147: Nirvana

The "axe" is made from wheat stalks. Drinking it in your mouth is like swallowing a raging fire. Strictly speaking, this wine is strong but not mellow, and it is not really a good wine. But if you want to talk about energy, it's really exciting.

It's not just the wine that's exciting, it's also the meat. Inside the stone house, there is a very large stone stove. The large pieces of wood under the stove were crackling, and a large pot of mutton burning on the stove was already boiling to the brim, and it was the best time to eat. The smell of meat and rosin filled the room. Let people feel very safe and secure invisibly.

Now Cheng Li feels this way. In addition, three bowls of "axes" are under the stomach, although they are not as exaggerated as Banchabana said, and it is like a head being split. But the wine has also rushed to the top of the head, drunk, hazy, fluttering, making people feel very comfortable.

Therefore, Cheng Li was no longer afraid of anything, and asked Banchabana as soon as he opened his mouth: "You have a grudge against Ning Buqun?"

Banchabana held the wine bowl in one hand, sipped slowly, and said, "Strictly speaking, it is not a grudge. It's just that our positions are opposed to each other. ”

Cheng Li asked, "Your positions are opposite, why?"

Banchabana said, "Do you think there is something wrong with this villa?"

Cheng Li smiled bitterly: "In my opinion, there is nothing wrong in this villa. Why don't you need to say more?"

Banchabana said solemnly, "Indeed. It's really not right everywhere here. But the most wrong thing is the mysterious lord of the mountain villa. This whole so-called battle for the glazed treasure is actually a game for the lord of the villa. And those of us are all tools for his amusement, chess pieces, and puppets. ”

Cheng Li thought thoughtfully, nodded and said, "What you said makes sense." But even so, what can we do?"

Banchabana suddenly became very serious, and said in a condensed voice, "Do you know what 'Nirvana' means?"

Cheng Li shook his head: "I don't know." However, it seems to be a Buddhist term, right?"

Banchaphana said, "Yes, that's the language of Buddhism." Buddhism believes that all living beings between heaven and earth cannot be separated from the six realms of heaven, people, animals, hungry ghosts, asuras, and hells.

Among the six realms, there is a big difference between the length of life and the depth of good fortune. But even the 'Way of Heaven', which has the greatest blessing and the longest lifespan, must also have the 'Five Decays of Heaven and Man'. In other words, after all, we will not be able to get rid of the various pains of 'birth, old age, sickness, and death'. To break the cycle of samsara and be free from suffering forever, one must enter the state of nirvana.

Let's take an analogy. The six realms of reincarnation are like people dreaming. There are good and bad dreams, nightmares and sweet dreams. But no matter what kind of dream it is, it is ultimately a dream, and it is all illusory and unreal. Some people desperately want not to have nightmares and only dream sweetly. Brother Cheng, what do you think of this kind of person?"

Cheng Li hesitated: "I don't understand too much." Isn't that smart, though?"

Banchabana smiled: "Actually, to put it bluntly, it should be stupid. Because in this case, the only thing one really has to do is to realize that it is a dream as soon as possible and wake up from it. And this kind of behavior, in Buddhism, is called 'nirvana'. ”

Cheng Li nodded, but shook his head again, and said, "But what does this have to do with our current situation?"

Banchabana shook his head silently, picked up a dagger placed beside him, reached into the pot and picked up a piece of mutton, and ate it in three or two bites. Then he raised his head and drank a large bowl of "axes" cleanly. Suddenly, he shook his hand vigorously. The bowl immediately "ping-pong" fell to the ground, and then completely shattered.

Cheng Li and Xue Yanxia were both taken aback by this sudden change. Only the weak and beautiful woman still sat motionless on the ground, looking at Banchabana with a smile, her eyes full of attachment and trust. It was as if she had completely given up on independent thinking. No matter what Banchabana does, she will only trust and support her unconditionally.

For the Five-Flower Arrow God, of course, Cheng Li can't have this kind of trust that is completely blindly obedient. He frowned and said, "Banchabana, what are you doing here, why did you break this wine bowl?"

Banchabana smiled mockingly: "Wine bowls? What wine bowls are here? Not only are there no bowls, but there is no wine, no meat, no stoves, no stone houses. Even this entire lonely mountain villa does not exist. ”

Cheng Li was stunned and said, "It doesn't exist? What does this mean?"

Banchabana asked rhetorically, "What else is the point? It means that all this is just a dream." Nothing, everything is illusory. You and I are just in a dream. ”

Cheng Li was stunned, frowned, and muttered: "You said this is just a dream? So, is it, you, me, and Xia Niang also a dream?"

Banchabana sighed, "This dream is here. The dream is not entirely illusory. There are real parts to it. That's you, me, and the others involved in the fight for the glazed treasure.

But beyond that, even the Snow Fairy, and my wife, Beauvoir, are not sure who is real and who is illusory. Because in this dream, the true and the false, the false and the real, all have been entangled. The only one who can know the true answer is the mysterious owner of the lodge. ”

"Mr. Banchabana, what do you mean...... I'm a person, it's very likely that it's fake, it doesn't exist?"

Xue Yanxia was full of surprise, and couldn't help but reach out and touch her body and pat. But the feeling of the tentacle is as real as ever. So Xue Yanxia can't believe that she is actually an illusory, non-existent dummy?

Banchabana shook his head and said, "Snow Fairy, it's useless for you to do this. If it were so easy for you to find out whether it is true or false, this lonely mountain villa will not exist forever to this day. ”

Cheng Li reached out to hold Xue Yanxia's soft wattle and patted it lightly twice to express comfort. Then he asked, "Banchabana, is there any evidence for what you said?"

Banchabana sneered, "Evidence? You Central Plains people, there are also great sages, called Zhuang Zhou. He once said that he didn't know whether the butterfly became Zhuang Zhou in his dream, or Zhuang Zhou became a butterfly in his dream. Even this great sage is like this, what evidence can others find? So this kind of thing, if you understand it, you will understand it immediately. What you don't understand, that is, you don't understand it until you die. ”

Cheng Li pondered for a while, vaguely, and always felt that although this thing was ridiculous, it was not necessarily false. What's more, since I woke up in the villa, I always felt that something seemed to be wrong, but I couldn't say it. But if what Banchabana said is true, then this feeling that something is wrong can be explained.

After all, it can't be fake, and it can't be fake. If it's fake, it's fake. No matter how much you try to make it look like the real thing, there will always be something unnatural.

The average person may not be aware of it. But masters like Cheng Li and Banchabana have keen five senses, which is far better than ordinary people. And it can also develop the sixth and even seventh sense of Buddhism. To be able to perceive this unnaturalness is perfectly reasonable.

Thinking of this, the expression between Cheng Li's eyebrows couldn't help but look unprecedented solemn and serious. He asked in a deep voice, "Then Banchabana, if all this is really just a fake, then what are we going to do to get out of this false dream?"