Xuan Yi Shan Ren - The Five Paths of Taoism

The Heavenly Path (Divine Path) Various kinds of Dala Immortals

The Human Path (Adults) Saints, Sages, Greats, Goods, and Mundanes

The Earthly Path (Animal Path) Various kinds of beasts

The Hell Path (Inferno) Eighteen layers ...

The Ghost Path (Evil Ghosts) Various kinds of Ghosts ...

"Five paths" that is, the five paths of the five elements, the five elements are mutually exclusive, gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

The Way of Heaven

"The Way of Heaven" means the Way of the Immortals. Immortal Tao includes, all kinds of immortal, into the gods, especially the ancient gods, is the beginning of the universe and the heavens, such as the "Emperor of Heaven, the human emperor Fuxi, the emperor of Shennong, Zhuanxu, ?àòàòàòàò, Yao, Shun," for the ancient gods, that is, we usually sense of the three emperors and five emperors. Three Emperors and Five Emperors is actually more than three or five of this number, such as "female snail, Zhu Rong, etc., all belong to the upper God, but also the Chinese Three Emperors and Five Emperors, that is, the ancestors of the Chinese people. It is embodied by the human form, is the divine energy so.

In addition to the ancient gods, there are many more deities, such as the native gods, Laozi, and the three highest native Taoist deities, "Yuan Shi Tian Zun (Yu Qing), Ling Bao Tian Zun (Shang Qing), and Daode Tian Zun/Taishang Laojun/Laozi (Tai Qing)".

As well as, the Ministry of God's official three hundred and sixty more, including the world of heaven and earth to practice all kinds of gods and immortals countless. Both the gods and the immortals have their own functions and authorities, and all have been practicing the way, guarding the peace of the three worlds, which is the way of the immortals. Therefore, to be able to rise to the immortal way is the highest result of human cultivation, lies in your lifelong virtue and good deeds and nothing more.

But don't be fooled into thinking that the "Way of Heaven" here is the Way of Heaven itself. Here, the Way of Heaven is the ultimate way of sublimation of all beings, the way to obtain the same life as heaven and earth, the way for, the five ways of reincarnation of the "one" carry on. The essence of the heavenly way is "yin and yang" two gas, the origin of gasification, is the "way" of the derivation of the specific performance, not to be confused with the misrepresentation.

Therefore; the Way of Heaven, the Way of the Immortals, one of the five ways. The way to the end of all beings.

Humanity

"Humanity" means that, through cultivation, there are bottom creatures who cultivate the spirit and get the fruit of sublimation. Humanity, there are saints, sages, great men, good men, ordinary men, the same is called humanism, but there are also different.

As human beings, we don't feel special, we don't feel grateful, we don't even think that we are supposed to be human, which is wrong. It is a mistake to think that we are supposed to be human beings. We become human beings in the present moment because we need to build up the fruits of our virtuous deeds and good deeds over many lifetimes, and it is never because you are lucky. If you were lucky, how come you weren't born into a rich man's family? The family of a scholar? The family of a nobleman? Of course, you often meet people born into such a family environment, and you may think that it is their good fortune. If you think it's a good life, where does it come from? Did it come out of nowhere? I'm not going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do that," he said.

A person's good fortune must be the result of the accumulation of your karma. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. If everything has a spirit, why are humans the most intelligent creatures? At least in three-dimensional space, human beings are the top of the food chain. And to be able to reach the top of the food chain, with the highest intelligence, you may not be human at all, you may be a dog, a pig, a cow, a horse, or you may be a human being, but you must be a commoner. Whether you are a saint, a wise man, or a good man, or even a layman, you can become a human being, and it must be your karma that has been accumulated and exchanged for the fruits of this world's humanity.

Therefore, we should cherish the humanity of this world, mankind, human behavior, and complete your continued cultivation of the soul, and look forward to your next life to become a great man, a virtuous man, a saint, which is the progressive purpose of the cultivation of all living beings.

Therefore; humanism is also the way to repair people, one of the five ways. The way of ascension of all people.

The Way of the Earth

"The Way of the Earth" is the way of the animals. Livestock includes all the animals and creatures of the thousand, including flowers, plants, trees, etc... Because the Way of the Livestock is also the Way of the Earth, the Way of the Earth can't be only animals. And why is humanity not in the earth path? Not the same Tao as other creatures? This is determined by the composition of the human soul. Because people are by the "three souls and seven spirits" composed of a complete spiritual embodiment, and animals do not have "three souls" only "seven spirits", otherwise any animal and human behavior almost the same! Otherwise, any animal would have almost the same behavior as human beings, and would have almost the same wisdom as human beings. The function of the seven prana is to lie in the function of each organ, and some animals have a little similar to the human thinking ability, and some normative behavior, which are derived from their seven prana memory inertia, and not the three souls of the dominant consciousness behavior. {See also my "Explanation of the Three Souls and Seven Spirits"}. Therefore, "man" is not in the earth. Heaven and earth and people, the first heaven, the second earth, and then people and, is to take the yin and yang of the heaven and earth and the essence of the qi and qi for and, mainly embodied in this "and". Therefore, it is decided that people exist in the world, and all things are one, but not equal.

