Chapter 7: The Soul Returns

Do people really have souls when they die?

Countless people are running around for this topic all their lives, whether rich or poor, from the baby who fell to the ground to the emperor who is powerful in the world, from ancient times to the present, countless people are committed to accumulating goodness and enjoying infinite wealth after death.

From ancient times to the present, many religions have put forward the theory of the soul, believing that people have an afterlife, and that the soul is separated from the body just to change a destination, and when a person dies, the soul goes out of the body and gives up a qiē nostalgia and returns to reincarnation.

The soul may return to the place where the soul was born to continue its journey.

But does this claim hold water?

In ancient times, there were many cultivators, and immortal cultivators were all pursuing soul out-of-body, flying into the void, and casting immortality.

To put it more carefully, the earliest proposed cultivation in China began with Nuwa's creation of man, and primitive people developed a sense of awe for the various strange phenomena of heaven and earth, began to worship, and turned to believe in totems.

After the Yellow Emperor pacified Chiyou, he cast the Xuanyuan Sword, and then created Zào farming to give the ancients hope for survival at that time, and the Xuanyuan Sword has also become an artifact that has been passed down for a long time in the mouths of countless Lisao poets on behalf of Chinese civilization. With the Yellow Emperor as the initiator of civilization enshrined in the epic.

During the Xia Yu period, Yu ruled the water to worship the god of the river, and the success of Yu to control the water also made Yu a man of high mana, until today there are people who have long passed on the measuring ruler used by Yu to control the water, and the stone on which Yu sat has become the "Yu Wang Stone" in Linxia in Gansu Province today.

During the Shang Dynasty, the gods deduced countless powerful figures, ranking among the immortals, and the earliest to show the difference between humans and gods to later generations.

In the Great Qin period, the first emperor believed in the Taoist alchemy theory in order to live forever, and later, in order to pursue the afterlife, the rulers of the Western Qin Dynasty worshiped the pagoda and pursued spiritual sustenance.

During the Ming Dynasty, Western religions slowly began to be associated with the legends of gods and ghosts in Middle-earth, and began a topic that fascinated countless believers.

Various religions systematically say that after death, the soul is simply free from this layer of stinky skin that has lost its durability and returns to reincarnation and starts a new journey again.

China's native Taoist interpretation that "heaven and earth are infinite, and people die sometimes"

"When the time comes, the time will be right, and when the time is right, the master will be good."

There is life and there must be death, and no one can get rid of this law

"The life of a person is also the gathering of qi.

Gathering is life, and scattering is death. Therefore all things are one, and what is beautiful is magical, and what is evil is rotten, and rotten is magical."

It was written:

"Life is also the beginning of life, and death is also the beginning of life". Life is the beginning of life, it is also the beginning of death, death is the end of life is also the beginning of life, and life and death are always in the process of mutual transformation.

Indian Buddhism had the concept of reincarnation before the emergence of Middle-earth Buddhism, while Shakyamuni combined the concept of nirvana and reincarnation. That is to say, the state of consciousness of the dying person is regarded as a bridge to the next life, and the object of the dying person's mind is the passport to the next life, so that the correspondence between Middle-earth and the West about the next life (heaven) and (hell) is formed.

Buddhism does not project primitive fear onto God, as Christianity or other religions do, and then put on the cloak of omnipotence.

Nirvana, the highest state of Buddhism, is the practice of self-meditation, self-refinement and personal experience, from which epiphany and fear are thoroughly washed away. Nirvana is not an external command, but an inner enlightenment. It does not need to be compared by God to man, it is a natural and inevitable leap of the self from the old self to the new self.

Because everyone can become a Buddha.

It's a bit far, but does the soul really exist?

Where do the souls go?