Chapter 46 Hidden Moth Observation

The so-called power-off mode is the off state, and his pair of VR glasses for testing become a completely opaque eye mask, and he can’t see anything when he wears it.

He Kao stayed in the house for three whole days without even leaving the house. He ordered takeout for meals. He had already completed the workload that President E assigned to him during the holiday, and he even exceeded the target by a lot.

The results of his work were sent to the next step, and the project was advanced a step further, with the next step now being handled by another department. The week after the long holiday, he felt much more relaxed and could relax and unwind.

This is not because He Kao is extremely ambitious, but because he completed it incidentally while coordinating with his “cultivation”.

Wearing VR glasses to watch virtual scenes, people are actually completing a series of operations in reality. In the end, anyone will feel a little dazed and unable to distinguish between illusion and reality. After a long time, psychological problems may occur.

He Kao certainly realized this, but he found another way in the process, which was to train his spiritual perception, including spatial imagination, memory, and super visual perception, etc.

The “contemplation method” that He Kao practiced was neither focusing on the Dantian nor listening with the curtains closed. It was actually a bit like what Buddhism calls Nirvana.

It is certainly not the method of Nirvana without remainder, which cannot be found in the text on the Internet. It is just a little related to it. In fact, it is closer to the Taoist method of practicing the body in the void.

What it calls observation is not an external object, nor is it observation itself, nor is it an impression. Instead, it is the ultimate dissolution of the visualizing subject, so there is no object of visualization… How do we understand this?
Described in modern psychological terms, it is like a method of consciousness regression, starting with “observation”, visualizing oneself from head to toe, one part after another, gradually turning into nothingness.

The self disappeared, and of course the normal perceptions that depended on the body also disappeared. Even the “I” no longer existed, and all kinds of thoughts seemed to disappear…

It can also be described in a philosophical way.

Some people use a logic similar to the regression of consciousness. If you question everything that can be questioned, in the end the only thing left that cannot be questioned is “I am questioning” itself.

Others go even further and suspend the entire world, including all kinds of ideas, leaving only pure, spiritual consciousness.

He Kao’s method of meditation, however, takes a completely different approach. It first suspends the “self,” the subject of perception, cognition, and thought. The very thing that both of these ultimately seek is eliminated from the outset.

This is not only the exit of the superficial consciousness, but also the elimination of the subconscious mind.

Can one achieve this state simply through visualization? This depends on one’s concentration practice. If one cannot achieve it, then one has not entered the state, and there are different levels of state.

Sixth-rank cultivators must all experience this state when breaking through to the seventh rank. This is a very difficult test. Upon entering this state, one becomes nothingness, and all magical powers and powers are lost…

It is called Zhenkong Lianxing, also known as “Returning to Emptiness” or “Refining Emptiness”.

“Lianxu” is also a realm set in many modern Xianxia novels, usually after the so-called Jindan, Yuanying, and Huashen. However, in traditional cultivation theory, there is also the term “Lianxu”.

This “refining the void” is a necessary step before the “Xuantai” (profound embryo) is formed from the vacuum, and the Xuantai precedes the “Nascent Soul,” symbolizing the gestation of a completely new form of life and state of being. (I couldn’t resist a few more words, please forgive my occupational illness.)
Of course, He Kao didn’t have such a level of cultivation yet. He couldn’t even say he had any cultivation at all. He just practiced a set of meditation methods that started with the method of refining the void.

Senior Lin Qingshuang did not make any changes to the meditation method itself. The annotations were mainly to teach him how to enter the state, such as adjusting posture and breathing, and relaxation techniques.

When He Kao was able to relax, calm and be natural, he found that he could go from sitting cross-legged to sitting in meditation…

As the body gradually dissolves into nothingness, visualization ceases to matter, entering a natural state. The self seems to vanish, yet it becomes omnipresent, as if it is the world itself. The surrounding objects inexplicably appear, as if they simply exist, yet one cannot tell who is perceiving them.

After such a deep meditation at midnight every night, he slept soundly, and his appetite and mental state were very good the next day. On the third day of his vacation, He Kao took a nourishing essence pill and deeply experienced its magical effect.

It is difficult to feel the fullness of essence and energy directly, but the unity of body and mind and the restless desire are clear and strong. I stand up and salute inadvertently, and my mind can’t help but think of certain people and certain things that may happen.

He Kao even felt ashamed that he had such thoughts. The best way to appease him was to continue practicing the Yin Moth Contemplation. To kill the thief before you kill him, you must first kill him.

“Hidden Moth Contemplation” is the name He Kao gave this method of contemplation, which he found very vivid and appropriate. The moth is not only a flying thought, but also a hidden self, invisible yet seemingly omnipresent.

On the morning of the fourth day of the holiday, He Kao suddenly felt something. He closed his glasses, as if he had found a trace of the state he was in when he sat down to enter the country, or as if it was the result of deliberate “training” in the past few days.

In the darkness, he seemed to be able to clearly “know” the existence of every object in the room.

Even if he couldn’t see the virtual scene, a house like this would naturally appear in his mind, overlapping with reality, and he could move freely in it.

In fact, many ordinary people also have this super spatial perception, but this is not luck but helplessness, such as the blind. Some blind people even master the ability of echolocation, which can perceive the objects around them through sound and vibration.

Maybe because he already knew the layout of this house by heart, He Kao changed his way of testing. This time he was no longer testing the data but testing himself.

He took out an unused plastic spoon, one of the ones he had ordered from takeout over the past few days, walked into the bedroom, and threw the food out. Some of the spoons hit the wall and fell to the ground, making a loud noise, while some landed on the bed, making almost no sound.

But he was vaguely able to sense the trajectory of these small spoons, and then picked them up one by one… All of this was done while he was blindfolded.

The position of some spoons may be determined by sound, while others do not seem to rely on any ordinary senses. It is like a natural “knowing”, or like a combination of all senses.

He Kao was very excited about his new discovery and tried several other things, such as small balls of tissue paper. He may have thrown away too many small balls of paper and didn’t find all of them, but he found most of them.

He Kao finally took off his glasses and planned to see with his own eyes where the remaining small paper balls were, but he found that it was already past noon without him noticing, and he suddenly felt a wave of fatigue.

It was like he had worked overtime for several nights in a row and finally completed a life-threatening task. His mind relaxed in an instant and even his eyelids could hardly hold up… He decided to go to bed and take a nap without even eating lunch.

He Kao also began to react. The experiment just now seemed to have consumed a lot of energy. Fortunately, he had just taken the nourishing pill yesterday, otherwise he would not be sleepy now, but would probably be dizzy.

He had originally intended to just take a nap, but unexpectedly he slept so soundly that he couldn’t wake up even in the face of thunder. Something was amiss with his drowsiness…

He finally woke up suddenly, and was horrified to find that he was not in bed. His head was covered with a hood, and his hands were tied behind his back as he leaned against a sofa chair.

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PS: I’m a bit delayed today, so this chapter is relatively short.

(End of this chapter)