Taoist chanting

Chapter 161 Telling stories and reciting scriptures, sending a blessing

Zhang Wenfeng walked into the training hall of the South Campus of Qingzheng Bieyuan, glanced over, and the slight buzzing stopped immediately.

The apprentices struggled to adapt to the discomfort and discomfort of sitting cross-legged on the straw futon, supported them secretly with their hands, straightened their backs, and looked curiously at the somewhat mysterious Guanzhu.

In recent days, it has been spread in the surrounding countryside that Zhang Guanzhu of the Xianling Temple has the fairy ability to cast down demons, eliminate demons and catch ghosts.

Even the black donkey in the Taoist temple, it is said that it can plow ten acres of fields a day, grind ten loads of flour, run a thousand a day and run eight hundred at night, is a mountain-protecting spirit beast.

You must not run around in the mountain gate, there are fairy arrays with ghosts hitting the wall everywhere, and so on.

Zhang Wenfeng walked up to the three-foot wooden platform, sat cross-legged on the futon, smiled and looked at the pair of shiny black eyes below, and said Qinglang: "Today I will tell you a story."

Many apprentices were stunned for a moment, and then there were suppressed and joyful laughter.

Zhang Wenxing and Yue Anyan, who were sitting at the back of the spacious training hall, had a smile on their faces. The master acted wildly and unconstrainedly. In the first lesson, he didn't talk about the rules and principles, and he didn't demonstrate the skills to impress the apprentices. Then they also listened to the master's story.

"In ancient times, a farmer hoped that the seedlings in his field would grow faster, so he went to the edge of the field every day to see. But one day, two days, three days... the seedlings didn't seem to grow taller at all.

The farmer walked around the field anxiously, and said to himself: "I have to find a way to help them grow." '

One day, he finally figured out a way, and rushed to the field to pull up the seedlings one by one. He was busy from noon to sunset, exhausted..."

Zhang Wenfeng slowly told the fable of "Pull the seedlings to grow" in his previous life in simple and straightforward words.

When it came to the key point, he deliberately stopped to let the little ones whisper a few words.

After the story was told, he glanced at the lively atmosphere of the training hall and asked, "Who can tell me why the seedlings in the farmer's house withered?"

Several little fellows rushed to shout: "I know, I know."

Zhang Wenfeng pointed at a fat black boy with flexible eyes, and said gently: "Then tell me, it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, just say it boldly."

Seeing everyone's gazes on him, the bold black fat boy became nervous and stammered, "...the farmer is so...so stupid, he pulled out the roots of the seedlings...the seedlings were sunburned to death."

Zhang Wenfeng nodded approvingly, and said with a smile, "Very well said, the farmer destroyed the roots of the seedlings. What's your name?"

"My name is Shi Nanguan... Uh, thank you, Lord!"

The little boy was very excited, his fat face turned black and red with excitement, and he hurriedly performed an unfamiliar clasping ceremony.

Zhang Wenfeng returned the salute meticulously with clasped fists, and continued: "This story tells us that we must do things in a down-to-earth manner, step by step, and lay a solid foundation, so as not to give up halfway. Eat in one breath and become a fat man, take your time, haste makes waste..."

The training hall was suddenly filled with happy laughter.

The little guys all looked at Shi Nanguan, the little fat man who was scratching his head and giggling in embarrassment.

Zhang Wenfeng smiled and pressed his hands, all the laughter stopped, and the order was forbidden. The classroom atmosphere was very good, and he said: "You have learned to recite the "Calculation of Meditation and Exorcism" from Taoist Yue in the morning, then you should all close your eyes and eliminate the chaos. Think about distracting thoughts, listen to me recite three times, and feel the benefits of chanting."

After all the apprentices closed their eyes.

Zhang Wenfeng's eyes drooped slightly, he calmed down, and chanted "The Mantra of Meditation and Exorcising Evil" with the correct words and soothing rhyme. all over.

Integrate into the rhythm of the scriptures with your heart, and sing aloud.

