> This has become a philosophical topic, how similar to the famous philosophical three questions in the previous life, who am I, where I come from, and where am I going, extremely profound, but Chen Pan can still barely understand it, but he just feels that it always feels wrong

"Lord Buddha, you said that the causes of the previous life create the results of this life, and then then affect the next life, the implication is that whatever you do in this life is determined by the causes of the previous life, and this cannot be changed, which will lead to the next life being affected as well, that is, many things, whether you do it or not, will not change, what is the meaning of that life?" Chen Pan asked

Buddhism advocates that accumulating virtue in this life, regardless of grievances and suffering, and benefiting the next life, although it sounds very good, there is a negative thought in it, plus other Buddhist thoughts and precepts, although it is not as good as Taoist inaction, but it is already not almost there, which makes Chen Pan, who has experienced modern thoughts in his previous life, disagree

Amitabha Buddha shook his head: "If the cause of the previous life creates the fruit of this life, but it does not determine the effect of this life, the so-called fruit of this life actually refers to the beginning of this life, if you compare the donor to the previous life before meeting me, the present life to this life, and the future life to the next life, if you do not appear in the thunder sea of the immortal thunder, you will not meet me, and if I do not appear there, I will not meet you, plus the reasons and various influences of where you have been before, these can be regarded as causes"

"The result of these causes is that I brought you here, and this becomes the result of your present life, and then this cause will continue to affect you, but it cannot determine you, everything you do after that will become the cause of the future, you can choose to stay and become a member of my Mount Meru, or you can choose to leave, return to the world outside of the Buddha realm, and even many other choices will create a different future."

"Obviously, these different futures will not all be determined by the causes that preceded you, but it is still inevitable that the causes that affect the past lives will create the effects of this life, and will also affect the future effects, but the real cause of the future effects is how you act in this life."

Chen Pan rubbed his temples, cold sweat came out, Buddhism has many proverbs, sure enough, it is the same in both the past life and the present life, and Amitabha Buddha's words seem to have briefly explained the cause and effect of the entire past life, this life and the future, but he still didn't understand it too clearly

"What the Buddha said, the younger generation didn't understand it very well, but it also understood a little, but the younger generation still has a question, if it is really as the Buddha said, everything has a cause, then how did the first cause in the world appear?" Chen Pan asked, listening to the Buddha's words similar to a proverb, he couldn't help but have the idea of studying

Amitabha shook his head: "I don't know, if I can understand my way, I can prove it."

"Your Dao, the junior, take the liberty of asking, what kind of Dao are you cultivating, Buddha?" Chen Pan asked suspiciously, seeing that Amitabha Buddha had spatial dao patterns intertwined on his body before, maybe it was the way of space that didn't seem to be it now

Amitabha Buddha still shook his head: "Good, I don't know if it's good"

"Ah" Chen Pan was extremely surprised, a Mixed Yuan Realm powerhouse actually didn't know what his Dao was, how could it be embarrassing for those who had been stuck in the Saint Realm, or even the Quasi-Saint Realm?

"Buddha, you" Chen Pan felt that the other party seemed to be lying to himself, but Buddhism has always advocated not telling lies, is this life different? Or is there any taboo on the other party?

Amitabha Buddha smiled slightly: "The donor doesn't need to be surprised, dare to ask the donor, what is the Tao?"

"This" Chen Pan was suddenly asked, as a cultivator, his various exercises should be the Taoist lineage in his previous life, but now if he really wants to ask him what the Tao is, he really doesn't know

Chen Pan didn't know what the Tao was, but all his knowledge about cultivation was the Dao pattern that he learned from others, and it should be a manifestation of the Dao, and there were still a lot of things related to the Dao pattern, but no one had ever said what the Tao was

After thinking for a while and not coming to a conclusion, Chen Pan bowed very respectfully to Amitabha Buddha, and said seriously: "The younger generation is dull, I don't know what the Tao is, and I ask the Buddha to teach me."

Amitabha Buddha shook his head: "I don't dare to say it, because I don't know what the Tao is too mysterious, no one can tell what he is, the so-called understanding is just a personal exploration, but it is not necessarily right"

"It's okay, the younger generation doesn't want to learn the Buddha's way, it's just the first time I've heard about this kind of problem, I want to learn from it, and I ask the Buddha to teach me," Chen Pan hurriedly said

Amitabha nodded: "Such a very good and broad sense of the Tao is not something that the old man can understand, and the narrow sense of the way, in the eyes of the old man, can be regarded as the way."

Chen Pan nodded: "The Buddha's words are reasonable" There is a road in the world, the Tao and the road can be regarded as synonyms, and by Amitabha Buddha said so, Chen Pan also suddenly realized that this is indeed the case, every monk has a path suitable for his own practice, that may not be regarded as a road

Practicing different Tao patterns, it is equivalent to choosing different paths, and since then I have embarked on different paths, I don't know how Amitabha Buddha understands, Chen Pan listened carefully and listened to a mixed yuan realm to explain the understanding of the Tao, which is equivalent to a great opportunity

Amitabha Buddha went on to say, "There is a saying that when we start from the path of cultivation, we are standing at the same starting point and then going to the same end, and there are countless paths for us to choose from between these two points, and these paths are the paths."

"Some roads are sunny, some are deadly, some are smooth, some are tattered, and it's up to you which one to take," the Buddha said

Hearing this, Chen Pan was a little strange again: "Choose yourself? The path that the Buddha said should be the meaning of the Dao pattern."

Amitabha nodded: "Not exactly, but it's pretty much the same."

"But this most suitable Dao pattern was chosen by the Law Jade, not himself," Chen Pan said

Amitabha Buddha shook his head: "No, the choice of the law jade actually comes from your own personality, temperament, race, bloodline, hobbies and even pursuits, etc., they are all the reasons for determining the choice of the law jade, that is to say, although you do not choose directly, but everything you do in your daily life has already helped you choose indirectly."

I see, Chen Pan nodded, although he couldn't be completely sure if what the other party said was right, but basically it was true, take Yang Zhu and Meng Xuan as examples, Yang Zhu was impatient, and it was very suitable to cultivate the Dao of Fire pattern, but if he was allowed to cultivate the Dao of Ice Pattern, I am afraid it would be difficult to improve, and Meng Xuan was also unfinished)