Chapter Thirty-Nine: Knowing the Destiny and Acting in the Wish
"Wish?"
On the Mountain of the Two Realms, Lu Zheng repeated, suspiciously, the word spoken by the master of the man in white. When he knelt down and asked the master why the combination of vertical image, forming, and meeting nature was not enough to say his fate, the master of the man in white did not go around the bend and ask rhetorically as before, but threw the word "wish" bluntly!
"That's right, it's a wish!" Seeing that Lu Zheng seemed to be suspicious, the master of the man in white emphasized it in an accentuated tone.
Lu Zhengdao: "The disciple is stupid and doesn't understand Master's words, what does this word of vow mean?"
The man in white didn't answer, but smiled and asked, "Lu Zheng, let me ask you, what are you living for between heaven and earth?"
Lu Zheng was stunned for a moment, and said: "Why do you live? This disciple hasn't thought about it well, there is a desire to live when he is alive, and since he is alive, he just needs to live well." ”
"What a fool who eats and waits for death!" the man in white scolded with a smile and asked again, "But there is desire in life, and this sentence is not bad." Besides being alive, don't you have anything you want to do, and you don't have any desires to be born?"
Lu Zheng thought for a while, and slowly replied: "When I was in the human world before, my only wish and that Brother Jiu every day was to have a full stomach, as long as I could have something to eat and not starve, I would be satisfied, and I really didn't have any other wishes." But then I was taken to the Sun Moon House by the great monk, and I ate well every day, and I was no longer thinking about filling my stomach. At that time, if there was any wish, it was to ...... Want to ......"
The man in white saw that Lu Zheng was a little shy, so he said for him: "I just want to be with that little girl in my heart forever!" Oh, you are really forgetful, didn't you still have a wish at that time, to find that snake demon to avenge Tang Xiaojiu. Isn't it? Why did you forget about it?"
Lu Zheng's face turned red and said, "I haven't forgotten that I want to take revenge, but now that I know that Brother Jiu is not dead, of course there is no revenge, so I didn't say it." ”
The man in white knew that Lu was thin-skinned and no longer teased him. He continued: "What about then? What do you still want?"
Lu Zhengdao: "Actually, it is indeed a great wish to avenge Brother Jiu, it should be the desire of the master to live." Later, when I came to Tianzong, and even after all kinds of encounters, I worked hard to practice supernatural spells, and a large part of the reason was to be able to make myself stronger, so that I could find the snake demon and help Brother Jiu take revenge. In the process of practicing, I gradually gained all kinds of feelings about my cultivation, but they were all caused by external catastrophes. If you want to talk about what you want, but you really don't have it, Master should know this very well. ”
The man in white suddenly sighed deeply, a little funny, and a little helpless: "You are telling the truth about this, a character like you is rare in the world." There is desire but no wanting, affection but not indulgence. There is action but not chaos, and there is life but no gain. You're a stupid boy, no wonder your path of cultivation is so different from others!"
Lu Zhengdao: "What's the matter, is my cultivation any different from others?"
"What's the difference?" Seeing that Lu Zheng was so confused, the man in white smiled bitterly, "It's just too different! Which disciple in the cultivation world is as cultivated as you, and his heart is directly through the realm, and his mana is not cultivated, but he has his own divine dragon mana in the jade pendant for you to refine." Lu Zheng. Your practice is very different from ordinary practitioners, and I have mentioned this to you before. Not only are you different from cultivators, but even ordinary mortals in the human world, you are very different from them?"
Lu Zhengdao: "It's not the same as mortals in the world?" Master, what does this mean?"
The man in white said: "No request." That's the difference for you!"
Lu Zheng was puzzled: "What is Wuqiu?"
The man in white: "To understand what is unwanted, you must first know that the world has what to ask for......"
All things are hiking, man is one of all things, so what is the hiking of man? The hiking of man first expresses his desire, because he has a body, so he has the desire to live. Whether it is a practitioner or a mortal in the world, although their desires are different, they all have the same desires. People in the world seek food and clothing, and cultivators seek knowledge and body, which can be summed up by the desire to live.
Therefore, the desire of life follows the desire of the heart, that is, the people of the world are born of desire and appear in the midst of the struggle. The blessings and longevity that are sought, the wealth and fame that are fought for, and so on, are so varied. Even the heart changes with events, and the desire of the heart is abstracted into delusional thoughts, such as clouds covering the sun, which is the illusion of the world's consciousness, so the original spirit is not revealed.
If you have a body, you have a desire, can this desire be broken? Don't say that you are mortals, even if you are a cultivator in the realm of knowing your fate, you can only survive according to your desires, and you can't try to survive against your desires. The so-called obedience is not indulgence, but only desire to protect oneself. Only by knowing the realm of destiny can we know how all things come about, so that we can truly verify the way of change of all things, the body can be one with all things, and the mana of the gods is constant to become a cave sky, and the way of biochemistry and biochemistry can be obtained without relying on all things, and it is for all things to be self-sufficient.
After all things have been tribulated and they have entered the knowledge of their fate, all things are the body, the way of change is known, the desire of the body is broken, and the state of perfection of the body is not deficient, and the practitioner takes this as the state of no contention. What is indisputable? Indisputable is not indisputable, there is a way of biochemistry in reality, and it is self-sufficient, so there is no contention. At this point, cultivators can be regarded as truly different from mortals, full without food, without fake foreign objects, and in the eyes of mortals in the world, they are immortals.
