After the macaque quieted down, Rulai spoke again: "Walking indefinitely, falling indefinitely, this colorless and desireless infernal hell is the only place in this world where these six-eared macaques can be trapped." ”

If the Buddhist cultivators heard these words at this time, they would be extremely surprised, and they would have been able to walk and fall into the world! This place turned out to be the legendary eighteen layers of hell! Most of the Buddhas in the world believe that "colorless and desireless" is a description of the state of cultivation, and it is through unremitting practice that one can only have the opportunity to reach the state of Western Bliss.

But who would have thought that colorlessness and desirelessness are not only not the so-called spirits in the Pure Land of Bliss, but the true title of the eighteen layers of hell.

It is important to know that Buddhism names the three thousand worlds as the "Six Desires Realm". And the "Realm of Desire" is wrapped in it, and the top layer is "Nothing*", which is the so-called "Three Realms".

As the name suggests, "Desire" is a collection of desires, owned by all living beings, especially human beings, and "*" is a collection of all hues and all substances.

And "colorless and desireless" is naturally the supreme realm beyond it, into the "Wu*" evil ghosts, will experience the real "Infernal Hell", even if it flies out of 108,000 miles, it is only a step, even if it stays in it for 100 million years, it is only a moment, you can't survive, you can't die, you can't do it, you can't go indefinitely, there is no time, it is called "Infernal Hell".

There is nothing in this infernal hell, not only time and space, and these basic concepts are also extracted. Everything that rests on it is beginning to crumble gradually, and there will never be an end to it.

The Infernal Way, far away from the sea, in the underworld, there is no time, no space, no life and death, but this kind of eternal life is more terrifying than death, if you don't die, you don't need to work hard to survive; If there is no enemy, why fight, some things in daily life are too natural, but people ignore their value, like air, but when all this is gone, all this has no meaning, then why live, why die?

And here, it is also the only place in the world that can trap the Monkey King who has eyes all over the world and ears in all directions, otherwise, as long as there is a little thing to appear, this Monkey King can deduce the cause and effect of all things in the world, and know the things of heaven and earth.

At this time, the king of Jizo returned: "That is, the matter is understood, two, please!" With that, Jizo waved his hands, and the scene in front of him disappeared.

"Hey, that's it, that's the case, don't bother the junior brother. ”

Lao Dao also retired. With that, a gust of wind blew, and the two disappeared.

After the two of them left, they heard the probe and asked, "Bodhisattva, will the macaque really be trapped in the Infernal Hell forever? Is there really no way out of this Infernal Hell?"

Hearing this, the Jizo King Bodhisattva only replied with two words: "Wukong." ”

Di Ting shuddered and seemed to recall very bad memories: "Alas, you are good at everything, you just like to play dumb riddles! Of course, I know that as long as you cultivate the 'Four Meditations and Eight Determinations' and break through the true meaning of 'emptiness is color', you will be able to communicate freely in nothing*." But Wukong is not easy to say, even you have barely reached this realm. ”

The so-called four meditations and eight determinations. That is, "meditation", which is the most important way of practice in Buddhism.

The simultaneous development of four or eight is exactly the opposite of nothingness, in the realm of nothingness for Zen, and in the absence of * for certainty. It can be divided into "four meditations" and "four emptiness".

The four meditations lie in the "enlightenment", and the four emptiness lies in the "enlightenment".

There is a cloud in the Heart Sutra: "Color is not different from emptiness." Emptiness is not different color, color is emptiness, emptiness is color. "What is described is the fourfold realm, and it goes deep layer by layer, up to the highest realm.

Knowing that "the phase is born from the heart", can break through all kinds of hues, and reach the realm of "color is emptiness", then you will no longer be tortured by all kinds of torture, and get great freedom, this is "enlightenment", many great monks and great virtues with great wisdom and perseverance, as long as they continue to practice, can reach this realm.

However, the true meaning of "Wukong" is another realm, the so-called clear mind, this realm has nothing to do with cultivation, if you can't understand it, even if you survive the catastrophe, achieve the Arhat status, or even cultivate the body of a true Buddha, you may not be able to realize that "emptiness is color".

The difficulty of "Wukong" can be seen.

Hearing this, the Jizo King Bodhisattva smiled, and after a while, he slowly spoke: "Actually, what if you can't leave?

For it, the earth and the earth are similar, just like wandering in a foreign land. His heart doesn't know where it is, and naturally he can't go anywhere. Just like the frog at the bottom of the well, when he climbed out of the well along the smooth wall of the well, and finally saw the infinite and vast starry sky, who knew that what it longed for was only a small round sky, and what it was chasing was only the only star.

It is as shallow as it is, and it was mistaken for the shape of the whole sky, and it was mistaken for that there was only one star. Now he no longer knows the shape of the sky, and in the endless sea of stars, he can no longer find the star that belongs to him. I suddenly understood that the only thing that belonged to it was the old well.

This macaque can't get out of this nothing*, just as I can't get out of this hell, he's waiting for a star, let him get out of the star of this world, maybe when the light of the blood-colored demon star shines into this nothing*, this macaque will follow the starlight out of nothing*. At that time, perhaps I will find a reason to leave this hellish realm as well. ”

"Okay, okay, Bodhisattva, the more I talk about it, the more confused I become, everything doesn't exist in this nothing, where does the starlight come from? ”

"Oh, you don't know, it's for great wisdom, it's not that you don't understand, it's just that you don't want to understand, you are born with the wisdom of awareness, your ears can know the world's affairs, how can you not understand with your understanding. You don't want to understand, just like back then, the macaque and the stone monkey, you clearly understand but would rather not understand. Sutra Cloud: ...."

"Oh! Bodhisattva should hurry up and take a look at the seal, and I'll go back to sleep. Rather than trying to understand the nonsense of the Buddhist scriptures, I still sleep at your feet all the time. Hearing that the king of Jizo was about to put the extremely boring Buddhist scripture again, Di Ting quickly yawned, closed his eyes, and said lazily.

"Hehe, you, yes, if you can, I would like you to sleep at my feet all the time, this macaque has been sleeping in this nothing*, I also sit in this netherworld to enlighten, but the world is peaceful. ”

"Stay here for a while, and I'll come when I go. With that, a whole Sanskrit sound sounded, and Jizo disappeared.

After Jizo disappeared, Di Ting, who was lying prone on the ground, narrowed his eyes and looked at the place where the realm of the six-eared macaque had just appeared, and a low murmur sounded faintly: "Unconscious, I would rather not hear all things in this world, and not be able to understand the heavens and all the laws." You cover your eyes and seal the ears of the six gods, I'm afraid it's the same, in fact, I sometimes envy you for not being able to hear anything in it, it's just a little too boring inside, and now I can't stand it anymore when the Bodhisattva keeps chanting two sentences a day. Then Diting's eyes closed again, and a faint snoring sounded in the cave.