Dongfang Chen took the twisted Rubik's cube and watched it left and right, and at the same time sighed in amazement: "Wow, this is the legendary staff of Moses." Touching all the things that the prophet once had with my own hands, will I also have a trace of the sage's breath?

Solomon, would you like to touch it too?"

Solomon looked at Dongfang Chen with a complicated expression, and finally shook his head and said, "No." This thing has killed too many Atlanteans, and even ordinary people have suffered a lot, so I'd better touch it less. ”

Dongfang Chen said again: "Brother Gilga, you have been sullen since just now, let's kill the Kraken, avenge your brother, and recover the artifact, this is a good thing, why are you still unhappy?"

Gilgamesh's face turned pale, and he said indifferently: "It's okay, just be happy, Your Excellency the regiment commander." ”

Dongfang Chen wondered: "It seems that you have an opinion about me, have I done something wrong?"

Gilgamesh's lips moved, and he whispered, "Don't dare, Commander of the East." Noah's servant had an explanation to his subordinates before leaving, and this mission is all up to you. ”

Dongfang Chen smiled: "I don't dare to be in charge, I still need a lot of support from everyone."

Gilgamesh, don't think about it, how can things be as good as they should be? Perfection can be pursued, but don't always want to hold it in your hands.

Okay, let's go to India next, and I have a lot of admiration for this grandmaster who once debated with the Buddha!

Lord Hero King, don't go to your Enqi this time, it's not easy for it to grow so big, it's a dangerous place, there are still many uncertainties about artifacts and their guardians, don't fall into danger because of our lack of preparation.

Let's continue to play kun farming!"

Gilgamesh was stunned when he heard this, and wondered, "What kind of kun raising game?"

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Three days later, in mid-October 2060, Dongfang Chen and his entourage arrived in Tamil Nadu, India, known as the country of temples. The trio's plane landed at 3 a.m. local time at the international airport in Coimbatore, the state's second-largest city.

It is said that the temple of Damm, where Dammers retreated, is in the mountains behind Coimbatore.

Dongfang Chen didn't want to disturb the people, so the three of them were incorporated into a team called field investigation prepared by RC early, which was actually a convoy of logistical support, and they didn't want to delay for a minute, and they set off before dawn.

In the car, Dongfang Chen repeatedly asked the four consultants provided by RC, and asked them about the local legends and stories that have been passed down for thousands of years, but unfortunately Buddhism is in decline here, Hinduism is extremely prosperous, and those temples and legends are basically about this.

Then Dongfang Chen's mind changed and he began to inquire about the legend of King Garuda. This time, there is a clear clue that there is only one temple dedicated to King Garuda here: Balam.

You know, the origins of Buddhism were a little later than Brahmanism. At that time, the common ancestor of the two religions: Vedic religion was transformed into Brahmanism, which originated from Buddhism in present-day Nepal along with Vedic religion, and only after absorbing a large number of Vedic classical and emerging teachings did it have its own personality.

Hundreds of years later, Brahmanism changed again and became today's Hinduism, while Buddhism was not well received by the locals because the two religions had many similarities but huge essential differences.

The main reason is the choice between the two religions of the local ruling class. Quite simply, although Buddhism advocates the retribution of the present and the cultivation of the afterlife, it also advocates the equality of all beings, so it is clear to a fool which religion is more conducive to the rulers enslaving the people than the iron prison system of Hinduism, which divides people into high and low castes.

However, although the situation of the two religions in India is different, many similarities and unrelated fundamental things have been preserved, such as Garuda. This thing is one of the eight tribes in Hinduism, and it is considered a small and small shrine. In Buddhism, however, Garuda became a fierce beast: the golden-winged bird. Garuda has both the theory of the Buddha's mount and the saying that it is one of the incarnations of Guanyin, in short, it is very informal.

The main reason for the discrepancy in the image of Garuda in Buddhism is not the confusion of the believers, but the fact that Buddhism is a very special religion that is different from other major religions in the world. According to Dongfang Chen, Buddhism should be regarded as a religion of the flow of ideas, which advocates the cultivation of all "tangible and qualitative" things into "intangible" through thinking and understanding. For example, there is no self, there is no appearance, there is no appearance, color is emptiness, emptiness is color, and other state concepts.

Buddhism focuses on people's state of mind, not material things. On the other hand, if you look at Christianity, Taoism, Taoism and other religions, they all emphasize the concepts of "self", how I want to be, how I want to be, how I should be, and so on. Driven by this purpose, these religions inevitably give rise to the concept of God!

What is God? It is the fear and worship of the unknown by all beings, the ultimate explanation of all things, and the goal we want to achieve in our hearts.

Because of this, the world's mainstream religions or various minor religions are all god-respecting religions without exception. Everyone is monotheistic or polytheistic, with the exception of Buddhism. There is no god in Buddhism, only Buddha.

What is a Buddha? A Buddha is an enlightened being. Enlightenment (self-realization), enlightenment (purification of sentient beings), enlightenment (perfection of cause and effect), and preparation of all three are for Buddhahood. Ordinary people have none of the three things: those who practice ascetic self-realization are novices or bhikshus, those who are slightly enlightened are arhats, and those who practice to the level of self-awareness are bodhisattvas.

Therefore, Garuda can be a god in Hinduism, but not in Buddhism, at best, it can only be counted as an arhat, and even a bodhisattva is far from qualified. And because Buddhism advocates selflessness and abandons all fixed images, the image of Garuda is not fixed. Just as a bodhisattva can incarnate into tens of millions, Garuda can be a fierce Dapeng bird, a Buddha mount, a divine beast that feels uncomfortable without eating a dragon for a day, a small novice in an ordinary temple, or even a village man or a beggar, in short, what you want it to be, it is.

Although Dongfang Chen is not very proficient in religion, as a basic skill in the past, he will not be vague about what he should know. After summarizing the recent events in detail, he finally understood why Damels had lost to Gautama in the dialectics back then.

Because the gap between Yarumism and Buddhism is too great. Like today's Christianity, Taoism, and Taoism, Yarumism is a religion with a very strong utilitarian and purposeful nature, emphasizing the meaning of "self". This can be seen from the fact that Yarum is also a god-respecting religion.

This is not to say that god-respecting religions are inferior to godless religions, but the two have different starting points for explaining the laws of all things in the universe, one is "self" and the other is "selfless", one tries to use all means to seek a model to see the essence of all things, while the other emphasizes that there is no need to set rules and regulations for oneself, I am the cause and effect of all things, and there is also me in the cause and effect of all things.

The reverence for gods and godlessness actually reflects the differences in the self-interpretation and practice of the two types of religions, with the god-respecting type focusing more on material trade-offs, while the godless type focuses more on the spiritual realm. Obviously, although Yarum put forward the core idea that everything is God, how to do it is a bottleneck of confusion, because this is far from what primitive humans on earth can do.

At this time, Gautama appeared in front of Dammers with his new ideas, and after Damels failed to break the shackles, he finally saw another door quietly open for him, and at the same time there was an irreparable rift in his own Yarum teachings. In order to pursue his ideals, Damels resolutely converted to Buddhism and followed the Buddha to preach the Tao.

Through a small religious symbol: the coexistence of Garuda in Hinduism and Buddhism, Dongfang Chen traces the origin history of the two religions in reverse, and combined with the origin of Yarumism mentioned by Noah, he deduces the cause and effect of the dialectic that took place in the temple of Damm in this mountain forest in the fifth century BC.

Perhaps, Dammels's mushy brain still needs a dialectic......