Chapter Twenty-Nine: Cause and Effect

This is a very unusual state of mind, if it was a different Lu Zheng in the past, he would never do this. In the past, Lu Zheng's heart to avenge Tang Xiaojiu was so firm, this firmness seemed to be a sword, shining in his heart, making him understand what to do, but now he actually didn't even feel important to avenge Tang Xiaojiu. Not only that, but even the heart he cared about the most became dispensable in his heart. Lu Zheng's whole person has quietly undergone a earth-shaking change, and the reunion and reunion with his mother made him ignore everything else.

Lu Zheng was trapped! It was the Illusory Heart Array that trapped him. Of course, Lu Zheng himself doesn't know the Dao, he is immersed in the joy of reuniting with his mother, but there is one person who knows the Dao, and that is the man in white. In front of Lu Zheng, he maintained a very indifferent attitude at all times, but at this time, his divine sense trembled in the jade pendant, and he looked very uneasy.

Although the man in white was in the jade pendant, he could clearly know what was going on in the Dao, Lu Zheng did not go to Sangtian Village to see his mother, but fell asleep on the Sansheng Stone. But he was powerless to wake him up, since Lu Zheng fell into the ditch, and the woman with the hat appeared, he found that there was a strange mana around him, isolating him from Lu Zheng, making him unable to talk to Lu Zheng anymore. He saw everything that happened to Lu Zheng since then, but he couldn't remind Lu Zheng.

What is the Illusory Heart Array? Is everything Lu Zheng saw fake? Is the story of Zi Yan he saw made up to deceive him? On the contrary, all of this is true. The wonder of the three-life stone. It is to be able to let the toucher see everything that happens in his three lives, everything in the past, everything in the present, and everything in the future. The so-called three lives mean that the past can be as far as the past life, the present life can be this life, and the future can be the next life.

But as for whether to see the past, the present, or the future, it is determined by the mind of the person who touches the Three Birth Stones, and the connection is very subtle and not controlled by man. Some people touch the Sansheng stone. I often see the scene of the previous life. Others may see what they will be like in the next life. But very few people can see the present, because if this is the case, it means that the person's heart is as clear as a mirror, and there is no concern. Always at ease. Not stained. That's a very clever realm.

But Huang Weiyang once said that Lu Zheng was a person who had no previous life, so after Lu Zheng touched the Sansheng Stone, he couldn't see his previous life. The past he could see was the beginning of this life, that is, what he had been since he was born. Just after he touched the Sansheng Stone, everything he saw was exactly what he had seen since he entered his mother's womb. Although he was still in Zi Yan's belly when many things happened, the origin of everything had already started at that time.

Just seeing his past, in this way, can help Lu Zheng find his mother and understand his origin, so how did he get trapped?

In fact, when Lu Zheng saw that kind of scene before, he didn't really activate the Phantom Heart Array, but only touched the Sansheng Stone and saw his past. But when he saw his mother, after the thought of wanting to reunite with his mother was born in his heart, the phantom array was immediately touched, and all kinds of thoughts in his heart were immediately perceived by the purple smoke of the spirit of the Sansheng Stone, which refracted his thoughts into the Sansheng Stone, making him a part of the Sansheng Phantom, so that he entered Sangtian Village and came to his mother Zi Yan's side, and then the Sansheng Stone refracted the Sansheng Phantom that continued to occur into Lu Zheng's heart on the Sansheng Stone. In this way, Lu Zheng thought that he had gone to Sangtian Village. In fact, it was just a phantom refracted by the Sansheng Stone with his mind.

So is this situation really illusory?

You must know that the Sansheng Stone itself does not cause any illusions, but only refracts everything in the world to create the image of Sansheng. If you just watch the images of these three lives, keep your mind pure, and the spiritual platform is clear, then naturally there is no problem. However, once the idea generates an appeal and vision, the Sansheng Stone will immediately capture this thought into the Sansheng Phantom and begin to derive and weave all kinds of possibilities. But in fact, it is not the Sansheng Stone that is weaving, but just reflects the various reactions in Lu Zheng's heart after seeing his mother, and how her mother will react when she sees Lu Zheng, and then fuse the two reactions into Lu Zheng's heart.

If it's an illusion, it's a fantasy! Because Lu Zheng didn't see his mother. But if it's true, it's true! Because even after Lu Zheng meets his mother, everything will develop like this. In fact, what the Sansheng Stone shows can be said to be a kind of future realm. If Lu Zheng had seen his mother at this time, this would have happened.

In other words, all things and all living beings between heaven and earth cannot escape the insight of the three-life stone, and it is no one else who makes this original ordinary stone have this wonderful use, but the Buddha.