What about after this point of indisputability? Doesn't the practitioner ask for nothing? Of course not. Indisputability is a kind of spiritual achievement, the expression of the perfection of the realm. But just because the body has nothing to ask for does not mean that the mind has nothing to ask for. However, after knowing one's fate, what the heart desires is not for the selfishness of one's body, so it cannot be called a request, but a wish!
The truth in this is mysterious, but in terms of human affairs, it can also be said to be very simple. For example, if a person accumulates wealth, and the wealth has been used to the fullest, and there is no need to rush for food and clothing, what he does at this time will of course be different from what he did before. What you do is far from the desire of the body and more of the yearning of the heart.
The path of cultivation begins with the body and mind, and does not depart from the body and mind. Knowing the state of the body, knowing the state of mind and even knowing the state of mind and body, in the state of knowing, the body and mind are not inseparable, but they are free to stay together and not deceive each other. And the realm of knowing fate and knowing heaven after knowing the realm is actually just the realm of knowing as the boundary, and it can be said that what is sought is another layer of knowing the body and knowing the state of mind. However, at this time, the body has turned into life, and the heart is named after the sky, in which the mystery is very different from the previous body and mind.
But no matter what level of realm you are in, the body and mind are the same, and the two are often intertwined. For example, in the realm of knowing the body, in fact, the verification is the manifestation of the original god, which is precisely the origin of the true heart. And in the state of knowing the mind, it is precisely the demon of the external senses that is subdued, the evil that is done inside, so that the divine consciousness can be used as usual in the body, generating mana, and all kinds of supernatural powers arise from the use of the body.
When the practice enters the realm of knowing, it is the self that is born of the union of body and mind and walks in all things, and what is emphasized is the extreme change of body and mind, that is, the way of harmony with things. At this time, the practitioner sees all things, and when he does what he does, he must keep his mind and keep his thoughts, and he must not go against the self he seeks. In this, we can seek the way of self-manifestation of all things, and only by intersecting with things but not being obsessed with things, and being upright and unbiased in body and mind can we achieve the change of all bodies.
This is why knowing the realm is a key point in the practice, because only by going through this step of change can we find the origin of the body from all things, and also see a trace of the deeds from all things, and then in the process of turning the body and mind into heaven and earth, we can first enter the realm of knowing the destiny. In fact, the process of cultivation is the process of transforming the body and mind into heaven and earth, and knowing the fate is the key to the transformation.
The verification from the mortal to the state of knowing the body is the verification of the mind, and the verification from the state of knowing the body to the state of knowing the state of mind is the verification of the body. After knowing the realm, this qiē is reversed, the quest from the realm of knowing the realm to the realm of knowing destiny is the verification of the body, and the quest from the realm of knowing fate to the realm of knowing the heavens is the verification of the mind, so the body has the proof first, and the second is the body.
Those who are witnessed, change in their body and deeds, and know changes in their hearts. Then, in the quest from the realm of knowing fate to the realm of knowing the heavens, it is the unfolding of the heart, and at this time to talk about wishes. Because the body is sufficient, there is no need to talk about desire. So what is a wish? Ordinary people also have wishes, but in fact they are no different from practitioners. The so-called wisher is what heaven and earth should be in my heart. Unlike desire, which is what is already in existence, desire involves the creation of the unmanifest form.
In fact, it is very simple, that is, a person is more willing to see himself, or what is the matter between heaven and earth, rather than the reality of heaven and earth in front of him, and more inclined to a possibility and change that has not happened. This is the wish, also known as the vision. In other words, it is the practitioner's own quest for a qiē that unfolds between heaven and earth.
What does this mean? It's complicated to say it's complicated, and it's extremely simple to say it's simple. To put it simply, the so-called wish is what the practitioner himself is willing to do and what he or she wants to become. This can be almost anything, for example, some practitioners wish to pass on what they have sought and proven in their lifelong practice, which is almost the most common. There are also cultivators who want to pursue the ultimate of various cultivation realms, such as Elder Ren Daozhi of the Daomen Earth Sect, whose wish is to pursue the ultimate in refining weapons. It is also possible that many practitioners have reached this point, and their vows are so simple that they can only be pure and undisturbed......
Of course, these are all personal wishes of the practitioner, also known as small wishes. However, there are also some practitioners who make some great wishes, not just to limit themselves to what they are willing to become and do, but to face the occurrence of a thing between heaven and earth. It is difficult to explain those great wishes, so the man in white simply gave Lu Zheng an example, that is, the great wish of the Buddha.
At the beginning, the Buddha's wish in his practice was to liberate all sentient beings. The reason why this wish is great is because it has come out of the body. The small one is within himself, and the big one is with others. Of course, the fulfillment of this wish can only be truly achieved when the Buddha truly achieves the realm of all fate, and only then can there be a definite trip.
The Buddha himself has already attained liberation, so why should he liberate other sentient beings? In Buddhism, this is called the compassion of uncausedness, the compassion of the same body, and there is this compassion, so there is this great wish, and because of this great wish, the state that the Buddha has attained is not comparable to that of ordinary practitioners. (To be continued......)