Chapter 5: The Named and the Unnamed
When Mu Feng entered the gate, he found that inside the gate was another world: a very quiet valley. The valley is surrounded by low rocky cliffs and weeds. The world seemed to suddenly appear in the void, and as soon as Mu Feng stepped through the gate, he appeared in a meadow, which was the most common grass in the wild.
Not far away is a small bamboo forest surrounded by three bamboo houses, the house and the grass where Mu Feng stands between a lotus pond, there is a wooden corridor to communicate, the bamboo forest and the bamboo house behind the stone cliff, the stone cliff is not high, there is a stream flowing down the stone cliff, like a water curtain, and then around the bamboo forest overflowing the lotus pond out of the valley.
Mu Feng stood quietly in the valley, as if communicating with some beings in the valley. These beings are like old friends he hasn't seen in a long time, like the green grass under his feet, a breeze blowing on a lotus pond, or a lotus flower that is gradually blooming, or a frog in a pond.
Before, he had never felt their presence so carefully, the green grass under his feet came from the tender touch, every moment is constantly growing, as if there is endless vitality to be released, the breeze from the lotus pond "calling friends" along the way, its faint floral fragrance will tell you what friends it has just visited. In the faint fragrance of flowers, you can also feel the greetings brought by the breeze brought by the owner of the flowers······
Mu Feng quietly felt the harmony of this heaven and earth, and felt that he was about to integrate into them, wither and grow with them.
At this moment, a voice came: "Do you know where this is?"
Mu Feng was awakened and opened his eyes, and as he opened his eyes, everything in the small valley melted quickly from the outside to the inside like ice and snow meeting the scorching sun, and the bamboo houses, the breeze, the lotus pond, and the green grass under his feet quickly disappeared.
After everything was gone, Mu Feng found that he seemed to be above the clouds, the clouds were very thick, and he couldn't see the scenery on the ground, and the sky in the distance was dim as if there were gray clouds obscuring his vision. Suddenly, in the sky above Mu Feng's head, a golden light shot out of nowhere, and this golden light appeared suddenly, as if it came from a very far away through the void, only to appear from the void in front of Mu Feng.
Then, a human figure appeared in the golden light, because of the backlight, so it was not very clear, and I dimly saw a person of the same height and shape as Mu Feng. It seems that the words that have just come out are those spoken by the people in the golden light.
Mu Feng frowned slightly as if he didn't like it, and then said, "This is the land of nothing, who are you?"
Wu He replied: This is indeed the land of nothing, are you asking me what my name is?" Mu Feng was silent.
Wu He waited for a while and said: This is the land of nothing, so I will call it 'Wu Nothing'. Mu Feng was still silent.
Seeing that Mu Feng still didn't speak, he said again: "Do you know why you're here?"
Mu Feng's expression changed slightly: "I came here to find something, but it was very boring." ”
"You don't know what you're looking for, do you?" asked him again.
Mu Feng looked at nothing, wanting to hear what he would say.
Seeing that Mu Feng still didn't answer, he said, "I'll tell you a story, a story of mine." Then he didn't care whether Mu Feng wanted to hear it or not, and began to speak.
"I was born in the maki, and I have lived here ever since, and there seems to be no difference between being born and not being born, I don't know what I am, what time and space are, but as if I have an empty body. Mu Feng thought to himself: It turns out that you are in a vegetative state. "Uh, yes, like a vegetative person. "Nothing to say.
Mu Feng was shocked in his heart, he just finished speaking to Wu He in his heart, and Wu He Wu continued to say what Mu Feng thought in his heart, as if he heard Mu Feng's inner voice. Mu Feng immediately restrained his mind and stopped thinking. Wu He smiled at Mu Feng, and then continued: "Gradually, I became conscious, and I was very confused at the beginning, I was very confused about my limbs and body, and I didn't know what the body was.
Then, I started to be confused about my surroundings, and after I left here, I saw a lot of things, I saw a lot of phenomena, but I was very confused about anything that my consciousness received, that is, I didn't know anything. ”
Mu Feng suddenly interrupted him and asked, "Then do you know what confusion is, why don't you confuse why you are confused?"