Therefore, the animal path is the path of all animals. Every animal has its own life span, and the key to determining its cultivation is also the period, the period is time, without time you can not do anything, do not believe you try? That's why the number seven is so mysterious in Chinese culture. The average life cycle of a maggot is 7 days, the average life cycle of a beautiful butterfly is 14 days, the average life cycle of a mosquito is 21 days, the average life cycle of a fly is 28 days, the average life cycle of a dragonfly is 35 days, the average life cycle of a human being is 28,000 days, and the average life cycle of a pine tree is 280,000 days.

So that is :

Maggot 7x1=7 days

Butterfly 7x2=14 days

Mosquito 7x3=21 days

Fly 7x4=28 days

Dragonfly 7x5=35 days

Human 7,000x4=28,000 days

Pine tree 70,000x4= 280,000 days

VII. It stands for (duration), duration is time. Within the limited period of time, one should do what should be done, follow nature, imitate heaven and earth, and cultivate one's own path in order to ascend to the next level; otherwise, there will be no end of sufferings and trials and tribulations. It is very difficult for all beings to cultivate in the animal path to become human beings, because the animal path is the path of all living things except human beings. If you are a chicken this time, you may be a dog the next time, and if you are a dog this time, you may be a cow the next time. A chicken is very different from a cow; a cow is equal to, or even greater than, a human being for a family. A chicken becomes food at most, so it is very difficult to go from a chicken to a cow, let alone to become a human being. Because all karma is based on the accumulation of merit by paying into nature, the more one is reincarnated, the more one's chances of accumulating merit increase. Therefore, as a human being, one should treasure one's humane deeds, humane practices, and humane behavior. Don't be so cynical as to be ignorant of heaven and earth, or so presumptuous as to be destroying one's own moral character, or to be living forever in the way of the beasts, or in the way of the devils.

Therefore: the animal path, the way of life, one of the five paths. The way of the ascension and the diffusion of the line.

The Way of Hell

"The Way of Hell" is the Way of Hell. The path of hell is the path of reward and punishment for all living beings. The person who enters this path must have failed to fulfill its fruits at the time of his being a "thing", and thus he is sent to hell and punished.

There are eighteen levels of hell.

The first is the Hell of Tongue Pulling,

The second is the Hell of Scissors,

The third is the Hell of Iron Tree,

The fourth is the Hell of Sins and Mirrors,

The fifth is the Hell of Steamer,

The sixth is the Hell of Copper Pillar,

The seventh is the Hell of Sword Mountain,

The eighth is the Hell of Iceberg,

The ninth is the Hell of Oil, and the ninth is the Hell of Iceberg,

The ninth is the Hell of Oil.

Ninth: the Hell of the Frying Pan,

Tenth: the Hell of the Ox Pit,

Eleventh: the Hell of the Stone Pressure,

Twelfth: the Hell of the Pounding Mortar,

Thirteenth: the Hell of the Pool of Blood,

Fourteenth: the Hell of the Wasted Death,

Fifteenth: the Hell of the Jerking off of Limbs,

Sixteenth: the Hell of the Volcano

Seventeenth: the Hell of Stone Grinding,

Eighteenth: the Hell of Knives and Saws,

Each of the above levels of hell has different punishments, severity, and duration according to the evils of the crimes committed, and is aimed at all the sinful souls. All those who enter the hells are souls who have committed serious crimes. If your sins are light, you will be sent to other paths, such as flowers, trees, animals and insects in the "hell path", and your life span will be reduced accordingly as a punishment. If you have committed serious sins, you may be sent to hell for eternity, not being allowed to be reincarnated until your soul is dissipated. Some of the souls are even tortured to death because of the heinous sins they committed during their time in this path, and their souls are directly annihilated, with the three souls and seven spirits completely disappearing. Any soul that enters hell will be punished for all its sins, and this is a process that completely destroys the whole soul. However, there is still hope for a reincarnation in hell, but the hope is very small.

All of the people who have been sent to hell by the King of Hell will be returned to the Earth's path (the animal path), and the dignity of all the creatures in this path is higher than that of the prison path. We will not be able to do this without the help of our friends.

Therefore: the prison way, the way of hell, the way of punishment, one of the five ways. It is almost the way of death!

