Master Jingqing said: “The poor monk will explain it differently.”
After that, he said in a solemn tone: “Open your eyes, you just stand on the earth and look at the sky in front of you. Close your eyes and enter the unconscious world, and the earth becomes a globe in front of you. Everything is there.” Master and have a panoramic view!”
Nanako frowned: “I have figured out a little bit about the method of endoscopic observation, but… I have never had the feeling of closing my eyes and looking at the universe…”
Master Jingqing exclaimed: “The donor actually knows the method of endoscopic examination?”
Nanako nodded and said, “I understand a little bit, but I can’t confirm whether it’s true spying.”
Master Jingqing asked: “Can the donor tell the poor monk how he did it?”
Nanako thought for a while and said: “I study martial arts and use my true energy to circulate the meridians throughout my body, as if I have a panoramic view of the meridians all over my body…”
Master Jingqing shook his head and said: “This is not a true endoscopic view. It can only be regarded as a kind of self-perception in the body. What this kind of endoscopic view can see is one’s own internal organs, meridians, Dantian, and Niwan Palace. The real Not only can you close your eyes and look at all things in the universe, but you can also at least peer into your own Purple Mansion, which is the true origin of your spiritual consciousness!”
“Zifu?” Nanako asked doubtfully, “What is Zifu?”
Master Jingqing said: “Although I study Buddhism, having an inside view of Zifu is the key to Taoist practice. Zifu is the place where monks store spiritual energy in Taoist classics, but the sea of consciousness mentioned in Buddhism is also the same. In the Purple Mansion.”
“Sea of consciousness?” Nanako was even more puzzled: “This concept… I seem to have never heard of it.”
Master Jingqing said: “The Lankavatara Sutra mentions that ‘the hidden sea of consciousness always abides, and is moved by the wind of the realm. All kinds of waves of consciousness leap and are reincarnated.’ This is the sea of consciousness.”
Nanako thought of something and suddenly exclaimed: “The sea of consciousness is that boundless ocean that always pushes consciousness outward?”
Master Jingqing asked with a look of astonishment: “The donor can already feel the ocean? Is it an ocean that is boundless, windless, waveless, and bottomless?”
Nanako nodded: “That’s right.”
Master Jingqing blurted out excitedly: “That is the sea of consciousness!”
After that, he asked again: “Did the donor find the sea of consciousness by himself?”
Nanako thought for a while: “Well, martial arts masters teach us that endoscopic vision is to sense the meridians and Dantian, but I somehow ended up in that sea.”
When Nanako was studying martial arts with Hong Changqing in Champs-Elysees, she once tried to peer inside. She found the sea of consciousness without any teacher, but Qin Aoxue, who was practicing together, couldn’t even peer into the meridians.
Even Ye Chen has never reached her level.