Chapter 887: Two Looks Back at the World
This year, Ye Li has walked through village after village, and his footprints are all over the mountain villages. He was fifty-five years old.
Time hurried by his fingers, and in a blink of an eye, Ye Ya was already sixty-five years old, and he had traveled all over the land of China in the past ten years.
He has been to the Great Khing'an Mountains to enjoy the beauty of the autumn leaves......
He has been to the mysterious Dunhuang Ancient Cave and watched the solemnity of the Buddha statues in it......
He also went to Mount Everest, climbed to the top step by step, to appreciate the extraordinary ...... of climbers
He has left his mark in various cities......
At the last stop in the land of China, he went to the Himalayas, and he saw the magic and wonder of nature......
After ten years of travel, Ye Li has seen the truth, goodness and beauty of human nature. At the same time, I also saw the ugliness of human nature.
His next stop was to go to the birthplace of Buddhism
India.
India, located in South Asia, is the largest country in the South Asian subcontinent. The Territory is bordered by Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and China to the north-east, Myanmar to the east, Sri Lanka to the south-east and Pakistan to the north-west.
It is bordered by the Bay of Bengal in the east and the Arabian Sea in the west, with a coastline of 5,560 kilometers. It is also a unified multi-ethnic country composed of more than 100 ethnic groups, and the main ethnic group is Hindustani, accounting for about 46.3% of the total population of the country.
Ancient India was one of the four great civilizations, with the birth of the Indus River civilization (mainly located in present-day Pakistan) in 2500 BC.
Around 1500 BC, the Aryans of Central Asia entered the subcontinent, conquered the local ancient Indians, established a number of small slave states, and established a caste system, and Vedic religion began to develop into Brahmanism.
In the 4th century BC, the Mauryan Empire unified India and began to promote Buddhism, which spread outward.
About 188 BC, after the fall of the Mauryan Empire, Hinduism and Hinduism arose.
In 1600, the British invaded the Mughal Empire and established the East India Company, which gradually became a British colony after 1757. In June 1947, Britain promulgated the Mountbatten Plan to implement the partition of India and Pakistan. On 15 August of the same year, the Dominion of India was established.
On January 26, 1950, the Republic was proclaimed and became a member of the Commonwealth.
India is the world's second most populous country and one of the BRICS countries, with a diversified economy that ranges from agriculture and handicrafts to textiles and services.
Two-thirds of India's population still depends directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods, and its service sector has grown rapidly in recent years, making it the world's most important exporter of software, finance and other service industries.
It is the world's largest exporter of generic drugs and the world's largest remittance. India is a developing country with an extremely uneven distribution of social wealth, and the problem of the caste system is more acute.
"The Buddha said that all living beings are suffering, but they don't know that although all living beings are suffering, there is sweetness in suffering, and if everyone becomes a monk, then the world will also perish. ”
In the fifth year of his arrival in India, Ye Li began to give lectures in a refugee ghetto in India, when he was 70 years old and his temples were already pale, and he had been lecturing here for five years.
His voice was no longer sonorous, but he still hadn't forgotten to find Ah Xuan's whereabouts. Since there is no news in China, I went abroad to look for it, but there is still no news. Ah Xuan has been missing for fifty-two years.
"Sir, you have been traveling the world for so long, do you see what kind of country this India is?
Women don't have any place here, their lives are cheap here.
Do you know what life is, and what is life and death?
Since you are a wise man, please let us know. ”
There are not many people who listen to the lectures here, only twenty or thirty people, half of them are locals, and only a few people are from the land of China.
The question was asked by a homeless man who had been here twenty years earlier, but had never returned home, for his lover and daughter had died in this foreign land.
"What is life?"
The corners of Ye Ya's mouth murmured, he recalled all the things in the first half of his life, and the ten years when he learned the way of life from his teacher, at that time they discussed the most what life was. What is life and death.
"That's right, don't you know what life is?"
An old smoking gun sat next to the homeless man, he was not very old, but it seemed that he had already seen life and death, or he was no longer in love.
"We have a group of people now, it's like a team. If the number of people increases to 1,000 or even 10,000, it is not a team, but a village, or even a township.
Life will be born.
Life will pass away.
Life will live in groups.
Life will be angry.
Life also makes mistakes, and it is only when life is about to die that we understand what life and death are. ”
Ye Ya's old voice echoed all around, making everyone understand the meaning of life.
"I should go, there is no one I am looking for here, Ah Xuan, I can feel that you are still alive, but where are you?"
Ye Li took out a rag doll from his arms that had lost color extremely badly, which was the only thing Ah Xuan left him. He looked at the sea treasure in his hand, and a line of tears fell.
"It's better to read 10,000 books than to travel 10,000 miles......
All living beings are drunk and I am awake, and all living beings are awake and I am drunk alone......
Nightfeather, you're looking for me, aren't you? you owe me an explanation......"
Ye Li left India, and he once again embarked on a journey to find Ah Xuan, his back fading away under the attention of everyone in the refugee slum.
Only his voice full of emotion and helplessness spread into the distance.
He had been in India for five years, and he had seen more of the passing of life, and now he was dressed in tatters, like an ascetic. There is no way to see that he is the great wise man who has been famous all over the world in the past twenty years, Mr. Ye.
"Looking back at the world, who is the master of the ups and downs of the world. ”
Ye Li dragged his old body out of India's borders, he was powerless to change the country's system, he could only look back at those Indian women who had no human rights at all, and sighed helplessly.
"Why can't this ring be taken off? It's like the mantra on Sun Wukong's head.
Nightfeather, why did you do that to me back then?
Why did you break up me and Meixian?
I only hope that you can give me a perfect answer before I take my last breath......"
Over the years, Ye Li has come to understand that Ye Yu is not an ordinary person, perhaps just like what his teacher Kong Jian said in the letter left by his teacher.
Night Feather is a legendary cultivator, so it makes sense of what happened back then.
Kong Jian not only left a letter, but also left a bag, although there is only a short line in the bag, but it is enough to explain the cause and effect of everything.
"It's time to go home......"