Chapter 11: On Immortals
Hearing Old Man Zuo's words, I was a little confused with the blind boss. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
In the eye of that mountain?
"You may not understand what I mean, and of course, you won't be able to understand what I mean anytime soon." Old man Zuo lit a cigarette again, and a smile appeared on his vicissitudes of life: "Experience some more things, live for a few more decades, and you will almost understand." ā
"Human life is like a mustard?" The blind boss frowned and said, "The most eye-catching thing on the Immortal Mountain should be the peak that has become an immortal........ Do you know anything inside? ā
Hearing this, the old man Zuo was silent for a moment and shrugged his shoulders.
"Who knows." Old man Zuo smiled with a complicated expression: "Whether it is an immortal or a sin, everything that exists in this world actually has its own value of existence, and mortals who vainly try to ascend to the sky in one step will naturally pay a lot of price." ā
"That mountain peak should be called Shechen to be reborn and ascend to the Immortal Dao, right?" I asked the old man Zuo, and analyzed it tentatively: "Isn't the meaning of the word "Shechen" particularly heavy?" ā
Old man Zuo took a puff of cigarette, and he didn't rush to answer my question, he looked at me intently for a while, and finally said, "If you are asked to give up everything you have, and then you can become an immortal, are you willing?" ā
"Everything?" I frowned: "Is there anything specific?" ā
"Family........ Close relatives........ Friend........ Lover........" Old man Zuo said to me thoughtfully, without the slightest joke, and his tone was very serious: "You will lose these things." ā
"Will they die?" I was stunned.
"No, but in other ways, it's dead." Old man Zuo patted me on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "If you lose your humanity, you can understand the Great Dao, so that you can be reborn and lose your feelings, and you can reach the so-called realm of immortals, which is the legendary Taishang forgetfulness ........"
"Forget your feelings and go to the public, not moved by feelings, not disturbed by feelings, this is a fairy."
When he said this, the old man Zuo laughed.
"The eight hardships of life pass away with the immortals."
"Birth, old age, sickness, death."
"Resentment will be, love parting, can't ask for it, five extracts,"
"When these eight sufferings are gone, mortals can be reborn and become immortals!"
I don't know what's wrong with me, when I heard Old Man Zuo's words, I only felt an inexplicable fear in my heart.
That's right.
That fear comes from the legendary "immortals".
If you look at it according to the old man Zuo, the people who become "immortals" on the Ageless Mountain are all people who are too forgetful.
Whether other immortals have love or not, I can't say for sure, but as far as these "immortals" in Bulao Mountain are concerned, they should have no love words at all.
But I remember, at a very young age, my grandfather said it to me.
The Buddha's compassion is love, and the compassion of the patriarch is also love.
Whether it is a god or a Buddha, who dares to say that he has no love?
is too forgetful, it should be said that the immortals and saints are affectionate, but the love is too heavy and compassionate, so it is placed in a position like forgetting.
Being affectionate but not disturbed, being affectionate but not being trapped, this is called being too forgetful!
"A person without humanity is naturally a ruthless person, let this kind of ruthless person become an immortal........ "The blind boss sneered twice without warning, and his tone was full of disdain: "Is it really an immortal?" ā
"Yes!" Old man Zuo couldn't stop laughing when he heard the blind boss's words, just like a teacher who heard a student say his most satisfactory answer, his eyes were full of relief: "Even if that mountain can really make people become immortals, if they do, they are definitely not immortals, just a bunch of monsters." ā
"Hey, Master, I have a question for you." I looked at him very curiously, and asked tentatively: "You have been to the Immortal Mountain, then you must have been to the mountain that can make people become immortals, right?" ā
"I've been." Old man Zuo nodded, and didn't hide what we meant: "I also studied there and stayed for a lot of time." ā
"Then you didn't try?" I asked again.
"I didn't dare to try it because I was afraid I would regret it." Old man Zuo grinned: "I'd rather die like this myself than be a monster." ā
"Then do you know that someone has become an immortal there?" I asked.
