To cultivate immortality, we must pay attention to our own body, which is the same as our spirit.
Both form and spirit are wonderful, and the truth is also true.
The first is taking medicine, including two kinds: drugs that can live forever in the celestial world and drugs that can be compatible according to prescriptions. The alchemist should mainly go to Sanshen Mountain and other places in the sea to find medicine that can live forever.
The artificial prescription is mainly composed of stone, and the products are mostly called elixir and Jinye Danshu. For example, Tai Qing Jin Shen Ye Qi Jing, Huangdi Jiu Ding Jing, and the yellow-white process of refining base gold such as lead and iron into "precious gold" such as medicinal gold and medicinal silver, that is, gold refining, but the combined gold and silver are only similar in appearance to gold and silver, not real gold and silver.
Second, experts in refining gas and guiding immortals have long regarded convincing and refining gas as the basic hands of cultivating immortals, that is, taking elixir, and often combining it with refining gas. Another method related to being convinced, such as refining foreign gas, keeping one's mind, holding one's breath, etc. , is to guide and press massage. They have also been introduced into magic as a new method of refining qi, absorbing qi and blood, and getting rid of the old and absorbing the new.
The third is Neidan. Inner alchemy was developed on the basis of convincing.
Fourth, carry out various religious ceremonies and techniques for people to accumulate merits and finally reach the realm of immortals. Taoism is good at performing various Buddhism for the people and society to avoid disasters and pray for blessings. All these forms of Buddhism have a strong arrangement of needles, but they have many common characteristics. In Taoism, they are called Yi Ke, Ke Fan and Fan Yi. Among them, Zhai Fa and Yi Fa are the main manifestations, so it is called a kind of Zhai Yi, which is a general term. These ceremonies are the main way to connect man and God, which is considered as the result of solving problems for people and accumulating merits for themselves in the Taoist school. Do it sincerely, and after a long time, it will become a road. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Zheng Suonan wrote "Tai Chi Sacrifice to Refine the Inner Law" (one of the ritual forms of Zhou Wang's death), which relied on the strength of jurists and the magical power of Buddhism to make the undead undergo the washing and refining of water and fire, with wonderful form and spirit and sincere meaning. Go to heaven) and say, "(You can believe in yourself and be good at your heart), you will accumulate merits at the beginning and eventually become a Tao." He also said: "Those who can practice this sacrifice and practice the internal law from beginning to end are willing to save people from disasters, and those who learn from immortals will become immortals quickly and eventually surpass the Tao." Zheng Suonan's thought of "quick immortal way" refers to the belief of presiding over the instrument to solve the people's worries, which has a far-reaching impact on the Taoist's own body and will eventually make it a success for himself, but in the forest of immortals.
The fifth is to make contributions between people and never forget the roots. After retirement, you can also become immortal or seal the gods after death.
In the actual practice of cultivating immortals, it is the practice of various methods, which are compatible with each other, and no matter which secret of cultivating immortals is subordinate. To be a man, you must set your mind on the road, accumulate virtue, do not hurt your body and mind, be clear-headed, get rid of distractions, and be good at the world. According to Yan Ge, the basic methods of cultivating immortals mentioned above all belong to the category of "art", and the virtue of doing things here is the moral requirement. Only by combining the two can we cultivate a great road.