The Great Way to Truth, Starting from Jiazi Laodao

Chapter 51 Ancient Heaven Today, Sun and Moon Always

Zangdao Peak, Daoyuan.

Taoist Yuanji sketched in mid-air.

The light from the fingertips creates strokes, just like an embryo gradually growing a trunk, and finally condensing into a talisman.

The process structure is standardized and the writing is rigorous, without any room for error, yet it can be free and easy after it is formed.

The writing starts off strict and ends with loose strokes.

There is a profound truth between strictness and leniency, which cannot be expressed in words or clearly explained. Some things can only be understood intuitively.

Xuantong saw from this talisman that it means knowing how to guard, knowing how to be strict and how to be lenient, knowing how to be square and how to be round.

Xuan Yu saw rules in this talisman, a combination of leniency and strictness, and the integration of law and principle.

Xuanming saw more from this talisman:

It starts from oneself and ends with all living beings. Be strict with oneself and lenient with others. The immortal way values life and helps others infinitely.

Rising from glory and falling to dust, the rise and fall are the rebirth under the pen, and strictness and leniency are to be in harmony with the light and dust.

Starting from being rigid, ending with open-mindedness, from following the rules to following one's heart, there is a life in between.

Look carefully, from outside to inside, from complex to simple, it's nothing but one stroke, one line, one principle, one person, one heart.

Seeing Master Yuanji looking at him, Xuanming smiled knowingly and also extended his finger, which glowed with light.

Taoist Yuanji was stunned. He did not expect that the Taoist from Qiuzhen Temple would act so unexpectedly and even discuss Taoism with talismans.

You know, the Tianzhuan School was founded on the art of talismans, and he has profound attainments in the art of talismans. Calligraphy and painting talismans are his livelihood, and are also his main method of cultivation.

Although discussing the Tao is to prove what has been learned, the purpose is to absorb the truth as needed, broaden horizons, deepen cognition, and complement each other, but since it is a discussion, there is a distinction between the before and the after, and there are collisions in communication and confrontations in discussion.

Although Fellow Daoist Xuanming is a real person who has achieved the highest level of Dharma, it has only been a short time since he broke through the realm. Being in the same Great Zhoutian realm, his combat power may be stronger than his own, but his Taoist attainment is not necessarily better.

The former is force, the latter is reason.

Although there is a connection, it is not absolute.

For those who are strong, the Tao is not necessarily ahead.

For those who are weak, the Tao may not be behind them.

Fellow Daoist Xuanming was really being too arrogant by comparing the short with the long and measuring the ruler with an inch. Thinking of the other purpose of his trip, Yuan Ji hesitated, not knowing whether he should let him go.

Only when the heart is in harmony with the Tao and one serves the Tao with sincerity can one comprehend the Tao, strengthen the Tao, and promote the Tao.

Discussions on Taoism should not be mixed with selfish desires, but if he wins the discussion, the things he wants to plan will be half the effort with twice the results. But if he lets it go, this discussion on Taoism will become a joke and become a cover.

Not only will he gain little, but it will also make his thoughts difficult to understand for a while, which is not sincere to himself.

In a flash, Yuanji Zhenren's mind was full of thoughts. He couldn't think of a way to have the best of both worlds for the time being, so he decided to wait and see and act when the time was right.

Collecting his mind, Master Yuanji looked intently at Xuanming's fingertips. As he followed his movements, he was stunned for a moment and then fascinated.

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Two horizontal strokes and two downward strokes form the character "天".

He actually wrote the same word as him.

The difference is that the character "天" he wrote is the ancient style of "天篆", where a person stands in it, the sky is naturally above his head. However, the character "天" written by Taoist Xuanming is a modern character, and no space is larger than the sky.

The Tianzhuan School has done the most in-depth research on the Tian character, otherwise why would it dare to use this name?
Yuanji was also most proud of this talisman.

If other people of the same level wrote heavenly symbols and discussed the Dao in front of him, they would inevitably be considered as showing off their skills. However, when he saw the runes written by Xuanming, not only did he not have such thoughts, he also looked serious and observed them attentively, with appreciation and admiration on his face.

In Yuanji's eyes, the character "Xuanming" (Heavenly Character) starts like the sky and ends like the earth, as if it contains a world. The character condenses the universe and the characters gather the heaven and earth. It has great spirit and splendor.

In Xuantong's eyes, the talisman used by senior brother means knowing the turbid and keeping the clear, knowing the yin and keeping the yang; in Xuanyu's eyes, the talisman used by senior brother means the universe is bright and clear, and order exists constantly.

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Next to the vigorous old pine, a little deer named Changshou was lying on the ground, staring at the two talismans in the air. He tilted his head curiously at first, and then his wet eyes were full of doubts. His eyelids drooped, half open and half closed, and he felt sleepy.

Shaking his head vigorously, the little deer tried to cheer himself up. Even though his cultivation was low and his wisdom was ignorant, he instinctively felt that the two talismans were beneficial and subconsciously wanted to hold on longer.

