Xiu Erdai's daily essays

3192_ Straightforward

Someone who once used the petals of copper coins as copper coins showed his own experience:

"It's just a mistake..."

"I didn't know about copper coins. After someone paid me copper coins, I thought I was cheated. I didn't even think about it. I just planned to mix it with real copper coins to deceive others. I didn't expect it to be a trick. A more expensive commodity that can be sold for money.”

"Don't bully people who don't know how to do it. Copper coins can be traded as commodities, but the premise is that they must be processed to prevent them from drying out and rotting. These are flower petals. It is impossible to preserve them for a long time under natural conditions, and ordinary people's processing and preservation techniques for them are expensive. , it’s better to spend it as copper coins while it’s fresh. If you don’t move quickly, you have to be careful that it rots in your own hands.”

Because the copper coin petals are part of the spiritual plant and contain spiritual energy, the natural preservation time is longer than that of the ordinary plant, but there is an upper limit to their growth.After detaching from the main body, a single copper coin petal will gradually lose its internal aura circulation and lose aura. In the end, only an empty shell that is slightly stronger than ordinary plants will be left, and its value will be greatly reduced. Breakage is also normal.

The best way to deal with the petals of copper coins is to seal its inner spiritual energy. This technique is easy for monks who can skillfully use spiritual power, but ordinary people must use some professional equipment.The price of equipment involving spiritual power is usually high, and the cost of each activation is not low, so including the processing fee, as well as the time consumed to find the processing location, travel expenses, or shipping costs, it may indeed be better to use it as a counterfeit currency spend.

Of course, if it is a finished product of copper coin petals that has been processed at a low price, it must be more cost-effective to choose a suitable time as a commodity to sell at a high price.

Generally speaking, the copper money tree is a kind of spiritual plant that is more favored by the mortal world. However, copper coins and ingots... an ingot tree has grown in the ice flower garden. I put the copper money tree next to the ingot tree, and then told Zhong Zhong The three members of Sumen thank you.

Shen Pengfei: "So, the cooperation is established?"

Me: "It's not like the style of Confucianism cultivators to ask for promises so bluntly." Confucianism cultivators have always been very reserved, so reserved that people can't understand them.

Shen Pengfei: "After all, I am a vulnerable group, and I have to form a clique to... be safe."

Me: "Friend Daoist Shen, don't you want to destroy the secret realm of Jianzong?"

Shen Pengfei: "Don't dare, just trying to get as much residual oil and water as possible."

...Hey, your words are really too straightforward.

3193_Professional Temperament

Zhong Sumen sword cultivator complained to Shen Pengfei: "Calm down, can you? Everyone doubts whether you are a Confucian cultivator."

Shen Pengfei: "If I'm not a Confucianism cultivator, why should I panic?"

I read the jade slip that Shen Pengfei gave me. It didn't introduce much about the hunting secrets, but it introduced how dangerous Confucianism is in the hunting secrets.Because in this secret realm, Confucianism Cultivators are the ones being hunted.The Hunting Secret Realm will divide the [-] people it selects into multiple camps, and one of the camps has only one person, which is the hunted camp, and the occupation of the members of this camp is Confucianism Cultivator.

Me: "What if there are no Confucianism cultivators among the people participating in the ticket competition?"

Shen Pengfei: "If you don't have a main job, choose a part-time job. If you don't even have a part-time job, choose the one with the most Confucianism."

Me: "What does it mean to have the temperament of Confucianism?"

Shen Pengfei hesitated for a moment, and pointed to himself.

Yo, are you still embarrassed?Thin-skinned?But I haven't concluded what kind of temperament you are.

Zhong Sumen Jianxiu: "I just love reading."

Brother Zhang Li and Lou Fuyi looked at me.

Zhong Sumen Fuxiu: "I love to use my brain."

I feel at ease.

Shen Pengfei: "Professional temperament still feels a little bit more. In fact, it is hard to say which behavior belongs to which profession. For example, Liu Jinxuan," he refers to their swordsman, "Although he minored in Confucianism, it may be in the understanding of Confucianism. In fact, he is deeper than Confucianism cultivators of many small sects, but he still has the temperament of a sword cultivator."

Brother Lou Fuyi: "Didn't Fellow Daoist Liu minor in planting?"

Liu Jinxuan: "I am minoring in two professions."

Jindan stage, minoring in two professions?Is the main profession a swordsman who emphasizes concentration?Even though my behavior seems to be disqualified, I still want to say: Be careful.

Although I know a lot about many occupations and have actually done a lot of things, there are actually no occupations that can be called minors and improve systematic learning from the basics.Even if I have read the theoretical textbooks of those occupations, it is not a system if I just read the materials without supporting complete practice.

Whether a monk has a minor profession is not only a matter of interest or energy, but also whether he is suitable; just like which profession a monk majors in, sometimes it is not what the person wants to learn, but which way he can take.

Sometimes, this road is the only one, and it has nothing to do with temporary preferences, but only on this road can this person walk smoothly.

