What should I do if someone speaks and steals my energy?
Q: I like to read Taoist cultivation books and have done a little meditation. Now I feel that when someone speaks to me, the meaning of their words is stealing my essence, leaving me listless and exhausted all day long. I cannot settle down to practice, and I am constantly anxious and afraid. What should I do?
A: This is a demonic phenomenon, and you should quickly dispel this thought. Otherwise, if you continue like this, you will not be able to live a normal life. You must understand that cultivation is about using effort in the realm of the innate. The so-called innate state is a state of purity and nothingness. For someone who is just beginning to practice cultivation, this state of mind is not the same as the real life of the world after birth. If they were the same, there would be no need to cultivate. Therefore, one must never directly transfer the mindset that should be maintained during cultivation to real life, and entangle many things in real life with cultivation, making it difficult to distinguish between the two and unable to untangle them. This will easily lead to delusions. The consequences of this problem are that some people even misunderstand what others say to them as someone stealing their energy from them, which is really absurd! Once this kind of bad psychology is injected, it will intensify, and of course you will feel that your energy is declining, that you cannot be calm, and that your inner world is in chaos, all taken over by the “devil”. This “devil” is the devil of the heart, and it is not that someone outside can steal your energy.
When this kind of phenomenon occurs, the only way to deal with it is to thoroughly clean up from the depths of your heart and stop thinking this way. Otherwise, day after day, you will only be tying yourself in knots. If you completely cut off this thought from the depths of your heart, you will be able to completely master your own heart, and the “devil” will also be transformed into the Tao. Even if you encounter other disturbances from the devil in the future, you will be able to dissolve them into nothingness at any time; and you will be able to reach a new level in your own skills. In this way, cultivation and reality do not interfere with each other, and the innate and the acquired are interdependent. Then bad things can become good things, so why not understand evil!
有人说话盗气怎么办
问：我喜欢阅读道家修炼丹书，并且做过一点打坐的功夫，现在感觉有人在和我说话的时候，言语之意是在盗窃我的精气，弄得我整天无精打彩，疲惫不堪，做功也静不下来，一天到晚惶恐不安，请问如何是好 ?
答：这是一种入魔的现象，应当速断此想。否则长此以往，将无法正常生活。须知修炼之事，是在先天境界用功夫。所谓先天，是一尘不染的虚无状态。这种境界，对于初学修炼的人而言，与后天世界的现实生活不可等同。如果都是一回事的话，也就不必用功修炼了。所以万万不可将修炼之中应持的心念，直接照搬到现实生活之中去，把现实生活之中的许多事情，与修炼的功夫纠缠到一起，搞得难分难解，撕扯不清，这样就会容易产生错觉。流弊所及，甚至把有人和你的说话，都错解成为别人从你身上盗气，真是荒唐无稽 !此种不良心理一旦注入，愈演愈烈，当然是会感觉气机衰减，无法安静，内心世界一片混乱，全部被“魔”占据了。这个“魔”是心魔，并不是外面有人能偷你的气。
发生这种现象，只有从内心深处彻底打扫干净，勿作此想。否则日复一日，只会作茧自缚。如果从内心深处彻底断绝此念，则自己完全能够做自心的主人，“魔”亦化为道矣。以后即使遇到其他魔扰，亦必能随时化解于无形之中；对于自身的功夫，又可以登上一个新的台阶。如此使修炼与现实互不相扰，先天与后天互相依存。则坏事可以变成好事，何不悟邪 !