There is a saying in Taoism: If you recite the sutra a hundred times, you will see its meaning; if you recite the sutra a thousand times, you will become enlightened.

Each classic scripture has its unique function and blessing. In addition to time and perseverance, chanting scriptures also requires comprehension qualifications. If you do not understand the essence of the scriptures, you will go astray.

He used some of the mystical insights he learned from the "Tao Jing" and "Tai Shang Shuo Chang Qing Jing Jing" in the "Spell of Meditation and Exorcism".

An invisible faint calmness emanated from him, echoing in the empty training hall with the sound of scriptures.

Behind the training hall were Zhang Wenxing and Yue Anyan who sang softly, and they quickly fell into silence, with a faint brilliance flickering on their bodies, and fell into self-cultivation.

The scriptures were chanted three times.

Zhang Wenfeng raised his eyes and scanned down slowly, he saw that seven apprentices had entered the trance state and had obtained the blessing he sent out.

Most of the other children have their eyes closed, and the eyeballs are still rolling around under the eyelids. Although it is impossible to judge an apprentice's qualifications and future achievements with a small test of tranquility, he can see many problems.

A child secretly opened his eyes, and seeing the spectator staring at him, the other companions closed their eyes, and quickly closed them again.

Zhang Wenfeng wrote down the appearance of the apprentices who entered the meditation, and did not get up and leave immediately.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, when several apprentices woke up one after another from their first trance, Wei Jingjie, the dark young man in the front row, led all the apprentices out of the training hall from the front door, and went to the dining hall without disturbing Yue Dao behind him. Long, Wen Xingdao long.

He then went out, closed the door of the training hall, and followed the noisy apprentices to the dining hall.

It is recorded in the classics he has read that using the aura of the scriptures he perceives can influence other people. The first time the effect is the best, it may trigger others' perceptions, but it cannot be done deliberately. He hopes that the brothers and sisters can have some reward.

"Zhang Daoyou, do you have a name for the little story you told earlier?"

Zhong Wenyong in the bottle suddenly asked via voice transmission.

"...It's called "Pull the Seedlings to Encourage Growth"."

Zhang Wenfeng told the truth that he didn't want to discuss the source of the story. He tried his best to tell the Confucian fables of the previous life in vernacular, which still had a Confucian flavor. Zhong Daoyou, are you ready? Do you need any assistance?"

When it comes to his own reincarnation, Zhong Wenyong immediately lost his mind to discuss the story, and pondered: "If you can find a piece of 'Shen Yin Accumulated Good Liquid', you will have more confidence in reincarnation, but this thing is rare and hard to find. Forget what you are looking for, don’t make such wishful thinking.”

Zhang Wenfeng had never heard of "Shen Yin accumulating good liquid", and Zhong Wenyong didn't want to talk about it when he asked about the details.

In the next few days, the weather was fine and the ice and snow melted.

The apprentices gradually came out of their homesickness, and followed the three Taoist priests to read and recite scriptures, meditate to learn how to practice, open up wasteland and dig land, combine labor and repair, and subtly accept the various rules of the Taoist temple, changing invisibly.

Zhang Wenfeng personally taught the two children who had no cultivation qualifications, Wei Jingcheng and Yue Anyan helped the little girl named "Shui Qingru", and taught them to learn the "Neiji Breathing Method" sent by Chen Qingqiao, and master the correct breathing and breathing. think.

By the way, he taught five apprentices with the qualifications of the wood industry to practice the "Sit and Forget Green Wood Returning Alchemy" for beginners.

At the beginning of the apprentice's practice, he must be corrected all the time. After laying the foundation, the practice is up to the individual.

He will not let go of his own practice and practice.

Do morning and evening homework every day, teach apprentices in the morning, dig the ground to grow vegetables, practice swords in the afternoon, ponder various magic and secret formations, and occasionally go to the back mountain with brothers and sisters to squeeze the earth spirit, and practice in a gravity environment.

In the evening, go to the water pool full of aura, and meditate and practice Qi in the built bamboo room.

There are many things to do, live a leisurely life.

Cultivation is improving day by day.

(End of this chapter)