Why do animals need to overcome tribulations in their cultivation? If you can withstand the thunder tribulation, you can use the power of thunder to be reborn. If you can't bear it, will you be shattered to pieces?
Everything in the world has its own rules, but some of them have to go against the will of heaven. This includes people, animals, plants, and even a small object, a square stone... what is crossed is " "Tribulation", tribulation is an obstacle, it is the price for changing one's destiny against the will of heaven, it is the punishment from heaven. There are thousands of kinds of tribulations, and the most commonly heard one is "thunder from heaven". It is said that people can overcome tribulations, and a word that is often heard nowadays is "cultivation". Cultivation means overcoming tribulations, reborn, building a foundation to become a pill, and ascending to immortality. This all requires effort and price.
In traditional culture, people believe that after an animal practices for a certain period of time, it will have to accept the test of God. This is the heavenly tribulation. After passing the heavenly tribulation, it will enter a higher level of spiritual practice. If it fails, , at least it will harm your practice, at worst it will destroy your soul.
It is said that this snake will go through a tribulation once every 500 years and transform into a dragon. It will go through a tribulation once every 1,000 years and transform into a dragon. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to say that snakes also have little dragons. On the day of the tribulation, there are thunder and lightning, and the eyes of the sky are opened. The purpose is to patrol who is crossing the tribulation. Then there is an electric shock and lightning, and the snake rises into the sky. If you can escape this lightning, you will successfully survive the tribulation and become a dragon. If you can't avoid it, you will be seriously injured. die.
One of the most discussed questions about transcending tribulations is why there are celestial tribulations. In ancient philosophy, people believed that everything in the world operates and survives in accordance with a unique law, the "Way of Heaven." For example, a person's normal life span is within a certain range, and if it exceeds this range, it has actually broken through the shackles of heaven, then heaven cannot allow it.
The way of heaven is interpreted in traditional Chinese culture as a dual-sided existence: strict and benevolent. The strict part is that everything that does not conform to the laws of heaven will be regarded as anomalies by heaven, and the mercy is that heaven does not kill all the anomalies, but gives them opportunities through the test of heavenly tribulation.
For example, snakes, after practicing to a certain level, often obtain greater positive results through the behavior of walking on dragons, and thunder tribulation is the final test of this journey. Similarly, foxes, weasels, etc. will also be tested by heavenly tribulations during their practice.
This is not an arena where strength speaks for itself. In the face of the way of heaven, no matter how powerful the power in the world is, it is often empty talk (but there are exceptions). What really determines the success or failure of overcoming the tribulation is actually virtue (merit) and chance.
Actually, these are two concepts that people still confuse to this day. Just because a person has great merit does not necessarily mean that there will be some kind of opportunity. The relationship between merit and chance is not an equation with some formula. This is similar to the old saying: do your best and listen to fate. If there is no merit, then basically there will be no chance (of course there are rare exceptions) but with merit, there may not be any chance.