Chapter 23: Where the heart is, the underworld investigates

What is it?

There is no up and down in all directions, there is no past and present, there is no existence to explore, I only know one thing: I am thinking. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

I suddenly realized that the "place" I was in was the realm of pure idealism, that is, the "dry" "created" by the god Yasaka Kanako.

Did Miss Kanako bring my consciousness into this realm of the mind? Could this be another underworld? Because Kanako said that the underworld is very similar to the realm of pure idealism, and I think that the underworld is a special world created by idealism.

According to some of the thoughts that Kanako taught me, and with what I have seen and known, there are actually many underworlds in this world, and they are not limited to the underworld of the Orientals, and the underworld of the Orientals may be more than one, but the underworld known to the people of Gensokyo is the largest one, and the people who created this underworld have also left the clearest vows, just like Kanako said, the underworld we know is naturally a human or other creature under a specific cultural environment or belief system, and other underworlds, Naturally, the hosts are humans of other faiths or other creatures.

So, are heaven's and hell's creations similar? My mind began to tumble through some of the contents of the Bible, the Bible itself is undoubtedly not a historical document, but a bound version of the stories told by mankind similar to the ancient books of the Japanese, there must be a lot of speculation, nonsense and even nonsense, but the whole Bible, including the New Testament, must also contain the spiritual guidance left by that "God" - rather the ancient One God - left on earth, and those who act according to God's instructions are followers of God, and it is so simple.

The New Testament and the Old Testament are in fact the canons of two different religions, but the religion of the New Testament was created on the basis of inheriting, revising, and developing the religion of the Old Testament, so the one God of the Jews in the Old Testament and the one God in the New Testament may not be the same personality - I am talking about this on the basis of their existence, if they do not exist (in fact, the only God of the whole universe is a meaningless concept, so I am thinking here about the only God of faith), my thinking is naturally meaningless - It's a matter of inaccuracy.

There is also another possibility: when the one God of the Jews was once again incarnated to spread the welfare of the redeeming race, it was branded as a heresy by the Jewish community itself, which had been at ease for a long time, and thus was not accepted by the whole nation, but the gospel of "God" spread from the mouth of the Son of God beyond the confines of the national territory to the entire continent, in the sense that the two "gods" are the same individual.

I digress, who is God, whether the old and new gods are the same personality, this is not something I should consider, although I am very interested, but it has no practical meaning, what I am thinking about is heaven and hell, which from the name and various descriptions, the underworld of Westerners, who are full of brutal style, is probably not divided into two places, the New Testament and the Old Testament, and those who believe in the Jewish God and those who believe in the God of the New Testament probably belong to the same kingdom of heaven and hell after the end of the first life - but this is not a proof of whether the two gods are the same, Because the New Testament religion developed from the Old Testament religion is necessarily impossible to recreate a kingdom of heaven and hell, which is an inevitability in the belief system and does not need to be delved into.

By the way, I must state that the reason why I see heaven and hell as one is that they have the same function, the difference is in the scenes described in the mouth of human beings, but the sights of the underworld are only meaningful to those who are confused and indulged in superficial pleasures, and for those who understand the nature of the underworld, the state of mind is no longer affected by the changes in the underworld.

I didn't fall into Heaven and Hell, and I was aware of a fact that although I had some knowledge of New Testament religion, it was impossible for a magician born in the age of an explosion of knowledge to have faith in the gods, and that would directly break the trust of the magician in his own field of study, because accepting faith meant no longer believing in the worldview I had built, even though I hadn't actually built my own world like Patsy did.

So I didn't go into heaven and hell, but at this moment, after the Bible in my mind was over, a strange scene appeared in front of my "eyes", and I saw two "worlds" with clear boundaries in this boundless vastness of pure idealism, and I may be looking at them from a bird's-eye perspective, one of which showed the scenery of the holy mountain and the forest illuminated by the divine light, and the holy light was like a mist that did not obscure the view, presenting the whole world in front of me, and I saw many people sitting or standing in the light of the holy light. On the other side of the landscape, bounded by a river of reddish-yellow lava, the world is full of scorching colors, and the ground is crisscrossed by ravines and lava flows, and in the bubbling magma, I also found many people struggling or lying quietly.

