However, there are only a few people who can make the opposite life miserable. Now there is such an expert called the "land fairy" who has done it. He has no selfishness, and he has been doing good deeds and educating people all his life. He has benefited countless people with what he has learned all his life.
I have tasted human suffering since I was a child.
This master, known as the "Earth Fairy", is Taoist Zhang Zhishun. 19 12 was born in Shenqiu, Henan, in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At that time, social war and famine compounded and the people lived in poverty.
When Zhang Zhishun was seven years old, he left home to beg for a living. Later, on the way begging along the street, he heard someone singing Xiangzi Biography. The footage of Xiangzi becoming a monk planted a seed in Zhang Zhishun's young mind. Therefore, Zhang Zhishun, who suffered from human suffering since childhood, decided to do something good for the country and the people when he grew up, and rescue the people from their predicament.
Later, when I was young, I went to the army and was responsible for driving carriages and transporting ammunition in the transport team. At that time, the gunfire was so loud that he accidentally hid in a temple, but no monk took care of him. After many twists and turns, seventeen-year-old Zhang Zhishun met a man who influenced his life. This person is Liu Mingcang, a Taoist priest of Huashan Quanzhen Sect.
Under his guidance, Zhang Zhishun formally joined Huashan Quanzhen Sect. In the Taoist temple, he is engaged in handyman, responsible for making fire, carrying water and cooking, working hard all day and honing his mind. When he saw his brothers meditate after a busy day, he meditated like this. After that, it was more than ten years.
During this decade, he began to study Taoist classics and learn Taoist martial arts. Finally, he became the chief disciple of Quanzhen Sect.
70 years of seclusion and hard training.
Taoism says: no yin is not born, no yang is not long. It all boils down to one sentence, which is nothing more than "Taoism is natural". Zhang Zhishun read Taoist classics, devoted himself to practice, and spent more than ten years in a quiet and even lonely life.
Halfway up the mountain, during the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, seeing the devastated people and the tortured people, and thinking of his childhood experience, Zhang Zhishun, who had the most feelings, began to pray for the country and donated all his money.
Because in the process of practice, he thought of the experience of asking for help because his mother was ill and began to learn medical skills, so he later came to the Eight Immortals Palace in Xi 'an, where he devoted himself to studying medicine and wanted to save lives. In the process of learning, he humbly asked others for advice. If someone doesn't want to tell him, he will even kneel down and kowtow to express his request.
After leaving here, Zhang Zhishun came to Zhong Nanshan. Concentrate on practicing in Zhong Nanshan and fully understand the Tao. During this period, people near Zhong Nanshan were preaching that there was a respected Zhang Daochang here, so many people came to Zhong Nanshan to look for him to study, consult and seek medical treatment. So he also began to treat the poor, and he would personally come to the door for consultation.
In Zhong Nanshan Mountain, he lived in seclusion for 70 years, living a poor life, and even often ate moldy flour or sweet potatoes eaten by cats. He also built a thatched cottage on the top of the mountain and grew his own vegetables. However, the austere life did not dispel his idea of benefiting the people. In order to promote the Taoist culture in China and use what he learned to benefit the people, he began to accept disciples.
His hard work style bound himself and his disciples, and during this period, he passed on all the essence of cultivation handed down by Master and gained in his life to future generations, and was called "the fairy of the earth" by the world.
By the time he was over 90 years old, Zhang Zhishun had foreseen his own life. He predicted that he would live to 65,438+004. As a result, when he 104 approached, after bathing, burning incense and meditating, the "earth fairy" returned to heaven like a Taoist fairy.
What you have learned in life is beneficial to the people.
Zhang Zhishun left many cultural heritages about Taoism in intensive cultivation, which was very precious at that time. When he first entered the church, more than ten years of penance brought him the habit of concentrating on meditation from three to five in the morning every day, which also brought him a long life.
Through his own study, combined with Taoist culture, he put forward four levels of cultivation: the first level is to eliminate all diseases, the second level is to produce body fluid and fragrance, the third level is to be able to see at night when the body shines, and the fourth level is to master medical skills and understand one's own skeleton vein.
We don't know what kind of monastic realm he can achieve, but he did practice his own practice all his life, and lived to 100 years old, and his body was very strong. Until the end of his life, he was still alert and full of vigor.
In addition to preaching, Zhang Zhishun began to study abroad in 1992 to spread national culture. At that time, when he was invited to Sun Yat-sen University to teach health preservation, he also taught everyone the skills of King Kong and longevity handed down from generation to generation by the head of Longmen. 1996 preached in Shanghai and was warmly welcomed by all walks of life.
Since then, Zhang Zhishun has become an existing representative of Taoism, and the way of keeping in good health he taught the world has been sought after and studied by countless people. 1998 When invited to give a lecture in Thailand, he turned down the generous offer from Thailand on the spot and only said "I'm from China".
Zhang Zhishun, the Taoist priest, has a profound understanding of the traditional Taoist culture in China, and also has unique views on the Taoist classic Tao Te Ching. In addition, his own understanding of Taoism for many years is also very detailed and thorough.
For Taoism in Zhang Zhishun, as a China native, Taoist classics can not be used by one person or a sect. We should carry them forward and let everyone in China know what our excellent traditional culture has given us. Such strong feelings of home and country and broad mind are especially admirable and revered.
Many people think that Taoist priest in Zhang Zhishun is not an ordinary person. He should be a fairy. He lived a poor life, but he passed on what he had learned all his life. When the country is in trouble, he tries his best to help; When the country developed, he devoted himself to practice and studied hard; When the country was rich and the people were safe, he used what he learned all his life to benefit the people and did his best for the country and the people, which made us respect!