As Sanghai explained and Qu Zan gained insights through practice,
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[You have comprehended a new method: Mudra lv1] [Mudra (progress +2%)]
Sanghai continued, "Our esoteric teachings contain a great many Mudras. A Mudra unites the strength of the body with the strength of intent. It represents a practitioner's fundamental power, the correspondence between the state of body and mind."
"Who can tell me why Mudras represent the correspondence between body and mind?" Sanghai swept his gaze over everyone.
But he saw bewilderment in the eyes of the many Yogis. In fact, this was not difficult to understand.
Previously, Sanghai had taught the Yogis from the perspective of the Body Secret, while intent clearly involved the Mind Secret, one of the Three Mysteries.
At this stage, most Geshes and Yogis practiced only one of the Three Mysteries, so their grasp of matters spanning different disciplines was very poor. Sanghai therefore found this unsurprising.
However, he was a proud man who had always considered the Warrior Monk Academy the most exalted of all the academies, and he felt considerable indignation over its present circumstances. He knew that none of the Yogis he taught knew the answer. Naturally, that newly arrived Geshe would not be able to figure it out either.
Sanghai said, "Geshe Gyatso, do you know why?" He was not deliberately trying to humiliate him; he merely intended to continue his explanation once Gyatso answered that he did not know.
Gyatso had entered this classroom through the back door, so many of the Yogis had not noticed him. Now, upon hearing that a Geshe was present, they all turned to look toward him.
Neither servile nor overbearing, Qu Zan thought for a moment and said, "As I understand it, every intentional action of