On the stone bench, Xuanming and Yuanji smiled at each other and pulled the runes at the same time, and the two characters "天" slowly approached.

The sky was dusky yesterday, but today it is clear and bright.

The distance between the two days is shortened, and the strokes are like fish swimming. One is a mixture of reality and illusion, and the other is an alternation of light and darkness.

One has an impermanent form, the other has an impermanent momentum.

A circle turns into a horizontal line, and a point turns into a vertical line.

Two days meet, two words blend together, the two symbols accept each other in the collision, complement each other in the confrontation, eliminate the dross and retain the essence, seek common ground while reserving differences, and absorb all.

The present and the past are connected at the tip of the pen, looking at the East and the West.

It runs parallel to the upper and lower parts of the symbol and stretches across the north and south.

Truths are derived in the process, shattered and reorganized, reorganized and shattered again, just like the sparks of the collision of ideas, constantly debated and verified in the communication.

Every destruction is a debate, every reorganization is an absorption, the truth becomes clearer as the two sides argue and refuse to give in, and the reason becomes clearer as the two sides confront each other.

The two people's understanding of Tao also became deeper and deeper as they absorbed each other's principles, with the breadth being broadened and the depth being analyzed.

Xuanming closed his eyes, Yuanji closed his eyes.

The two Taoists were immersed in it, with the corners of their mouths raised.

The little deer closed its eyes at some point and lay on the ground, soundly snoring. There was an unconscious peculiar rhythm in its breathing, and its inspiration rose and fell in and out.

Xuan Tong and Xuan Yu felt uncontrollably tired physically and mentally, they felt dizzy and their eyelids became increasingly heavy.

The mysterious Taoist rhyme emanates from the evolving runes, like a trickle of water bubbling up from a clear spring, accumulating little by little and covering an increasingly wider area.

The old and vigorous pine tree sways its branches and leaves without wind.

The three-foot-long lotus leaves give off fragrance, and the lotus seeds contain spiritual energy.

Herbs on both sides of the bluestone path stretch out their leaves, medicinal herbs in the corners and on the walls grow rapidly, and the peach wood sword on the table becomes more spiritually active.

The Taoist charm spreads out of the courtyard and flows into the Sutra Repository.

The Taoists who were reading the sutras benefited from it, and they all walked to the outside of the temple, sat cross-legged on the ground, and comprehended silently.

The new Taoist priest who was guarding the pavilion came here and saw the Taoists sitting casually with a frown on his face. After a moment, he looked at the Taoists sitting in neat rows and then he sat in the first seat and concentrated on gaining enlightenment.

In the Sutra Repository, a ray of spiritual light wanders among the scriptures on the bookshelves, bathing in the rhythm of Taoism, appearing and disappearing.

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Two hours later.

I asked around the courtyard and saw people sleeping all over the floor.

There were only two real people who were half asleep and half awake, half conscious and half dreaming, half wise and half foolish, entering a mysterious state.

The two Chinese characters "天" are like two yin and yang, clearly separated but yet you are part of me. From two become one, each occupying half. A three-foot-long illusory world is conceived and born between the principles, and finally a new symbol is born between heaven and earth: Ming!
A day is divided into day and night.

Half a day is the sun, and half a day is the moon.

The old heaven ends and the new heaven begins.

The cycle continues to alternate between the sun and the moon, the sun rises and the moon sets, the moon sets and the sun rises, the light shines, and everything has its time.

Space creates time, and time creates space.

Master Yuanji fell asleep unknowingly, snoring like thunder. Only Xuanming remained awake, his mind sunk into the three-foot illusory sky. He concentrated on comprehending the Ming character, half of his mind entered the sun and the other half entered the moon.

After one stick of incense, the heaven and earth became unstable, and the Ming character was about to dissipate. Xuanming's mind moved, and the Xuanguan was illuminated. A trace of mysterious aura from the "Huangting Waijing Yujing" was drawn out by him and injected into the Ming character.

This is an ability he discovered after he achieved the status of a real person. It can draw in a trace of the mysterious Huangting Qi. Although it is only a trace, it is mysterious and infinite. It can enhance one's understanding and block out prying eyes.

He also had a sudden inspiration and wanted to see if he could stabilize the Ming character. Unexpectedly, it really worked. With just a trace, the illusory world was stabilized, the sun and the moon moved in an orderly manner, the heaven and earth were separated into clear and turbid, the yin and yang were in order, and the universe was active.

From midday to dusk.

Xuanming meditated for three hours.

When the character "Ming" was finally about to dissipate, looking at the rune sun and moon in the illusory world, he suddenly had an inspiration and practiced the Hunyuan Method, attracting a ray of purple air from the setting sun and a ray of moonlight from the new moon, and injected them into the runes of the sun and moon respectively, imprinting half a rune on each, and using the Huangting Qi to intercept half a wisp of Qi. After the character "Ming" dissipated, he took the half rune of the sun and moon into the Xuanguan.

At the same time, a joyful deer cry was heard.

Yo yo yo~!

(End of this chapter)