He was suddenly stunned when he heard Mu Feng's question, and then said: "I didn't think of it before you asked this question, but after you asked, I understood why I was confused." ”
Mu Feng suddenly found himself asking a very stupid question, and the premise of his question was that he was confused, but he didn't wonder why he was confused. At this point, Mu Feng stopped talking, and no longer asked, just quietly listened to nothing.
He continued: "You know the chicken-and-egg and egg-and-egg problem, right? Actually, it's not complicated. Mu Feng couldn't help but slander when he heard this: Nonsense! It's not a chicken laying eggs, or an egg is a chicken. Can it be complicated?
He ignored Mu Feng's slander, and continued: "The question is when the chicken becomes a chicken, then the eggs it lays are called eggs, or when the eggs become eggs, then the animals it hatches are called chickens." If a chicken lays a duck egg, or a duck egg hatches a chicken, then the chicken is not a chicken, and the egg is not an egg.
Mu Feng was stunned by him, and as soon as he was about to say a bunch of nonsense, he was held back by Mu Fengshengsheng, who was too good: Tao is Tao, very Tao, famous, very famous. Everything in the world has a name, and it is a common name, such as a chair, as long as a chair is mentioned, many people know that the chair is used to make it, but not everything that can sit is a chair, a smooth stone can be sitting, the ground can be sitting, but you can't say that the stone, the ground is called a chair.
Once the name is decided, it has a certain meaning, and the ancients took the name and word not to give life, to give, and to give the person is not qualified, which shows how important the name is. In today's society, names are also very important, scientific and technological research, industry exchanges, those professional terms have their own specific meanings, if they are not constant, then communication is impossible. Mu Feng thought of this, and then thought about it, there was nothing to say, it was a debate between the famous and the nameless, the chicken was nameless, so the egg was not the egg. Chickens are famous, and chickens are rightly called when they lay eggs. When Mu Feng thought of this, he stopped talking.
Then he continued, "How did the confusion come about? Like a chicken laying an egg, an egg laying a chicken." All confusion is because there is no definition, everything is in the namelessness. Although there is no name, all existence does not come to naught because of namelessness, such as time, and I realized that time is because of the order of my confusion about different things.
Because of the existence of succession, I am confused about succession, and then I realize the existence of time, and space is because I am confused by things that I have not taken into account in the distance, and then I am confused about space. Although I was confused, I was never lost, so I looked at the flowers, saw the movement, the yin and yang, saw the changes, and then saw the connection between all things in the world.
Everything is still in the nameless, but there is no difference to me between the famous and the nameless. Then all this changed a long, long time ago, and in terms of the largest concept of time you know, it was probably one yuan ago (with Yuan Ji Shi is the largest unit of time in the opening chapter of Journey to the West, Mu Feng has seen it before. I sensed a sudden change in the Nameless Void, and an aurora was born in the Void.
I quickly rushed over, and when I looked closely, I saw that the beam of light was not strong, but it had strong spiritual fluctuations, almost substantial, and the pillar of light seemed to fluctuate up and down from the outside, as if something inside was stirring the pillar of light. I was very curious and felt very funny, so I stretched out my finger to poke the pillar of light, and when I first touched it, it seemed to have a smooth and tender film of light. And then, do you know what's going on?"
Mu Feng was very speechless, this person was really strange, but he met someone else, Mu Feng deliberately sarcastic: "Aren't you dizzy?" How do you know?" Mu Feng was speechless again, speechless and naturally silent.
Seeing that Mu Feng no longer answered, he said to himself: "That's right, I asked you if you knew what happened at that time, I naturally fainted, and I didn't know before I asked you." Wu He then said: "When I woke up, I found that there were more things in my mind, so I was no longer confused, I knew everything, I knew the sun, moon and stars, rivers, lakes and seas, flowers and trees, ······ Every previous delusion was fully answered, and then I danced with joy, and at that time, I was really happy. ”
There is no look of nostalgia. Then he said, "But then, I was very lost, I was no longer confused, I felt bored. Then I looked at the pillar of light again, and reached out to touch it, but this time I didn't touch anything, and my arm passed through the light, and I passed through the pillar of light, and I tried many times. Then I got disappointed and stopped trying.
