On the other hand, Yi Xi received a message from his subordinates and went up to take a look. He saw a millipede that was tens of feet long and had been split in half from head to tail. It lay limply on the ground outside Hangu Pass. He hurriedly ordered people to carry it in. When he got closer, he smelled a fishy odor and realized that the demon's body was poisonous. Although millipedes were non-poisonous insects, they had eaten a lot of human flesh in the deep valleys and carried corpse poison on their bodies.
Yi Xi ordered people to carry the demon's body away and burn it. He said to his subordinates, "I've known about this thousand-legged demon's mischief in the past. It used its demonic wind to blow passing merchants into the valleys to feed on it. However, this demon was very powerful and I couldn't do anything to it. I pretended not to know. Unexpectedly, it offended the Saints and was killed."
"The two Saints in this residence are my honored guests. You must treat them with care. If you dare to neglect them, I have my ways to deal with them!"
His subordinates solemnly replied.
Yi Xi was about to go back and pay his respects to Laozi when he saw the Monkey King kneeling outside Chen Ang's room in a daze. He had asked his subordinates and found out some things. However, this was an internal matter of the Saints, how could he interfere? He didn't make a sound and greeted Laozi outside the door. After receiving permission, he entered the house.
When the Saint of Dao Virtue saw him, he said to him, "I'm going west and won't be able to stay in Hangu Pass for long. I called you in because I want to bid farewell and leave. Do you agree?"
Yi Xi kowtowed. "How can I question the Saint when he's going out? Please come with me. I will resign and leave with the Saint. "
He then asked the Saint about his trip to the west. Laozi mentioned the matter of becoming a Hu. Yi Xi pleaded, "Why did the Saint teach the Hu people and forget about Yanhuang? I have listened to your teachings for several months and know that you are a virtuous and knowledgeable person. Yanhuang has been taught by the Saints since ancient times, such as Beichen, which is why there are so many outstanding people and civilization. Now that the Saint is going west, I dare not disobey. Please leave behind a book to teach the future generations! "
Laozi pondered for a moment before smiling. "It's a meaningless matter, why should I force it? Fine! Fine! I will give you five thousand words that will be handed down from generation to generation, the meaning of morality. "
Yi Xi did not dare to be negligent. He called for someone to bring him a bamboo slip with a knife and a brush. Then, he sat down and engraved Laozi's words on the bamboo slip. Laozi's words were the epitome of Taoism and Yi Xi carved them down. It was three in the morning. The Monkey King was kneeling outside the door while the Green Ox was leading the herd behind the house. Both of them could hear Laozi's words. They were so intoxicated that they did not realize that the sky was bright but they were not sleepy at all.
Chen Ang pushed the door open and saw the Monkey King still kneeling outside. "What are you still kneeling for? Heaven and Earth are free and unfettered, the world is vast. You can go wherever you want! "As he spoke, he wanted to close the door. Monkey King only kowtowed and said," Master, please listen to me! "
Chen Ang only looked at him. The Monkey King cried and said, "I've already redone my homework. I'm already regretful for deceiving Master that day. I can't wait to get back to that day and kill those distracting thoughts with a stick. I was originally a natural stone monkey without any parents. I was born and raised by the Heaven and Earth. I mingled with the other monkeys and was unbearably rough. Fortunately, Master created me. He did not despise me for being stubborn and slow-witted. He taught me the path of Taoism and understood the truth. When I was apprenticed to Master, I only had the thought of immortality. However, after hearing Master's teachings and understanding of the truth, I have the heart to pursue Taoism. If Master chased me away, I really don't know what to do next. It's like I'm stuck in the mud. "
"Patriarch, please have mercy on me and spare me this time!"
"Come with me!" Chen Ang brought the Monkey King to see Lao Dan. He bowed to Lao Dan and said, "Please help me, Immortal Taiqing." He then turned to the Monkey King and said, "You're originally a spiritual creature created by the heaven and earth. The heaven and earth gave birth to you but did not teach you. After witnessing the death of the old ape in the mountain, you realized the great horror between life and death. You have the heart to pursue Taoism and immortality. This is your natural Dao nature. Now, your wish has been fulfilled."
"However, you have to know that achieving immortality is just a small matter!"