Ghosts

"Ghosts," that is, the evil spirits. All in the "this" path of the world of sinners, to the netherworld is still unrepentant, and with the evil way to work together, collusion, for the tiger, endangering the heavenly, earthly, humane all beings of the ghost for the evil spirits. The formation of evil spirits is diverse and complex, but never departs from its evil nature. When any creature is reincarnated, if the three souls and seven spirits are not sound, they need to be reorganized (see: Three Souls and Seven Spirits), and the spirits in the process of reorganization may themselves carry the evil spirit. In this case, when reincarnating in the human world, there will be born bad children, bad adults, and bad old people. Moreover, even after the corrections in the world's way of teaching and education, they still have not obtained their original way, behavior, and actions, thus causing their evil results to be numerous. Such people die in various ways, not the same, the time of death still carries a lot of evil gas, so to go to the netherworld is still evil and refused to stop, and more rampant than in the world, this is because of the evil forces assisted by the results of the collaboration.

People will say, is not said that "people are good in the beginning"? How is it possible that people are born with good and bad points? That's right, the phrase "human nature is good" is wrong, and wrong for thousands of years. "Tao" born in the infinite chaos, the infinite chaos is divided into two poles, the two poles of yin and yang is divided into the sum of the two qi, then people are the yin and yang two qi, the essence is the nature of the yin and yang two poles, that is, all people have two sides of the original nature, how can they be born is a good person? This does not make sense. What is correct is that "in the beginning of man is good and evil", there are good and evil, good and evil through the cultivation of the degree of transformation may be from evil to good, may be from good to evil, it all depends on the cultivation of the Tao of self-control. So, if you are a winner, you will get a lot of help, and if you are a loser, you will get a lot of help, and no one can help you, only yourself.

Once you enter the demonic path, there is almost no chance of reincarnation. If you have the ability to become a devil, demons do "Zhuang" you do "make", collusion, to get more time to be arrogant and comfortable. But in this case, you may be hunted down by the Underworld at any time, as well as deploying troops and requesting Zhong Kui, the Heavenly Master, to tear you apart or eat you alive. Regardless of whether you are hunted down by the King of Hell, or torn apart or eaten by the Heavenly Master Zhong Kui, the result is that your soul will be dispersed. Therefore, once you have fallen into the evil ghost path, the chance of survival is almost zero, and Heaven has to kill you. Almost 0, does not mean absolutely 0, there is only one possibility, can make you have a chance to live, that is, you were controlled and forced in life, after death is still by the evil gas, demons, evil monsters, spirits and ghosts coercion, after the netherworld's thorough investigation, can be "the way of hell," the way of the prison, which means that you have to be tortured and punished! After the transformation, and evil spirits do not have this opportunity. The net of heaven is wide open, don't do evil and don't do good. Therefore: the ghost road also, the road of extinction, one of the five ways also. The way of all the extinction is carried out.

Summary

The five paths of reincarnation, to the yin and yang, the five elements, gossip made. The first thing that you need to do is to get your hands dirty. Imbalance of yin and yang, human nature is disorganized, more yang and less yin, less yin and more yang, good and evil are not equal, reduced to five ways.

The Yin and Yang of the Heavenly Way is the basis of the two chi, the two chi of the Earthly Way is the way of reification, the two chi of the Human Way is the way of harmony, the yang of the Prison Way is the way of the yin and the yin increase, the yang of the Ghost Way is the way to eliminate the yin and the yin is lost. The way of heaven is called human, the way of human is called earth, the way of earth is called prison, the way of prison is called ghost, the way of ghost is called Yuan, and the way of ghost is called chaos. On the contrary, the way of ghosts is called prison, the way of prison is called earth, the way of earth is called human, the way of human is called heaven, and the way of heaven begins with the Taiji yin and yang.

The way of heaven and earth, heaven is called Yang Qian, earth is Yin Kun. The way of man, heaven and earth intersection, punch together to man. The way of man, the intersection of yin and yang, the two air together, called the human way. The way of things, the two gases of heaven and earth, the shape of all forms, the nature of the yin and yang. Heaven, earth, people, things, together to one, to the Tao.

All things negative yin and embrace the yang, the gas for and, the virtues of the example of heaven and earth, the goodness of humanity, can be a long time.

Supplement

The Taoists separate the human and animal paths from one another, because of the logic of the cosmic structure of heaven, earth, and man. Heaven is on top, earth is on the bottom, and people are in the middle. Laozi said. "The Qi of the human being is the same as the Qi of the animal. Because people and animals compared to people to be higher than animals. Standing in the modern scientific point of view, people are also highly intelligent creatures.

So although people and animals exist in three-dimensional space at the same time, but not a Tao. The so-called equality of all beings means that people and all living things are from the mother of the same, the same out of the same name, the same Tao, the same metaphysical, *** with the same life is "relatively" equal. And from the mother after the output of the behavior of the performance of the creatures led to inequality, so equality and inequality must be mutual. Many people are confused as to what life really is. The essence of human life is that each organ of the human being is endowed with seven spirits and three souls at the time of birth, in the *** with the role of the normal performance of the state characteristics.

