Chapter 520: Interview (Part II)

"At that time, there were a lot of people on the scene, and the most helpful ones were naturally the soldiers, and there were many volunteers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info I thought that there were so many people saving people, but they were all saving the living, and those who needed to be comforted by the dead had no one to help them, and ordinary people couldn't do it if they wanted to, only I could do it, so I should do this thing that only I can do.

They help the living, and I help the dead. While helping the dead, it can also soothe the living. After all, there are many people whose relatives died in that natural disaster, and they also hope that everyone in their deceased relatives is a Buddha, but they are all covered by dust. Only when you find your true nature and wipe it clean, you will return to your original state.

And the 'nature' is not the soul, he is there, but it is not seen, it cannot be found. If you find it, you will find your way to Buddhahood. But the soul can be seen and touched. From this point of view, there is a difference between the two. "People can die safely when they are helped. Su Wen said to the camera with a smile.

"Do you think the living or the dead are important?" Xu Le asked another very sharp question.

"Actually, it's the same. In my opinion, whether it is the living or the dead, just the transformation of the form of life, the essence is the same. For example, I was when I was alive, and I will still be me when I die, and I will not become anyone else. My life form has changed, but the substance has not changed. In other words, when I was alive I had a skin to run and walk, but the core was my soul, and when I died, there was no skin, and the core was still my soul. ”

"Master's statement is a bit twisty, but I understand, you are saying that the soul is the core, whether it is life or death, right?"

Su Wen smiled: "It's a little biased, but this statement is easier for others to understand." ”

"Then do you say that people have souls? There have always been many speculations about whether people have souls, and many experiments have been done at home and abroad, and the most famous one is the experiment with a soul of 21 grams. What do you think? What does Buddhism think about this, and how is it different from ordinary people?"

"In a certain sense and in a sense, the soul exists. But this is just my family's words, and the other senior brothers of my Buddhism do not admit the existence of souls. Su Wen chuckled and gave an answer that surprised everyone.

"Are you saying that Buddhism doesn't recognize the existence of souls?" Xu Le wondered, feeling a little that she had misheard. The religion in China, which is second only to Taoism, has always preached that people have an afterlife, the source of the eighteen layers of hell, and one of the Tantric sects still has the existence of reincarnated living Buddhas from time to time, and this answer is really too surprising.

"That's right, in fact, in Buddhism, the existence of the soul is not recognized. Su Wen said.

"Can you tell me more about that? I think a lot of people in the audience are very interested in this question. ”

"I just discussed this issue with someone some time ago, so I'll repeat what I said again. Su Wen smiled, and then repeated what he said to the scientific research team outside the sinkhole that day.

“…… To put it simply, when a person sees something in the outside world, it is the "eye" that plays a role, and the "beauty" or "ugliness" of this thing is the "consciousness" that plays a role in the decision, and it is the "mind" that plays the role of decision-making, whether you "want" or "don't", and it is the "mind" that plays the role of decision-making, and whether it is "wanting" or "not wanting", the manifestation of this behavior is called "seed......

…… The so-called "come first" is reincarnation, and "after leaving" means that after death, it bears everything it does, and it cannot get rid of the shackles of "good" and "evil" that it has done, and must pay off all karmic debts, it is the face of the "soul"!

Xu Le digested it for a while before asking, "If that's the case, why doesn't Buddhism admit that souls don't exist?"

"Actually, the soul is a collection of information, and it is not 'real'.

First of all, I want to talk about what real existence is, in the eyes of Buddhism, real existence should be eternal and immortal, even beyond the concept of eternal immortality, it should always exist there and will not change.

And everything in the world we live in is not up to this standard, it is constantly changing. Whether it's the earth, the ocean, or the mountains, they change over time. The sea will become land, the mountains will become deep valleys, and the mountains and forests will become deserts.

At the end of the day, the substances that make them up are constantly changing. Everyone has learned in school that water can become oxygen and hydrogen, or ice, and that the composition of dirt, sand, rocks, metals, everything changes under certain conditions.

That's why the Buddha said thousands of years ago that the four are empty.

Many people have some misunderstanding of the term "four emptiness", which means that the four elements of earth, water, wind and fire are constantly changing, rather than eternal and unchanging as many people thought at that time. ”

"It's the first time I've known that the word "four are empty" actually means this!" Xu Le sighed.

Not only him, but most people in front of the computer knew for the first time that this word actually meant this way, and this word has always been misunderstood.

Even people who don't believe in gods and Buddhas think it's remarkable that they could say such things thousands of years ago. Shakyamuni is not a religious identity, but he can also be said to be a pioneer of physicists, right?

"From a Buddhist point of view, nothing seems to be true. Xu Le said again. The audience in front of the computer also nodded, according to this statement, what is eternal in this world? Even the sun and the universe have a lifespan.

"The Buddha said that everyone is a Buddha, but they are covered by dust. As long as you wipe it clean, you will become a Buddha again. And this obscured, wiped object is the Buddha nature, which is eternal and unchanging.

And the world we live in seems to us illusory. ”

"It seems that there is a certain difference in our concepts, and what we can touch, which is made up of matter, we ordinary people think is real. Xu Le said.

"That's not necessarily, remember the Matrix?" asked Su Wen with a smile.

"What is the Matrix?" Xu Le wondered.

"A movie. Su Wen said softly, I didn't expect the host of such a famous movie to not know.

"I didn't expect the abbot to watch a movie, what story does this movie tell?"

Su asked the words on his lips suddenly, and he suddenly thought that the movie of the Matrix was a movie from another world, and in that world, Buddhism is one of the three major religions in the world, and even ordinary people have a little understanding of Buddhism, so this kind of movie script containing deep Buddhist teachings appeared.

And in this world, Buddhism has not even gone out of Asia, it is not the largest sect in China, and Europe and the United States are even more deserts, can a movie like The Matrix be produced?

And the host's reaction also made Su Wen confirm this idea.

There is no Matrix in this world.