"The stubborn stone in the mountain can live for thousands of years. It was born from the creation of the heaven and earth. It has the same lifespan as the heaven and earth. However, it is also immortal and will not be affected by life and death. Before you transformed, you were already a celestial stone. Why are you asking for it? "
The Monkey King said, "I was a stubborn stone when I was alive. I didn't have seven orifices. Although I have some spiritual energy, I'm still a dead thing. How can I be compared to you?"
"You also know that you can't be compared to me!" Chen Ang asked, "Now that you've obtained some Dao Qi, you're complacent and think that you can live forever. You're lazy in pursuing the Dao and you're not diligent in learning. You've only learned from me for three months and you think that you've obtained the Dao? In our eyes, what difference are you from a dead thing? If you only want to live a long life and then mix with beasts and indulge in the pleasures of beasts, you're just an immortal monkey. "
"Isn't an immortal monkey a monkey?"
"Monkey King, Monkey King! Perfected Taiqing gave you a surname. I didn't name you because I wanted you to be a macaque again. However, I knew that with such a name, you would be able to transcend your race and see your 'true self'. After getting a name, you're no longer just a stone monkey, not just a macaque, not just that Monkey King, but a unique Monkey King with a name. "
"I have to see myself clearly. I have to know where I came from, what I am, and where I'm going."
"Breaking a stubborn stone to see the Monkey King. Isn't this world another stubborn stone? You're not willing to learn from me, saying that you have a jumpy personality and can't stand being restrained. However, in my opinion, aren't you lazy? The thought of longevity is not the thought of the Dao. Cultivating the Dao is not to train yourself to become a thousand-year-old tortoise or a stubborn stone that lives as long as the heavens. Instead, you have the will to move forward and continuously evolve. Listen to me when I talk about natural selection, survival of the fittest, and the development of humanity. Don't you understand the principle of constantly striving to improve and advance? "
"Gods and Buddhas advise people to do good. Could it be that their nature is bad? Why do I say that it's rotten? It's because it doesn't seek development and doesn't persuade people to move forward. Instead, it tells people to stop, endure, and not change. It wants to enjoy bliss after death. Good and evil will be repaid. As a result, everyone only seeks bliss. They can't see what's in front of them and don't work hard to move forward. "
The Monkey King was shocked. Chen Ang transformed the void and casually opened up a chaos. A spot of formless chaos floated in front of Chen Ang and was fixed by Chen Ang. The Perfected Taiqing smiled and said, "So you want to imitate my creation of the world!" He slashed with his hand and separated the chaos that Chen Ang had fixed. Since there was Yin and Yang, the clear and turbid Qi intertwined.
Originally, the clear Qi should have floated up, and the turbid Qi would have descended to separate the world. However, Chen Ang only closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes again, a thought had already swallowed the world. The thought was born from ignorance, and it gave birth to Brahma, and it gave birth to knowledge. From knowledge, it gave birth to names and colors. At that moment, the world had already been divided. The various mental activities of the thought were like thinking, and if not thinking, it was the Colorless Realm. When it saw the appearance, it gave birth to the Colorless Realm. Finally, the six senses of the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose were born, and the Desire Realm was born.
It sounded complicated, but it was actually simple. It was just a dream that Chen Ang's thoughts had.
The thoughts in the dream turned into the world that Laozi had opened up. From ignorance, there would be mental activities. Movement was action, and mental activities gave birth to consciousness. Consciousness would then recognize names and colors, which were all kinds of colors. When consciousness felt colors, it was divided into three levels. Without the feeling of colors, all mental activities were empty and were born as the Colorless Realm. All consciousness felt the concept of matter. When consciousness felt everything on matter, it was the appearance of color. This was the Color Realm, which included specific feelings and various concepts. The feeling of specific senses, namely the senses of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, was the Desire Realm.
When Chen Ang opened his eyes again, the chaos had already turned into a complete universe. It only existed in Chen Ang's dream.
Chen Ang waved his hand casually, and the Monkey King was unable to stand still. He fell head first into the world of Chen Ang's dream. The creation of this world was opened by Chen Ang's understanding of the Dharma. The impermanence of all actions and the anatta of all dharmas were the first foundation. The impermanence of all actions meant that everything in the world would change in an instant. This was similar to the materialism, where everything was moving and changing. Chen Ang comprehended it without any hindrance. However, the second seal, the anatta of all dharmas, was the most fundamental difference between idealism and materialism.
