Chapter 948

Li Yundong woke up just like a dream. He looked up and said with a dry smile, "no, nothing. You continue to say, what did Zhang boduan say?"

Ziyuan held back the shame in her heart. She bit her lips and glared at Li Yundong angrily for a while. When her anger subsided a little, she said, "immortal Ziyang said: 'Taoism uses life to establish religion, so it talks about life in detail and nature in brief; Buddhism uses nature to establish religion, so it talks about life in detail and nature in brief."

Li Yundong coughed and asked, "what does this mean?"

Ziyuan said, "it means that Taoists pay more attention to their physical cultivation, ignoring human nature and spiritual cultivation; while Buddhists like philosophical debate, spiritual cultivation, and ignoring physical cultivation."

Li Yundong asked, "isn't this still the difference between internal and external boxing? You know, simple internal or external cultivation is biased and one-sided after all. You should cultivate both!"

Ziyuan's shame gradually disappeared. After listening to Li Yundong's words, she couldn't help praising: "what you said is also good. You are worthy of being a descendant of golden elixir and insightful! I can't believe you are a practitioner who has been practicing for less than half a year! Zhang boduan believes that only the internal elixir integrating Taoism and Zen and the dual cultivation of nature and life can be the best."

Li Yundong was stunned. He said strangely, "Zhang boduan knew that Buddhism and Taoism should be practiced simultaneously in the Northern Song Dynasty? Then why is the gap between Buddhism and Taoism so deep since then? Even you think Buddhism and Taoism can't be practiced simultaneously?"

Ziyuan sighed: "Knowing and doing are two different things! Zhang boduan advocates double cultivation of Buddhism and Taoism, but in fact, he emphasizes more double cultivation of mind and body, which is different from the real double cultivation of Buddhism and Taoism. Our Taoism has been nearly 2000 years, but so many practitioners only have Cao Huanyang, Wu Shouyang and Liu Huayang to cultivate the combination of immortals and Buddhas and truly integrate Buddhism The Tao is one! It can be seen how difficult it is! "

"Just think it's too difficult. Too few people cultivate immortals in this way. Many sects denounce the double cultivation of Buddhism and Taoism as pseudo Taoism, which is compared with wild fox Zen."

Li Yundong smiled bitterly: "it's so difficult. Then you say it's simpler than the method of zhongshentong? Are you right? What kind of metamorphosis should the method of zhongshentong be?"

Ziyuan said, "practice is the most difficult thing in the world. If it were so easy, there would be immortals all over the world at the end of the day!"

Li Yundong said with a wry smile, "well, since the double cultivation of Buddhism and Taoism is so difficult, how do you know I can finish it in such a short time?"

Ziyuan stared at Li Yundong with bright eyes: "your nature is strange and the opportunity is rare. Although you entered the Tao with golden elixir and built the foundation with Taoist methods, you have no teacher to learn from yourself after building the foundation. You have cultivated the true words and fingerprints of Buddhism. In this way, your inner elixir can be said to have the characteristics of the integration of Buddhism and Taoism. You can use both Taoist and Buddhist spells."