The so-called past, present, and future are actually the so-called cause and effect of the Buddha. When the Buddha practiced on this stone, he cultivated an earth-shattering supernatural power, that is, to see the eye of cause and effect. With this vision, the Buddha saw the wonder of cause and effect between heaven and earth, and saw that all living beings are in cause and effect, the cause of the past, the effect of the present, and the cause of the present is the cause of the future. Born from the cause of the cause, it will be destroyed by the fall of the cause, and between the origin and the fall of the cause is the way of the operation of heaven and earth, which is completely beyond the control of manpower. From this, the Buddha saw the truth of the cycle of cause and effect in the way of heaven and earth, and the reality of the cause and effect of all sentient beings, and also understood the reason why all sentient beings cannot be liberated and achieve immortality.

Because all living beings are born from causes, if they are liberated from all conditions, they will not even have a self, and how can we talk about immortality? Isn't this a paradox?

After the Buddha saw cause and effect, on the one hand, when he cultivated the great supernatural power of seeing the eye of cause and effect, he also unconsciously refined the boulder under his body, so that it had the wonderful use of this supernatural power. On the other hand, there was a deep confusion first. The path of liberation that I have pursued seems to have encountered one of the greatest confusions since the beginning of my practice, that is: If there is no self, how can I have eternal life?

For this reason, the Buddha sat on this big stone for six days and six nights, pondering the path of liberation, and finally at the end of the night of the sixth day, he suddenly became enlightened, realized the state of nirvana, attained true liberation, attained immortality, and created the Dharma to educate the world.

So why would Lu Zhengwei gradually forget about other things to do, and only care about reuniting with his mother? The reason is very simple, because the thought he had when he entered the phantom of the three lives was very simple, only the incomparable longing for his mother, and the extreme desire to reunite with his mother, and there was no other thought in it. In addition, he has already known his heart, his mind is clear and distinct, not like mortals, his mind is confused and confused, and all kinds of thoughts are in one thought. In addition, he has no previous life, so this situation happened. It is not so much that it was Lu Zheng who saw Zi Yan, but that it was just the body of one of his thoughts.

Therefore, in a sense, the illusionary heart array of Buddhism is actually not set up by people in Buddhism, nor can it be arranged by any Buddhist person. It is an experience that everyone who touches the Sansheng Stone will inevitably have, or it is a variety of experiences that will happen in everyone's mind, whether they are cultivators or not, but in the face of this experience, people who cultivate differently and have different moods either do not go deep into it, or do not take it seriously, or do not have a clear insight into their own minds, all kinds of differences, naturally have very different changes, so it will also cause changes in the Sansheng Stone.

In other words, the Sansheng Stone has never been just a refraction of the Sansheng Phantom, and has never wanted to deliberately trap someone, in the final analysis, it is just that the person who touches the Sansheng Stone has trapped himself. If you have what you want, you will have obstacles, and if you have obstacles, you will naturally be trapped by the Sansheng Stone. It's like falling to the ground and refusing to get up.

There are people in this world who are trapped by the past, some people who are trapped by the present, and some people who are trapped by the future. People who are trapped in the past, perhaps because of past mistakes, perhaps because of past regrets, or because of love and hate in the previous life, their minds are nailed by these attachments, although they have already seen all the causes and effects come and go, but they have never been able to let go, so their mood is indulged in it and cannot come out.

And the person who is trapped now, but he does not know that the present is untrue, the heaven and the earth are secretly moving, the sun and the moon are changing, the present is now, the present is not there, and he is bent on settling down on the present moment and the present is not available, and this body seeks a moment of peace and ends up disturbing everything at all times.

As for those who are trapped by the future, the mind sees the vision, the eyes are on the hope, ignoring everything in the present, and the heart is intoxicated. From this point of view, it is Lu Zheng's situation at this time, and what he wants in his heart is to be able to meet and reunite with his parents one day in the future. And it is precisely because of this kind of mind that the change of Sanshengshi is caused, and all his visions are refracted into his heart, so that he is immersed in the future and cannot extricate himself.

This kind of immersion is naturally extremely harmful, in such a real and illusory situation, there is no external force that can help him and make him wake up, that is to say, if Lu Zheng himself does not wake up, he may never wake up again. After a long time, if Lu Zheng can't find out, I'm afraid that he will never be able to come out, until his physical body dies naturally, and I'm afraid that his mind is still in it.

This is also the reason why the man in white is very anxious, because he knows nothing about the illusion of the three lives, in terms of Lu Zheng's cultivation, it is still too reluctant to break through such a big array, how should he break out of the formation......?