Returning to the place where I used to live, I looked at the surrounding flowers and trees, felt the sun, the moon and the sky, and observed the rivers and rivers. Later, I wanted to verify whether I had gotten something in the pillar of light correctly, so I flew up to nine days, passed through many barriers, and found that the sun was just a small fiery red bead, and the bead was constantly exuding heat to the surroundings, and the moon was also a small blue bead that emitted a cold water, I took the bead in my hand and played with it for a while, feeling very boring, and then I flew back to the ground.
I turned into a grass, stayed in the grass, looked at the grass around me taller, all pointed straight to the sky, although when the wind and rain came, it would not be able to bear the bends, but after the rain and the sky was clear, they would still point straight to the sky, I was curious, why they were so straight to the sky, so I grew taller than them, I found that there was nothing above them, it was still the sky, but it was fun to bow down, and it was very fulfilling. ”
Mu Feng was very confused when he heard it, he didn't know what he had found, and a puzzled expression appeared on his face. Seeing Mu Feng's puzzlement, he continued: "I found that all the grass is shorter than me, haha··· ,”
Mu Feng felt that he had been deceived, deceived by an idiot. There is no way to ignore Mu Feng's angry eyes. He kept saying that he had changed into a fish, and then went back with the school of fish to breed baby fish in their birthplace. He's changed anything. It was fun to confirm, but after that, it was boring.
As less and less can change in the end, he knows that one day he will have nothing to change and he will have to be himself again.
"Later, I went back to where I used to live, and I always felt that something was missing, and I didn't know what was missing, so I wondered what was missing, and this time I was confused for a long time, and then I fell asleep, and in the dream I understood what was missing, and in this world I was the only one in this world, and there was no one else, so I dreamed that the grass was a man, and I dreamed that the little fish became a man, and even those two little beads had children. I found it interesting.
So I went on to dream, and in the dream, people, monsters, and spirits were playing together in a chaotic way, and many of them fell asleep in the process of playing, and they never woke up until their bodies melted into the earth. Later, human beings fell asleep the least, and gradually other races only played by themselves in a specific area, and humans also had their own domains, and then, people played by themselves, but other races always wanted to go to the human race to play, and gradually I woke up in a dream that I felt bored, and when I woke up, I found that the real world was the same as the world in the dream.
Then, I went to the human world to play, and human beings are amazing, they have invented a lot of things, and they use everything in the world to serve themselves. They are very good at playing on their own, and I can't play with them.
Then I went back to the land of nothing, and there were many people who came here, but they didn't notice me, and I didn't pay attention to them, until just now I found out that there was a small valley in the land of nothing, so I couldn't help but come out, and when I saw the small valley, I understood, you are not from here, and you can create things in the void as soon as you appear, which is really amazing. ”
It turned out that the valley was Mu Feng's mind before entering the golden light gate, Mu Feng thought about what kind of place he would go to when he entered the gate, he thought of such a valley, and then he appeared in the valley. It's just that he suddenly sensed that there was something abnormal in the void, so he condensed the valley into a hair, and then he saw that he had come here with a golden light.
Mu Feng asked curiously: "Why do you know what I think in my heart?" He He replied: Everything in the world is between the famous and the nameless, as long as your mind touches me, I will know. Only then did Mu Feng understand that he had the ability to see through cause and effect, and was in a state of duality. The so-called realm of duality is the realm of existence and non-existence (the realm of cultivation will be introduced later), and all things cannot escape the transformation of existence and non-existence.
For example, the sunset and the moon are born, the clouds are visible and the moon is hidden, and so on. Mu Feng didn't understand why Wuhe would come to him, it seemed that his level of realm should not involve too much cause and effect, you must know that the Bodhisattva fears the cause, and all sentient beings fear the effect. Although Wu Wu Wu is not a bodhisattva, his cognition of all things in heaven and earth has reached the extreme, and he naturally knows that cause and effect should not be implicated in such people. But he still took the initiative to come to him.
Mu Feng asked again: "Why did you come to me?" He He said: ", I am very curious, I feel as if I have seen you somewhere, it is better to go to the aurora with me, maybe you will find what you are looking for." ”
Mu Feng thought that it would be okay to take a look, so he agreed to nothing, and didn't care if Mu Feng could keep up, so he turned into golden light, and it disappeared in a flash, Mu Feng smiled slightly, and then his body was blurred, as if he was blown away by a gust of wind, and went to the void where the light was located under the leadership of Wuhe.