Chapter 8

Here, Yin Xi got a message from his subordinates, went upstairs to look at it, and saw a millipede worm that was several feet long and was split in half from head to tail, paralyzed on the ground outside Hangu Pass, and quickly ordered someone to lift it up. He came in and took a closer look, only to feel a fishy smell, and then he knew that the monster was highly poisonous. Although Malu was a non-poisonous insect, General Malu ate too much dead human flesh in the deep valley, and his body was poisoned with corpses.

Yin Xi ordered people to carry the monster's body down and burn it, and said to the left and right: "I used to know that this thousand-legged monster made troubles. He used the monster wind to blow the passing merchants and fell down the valley for him to eat. It's just that this monster is very powerful, but it can't do it." , so I just didn’t know it, I didn’t think that this monster didn’t know good or bad, and offended the saint, so he was punished.”

"The two sages in this mansion are very virtuous and unconventional. They are my distinguished guests. You need to treat them carefully. If you dare to be negligent, I have the means to deal with them!"

Both left and right solemnly agreed.

Yin Xi was about to go back to visit Lao Tzu, but outside the official residence, he saw Wu Kong kneeling outside Chen Ang's house in a daze. He asked around and knew the origin of some things, but this is a matter of the saint's family, how can he manage it well? ? He just kept silent, greeted Lao Tzu outside the door, and got a promise before going in.

When the moral sage saw him coming, he said to him: "I am going westward now, and it is difficult to stay in the valley for a long time. I asked you to come in, but I want to say goodbye and leave. Can you promise?"

Yin Xi kowtowed and said, "How can I question the sage when he travels? Just follow along, the disciple will resign and go with the sage."

He also asked the sage what he wanted to go west, and Lao Tzu talked about how to transform Hu. Yin Xicai pleaded: "Why did the sage teach the Hu people and forget Yanhuang? After listening to the lecture for several months, the disciples knew that the sage had profound virtues and profound knowledge. Yanhuang has been taught by sages since ancient times. For example, Beichen, Only then can outstanding people come forth in large numbers, and civilization is present in the world. Now the sages have traveled westward but their knowledge has not been passed on, and the Tao has not been left behind. Yin dare not follow his orders. Please also leave a book to teach future generations!"

Lao Tzu pondered for a moment, then smiled and said: "This is nothing to do, why force others? No matter! No matter! I will give you five thousand words to pass on to the world, expressing moral meaning."

Yin Xi didn't dare to be negligent, so he called for someone to bring a knife and pen to the bamboo slips, and he sat down with the knife and pen to engrave the words of Lao Tzu. The green cow was led behind the house, and they all heard Lao Tzu's words, deeply in their ears, and they were intoxicated, not aware that the sky was clear, but they did not feel sleepy.

Chen Ang pushed the door out, saw Wukong was still kneeling outside, and said indifferently: "What are you still kneeling for? The world is free, the world is vast, let you go!" Then he wanted to close the door, Wukong just kowtowed: " Master, just listen to me!"

Chen Ang just looked at it, Wukong burst into tears and said: "I have rewritten my homework, I bullied my master that day, I regret it so much, I wish I could go back to that day, and kill those distracting thoughts with a stick. I am a natural stone Monkey, no father and no mother, raised by nature, mixed with monkeys, unbearably rough, hard to be cultivated by master, don't dislike my stubbornness and stupidity, got to teach the way, understand the truth. When I was a teacher, I still only had the idea of ​​longevity, But after hearing the master's teaching and learning the truth, I have the heart to seek the way, if the master drives me away, the disciple really doesn't know what the future will be like, it's like being stuck in the mud."

"I hope Patriarch will show mercy, please forgive me this time!"

"You come with me!" Chen Ang took Wukong to see Laodan, and said to Laodan: "Please help me, Taiqing Taoist." Then he turned to Wukong and said, "You are the spirit of heaven and earth. If you don’t teach, you will know the great horror between life and death after seeing the old ape die in the mountains, and you will have the heart to seek Tao and longevity.

"It's just that you have to know that this longevity is just a trivial matter!"

"The stubborn stone in the mountains can live for tens of millions of years. The heaven and the earth are opened up to live, and the same life as the sky, but it is also immortal, not hindering life and death. Before you took shape, you were such a fairy stone. Why do you ask for it?"