People, animals and plants have the process from growth to extinction, the natural resources given by heaven are the same, which is called equality. This is called equality. Remember: equality is the equality of life.

So if life is equal, why is it so different? In addition to the above "five ways" of creation, there is another very important reason. For example, the Western personalization of the Creator theory, by man to create a God, and then by God to create the world, and then let people to believe in God. Sounds confusing? In fact, the logic is very simple: the grandson creates the grandfather, the grandfather gives birth to the son, the son gives birth to the son, and then the grandson of the grandfather created by the grandson goes to believe in the grandson who created the grandfather, and then ultimately believes in the so-called God and the gods, which are all his own, so that he calls himself a self-talking man. Isn't that messed up? Yes, this is the so-called false beliefs that even they themselves do not understand.

What is faith? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. Most people can't tell the difference.

Religion: (the upper part of the ancestor, the lower part of the indoctrination, religion).

Faith: (believe in the wisdom of the ancestors, look up to the saint's teachings, faith).

So strictly speaking, the so-called God, God, Allah in the West, including the Buddha imported from India into China, are not "faith" and "religious" nature. They are man-made cults that demonize people, and the logical relationship between grandchildren and grandfathers. As a result, the true religion and faith have been abducted and polluted by cults, leading to the people's inability to distinguish between what is religion and faith and what is a demonizing cult, and leading to the demonizing cult theory that religion is Allah and faith is God and Buddha. The slaves who are enslaved by these religions have a crippled soul, and their crippled souls are not only not sublimated, but also.... Again and again, and again and again to continue the process of slavery and slavery, this process leads to the superposition of the accumulation of ignorance, so that the unsound soul continues to be crippled and upgraded, so that the whole society is backward civilization, people's livelihood, science and technology, natural sciences, lagging behind at one time. This is the reason for the emergence of a very different life.

Ascending to a higher level to discuss, the soul, the soul is composed of three souls, which is not unequal. But the behavior of the three souls and seven spirits after they have acted on the "human being" (living person) determines the inequality of human beings. There is no one who has three souls, eight spirits, or nine spirits, so how many people can understand? As small as the leader of the unit with you are not equal, not to mention the sages and great men. That's why it is called respect for the old and love the young, respect for heaven and law ancestors, this is the law of nature, the virtue of heaven. And, if you stand in the "Avenue" point of view is not necessary to say, say when there is no virtue, because there is no virtue to say virtue. People are old, young people must be better than the elderly comprehensive ability, should respect and care for the elderly. And children do not know what to do, should be taught and care, this is natural, no need to say. That is why Lao Tzu said, "It is not the way of the world. That is, once you say it with your mouth, there is no more Tao, or it is far away from Tao.

In addition, the person who cultivates the Way does not care that (Buddhism) has stolen and altered the "five paths of reincarnation" of Taoism into "six paths of reincarnation". This is because the goal of the practitioners of Taoism is not the so-called reincarnation of Buddhism, but rather the attainment of immortality. Becoming immortal means living the same life as heaven and earth, jumping out of the three realms, and not being in the five paths, so who cares about reincarnation? Reincarnation cannot create any obstacle for the cultivator. Buddhism exaggerates reincarnation to such an extent that people are obsessed with it. This is because the Buddha, or those who believe in the Buddha, do not have the concept of "the great Tao" or the realm of the infinite.

And the general cultivation of people, it is not Tao, as long as the virtuous people, in fact, is a person with benevolence, or the great good people, not subject to the five paths of reincarnation in Yama, directly from Yama's book of life and death of the elimination of the scratch, bypassing the road.

So think about it. Who cares about the five paths or the six paths? The only thing I care about is how to become immortal. The person who has achieved this will be an immortal. What we call the "way" of the people, generally refers to the "great good" of the people, strictly speaking, from the "way" there are 108,000 miles away. But as a person of virtue, a person of mercy, a person of benevolence, a person of goodness, not to become immortal is to become a god, not a god is to become a saint, not a saint is to become a sage, not a sage is to become a man (great man). At worst, you are a great man. The first thing you need to do is to get a good job on your own, and you will not be a bad person no matter how bad you are, and you will be able to get a good job in the next life.

So what is the purpose of human life? The correct answer is that the purpose of human life is to practice life again, repair more sound and perfect. After practicing again, in the reincarnation, both the soul and the body will show the fruits of their practice.

The Tao is invisible, giving birth to heaven and earth; the Tao is merciless, running the sun and the moon; the Tao is nameless, giving birth to all things.

The Tao is invisible, giving birth to the heavens and the earth.