Founder of Wang Zhongyang (data map: Tuyuan.com)
The short period of two or three years that Chongyang Zhenren taught in Shandong laid a solid foundation for the development of Quanzhen religion, and left many works, which systematically expounded all aspects of Quanzhen religion, such as Fifteen Treatises on Chongyang Education, Collection of Quanzhen Chongyang Education, Collection of Chongyang Education, Ten Things to Divide Pears in Chongyang, Twenty-four Strategies for Chongyang to Grant Danyang, and Lock the Golden Crown and Jade of Chongyang Zhenren, etc. Quanzhen religion can continue to this day and develop into a prominent Sect, which is inseparable from Chongyang real people's education of disciples with unique teachings and rules. Although some people think that Quanzhen Daoism has not formulated the precepts and rules when he was a real person in Chongyang, there are many normative contents in his works, especially the Fifteenth Theory of Chongyang Education, which can be regarded as a customized work for creative education. The prosperity of Quanzhen religion is closely related to the fact that Chongyang real people attach importance to talent training at the beginning of teaching. "The Fifteenth Theory of Establishing Education in Chongyang" expounds the educational purpose, educational content, educational principles and methods of Quanzhen Taoism, focusing on the main points of establishing education, such as abbot's nunnery, traveling, learning books, combining medicine, building Taoism, combining Taoism, meditation, lowering the heart, refining the nature, matching five qi, mixing life, sanctifying Taoism, transcending the three realms, cultivating oneself and being born.
The purpose of education-all truth is sacred.
The purpose of education is the starting point and destination of educational activities, which is related to the question of what kind of people to cultivate, that is, the expected effect of educational activities, and people's expectations of what changes have taken place in the body and mind of the educated through education and what results have been produced. Taoism generally refers to the trained talents as "real people", "wise men" and "saints", which is the ideal personality advocated by Taoism, and the educational purpose of "the fifteenth theory of Chongyang education" is no exception.
In "Free Travel", the southern real people mentioned the complete freedom of "to man, to god is invalid, to saint is nameless", and got rid of the limitations of the material world, "taking the meaning of heaven and earth, resisting the debate of six qi, swimming endlessly". Ge Hong, the founder of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, demonstrated the Taoist theory of "becoming immortal" in the inner chapter of Bao Puzi, saying that winter would wither and bamboo and cypress would flourish. It is said that what begins must end, and the world is endless. They say that life is endless, and turtles and cranes are endless? Why not blame the difference between immortals and mortals? "Chongyang reality also made a similar argument for the immortal Ke Cheng. "Try to use physics to check. The exercise of mine can be iron, the touch of copper can be gold, fish can surpass Lvliang and become dragons, and pheasants can flood into the flood and become storks. If the ice disappears easily, it can be hidden in summer; Grass rots easily and can survive the winter. People can give up what they love to be greedy, keep their own women to hug and swim in peace. Ponty? Do you want to be arrogant? The maid was secretly cut? Not bad, 3? Hey? Free? Hey, grandma? Ride a whale to swim in the sea and cross the wind to go green. " However, the belief of Quanzhen religion, which was founded by real people in Chongyang, is no longer the soaring body advocated by traditional Taoism, but the soul that takes off the secular shell and jumps out of the earthly cage to become immortal, that is, "all truth is sacred".
"Happy Travel" is "to those who have no self, God is useless, and saints are unknown" (data map: Tuyuan. com)
Since the pre-Qin period, the theory of body immortality was vigorously promoted by Taoism in the Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and even had great influence in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. However, in the course of more than a thousand years' development, its disadvantages have also been exposed. People in Sui and Tang Dynasties expressed doubts and even criticized this statement, which made the development of Taoism face great difficulties. After the end of the Tang Dynasty, scholars in Inner reformed the old theory, which made the development of Taoism turn for the better. Quanzhen Taoism, founded by Chongyang Zhenren, inherited its new theory, which led the new development direction of Taoism and was widely and rapidly spread.
Not everyone can live forever.
"From the world, not from the body, also. Body like lotus root, heart like lotus. Roots in the mud, flowers in the void. The Tao is in the mortal world and the heart is in the holy land. People who want to never die today are stupid and unreasonable. " Quanzhen Taoism founded by real people in Chongyang pursues immortality, but despises the body, thinking that the human body is only a walking corpse and cannot be the subject of immortality. What can truly become immortal is the immortal "nature" in the body, that is, the "Yuan God" or "True Spirit" that exists with "Tao", also known as "mind nature". Immortality does not mean the immortality of the body, but the dharma body as opposed to the "color body" as the object of cultivation. There is nothing, nothing behind, nothing before, nothing high, nothing short, nothing long, nothing useless, nothing trace. If you get this way, you can cultivate it. The more you raise, the more jobs you get; If you raise less, you will get less jobs. You can't give back, you can't love the world, you can live in nature. "In fact, dharma body is the heart that can leave the world. Immortality is to cultivate this "true body" or "truth", and the subject of immortality is "Shen Yuan" or "true spirit". It can be seen that the Quan Zhen Dao created by Chongyang real people is the sublation of foreign alchemy and world popular symbols? And gargling and other monastic methods take "all essence, all qi and all determination" as the highest realm of immortality, and "all truth" has become the only way to live forever and become immortal.
Those who have achieved the Tao are in the mortal world and their hearts are in the holy land (data map: Tuyuan. com)
"To enter the Holy Way, you must practice hard for many years. Over time, the wise and sages can enter the Holy Way. Living in one room, naturally, it is all dry Kun. The whole world is a saint, silently defending, boundless immortal, invisible around, and the name is purple mansion, ranking in the fairy order, shaped in the dust, and the heart is clear outside things. " (Lecture 12 of the Theory of the Holy Way) In view of the widespread doubt that people did not believe in the immortal learning and delayed their lives at that time, Chongyang Zhenren clearly pointed out that not everyone can become immortal, and only those who are intelligent and talented can enter the realm of saints who are integrated with the Tao after years of hard work and struggle. Those who died suddenly without ambition at the beginning, no matter how tall and powerful, could not rank among the immortals and surpass the three realms. "Desire, color and colorless are the three realms. There is no desire to forget thoughts, and there is no color to forget all realms. If there is no space, there is no color. From these three realms, God lives in the land of immortals and sex is in the land of jade Qing. " If Shen Yuan and truth are to transcend the three realms and reach the sacred land, they should let nature take its course, govern by doing nothing, despise Ming Jiao, get rid of self-consideration, forget the distinction between inside and outside, and debate between honor and disgrace.