Chapter 112: Heavenly Dao, Heavenly Court, True Person

Su Yuan was absent-minded and walked alone in the barren mountains and wild paths. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info If you say that after all the hard work to become an immortal, you will fall into hell, this is too unacceptable. In fact, he passively embarked on the path of cultivating immortals from the beginning, and he never really thought about the meaning of cultivating immortals.

I thought that after cultivating to become an immortal, everything would be fine and carefree, but I didn't expect that there would be so many trivial things. Why did you become a god? Who will answer this question?

Su Yuan walked and walked, and before he knew it, he had reached Mingdao Mountain. There was a person standing under the huge banyan tree, and when I looked at it again, wasn't this Shi Wei Ming's uncle? What to do here?

Shi Weiming was holding a bow and arrow to aim at a leaf that kept shaking in the wind, he was concentrating on aiming, the bow had been rounded but he didn't send an arrow for a long time, and then his arrow turned out to be without an arrow.

What does this mean? Su Yuan watched from the side for a long time, but still didn't understand.

After watching it for a long time, he couldn't help but ask, "Uncle Shi, are you practicing?" ”

Shi Weiming put away his bow and arrow and handed it to Su Yuan: "You will know if you try it!" ”

What's there to try? Su Yuan stretched his bow and arrows, swishing ...... With a bang, the leaves shot out of a large hole.

"Good archery!" Shi Weiming praised, "Have you ever learned archery before?" ”

"No! It's not that hard! ”

"Then you try again, could it be that you happened to do it?"

Su Yuan stretched out his bow and shot an arrow at a leaf next to him. Shoot several arrows in a row, and the arrows do not miss.

Shi Weiming suddenly asked, "If that leaf is you, can you shoot it?" ”

"It's me? I shot myself? Su Yuan was a little confused.

Su Yuan imagined the leaves as his own, and he raised his arrows to shoot them...... Aren't there two "I's"? If I shoot "me", which is the real me? It can be seen that there can be no two "mes", and the conclusion is that I cannot shoot "me".

If there are no two "I's", then how can I know myself? Everyone knows their own words and deeds, every bit of thought trajectory, is it that we are familiar with a "false self"? This goes back to the question at the beginning, there are two "I"s! If what we normally know is the false self, where is the real self?

Su Yuan threw down his bow and arrows, and suddenly realized that these are all illusions generated by thoughts, and they are originally "selfless"!

But where did the first thought about "me" come from? At the source of all things, is there a "true self"?

It's a strange proposition that keeps going around in circles, never stopping!

Shi Weiming pointed his finger, and two large mirrors appeared out of thin air, and he stood opposite each other, reflecting each other. A mirror appeared inside the mirror, and then slowly adjusted the angle, and a row of mirrors appeared in the mirror, countless mirrors.

"The mirror is full of virtual images, but it is exactly the same as the real mirror, because the mirror can simulate the real self, so it produces endless illusions." Shi Weiming said.

Su Yuan stood between the two mirrors, and suddenly countless Su Yuan appeared in the mirror.

Shi Weiming also said: "For you in the inner world of the mirror, it is very difficult to realize the 'selflessness', because the surroundings are illusory and there is no reference. This is like seeking the Word, the Word is the house, and it is not possible for a person to seek the shape of the whole house in the house. The first step as a cultivator is to recognize the truth of this 'selflessness', and that everything is relative, and that there is falsehood and truth! This illusion comes from your real person. ”

"Recognizing the existence of the 'true self' is the second step." Su Yuan said.

"That's right, cultivators are cultivating the truth through falsehood!"

Su Yuan made a smiling expression, and countless Su Yuan in the mirror were smiling: "Can the real me decide everything about the fake me?" “

"Yes, but the fake self can also confuse the real me!"

"Huh?!" Su Yuan felt that this was impossible.

Shi Weiming used his finger to touch the mirror, the mirror was slightly deformed, and Su Yuan found that he had become a big fat man; Then the mirror slowly deformed again, and Su Yuan saw that he had become a tall and thin man; The mirror continued to deform, and Su Yuan became a monster with thin eyes, flat mouth, and big nose!

Su Yuan knew in his heart that even if it was an illusion, it could indeed exert influence on the true self, otherwise wouldn't it be a waste to practice for eternity in this illusory life? So he said, "Everything the 'false self' does is to serve the 'true self', and this is called monasticism!" “

"Until the merit is consummated, and the true self is returned, everything is sufficient, and everything is omnipotent! This is the ultimate state of monasticism. “

Su Yuan's heart was bright, like pulling out the clouds and seeing the sun, suddenly brightened. Being a man is most afraid of having no goals and no dreams, because that would be equivalent to being a wasted person!

