028. The Dream of Returning to the Soul (Part 2)
Why didn’t Xiaobai think of this? Because he had forgotten it completely, and even if he thought about it deliberately, he could not recall it. Human memory is so strange. A psychologist named Taomuling in the Mountain Demon Kingdom once said: "In theory, people can remember all the experiences in their lives, even including the face of the nurse when they opened their eyes when they were born in the hospital, but most people cannot recall it under normal circumstances."
Some occult researchers abroad believe that people only have one chance to recall all the past in their lives, that is, before they die, they will recall the experiences of this life at an incredible speed. This is a deduction based on the near-death experience of some rescued clinical patients. In response to this theory, a small group of authoritative scholars in Zhixuguo who claimed to be the most scientific spirit gave a scientific explanation without research - that is the hallucination caused by brain hypoxia.
But Bai Shaoliu didn't know these theories. His brain was not hypoxia at this moment. The memories triggered were like a dream a long time ago. No matter how you think about it, it was not very real. Intermittent scenes appeared one after another. How could he know the name of the medicine "Golden Surgery Intermittent Glue"?... Because it was told by the old Chinese doctor Grandpa Jin in person... How could Grandpa Jin tell him? Because when Grandpa Jin treated someone, the place was in Xiaobai's backyard. Xiaobai stood next to Grandpa Jin to help hand over something.
Hum? No! Grandpa Jin treated Bai Jiangmin's injury and why did he run to his Xiaobai family?... Memory became complete here. Originally, Bai Jiangmin wanted to go to Shizhu Village, but Grandpa Jin said that intermittent glue in golden sores is not a preparation medicine and needs to be temporarily prepared, so it is more convenient to go to the patient's home. How did he get to Xiaobai's home? - Because there is a medicine that attracts Grandpa Jin, it needs to be taken in Xiaobai Village. Xiaobai's home has this medicine, so for convenience, it is treated in Xiaobai's backyard. What medicine is it? Xiaobai doesn't know, but his grandparents know.
When Grandpa Jin was treating his injuries, Xiaobai stood beside him and asked curiously, and Baimao kept gasping in the donkey shed in the backyard. Grandpa Jin had a good temper, smiled and was not impatient at all, and said whatever he asked, and even said the prescription, use and principles of intermittent glue of golden sores. This is the most important content, but Xiaobai's memory is blurred here. He couldn't remember what Grandpa Jin said, but only remembered Grandpa Jin's long silver hair like snow...
Xiaobai asked Zhuang Ru not to speak, and Zhuang Ru never spoke. Xiaobai really couldn't remember more, but he was not desperate and lowered his head to comfort Zhuang Ru and said, "In my hometown, there is a folk Chinese medicine prescription called golden sores and intermittent glue. It has miraculous effects on treating scars. Tomorrow I will call my grandma, grandpa and classmates from Wucheng to see if they can be found."
Zhuang Ru: "Don't coax me on purpose, I won't cry. There is no good idea in such a big hospital. Can folk remedies work?...Don't worry, I've figured it out." Zhuang Ru's emotions have gradually calmed down, and tears come and go, but Xiaobai sensed another deeper pain.
Bai Shaoliu: "This time you may be wrong. That's not a local prescription, it's an improvement in the proven prescription that has been passed down for thousands of years. I have seen an old Chinese doctor use it to treat scars. The scar of more than three inches long disappears in ten days, and it's really gone completely!"
Zhuang Ru had hope in her heart, and was more curious: "Is that true? But there is more than a scar on my face as simple as it is."
Xiaobai interrupted her: "It's just a few more injuries. Take your time little by little, what are you afraid of? You can still be a living horse!"
Zhuang Ru: "Who is a dead horse? I am a living person!...Xiaobai, you have been in the ground for so long and are about to go back to bed and lie down. It is not fun to pull the wound into pieces!"
Bai Shaoliu: "If you sleep, I will sleep."
