After the prosperity, it is a return to the original thought. China today is not the hungry China decades ago. After decades of development, eating and drinking enough is no longer the ideal that ordinary people should pursue now. From being short of clothes and food to being full and warm, and now eating well and dressing well.
When the physiological needs are met, China people begin to pursue health and spiritual yearning. It is at this time that some dietotherapy or health preservation methods left by ancestors were carried forward and even formed an atmosphere. Some of these may be useful, but others have become tools for others to collect money.
For example, crossing the valley has become a fashion now. I can't explain its scientific truth clearly, but I don't object that others like health preservation methods. Maybe the world is connected. An old man in his eighties in India declared many years ago that he had not eaten or drunk for nearly 80 years.
0 1 yogis on hunger strike
Although Buddhism has a history of nearly two thousand years in China, it will eventually return to India.
Today, the Buddhist cultures of China and India are quite different. After the integration of Confucianism and Taoism, China Buddhism has distinct China characteristics, while Indian Buddhism retains its own unique religious culture.
But speaking of it, since they all belong to Buddhism, there are still many similarities. They all pay attention to practice, and one of them is it.
But the concept of practice is still very different. We pay more attention to asceticism and cosmic life, while Indian Buddhism pays more attention to personal practice. Since it is practice, there is also practice, and hunger strike is a way of practice in Indian Buddhism.
Deep in the mountains of India, there is an old man in his 90s. Although he is 9 1 year old, his eyes are still bright, and his mental state and skin smoothness are much better than those of his peers. However, his figure is slightly thin. The reason is that he hasn't eaten or drunk for 78 years.
When people see this sentence, it is hard to believe that it is true, but it seems to be a true fact, which was reported by the media many years ago. The old man's name is Pilarad Janey, and he is known as an Indian hermit.
In the eyes of most Indians, this Indian hermit who lives in seclusion in the depths of the mountains is a true Buddhist and an ascetic. He stuck to his beliefs with his practical actions. Even after a long time, he is not moved by the changes of the world, and treats his pious things with piety.
As many people know, India is a country with a very serious racial concept. Pilade was born in a family whose life was not rich, so he naturally did not belong to the aristocratic class. When people are overwhelmed by life, they always pin their future and destiny on the gods.
So is Pilade. /kloc-when he was 0/3 years old, he took the first step in his practice and decided to worship the Buddha in his heart by fasting. Now we don't know how he persisted, only through the media. Today, he still doesn't eat or drink, so naturally there will be no so-called excretion.
At home deep in the forest, the media didn't find a grain or anything to store water. In the dark observation, I didn't find him eating or drinking, but he survived and lived well.
From a scientific point of view, this cannot be explained, because most people believe in modern science. Science also shows that if people don't drink water for three days, their bodies will be seriously short of water and even life-threatening. If they don't eat for a long time, they will be on the verge of death.
When the media reports Pilade's story, people's first feeling is surprise, then doubt, and finally a process of verification, and the whole process is always full of voices of discussion.
The magic of being questioned
When Pilade's story was reported by the media, it attracted more and more people's interest, including scientists in the western world and Indian people. So they began to care about Pilade's lifestyle.
A decryption team has been secretly observing where Pilade lives for a long time. But during the observation, they didn't find any hunger or desire to drink water. The observation of nearly ten days makes them feel incredible, because they believe that no one can persist for ten days without eating or drinking.
However, the decryption team still suspects that Pilade is using other methods to absorb nutrients needed by the human body. Some people say that he hides food and drinks in his wide sleeves, while others think that this is a complete lie, just cleverly avoiding the eyes of the observer.
But in any case, Pilarad must eat much less food than others, but he was still in high spirits when he was 9 1 year old.
At this point, we have to admit that he is a person who achieves longevity in a special way, and this way is exactly the way to make people live longer in our local Taoism.
03 misunderstood broken grain technology
In Taoist thought, in addition to inaction, there are martial arts and qigong to make people live longer, and crossing the valley is another way of cultivation. But it is definitely not what Taoism calls "not eating or drinking".
Bigu can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. In relevant historical records, there are many Taoist masters who prolong their lives through long-term cultivation of the valley. Chen Tuan, a famous hermit in the Northern Song Dynasty, is one of them.
The Story of the Hermit records the story of Chen Tuan's crossing the valley, which says that Chen Tuan has not eaten for nearly twenty years. This is obviously unscientific, but the following sentence reveals the answer to us, that is, drink several glasses of white wine every day. The ancient wines in China were all brewed from grain. Naturally, wine contains a lot of energy and nutrition needed by human body.
Although most of the nutrients needed by the human body are ingested through food. Although wine is not like grain, it can still provide nutrition for the human body. If you drink a few glasses of white wine every day, you can also maintain the normal metabolism of the human body.
As can be seen from the literal meaning, it just doesn't eat whole grains, and it is by no means the so-called neither eating nor drinking. According to earlier literature, people who study the art of divination are gradual, and they will not skip meals at once.
One of the most important points is that if you are hungry during the valley, you can eat a few dates to supplement your nutrition. After getting used to it, you can eat some Chinese herbal medicines every day and maintain your life through Chinese medicine. Isn't this what we often say now?
There is no mention of not drinking water, so it is absolutely unrealistic not to drink water.
We can get rid of some toxins in the body by crossing the valley, which can not only lose weight, but also reduce the burden on the human body. On the one hand, it can really prolong life.
Therefore, eating less properly is really good for the human body, but never take not eating or drinking as a practice.