the escape story told by Mr. Wang, the drunkard’s intention is not to drink. ?
I thought of the folk custom that after death, the lamp in front of the coffin to attract spirits must never be extinguished. According to the ideas of the older generation, as well as Buddhist and Taoist magic, the light that attracts the spirit in front of the deceased's coffin and above his head cannot be extinguished before burial, but must always be on. In this way, the soul of the deceased will not walk at night and fall into darkness. The old people say that after death, the soul will walk a dark road, just like falling into an abyss. If the lamp that guides the soul does not go out, the soul will see the light. This emphasis has always been there. When I was in the countryside, I kept the light that led to the spirits of the deceased members of my family, and it seemed that it could not be extinguished.
? From the perspective of the idealism of the Dharma Realm, if the lamp is lit in the human world, there must be a light in that world to illuminate the path of the dead. It's just like the lamp that illuminates the way in the escape technique that Mr. Wang's teacher and friend talked about. The secret of many Taoist techniques is that certain things and practices in the human world will have corresponding information and energy in the legal world. In particular, many folk beliefs, such as offering meals, burning incense, and burning paper money to the souls of the dead, will also be displayed in some form in another world.
? However, this is the case for those who are not yet enlightened. If you are an enlightened person, you don’t need all of this. In the great light of your own nature, everything is sufficient, and there is no need for these rituals and practices in the human world. Among all living beings, who is the awakened one?
There is a big difference between what is awakened and what is not. For those who are not yet enlightened, because their body and mind have not shown light, the soul of the dead is naturally in "darkness". That "darkness" is nothing but the manifestation of karma and "ignorance". "Ignorance", taken literally, means that there is no light. , without arising and entering into the light, it is naturally darkness. But for those who have merit or have awakened, they have broken through the limitations and illusions of their minds. After death, they immediately enter into the light of their nature, and there will never be any darkness. Everything is spiritual, this is the truth of the Dharma Realm. If you have light in your heart, you will show the light aspect; if you fear the darkness, you will show the dark aspect. This is the true meaning of Buddhism’s path to liberation.
Let me explain this through a story told by Mr. Wang. Furthermore, if the body's yang energy is insufficient and the person is in a trance, there will also be dark scenes. Here is the wonderful use of cultivating Yang Qi and cultivating light in Buddhism and Taoism.
Once you have such thoughts, you will not be able to cultivate. For a person who understands the mind and nature, once he understands the principles, it will be easier for him to practice.
A relative of my friend is a caster. In the past, there was a kind of "fire caster" in the countryside. The castrate knife was burned red with a fire. The caster licked the red-hot knife with his tongue to feel the heat of the knife. You You can hear the slurping sound caused by the contact between the tongue and the flaming red knife. I saw such a firefly when I was in the countryside, and saw a relative of my classmate "going to the market" (special craftsmen go out to work, which is called "going to the market" in the dialect). My classmate was curious and asked why the relative was not afraid of being burned? Relatives said they had recited a spell. My friend asked what spell? Relatives said: "Ice is ice, ice is ice." If you repeat these six words repeatedly, you will not be afraid of being burned. Looking at those "Crossing the Sea of ??Fire" performances in the Yunnan-Guizhou region, there must be similar spells. I've seen ethnic minority artists perform "Crossing the Sea of ??Fire" on TV, walking back and forth on the red coals with bare feet, and it was fine.
The most basic practice is to create an environment with consciousness through mantras, and the creation of an environment with consciousness induces a certain function and achieves a certain effect. This is the foundation of the teachings of the twenty-five Bodhisattvas in the Surangama Sutra, but those Bodhisattvas ultimately lead the practice of the teachings to the realization of emptiness and the path to liberation. This is the key point. Any Taoism that leads to the realization of emptiness will naturally transform into the path to liberation. There is no superiority or inferiority in the Dharma, only superiority or inferiority in understanding. For people with high understanding, any method may lead to the realization of the Tao.
? If someone recites and holds the Golden Light Mantra every day, "The golden light shines in the house, and the auspicious energy fills the courtyard", if you firmly believe that practicing the Golden Light Mantra can control your home and practice truth, and practice it in a reasonable and legal way, All your wishes will come true, and over time, your home will be auspicious, and your body and mind will be overflowing with golden auspiciousness. The principle is the same. The predecessors said: "Gods are made by mortals, but mortals' hearts are not strong." Any practice, whether it is Taoism or a higher practice of the path of liberation, has the same basic principles, and the most important thing is the perspective. Only when you are free will you not be confused. There are principles behind any mysterious Taoism, and these principles will all be attributed to the Taoist body. Only when you practice "get the basics and don't worry about the end" can you achieve great success without limiting yourself.