Wukong said: "When I was alive, the stubborn stone didn't have seven orifices. Although it has some spiritual energy, it is still a dead thing. How can it be compared?"

"You also know that it can't be compared!" Chen Ang asked: "Then now that you have gained some Dao Qi, you are complacent, thinking that you will live forever, and seeking Dao is lazy.

If you don't study hard, you just followed me for three months and you think you have attained the Tao? In our eyes, what is the difference between you and a dead thing? If you just want to have a long life, and then hang out with animals and indulge in the pleasures of animals, then you are just an immortal monkey. "

"A monkey that lives forever, isn't it a monkey?"

"Wukong, Wukong! The Daoist Master Taiqing gave you a surname, and I named you, not to make you a hozen again, but I know that such a name is detached from the race, so that you can see the 'true me'. After you get your name, you are no longer just a stone monkey, not just a hozen, not just the Monkey King, but a unique Monkey King with a name and surname.”

"You should see yourself clearly, know where you come from, what you are, and where you are going."

"Break the stubborn stone to see Wukong. Isn't this world another stubborn stone? You didn't want to learn from it, saying that you were out of your temper and couldn't bear restraint, but in my opinion, you are not lazy? The idea of ​​longevity is not the idea of ​​Taoism. , cultivating the Tao is not to train yourself to be a ten thousand year old tortoise with the same life as the sky, but to have the ambition to move forward and continue to evolve. You listen to me and say that natural selection, survival of the fittest, and human development , Don’t you hear the truth of self-improvement and continuous forging ahead?”

"Gods and Buddhas advise people to be good. Is the nature inherently bad? Why is it said to be corrupt? It's just because it doesn't seek development, it doesn't persuade people to move forward, but it tells people to stop, endure, and remain unchanged. They want to enjoy bliss after death. Good Evil is rewarded, so that everyone only seeks the Land of Ultimate Bliss, not seeing what is in front of them, and not striving to move forward."

Wukong was terrified, but Chen Ang turned the air into the void, and opened up a chaos at random. He saw a shapeless chaos floating in front of Chen Ang. "It turns out that I want to imitate what I did to create the world!" He chopped it casually, and separated the chaos that Chen Ang had settled down. There was a division of yin and yang, and the entanglement of clear and turbid qi.

The clean air should have floated up and the turbid air would have descended to divide the heaven and earth, but Chen Ang only closed his eyes, and then opened his eyes to see that a thought had already swallowed that world, and that thought was born from ignorance, and it gave birth to the Brahma life, and then gave birth to it again. Consciousness, from which we can see name and form, at this time the world has been differentiated, and all kinds of mental activities of that thought, such as thinking, if not thinking, is the formless realm, and seeing the form, then the form realm, and finally the six sense organs of eyes, ears, mouth and nose The experiences are derived one after another, and the world of desire is born from this.

It's complicated to say, but it's actually simple, it's just a dream that Chen Ang had in mind.

Thoughts in dreams turn into the world opened up by Lao Tzu. From ignorance and interdependence, there is spiritual activity, and action is action. Mental activity generates consciousness, and consciousness recognizes name and form, that is, various forms. Consciousness perceives form, which is divided into three parts. This level is separated from the perception of form, the void of all spiritual activities, and is born as a formless realm. All consciousness perceives the concept of matter, and consciousness perceives everything on matter, that is, form. This is the realm of form, including specific feelings and various Concepts, and the sense of specific sensory sensations, that is, the senses and touches of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, are born in the world of desire.

When Chen Ang opened his eyes again, that side of chaos had turned into a complete universe, only in Chen Ang's dream.

With Chen Ang's confident move, Wukong couldn't stand still, and fell headlong into the world Chen Ang had dreamed of. This world was created by Chen Ang's understanding of Buddhism. All actions are impermanent, and all dharmas have no self, which is the first foundation , All things are impermanent, which means that all things in the world are changing in an instant, and nothing is permanent. This is exactly the same as in materialism, where everything is moving, changing and developing. However, the second dharma seal, all dharmas have no self, is the most fundamental difference between idealism and materialism.