The first difference was whether humans could understand the world. Chen Ang's worldview believed that humans could study and understand the world. This was the theory of knowability. However, Buddhism believed that there was no other 'self' apart from the 'self'. Apart from the 'self', there was no other 'self'. Apart from the 'self', there was no other 'self'. Apart from the 'self', there was no other 'self'. Apart from the 'self', there was no other 'self'. Only the 'self', which was the consciousness itself, could be understood. The so-called cultivation was the process of understanding the 'self'.
From knowing oneself, Buddha discovered the emptiness beyond the form, but he also discovered that apart from the self, all other substances and even life could not be recognized. Their consciousness could never be known, and they could never obtain things beyond the form. In other words, one could only be sure of the reality of one's own consciousness, but could not be sure and recognize the consciousness of others. It was like a brain in a vat, a world in a dream.
Since apart from the 'self', everything was form, and the emptiness was in the 'self', then it could be determined that the world was in the 'self'. As long as the 'self' could perceive the world, the world would exist. If the 'self' could not perceive the world, then the world would not exist. Everything was just idealism.
Everything in the world was not moved by the wind, nor was it moved by the banner, but by the heart. The 'self' moved.
Since the world was in the 'self', then there was another question. Where did the 'self' come from? This was the origin … The Buddha believed that the 'self' came from the Namo, and the Namo gave birth to action, which was the spiritual activity. The action gave birth to knowledge, which was the consciousness. Through the consciousness, one would know the form of the world, and learn about the cause and effect behind the form, which was the Dao, the emptiness, and the rebirth of all material attributes, which were the form and the form. Finally, the specific feeling of the various senses would be realized, which was the realm of desire.
Therefore, there was all touch, which was all the contact between the consciousness and the outside world.
Then there was the feeling of touch, which was the emotional reaction to touch.
From the feeling of touch came love. Love was desire, and greed.
Love came to take, and then the desire drove people's behavior and pursuit.
From taking came to have. The behavior and pursuit produced cause, and from cause came to effect.
In the end, death destroyed everything.
This process was the origin of everything. From Chen Ang's point of view, it was the process of the birth of consciousness and the understanding of the world. If consciousness was seen as the only reality, then it was the process of the birth of consciousness and the creation of the world. Chen Ang created the world with the origin. The Thought Swallowing Laojun opened up the two Qis, which was because there was no self outside the heart, and everything was only the heart. The clear and turbid Qis opened up by the Laojun naturally did not exist, but were perceived by Chen Ang's thoughts.
Then there was the Namo, which gave birth to knowledge, knowledge gave birth to name, and name gave birth to six roots. The six roots gave birth to touch, touch gave birth to feeling, feeling gave birth to love, love gave birth to taking, taking gave birth to existence, existence gave birth to life, and then death. This was the reincarnation of a world.
Brahma created the world with a dream, and that was it.
To the Monkey King at this moment, wasn't Chen Ang Brahma? In Chen Ang's dream, all his feelings were formed by the Desire Realm. All matter was color, and the Great Dao was just a colorless sky. Emptiness was not different from color, and color was not different from the emptiness of emptiness. Everything, feelings, material attributes, and even the invisible laws behind everything were formed by Chen Ang's consciousness. The more subtle action and ignorance were things that only Chen Ang could sense.
The Monkey King seemed to have been reduced by Chen Ang and was trapped in the color. It was like a brain in a jar, a world of information.
On the other hand, Chen Ang used this opportunity to discuss the Dao with the Grand Pure One. He used a world as a chessboard and used each other's hands to verify the Dao path. The two of them worked together to evolve the world and verify what they had learned. However, when the Saints discussed the Dao, they often used a world as a chess piece. To the living beings of that world, it was unbelievable. As for the training of the Monkey King, it made him understand that longevity was separated from transcendence. The heart to move forward was just a stubborn stone, but it was just incidental!
The two of them wanted to transform into Buddha. Chen Ang used the Buddhist Dharma that he had comprehended to open up a world and asked the Grand Pure One about the Buddhist Dharma that he had comprehended. At the same time, in this world, Chen Ang evolved the universe, stars, galaxies, and galaxies. With a single thought, he turned the universe into a physical universe, using atoms as the foundation. At the same time, he threw Wukong onto a planet that focused on technology. He first abused it with all kinds of technology, then sealed its six senses, and reincarnated in this universe again, turning it into a student, reading until he died, and solving problems until he died. Only after five to six reincarnations did he let it go.
The Grand Pure One shook his head and smiled. "Heavenly Venerable, why are you making things difficult for your disciple? It's a joke. "
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