Chapter 4: The Secret to Buddhahood
On each side of the palace gate stood a row of guards in armor.
"Khenpo, where is this?" Qin Yingzhou looked at everything in front of him with novelty and asked the red-clothed lama next to him.
"The royal palace of the Kapila Guardian." Khenpo replied indifferently, and then pulled Qin Yingzhou, "Follow me." β
Khenpo walked straight towards the palace gate, and Qin Yingzhou hurriedly followed.
When he walked to the gate of the palace, the guards did not stop the khenpo.
"Oh, Khenpo, are the guards of the palace so sparse? Why don't you ask us? β
"They can't see us, so you should watch a movie......"
"I forgot, it's in my consciousness...... But Khenpo, what are you bringing me here for? β
"Don't be impatient......"
As he spoke, Khenpo led Qin Yingzhou through the palace gate, and what caught his eye was a glazed arch, and the door was filled with a purple gas, and the purple air revealed a hazy light.
Khenpo walked over and reached into the purple qi, which spread out and enveloped everything in front of him.
Qin Yingzhou was worried in his heart and hurriedly called for Khenpo, but Khenpo did not respond.
Fortunately, after a while, the purple qi dissipated, but the scene in front of him had changed, and Qin Yingzhou saw a young Kapila man sitting under a Bodhi tree, and a khenpo who had changed into another dress and walked towards him.
"Siddhartha, what have you discovered?" The khenpo asked the Kapila people in a loud voice.
Siddhartha? This is the Buddha? Qin Yingzhou was so shocked that he almost screamed.
"Honorable Master." Siddhartha took out a brocade silk from his bosom, "I have looked at it carefully, this is a map. β
"Maps?"
"Yes, the end point of this map is somewhere on Mount Everest, and the starting point should be where you found it, where did you find it?"
Khenpo took the map, looked at it for a moment, and said, "I found it in a cave in the Kunlun Mountains......
"Kunlun Mountain?" Siddhartha got up and helped the khenpo to sit down, "Venerable Master, can you tell me the details?" β
"I have nothing to tell you."
Khenpo's eyes were as deep as the starry sky, and although many years had passed, whenever he remembered that experience, his heart could not help but turn over the waves, and he took a deep breath, calmed his mind a little, and began to recount his extraordinary experience in a deep voiceβ
Khenpo's name is Li Dan, that day he rode a green ox, went west to the valley pass, rubbed shoulders with jackals, tigers and leopards every day, slept in the open air, and comprehended the true meaning of heaven and earth, so I didn't know how many days, I came to a canyon in the Kunlun Mountains, and walked along the canyon for a few days, I saw a basin, and there was a colorful light in the center of the basin that went straight to the sky.
Li Dan was delighted, expecting that he had found the legendary Yaochi Holy Land, and eagerly approached, only to find that the place where the colorful light occurred was a cave several zhang wide to the sky, the entrance of the cave was full of fog, the heat was steaming, and the bright light shot out from the cave, steaming out of color, and only then did he see the Yaochi Wonderland in the distance just now.
Li Dan was full of curiosity about the cave, so he found a few vines nearby, knotted them into long ropes, tied them to the stones next to them, and then slowly climbed down the cave along the vines......
"There is a hot spring under the cave, and the light comes from a square box in the spring, and when I pick up the box, the dazzling white light makes me unable to open my eyes......"
When Li Dan said this, he paused, and his deep eyes became misty.
"Honored teacher......" Siddhartha called softly.
"I took the box, looked around, found a passage, and walked along the passage...... Li Dan continued.
Qin Yingzhou looked at the khenpo and Siddhartha in front of him, and was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth, and then someone patted him on the shoulder.
Qin Yingzhou exclaimed, and when he looked back, he saw that it was Khenpo, and the scene in front of him had disappeared unconsciously, and when he looked again, he and Khenpo were standing in the clouds. Qin Yingzhou instinctively frightened, and after a moment remembered that this was in his consciousness, he calmed down.
Li Dan...... Are you Lao Tzu? Qin Yingzhou asked in a trembling voice.
"Yes, Lao Tzu, Lao Dan, Taishang Laojun, Daozu...... The world has called me more than I can count. The old man stroked his long beard and chuckled, "But none of the statues they made for me are my true colors." β
"It's no wonder that there were no cameras in the first place." Qin Yingzhou also laughed, and Lao Dan's laughter made him feel much more relaxed, "Khenpo, no, Dao Ancestor, what happened later, what did you find in the cave later?" β
"Don't worry."
Li Dan waved in front of Qin Yingzhou's eyes, and the heavens and the earth changed again-
Li Dan and Siddhartha were descending the vines to the bottom of the cave, and Li Dan held the square box with a dazzling white light in his hand.
"Hey, isn't it just a spotlight!" Qin Yingzhou looked at the illusion in front of him, chuckled, and then was stunned, "More than two thousand years ago, where did the spotlight come from?" Weird, weird! β
In the vision, Li Dan and Siddhartha walked into the passage at the bottom of the cave, walked for a long time, and saw an open cave.
The stalagmites, stone pillars, and stalactites in the cave are dense, and the spotlights shine away, and the lights are brilliant; Looking at a flat stone slab in the middle, two transparent people more than 3 meters long were lying there, motionless. Li Dan and Siddhartha walked over and stopped beside the transparent man.
"The bodies of these two people look like glass." Siddhartha looked surprised.
"It's Ruri." Li Dan squatted down and stroked the transparent man's arm, "You come and feel it." β
Siddhartha squatted down as he said and stroked the transparent man, and the surprise on his face turned to joy.
"Venerable Master, is this what you often tell me about the glazed realm? Hey, when will I be able to cultivate to such a realm! β
"The body is like glass, and it will not melt for thousands of years...... This is the unremitting pursuit of every cultivator and truth-seeker! Li Dan said, "That piece of brocade silk was found here, and it was in this person's hand at that time." β
"Venerable Master, why don't you follow the map all the way?" Siddhartha was beaming with joy and his eyes were full of light.
Li Dan pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Well, let's see what secrets are hidden on Mount Everest." β