This is what I suddenly saw when I was thinking about Heaven and Hell, that is, God's spiritual guidance, and I immediately knew that it was Heaven and Hell in the sense of the underworld, Heaven and Hell created by God, Heaven and Hell that brought reflection to the confusion of the end. Where people want to go, heaven or hell, it depends on people's own choices, not whether "God" punishes people, which is another level of realization for me.

This kind of encounter made me understand a very simple situation, the realm of idealistic nothingness was indeed not created by Miss Kanako, it is always there, with an unknowable distance from the material world of space-time.

When I think of God, I see heaven and hell, so I think about whether Jizo Bodhisattva can see the underworld.

I tried to recall in my mind some of the Buddhist teachings that I understood—of course, I had learned about them intermittently from Meiren Temple, and then, of course, I didn't see a familiar underworld, the underworld I had been to, the new hell run by Miss Shikieihime, and the white jade tower managed by Yuyuko of Xixing Temple, neither of these two people were of course the creators of the underworld, and they were perhaps trying to transform the underworld into something more in line with the role of the underworld?

So was this underworld created by Jizo Bodhisattva? It's hard to answer, because as far as I know, no one has ever seen Jizo Bodhisattva, and Jizo Bodhisattva usually refers to a self-enlightened ambition - and these understandings are still based on bits and pieces of observation and the occasional sutra from the monastery of Meirenji.

In short, the underworld of faith has no chance for me to see, because I am a magician with no religious and cultural beliefs, and I can see heaven and hell probably due to my background and the environment in which I grew up, but to see the underworld of the Orientals, in addition to being invited into the path while I was alive, I can only be accepted by the underworld after death if I become more in line with the temperament of the Orientals, but this is also impossible for me - I will not let the magic that has been formed make the temperament change more in line with the Orientals, This was not only because it was very difficult, but also because there was no need for it - before I was killed by Remilia, I had no idea that one day I would be redrawn into the vortex of samsara.

Of course, this does not mean that I have become a believer in Kanako - not to mention that her purpose is to get rid of the shackles of the gods' beliefs - but that I fully understand the beliefs and teachings that Kanako has spread, so I will naturally be accepted by this unexplored realm of idealism after being killed by Miss Remilia, and because it has not yet been developed into another underworld, which only has the effect of acceptance, and because of my isolation from the world, prevents me from being thrown into the vortex of samsara.

At this time, I realized a contradiction, if Kanako had no underworld before, which underworld would her followers be included in after the end of the first life? In this way, the underworld created by other gods or people under the entire cultural system to which Kanako belongs may become the underworld common to the entire system of gods, which is probably a natural development of a "cooperative" relationship, which is completely different from the belief spread by the only god, the only god does all the duties of the gods, and as for the angels who sit down with the gods, some may still be gods but refuse to call themselves gods, and consider themselves divine messengers.

So what we know of is the most well-known underworld in which Shikieihime and Yuyuko Seighanji are located is probably the underworld shared by the entire Eastern environment, but the interesting thing is that no one knows who created this underworld - the hell of the various gods in human stories (such as the Yellow Springs Country) is just groundless speculation and has no practical meaning.

At least everyone knows that God created Heaven and Hell.

This difference in cultural phenomena is not something I should delve into.

After thinking about my situation, I should think about how to get out of this situation, whether it is reincarnation or rebirth, it is more meaningful for me as a magician than to stay in the "nothingness" forever and realize that cultivation is more meaningful to me as a magician, perhaps the immortal is more suitable for the situation I feel at the moment, because the immortal always likes to abandon external objects and practice alone.

ps:This chapter can barely be seen as a setting.,Maybe you can use it to write original ones in the future~~.