First of all, the difference lies in whether people can know the world. Chen Ang's world view believes that people can study and know the world. In addition, there is no way to know anything else. The only thing people can know is the self, because everything else perceived by consciousness is form, and only "I", that is, consciousness itself, is free from form and can let Knowing, the so-called practice, is the process of knowing 'I', this is all dharmas without self.

The Buddha discovered the emptiness beyond form from the self-knowledge, but he also discovered that apart from the self, all other substances and even life cannot be recognized. Their consciousness can never be known, and things other than their form can never be obtained. , that is, a person can only affirm the reality of self-awareness, but cannot determine and know the consciousness of other people, whether it is just a feeling, just like a brain in a vat, a world in a dream.

Since everything except 'I' is hue, and emptiness exists in 'I', then it can be concluded that the world is in 'I', as long as 'I' perceives the world, the world exists, if I cannot perceive the world, That world doesn't exist, everything is just mind.

Everything in the world is not moved by the wind or flags, but by the heart, "I".

Since the world is with me, there is another question, where do I come from? This is dependent origination... The Buddha believes that 'I' comes from ignorance, ignorance produces action, that is, mental activity, and action produces consciousness, that is, consciousness, and consciousness recognizes name and form, that is, perception of the world's forms. The relationship between Tao and emptiness, regenerates all material attributes, namely form and appearance, and finally realizes the specific feelings of various senses, that is, the desire realm.

Then there is all contact, that is, all contact between consciousness and the outside world.

And then from the touch to the feeling, the emotional reaction to the touch.

From being begets love, love is lust, craving.

Love gives birth to acquisition, and then desire drives people's behavior and pursuit.

Being comes from taking, the pursuit of behavior produces a cause, and the cause produces fruit, and existence is born.

Finally, death, the end of everything.

This process is all dependent origination and twelve causal conditions. In Chen Ang's view, it is the process of consciousness generation and understanding of the world. If consciousness is regarded as the only reality, then it is the process of consciousness generation and creation of the world. To create the world, the idea of ​​swallowing Laojun to open up the second qi is because there is no self outside the heart, everything is ideal, and the clear and turbid two qi opened up by the old gentleman naturally does not exist, but it is perceived by Chen Ang's thoughts.

Then practice the nameless, give birth to consciousness, give birth to name and form, name and form give birth to the six sense organs, the six sense organs give birth to contact, contact gives birth to feeling, feeling gives birth to love, love gives birth to clinging, clinging gives birth to being, being gives birth to birth, birth and then death. It is the cycle of a world.

Brahma created the world in a dream, that's all.

For Wukong at this time, isn't Chen Ang the Brahma? In Chen Ang's dream, all kinds of feelings are transformed by the world of desire, all matter is form, and the Dao is nothing but a colorless sky, emptiness is not different from form, and form is not different from emptiness. Everything, feelings, material attributes, and even the intangible laws behind everything are transformed by Chen Ang's consciousness, and the more subtle behavior and ignorance behind it are things that only Chen Ang can perceive.

Wukong, on the other hand, was trapped in the hue as if he had been reduced in dimension by Chen Ang. Like a brain in a vat, the world of information.

And Chen Ang used this to discuss the Dao with Taiqing, using a world as a chess game, and each played their own hands to verify the way. , For the creatures in that world, the handwriting is really incredible, but training Wukong, let him understand that longevity without the ambition of detachment, the heart of moving forward, is just a stubborn stone, but it is just incidental!

The two wanted to turn Hu into a Buddha, so Chen Ang opened up the world with the Dharma he had comprehended, and asked Taiqing for advice on the Dharma he had comprehended. At the same time, in this kind of world, when Chen Ang rises, he evolves the universe, stars, galaxies and galaxies. As soon as he thinks, he will transform the universe into a material universe, with atoms as the foundation, and at the same time throw Wukong into a planet dominated by technology. Technology abuses it, and then seals the six senses, and reincarnates in this universe, turning into a student, studying until death, doing problems until death, and so five or six times before letting it go.

Master Taiqing shook his head and said with a smile: "Why does Tianzun make things difficult for your apprentice? It's a joke."

"This Poor Monkey doesn't know my good intentions. If he dares to escape his homework, he will pay it back ten thousand times. Only then can he know how powerful he is and understand the truth that learning makes people happy!"