And now he understands that the purpose of being a human being and cultivating the Tao is to transcend all this illusion and return to the "true self"!

Su Yuan still didn't understand some things, and asked again: "What is the relationship between Heavenly Court and Heavenly Dao?" Please also teach the teacher! “

Shi Weiming sat on a big stone on the side of the road, and Su Yuan also sat next to him.

"It's complicated," Shi Weiming said, rubbing his beard.

At the beginning of the Heavenly Court, the immortals were divided into six classes: one was a god, two was a real person, three was an immortal, four was a Taoist, five was a saint, and six was a sage......

In ancient times, such as Pangu, Nuwa, Gonggong, Zhurong, Xingtian, etc., were the innate gods of nature, and of course, there were the supreme Sanqing Tianzun and other true gods.

Later, the meaning of God changed radically, and many people were enshrined in heaven or earth after death, and they were formed by the return of their souls to heaven, and did not take away their own bodies in the yang world, which is God in the narrow sense.

Becoming a god doesn't require any background, no cultivation, and no qualifications. As long as it is a person who is destined, or a person who is very good in the mortal world, or a person who does a lot of good deeds and accumulates virtues, or a person who is respected by the people in the world, it is possible that he will be crowned a god by the heavenly court after death.

At the time of the Buddha of the Buddha, the Jade Emperor was originally a woman, and she saw a ruined temple with a broken roof. Whenever it is windy and rainy, the Buddha statue will be wet. When she saw it, she felt very sad, so she set out to repair the temple.

But she didn't have much money, so she went to her relatives and friends, and everyone helped each other to do this good deed and rebuild the temple. She just found thirty-two people, and she herself was a total of thirty-three people.

The tower temple was built, and after the end of the life of these thirty-three people, all of them were born to heaven, and each person lived in one heaven, so thirty-three people had thirty-three heavens. And the largest of these thirty-three heavens is the Heavenly Lord of the Heavens, the Jade Emperor.

It was at this time that the Heavenly Court was established, and only with the Jade Emperor could the Heavenly Emperor rule the Heavenly Court, and all the gods and men respected the Jade Emperor.

After the list of gods was formulated, the heavenly court was composed of 365 gods to manage affairs. But later, many departments were gradually added, and many official positions were also added, because many outstanding people in the yang world were absorbed by the heavenly court to become officials in the sky after death.

Originally, the Heavenly Court was only composed of gods, and their magic power was not as good as the immortals and Buddhas, but the Dao Ancestor and the Buddha tried their best to assist, and a large number of elites in the fairy world were officials in the Heavenly Court, and there were also many elites in the Buddhist Sect who served in the Heavenly Court, forming a situation in which the gods and Buddhas were in charge of the Heavenly Court, and the Jade Emperor was a well-deserved leader of the Heavenly Court.

Nowadays, there is not much difference between gods and immortals, but there is a high and low level in cultivation.

All in all, the Heavenly Dao is permanent, and the Heavenly Court is the order-maker of a certain period in the Heavenly Dao. Therefore, many immortals, called scattered immortals, do not want to be led by the heavenly court, and are free and unrestrained. or live in seclusion in famous mountains and rivers, or change into ordinary mortals, help the needy, and persuade people to cross.

There is another group of people, like your master Yang Fu Zhenren, who have no intention of cultivating into immortals at all, and they think that there will be more fetters after becoming immortals.

According to the classification of ancient times, real people are higher than immortals, second only to true gods.

The real person is "not rebellious, not male, not a gentleman." If so, they will repent and not be satisfied. If so, climb high without trembling, enter the water without wetting, and enter the fire without heat. It is the knowledge that can be used to deserve the Tao, and the same is true of those who can do it. ”

"Not rebellious" is to go with the flow and not be greedy; "Not heroic" does not feel that he is great, all success is natural; "Warriors" do not make up their minds, do not act rashly. Such a real person is not at fault. "Repent and repent, when but not self-satisfied" do not regret the past, do not think about the future, real people do not have the past, present, future concept of time.

Later, the state of the mind has reached immeasurable and boundless, large and outward, small and inward, and has forgotten all the senses and sensations such as the body.

Fly through the fog, not hungry or thirsty, cold and heat do not invade, and the Tao is true, this is a real person!