Yes.

In the face of "obsession" and "enlightenment", Ao Qing's final choice was neither to give up the dragon clan and himself, nor to give up enlightenment and detachment.

He did only one thing.

That is, quietly observe.

From the perspective of a bystander, looking down on the red dust from the sky. In the red dust, the heart is outside the Three Realms!

Rather, it is obsessed with whether to give up, whether to choose enlightenment.

"Divine powers are inferior to karma", but sometimes, karma is not necessarily all bad karma.

"The water of the great river cannot flow backwards", but it can go with the river, but it may not be, it must be imprisoned.

Unconsciously, with the help of the memories of the two lives, Ao Qing realized this truth under the Bodhi tree.

He accepted himself in his previous life, his current self, and his future self.

His heart is transcendent. But today's behavior, what you did as a "dragon", is still what you should do.

Even if everything in front of you may disappear after a long time, it will cease to exist. But between heaven and earth, there will definitely be proof of its existence!

That's what Taoism is: go with the flow.

Go with the flow, it's not about doing nothing, it's not about going with the flow, it's not about giving up on your goals.

To go with the flow is to give up "attachment". It's like the Buddha Shakyamuni, even though he knew that the Shakyamuni clan would eventually be destroyed, he still persuaded King Liuli to retreat three times.

In the face of red dust and karma, Ao Qing's choice is not persistence, nor is it giving up. Instead, put yourself in the right position and go along with nature.

In the spring, it's time to sow seeds. In the fall, it's time for the harvest. When the time comes for the dragon clan, it is time for Ao Qing to revitalize the dragon clan, but not in a persistent way.

As for whether the dragon clan will decline or prosper after that, whether he wants to inherit the throne of the dragon king and lead the dragon clan to rise. When the time comes, the answer will be clear.

This is the Tao of nature!

There is a saying in the Tao Te Ching: The saint comes after his body and precedes his body, and he exists outside his body.

Instead of looking to the future, we embrace the past and start the present. If that karma is going to come, let him come, and if that karma should go, it will go.

And after realizing this truth.

The "Bodhi Tree" also accepted Ao Qing.

Ao Qing's "heart" suddenly realized the wisdom of Bodhi.

With the leap of inspiration, the empty nature of the Bodhi tree is fully accepted.

Rays of light shrouded the lonely peak in an instant, and then spread to the entire Cave Heaven Blessed Land!

Under the lonely peak, the woodcutter looked at the peak, and his eyes couldn't help but show a bit of solemnity.

On the cloud mountain, Patriarch Bodhi did not expect that the result would be like this.

This dragon prince once again surprised his own expectations!

The so-called "Bodhi" represents wisdom and enlightenment.

There have been many sacred, in various ways, to reach such a state. And now, there is no doubt that Ao Qing has also attained this "enlightenment" and attained Bodhi.

However, he is a Bodhi attained with a "heart". And the karma of his body did not dissipate. So much so that now when the light of bodhi is pervading, the karma that represents "distraction" and the bodhichitta that represents "emptiness" subtly coexist in one place. Opposite, yet unified!

So did this prince get the "Dao Heart" or failed to get the "Dao Heart"?

The patriarch stroked his beard gently.

After a moment, he smiled slightly.

"I almost got in the picture."

The Bodhi tree, although it was planted by the Bodhi Patriarch. However, it is not under the control of Patriarch Bodhi.

Just as "Bodhi" represents wisdom, the location of the Bodhi tree is also the realm of wisdom and enlightenment.

Everyone has their own wisdom, and everyone has their own solutions when facing difficulties.

Shakyamuni once became enlightened under the Bodhi tree and realized the three bodhisattvas of Anuttara, which are immortal and imperishable.

But in the past, when the Taoist ancestors went with the flow and the purple qi came from the east, the wisdom obtained by the enlightened Buddhas because of the Taoist ancestors was not all the same as that of Sakyamuni.

Today, the same is true for Ao Qing.

The wisdom he has obtained, perhaps, is the wisdom of no one before or since!

But that's nothing. You just need to go with the flow.

In contrast, his own "disciples" were able to realize bodhichitta, whether it was the "Dao mind" in his own cognition or not, and the patriarch was very pleased.

It seems that there will be successors to his "Tao"! Even, this person may one day, there is a possibility of "blue out of blue"!

"Looks like it's time to meet this son."

With a smile on his face, the Bodhi Patriarch stroked the dust, and in an instant, the surrounding scene changed, and the Sanxing Cave loomed between the clouds and smoke.

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Ao Qing seems to have been at ease and happy like never before.

His consciousness wandered between the Bodhi trees, sometimes awake, sometimes drowsy. But his heart is like a mirror, sticking to his true self and not wavering.

As the light of the "Bodhi Tree" changed, suddenly, a Bodhi seed fell between the branches, and then, turned into a streamer of light, which shot into Ao Qing's mind.

Suddenly, Ao Qing realized that he seemed to have gained some kind of power.

This is the power of "Bodhi", the power that you get through "enlightenment" under the Bodhi tree.

After gaining this power, Ao Qing seemed to feel that his spirit was no longer bound by his body. He seems to be able to break away from his body and roam freely between heaven and earth, watching countless scenes of Range Rover.

Even, with the help of this power, Ao Qing left this land and saw the so-called "Fangcun Mountain" in a posture of looking down on the scenery above the sea.

But this state did not last long. Because Ao Qing felt some kind of calling.

It wasn't quite exact, but he had a hunch in his heart. Is that...... The call of the Bodhi Patriarch!

The patriarch is calling himself!

Ao Qing's heart moved, and in an instant, his spirit had returned to his body.

He turned his eyes to look around, but found that he was no longer on the lone peak.

Around it was a mountain. What I saw in front of me was a cave.

But see: the smoke is scattered, and the sun and the moon shake the light. Thousands of old cypresses, ten thousand knots to repair the fence.

Strange flowers outside the door, the grass by the bridge is fragrant.

Suddenly turn around, see a stone tablet set up at the head of the cliff, about three zhang more than high, eight feet wide, there is a line of ten big characters, it is "Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, oblique moon three-star hole".

Ao Qing's heart suddenly burst with joy.

“…… It's finally here!! ”

He knew that seeing this stone monument basically meant that he had passed the "test".

Sure enough, there was no action yet. The door of the cave opened slowly. I saw a person walking out of it, but it was not a Taoist boy, but a woodcutter who had seen it before.

When the woodcutter saw Ao Qing, a smile appeared in his eyes: "Congratulations to Xiaoyou, or ...... Congratulations! The patriarch has been waiting in the cave for a long time, junior brother, please go to Yaotai! ”