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Zhuang Ru was really tired. She fell asleep quickly on the small bed where she was accompanying her and made a uniform breathing sound. However, Xiaobai was insomnia. He was not sleepy at all. He rested on his head and his arms and kept thinking - what did Grandpa Jin say back then? How could he remember the five words "Kindergarten intermittent glue"?
The terrible quiet night made all the small sounds noisy. Zhuang Ru's slight breathing sound was like in her ears. Someone in the ward upstairs walked around at night was so clear. The more Bai Shaoliu wanted to calm down and recall, the more he felt the interference around him was a little inexplicably irritable. He gave up thinking for a while and found a way to calm himself down first, so he thought of the "integration of form and spirit" mental method that had not been practiced for several days.
Sitting in the middle of the night to practice the method of combining body and spirit taught by Qingchen has become a living habit of Xiaobai. It not only allows him to have stronger internal strength when practicing martial arts, but also allows his body and mind to enter a very pure state of silence and peace. Xiaobai likes this feeling very much. He has not practiced if he has thigh injuries these days, but now he wants to calm down and try it - as long as his mood is up, he doesn't have to sit cross-legged, right?
Lying on the bed and trying to practice the mind method, but was unable to enter the state for a long time. Xiaobai didn't know that he had not yet entered the practice, and was still far from the so-called "walking, sitting and lying around randomly and turning". Since he couldn't lie down, Xiaobai simply sat up, his left leg was still crossed, and his injured right leg was bent and stretched forward. In this special posture, he even entered the state of state of unity between form and spirit.
Qingchen taught him the first step to sit quietly and calm his mind and retreat, and he needed to achieve a strange static state. Qingchen described this static state as silent listening, no objects, no limbs, sitting and forgetting, and returning to knowledge. When he truly felt the feeling described by Qingchen, he found that everything was the opposite of the senses from the outside to the inside. However, shortly after Xiaobai sat in meditation today, his state changed subtly.
After the combination of form and spirit, the harmony between form and spirit is further changed. Almost all practice methods are similar to the foundation-building skills of life. One step later, there are thousands of methods in front of you, such as the path of cultivating essence into qi and following the breath, the path of Buddhist cessation and contemplation, and even retreating from the spiritual consciousness to invite guests to be witches and gods. Of course, each foundation-building method has its own special features, and the means and intentions are subtle and different in order to practice more deeply in the future.
What Xiaobai learned is the simplest combination of form and spirit. When the realm is self-breaking, there is no expert's guidance or help from the sect's wonderful methods. Therefore, for him, everything is possible. There are thousands of paths in front of him. You may randomly enter a cultivation level and continue to improve, but the misfortunes and good fortunes are unknown. For example, Qingchen's own path was from martial arts to the Tao, but she did not teach Xiaobai because she could not have no master to break through the path in such a short period of time - this is almost impossible, unless you have practiced for hundreds of years in your previous life. In fact, most people can't pass this threshold even if they learn the method in their lifetime, but Xiaobai did it!
There are different opinions from different schools of thought in the realm of "body and spirit are in harmony" and can be explained from complex angles such as "quietness", "concentration", "stop", and "forgetting". Xiaobai's self-experience is very direct - the pure thoughts in tranquility and concentration replace the ordinary facial features, and the abstract and independent spiritual consciousness begins to appear. He is very clear and free from all interference, and the entire "person" has also become a conceptual existence.
I don’t know how long this state has passed, but Xiaobai’s body and facial features suddenly “backed”. First there was light in front of him, and then he came to a scene like time and space traveling through time, like an extremely clear and real daydream. It was when he was five years old, and it was located in the backyard of his house in Xiaobai Village. The scene that reappeared was Grandpa Jin’s injury. The moment Xiaobai’s realm broke through, the spiritual sense moved itself, and inadvertently triggered a magical magic. In fact, there are similar magical magic in various Buddhist and Taoist schools and even Western sects, with cleverly different names. Speaking of which, it is closest to the Buddhist "view" method, but most practitioners use a Taoist name - the Soul-Returning Immortal Dream!
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Chapter completed!