Chapter 914: Advanced or Backward, What Is the Standard?
There is no doubt that the system built by Buddhism is perfect and meets the wishes of the general public. It is simply the ultimate product of the evolution of the world.
This sentence is both a compliment to the Buddhist system, caring about the public, and a satire on it, aiming too high.
Yes, there is no need to say much about the compliment. The satire is that the Buddhist system is too perfect and too advanced, so that many people cannot comprehend the secrets.
The most important thing is that this system offends the vested interests. If they follow the Buddhist system, wouldn’t the accumulation of several generations of their ancestors be useless, and they have to stand at the same starting line with you, a country bumpkin.
Therefore, when Buddhism rose, no one could stop it. It was almost like a prairie flame, sweeping across the heavens in an instant. There was no one who didn’t know Buddhism and no one who didn’t chant Sanskrit.
Including many Taoists, they all turned to Buddhism, shaved their heads and practiced, with green lamps and ancient Buddhas, and Sanskrit sounds. Many people thought that Buddhism would completely replace Taoism and unify the heavens.
When people today evaluate the split between Mahayana and Hinayana Buddhism, they all say that it was instigated by Taoism. Naturally, this is a very important reason that cannot be ignored.
But flies do not bite seamless eggs. If the great Buddhas who climbed from the bottom to the top of Buddhism did not have the idea of maintaining their own reputation and allowed the Buddhist system to continue to operate stably, there would always be humble people who became great Buddhas. Where would there be a chance for Taoism to counterattack, and how could there be a dispute between Taoism and Buddhism in recent times.
Those Buddhas who benefited from this system and rose from the bottom to the top suddenly did not want their descendants to do the same, but to interrupt the passage, slander this system, and betray their origins.
In the past, when Sakyamuni created this system, did he not expect this problem to arise? The saints knew the past lives and predicted the future, so I think they must have expected it.
But the saints did nothing, perhaps because they understood that the system they built was too advanced and had to go through ups and downs before it could be finally realized.
One cannot ascend to heaven in one step, nor can one become a fat man in one bite. Forcing the system to be implemented will not only affect one's reputation in the previous life, but may not succeed in the end.
In any case, being able to build this system and preach it to the heavens is a great merit, and we cannot ask for more.
There is a dispute between the expounding and cutting in Taoism, and a dispute between the Mahayana and the Hinayana in Buddhism. Regardless of the reasons, the magnificent heavens seem to be intentionally curbing the emergence of an absolutely unified force, and must create changes, causing various forces to conquer and seize. Whether there are other secrets in the meantime is still unknown.
Under the tide of history, Wu Yi, a tiny ant that cannot be any smaller, has actually been destined to be determined since the moment he stepped into the Yiqi Taoist Temple in Liucheng. Even if there are variables in the middle, he cannot deviate from the main road.
After understanding this truth, many people will feel helpless, or curse it and denounce it as "false".
Truth, what is truth? It is only truth. We think too much in dreams and see too much falsehood in daily life, so we take falsehood as truth and ignore or even despise the truth.
However, truth is truth. Believe it or not, it is there, watching you silently, and when you deviate from it, it will teach you a lesson.
There is only one kind of heroism in the world, that is, after seeing the truth of this world, you can still face it with a smile.
I just don’t know if these people know what the truth is when they speak the truth.
Repeating what I have said countless times before, the monks’ cultivation of immortals and the Tao have never been against the sky, but just a part of the road. They are not qualified to go against the sky.
The sky here refers to the rules, or it can be called the Tao.
Those who say that my life is determined by me, not by heaven, are mostly young and frivolous, and do not know the height of the sky and the depth of the earth. Naturally, they will crawl under the road in the future. The flow of time will grind away the sharp edges of the sand.
A person like Sakyamuni, relying on his own strength, can stir up great waves and change the world, but after seeing the trajectory of the way of heaven, he also chooses to follow it and does not change it. He also follows the way of heaven.
Killing people, saving people, or ignoring and watching, are all part of the way of heaven. The rules continue to run and change slowly and regularly.
Is there a bit of pessimism? Not really. Although for all living beings, they can only follow the way of heaven, but under the way of heaven, they can also compete for who is the most in line with heaven. Those who follow the way of heaven will be in charge of the great fortune and have a bright future.
The gap between people is reflected in this way. Self-effort is still valuable. The description of philosophy is to give full play to subjective initiative under objective laws.
After the dust is washed away, the lead curtain falls, and the years of seclusion, how can we know the passage of time and the movement of stars? Wu Yi sacrificed his own cave heaven and refined it. He was unconscious and only practiced.
The inner cave heaven is the heaven and earth formed after the cultivator enters the cave heaven realm. The earthly evil is accumulated during the golden elixir stage, and the heavenly evil is accumulated during the Yuanying stage.
The cave heaven is used to store one's own mana. From then on, the cave heaven will almost never have doubts about the shortage of mana, and the mana is endless.
In addition, the cave heaven is also the place where the natal embryo is born. Wu Yi refined the beads into his inner cave heaven, and he has eliminated the cause and effect of the former burning emperor. All his own spirit and energy poured into it, and a bright light was born inside, vivid, shining, and crystal clear, as if it came from nowhere and was born somewhere.
This bit of light is the initial form of the natal embryo. The natal embryo is different for each cultivator. Basically, it looks the same as the original appearance of the cultivator. However, some sword cultivators and knife cultivators will refine the natal embryo into the form of a weapon, so that the person and the sword become one. No more words are said.
Wu Yi contemplated his original appearance in a proper manner, without any strange thoughts.
When the spirit entered the bead cave, it was like countless fireflies flying around the light.
The light was very jumping, just playing around the spirit, and ignored the spirit's active attachment, just like a naughty child.
At this moment, remember not to force the light to devour the spirit to grow. The most important thing now is to maintain the light's spiritual nature. This is the innate nature, so just play around. Don't change it at all, otherwise it will be contaminated by the acquired dust and lose the most important thing.
The light that produces dust is worse than nothing. With this light that produces dust as the natal embryo, it is considered to cut off one's immortal path, and can only grow into a semi-immortal in the future.
Therefore, Wu Yi only transferred his spirit, energy and spirit, and had no other thoughts. He was absolutely clear and peaceful.
Finally, this light began to try to contact Wu Yi's spirit, energy and spirit.