3194_ Cultivate truth, not technology

Some people think that alchemy is the most wealthy, and want to be alchemy, learn a lot of knowledge about alchemy, buy a lot of alchemy utensils and raw materials, and practice very hard, but in the end, they embarked on the road of sword cultivation that is poor and useless.It's not clear where it started to go astray, but when it was determined, the original idea had to be abandoned.

This is also the reason why many sects have so many auxiliary professions besides the main profession: when those disciples applied for the examination at the beginning, they were indeed aiming at the main profession of the sect, but when they went deeper on the road of cultivation, they found that I am actually more suitable for another profession, but at the same time, I am indeed very suitable for this sect.

If it is said that it is not suitable for the sect, then it is necessary to leave the sect and switch to another sect, but what should I do if the profession becomes the non-system professor of this sect without changing the sect?

I groped and practiced with my classmates.

Numerous examples prove that, compared with complete professional skills, whether the martial temperament is suitable for oneself has a more decisive influence on the future development of monks.

That's why there are theories that say that no matter how superb the exercises are, they are just skills, just like the skills of monsters. If you only focus on this, you will lose the fundamental meaning of cultivation.

No matter what kind of profession one is cultivating, after reaching a certain level, the distinction between it and other professions will gradually disappear.Occupational divisions are nothing but a method of guiding monks to the beginning.At the beginning, monks studied a certain profession more and more deeply, and involuntarily became unfamiliar with other professions. Later, they gradually understood all professions and blurred the boundaries between professions. In the end, there was no profession at all, only cultivation.

What is cultivated is truth, not skill.Technology is just a tool to lead the monks to find the 'true'.Tools are indispensable, but replaceable.It can be this tool, or that tool, it can be multiple tools, or you can create your own tool, in the end, the same goal by different routes.

What is 'true'?It may be the self, it may be the world, it may be everything, it may be nothingness, every monk will have his own answer, and that is the way of each of them.

Therefore, focusing on one profession and cultivating many professions at the same time is just a way to distinguish one's own way. There is no difference between the two. Yes, the understanding of any profession is only superficial. If you can't go deep, you can't see through it, you can't extend it, and you can't realize your own way from it.

In addition, the difference in the main occupation also affects the suitability for the minor occupation.Some main professions require special concentration, and it is easy to interfere with this main profession while cultivating other professions, resulting in nondescript cultivation of the main profession, and lack of energy in the auxiliary professions to achieve results, and eventually the path of cultivation is useless.

3195_ Can do but not do

This kind of main profession that requires special concentration is not ranked first by sword cultivators. Sword cultivators can't even be ranked in the top ten, because sword cultivators can focus on themselves, but they choose not to. It is the choice of sword cultivators themselves. Stubborn.Although many sword cultivators are so stubborn, it is still only a personal choice.Even if it is the collective personal choice of many people, forming a group characteristic, it cannot shake the strong inclusiveness of the profession of sword repair itself.

Concentration requirements come from occupations rather than individuals. They are niche occupations, and the smaller the occupation, the higher the requirements for concentration.A more accurate term for this kind of professional concentration should be called exclusiveness and exclusiveness.

For example, tea repairers, if they are not exclusive, they can easily become planters.Once the main occupation is changed, the cultivation method at the low cultivation stage is completely different.Therefore, if you don’t have a firm love for the tea repair profession, if you can’t be completely indifferent to other spiritual plants, if you love one or even many other spiritual plants more than tea, the tea repair profession is true. Cannot choose.

For occupations that have been around for a long time and have a large number of people, the group characteristics of monks in this occupation may include concentration, but there is absolutely no such item in the basic requirements of the occupation itself and the foundation of cultivation. At most, it will only be suggested The way of saying "low cultivation level, first concentrate on doing one thing well, and then it is suitable to develop more directions when you are proficient".It is recommended not to take a minor for the time being, but I will also analyze the specific situation in detail, and I will not say "absolutely not to take a minor" across the board.

In popular professions such as swordsmanship, concurrent cultivation at a low cultivation stage will not be defined as a mistake, and concurrent cultivation is not recommended just because children are easily distracted.This suggestion is to consider the common problems of people, not the needs of occupations. Therefore, if some people can do a good job of taking care of it, then it is okay to take other occupations or multiple occupations concurrently, but the paradox is that there is such a powerful sword. Xiu often lacks interest in other professions, so he can do it but doesn't.

I don't do what I can, I like this kind of relaxed choice environment, although I seem to do what I can, and I don't have enough concentration?Even if I comfort myself that I only read the theory in a general way and didn't really take part in it, the problem is that the scope of my 'generality' is too large, adding up to the energy expended... I'm not sure how it compares to a part-time study.

Although Liu Jinxuan has minored in two professions, he still highlights the temperament of a swordsman - not only Shen Pengfei introduced this, but I also feel the same way as a swordsman - probably Liu Jinxuan has the ability to take care of both, but Zhong The overall cultivation atmosphere in Sumen is heavily biased towards Confucianism. It takes a lot of concentration to maintain the professional temperament of a sword cultivator there, and it always feels a little dangerous to practice concurrently.