A conversation with Master Meng made Chen Youniao rethink his relationship with his clan.

In the past, he came back from the Taoist temple and lived in a corner, taking the path of self-reliance. Later, he met by chance, which made his practice advance by leaps and bounds, and finally he sat in the position of the master of Yunshan Temple, reaching a small peak.

Cultivation is equivalent to becoming a monk, and the original relationship with the clan was not very good. They had always been indifferent to each other, but it didn't matter.

However, now that Chen Youniao came down from the mountain to take the imperial examination, it immediately affected countless nerves and attracted a lot of attention.

When people live in this world, even if they practice to a real person or even a higher Taoist master, they still cannot truly be independent from the world.

Chen Youniao clearly remembered that at the dojo, the Taoist priests and real people all had the shadow of the clan behind them.

After all, no one can truly become an immortal now.

Perhaps, only the legendary immortals can completely cut off the worldly ties, abandon everything, and attain enlightenment and ascend.

In the current world, there are no immortals, only non-human beings.

The so-called "non-human" only refers to the form of existence, and most importantly, the presentation of power, which transcends the mundane category.

But in the final analysis, people are still living in the world, and they are still restricted by various rules and regulations, and are affected by moral principles.

Chen Youniao lay on the bed and thought about it all night. The past events and all kinds of causes and effects all came to his mind:

Childhood innocence, climbing mountains to seek the truth;

If you fail to seek the truth, you will return in embarrassment;

Soul travels through time and space, meets by chance;

Knock on the door again and enter the room...

When dawn breaks, a rooster crows and the sun rises in the east.

He woke up suddenly, many things seemed to fall into place, and he felt energetic.

Then the Yin God came out of the body, looked into his own body, and found that the Yin God had a clear light, and his Tao practice became more profound, and his state of mind became more stable.

Unknowingly, Chen Youniao had completed the change of state of mind from becoming a monk to joining the world without any inner demons.

Situations like this are very rare on the path of spiritual practice.

When people practice cultivation, they not only cultivate Taoism, but also their state of mind.

To a certain extent, state of mind is even more important than Taoism.

Leave home and join the world, enter the Tao and go out.

Looking at Xuanhu, to put it bluntly, it is a change in a person's identity and position.

There is a poem that says: The water in the mountain spring is clear, but out of the mountain spring the water is turbid.

The difference between clear and turbid represents changes in mood.

The heart is the most unpredictable place. The changes in it are the hardest to grasp.

In the world, ups and downs, how many people can really watch the storm with a smile?

When people are at the bottom, they have a state of mind; when they go through hardships and climb up, they have another state of mind; when they finally climb to the top, they feel condescending and have a completely new state of mind.

But accidentally, it rolled and fell?

The mentality of falling into a trough again cannot be the same as the mentality of being in the trough in the first place.

As a result, the mentality is unbalanced, and all kinds of inner demons breed. Some are discouraged, some feel sorry for themselves, or some blame others...

Eventually leading to destruction.

Chen Youniao's journey from spiritual practice to imperial examination was not from high to low, but changing from one position to another unfamiliar position is not easy either.

The environment is different, the rules are also different, and you have to learn to adapt to many things.

In this process, inner demons are everywhere, and if you are not careful, they will breed in your heart.

Since the last time he transformed into a god, Chen Youniao felt the influence of his inner demon for the first time. From then on, he was careful in every way.

However, the forms of inner demons are ever-changing and difficult to guard against.

Therefore, Chen Youniao has no idea when the inner demon will appear next or what form it will take.

This time he chose to stay in the thatched cottage, study to clarify his ambitions, and study to calm his mind, also with the starting point of suppressing his inner demons.

A night of thinking.

Now I suddenly have a clear understanding and am full of energy. This is a manifestation of the clarity of my Tao mind. Naturally, inner demons cannot invade.

In common sense, it’s called “thinking about it”!

After getting up and washing, he had breakfast with Master Meng.

The rules of the thatched cottage: Eat without speaking.

After eating, Meng Beiliu looked at him and said, "Looking at your color, you are much more cheerful than before."

Chen Youniao asked: "Teacher, do you still read people's faces?"

Meng Beiliu laughed loudly: "Practitioners call it 'looking at qi', fortune tellers call it 'reading faces', but we scholars, in one word, just call it 'knowing people'."

When Chen Youniao heard this, he suddenly felt like he had been taught something.

Aren't the three aspects of fortune-telling, fortune-telling, and person recognition essentially the same?

Sure enough, they are arriving at the same destination.

Immediately he said: "I was taught by the teacher yesterday. I couldn't sleep at night. I thought about it over and over. Fortunately, I gained some insights and figured out something."

"That's good."

Meng Beiliu nodded slightly, and then asked, "Can you tell me something?"

Chen Youniao said: "Outside, we have to fight for the weather, time, and manpower; inside, we just want someone who upholds our original intention and unites knowledge and action."

Meng Beiliu looked at him steadily, silent for a long time, chewing on this sentence over and over again, and then sighed for a long time: "What a sentence of 'unity of knowledge and action', you are ready to become a teacher."

He was successful at a young age, and he was successful in the imperial examinations. He successfully passed the imperial examination in high school. However, when he entered the officialdom, he was hampered in everything and felt depressed. Then he abandoned his official position and returned to the fields, where he built this different thatched cottage.

Looking for fame and knowing meaning, if you are not in the same flow, you will go to the flow.

But in essence, he has given up and hiding in the thatched cottage is tantamount to retreating.

In the end, he was unwilling to give up, and then he opened a classroom to teach, hoping to educate successful students so that he could carry forward his ideas and act on his behalf.

It's just that the world has changed and is no longer the same as before.

Students come to the thatched cottage to study and further their studies, mainly for fame and to pass the imperial examination.

There is no need to be taboo about this, nor is it something treasonous, but it is just that under the influence of fame and fame, the original intention has long since ceased to exist.

Until the alternative Chen Youniao came to the thatched cottage.

At first, Meng Beiliu recruited people because of Chen Youniao's poetic talent, which was really good. Subconsciously, he thought it was because Chen Youniao had practiced in the mountains. Although he failed to practice Taoism, he naturally brought a sense of poetry with him.

A kind of refined pattern and talent.

Later, the development of many things gradually changed and deviated from the expected track.

Although Meng Beiliu retired to the thatched cottage, he often communicated with friends in Shilin and knew a lot about current events. His understanding of the general trend of the world was also beyond imagination.

There are times, there are secrets, there are people.

These are all experiences that Chen Youniao has never been exposed to. This time he came to the imperial examination, he was just a toddler, and he had just begun.

As for how to go forward and how far he can go, it all depends on Chen Youniao.

So when we talked yesterday, Meng Beiliu said he was looking forward to it.

Unexpectedly, Chen Youniao figured it out overnight and directly said the words "unity of knowledge and action", which greatly moved Meng Beiliu.

As expected, he is indeed a successful person in Taoism.
Chapter completed!