Hearing my question, Old Man Zuo thought for a while and asked me, "Is hearsay counted?" ā
"Sort of a fart." I said helplessly: "At least you have to see that person with your own eyes to do it, or if the ancient records are more complete, then you can count them!" ā
"Then there won't be." The old man on the left shrugged.
"That's right! There may be something greasy in this! I patted my thigh, as if I had discovered a new world, and asked the old man Zuo with great interest: "Everyone has heard that people can become immortals there, but the people who have really become immortals there have never appeared, so to speak?" ā
The old man Zuo hummed, nodded, didn't speak, and continued to listen.
"Then do you think there is something misleading about this?" I asked cautiously.
"Where?" The old man on the left asked me.
"Whether it's Buddhism, Taoism, or witchcraft, the most important thing is spiritual practice." I slowly analyzed and expressed my conjecture: "All religions have the same goal, the spirit is to lead people to goodness and respect nature, and most of them have a similar concept of being too forgetful........"
When I said this, the faces of the blind boss and the old man Zuo were a little ugly, and they seemed to have guessed what I was going to say.
"It can also be said that the spirit is far more important than the body." I whispered, "Compared to transforming the spirit and making people have an epiphany on the spot, then I think it will be less difficult to transform the physical body, just like my physical body array........ You know what I mean, right? ā
"You go on." The old man Zuo was smoking a cigarette and looked at me with complicated eyes.
"Since that mountain is so awesome, and it can constantly change its position, it is enough to show that its power is far beyond people's imagination........." I said: "What ordinary people can't do, it can do, it's like making people have an epiphany on the ground, directly have the state of Taishang forgetfulness, and enter the so-called immortal realm........"
"But what if that's all it does?"
"It only changes people's spiritual realm, but does not change people's physical bodies in the slightest, will this happen?"
As I spoke, I also gave a few examples to the old man Zuo.
"For example, some people abandon evil and follow good, let us see it, and they will say that he seems to have been reborn, just like a changed person, which shows that the change of spirit can also be related to the words rebirth, not just the real rebirth."
"For another example, those saints in ancient times had the spiritual realm of immortals, and the ideological realm was beyond the realm of mortals, but at that time, did they really have the power of immortals? No! But in later generations, they also became gods and Buddhas in religion! ā
"Shakyamuni of Buddhism and Taishang Laojun of Taoism, which one did not change from mortals? It is said that enlightenment becomes an immortal, that is also enlightenment, not that it means that there will be any changes in people's physical bodies. ā
"It's not so much that they were reborn as immortals and Buddhas, but that after they became enlightened, their souls really changed."
"Throughout the ages, Mr. who can make his body like an immortal has not appeared, just like Fang Shiliang, he is also close to what you call an immortal, but his soul has not changed! The ideological realm, the spiritual level, is still in the realm of mortals! ā
"Having said so much, I just want to say that since the Immortal Mountain is so awesome, then we have to dare to think about it......." I took a sip of the teacup and continued: "If that mountain is not to make people reborn, but to make people's souls and spiritual thoughts, all ascend to the sky in one step, until the level of Sakyamuni or Lao Tzu Li Er........."
"You're a little ....... It's a bit unrealistic........" Old Man Zuo frowned and said, "The change of spirit........ It's far more difficult than the physical body........ The reason why it is difficult to say enlightenment........ And because of that........"
"You still don't understand what I mean, I want to say, it's not terrible to become an immortal like this." I spread my hands: "He only has his mind and soul changed, just like the Taoist ancestor Li Er, he does not have the ability to move mountains and seas, but his thoughts are too much beyond the scope of mortals." ā
"You mean, the state of the person who becomes an immortal there is likely to be the soul of an immortal and the body of a mortal?" The old man looked at me stunned.
"That's right! That's it! I laughed and said, "Saint saint, I'm talking about people who are transcendent in thought, the original religion focused on the cultivation of spirit and thought, and the physical body has fallen into inferiority, but in our era, the physical body remains the same, and there is only thought, which is a fucking fart!" ā