Chapter 1028: No Spying, No Fishing
Soon, Huan Yin sat cross-legged on the spot, right next to the lava sea, next to the Dharmakaya that spoke to him. However, he did not immediately take out a fishing rod and start fishing like all the Dharmakayas here. He just slowly closed his eyes and then did not move.
Huan Yin's actions were seen by all the Dharmakayas, and everyone's eyes quickly showed admiration. Especially the Dharmakaya that had said a lot to Huan Yin, nodded silently.
Huan Yin would not forget that in the story about Dong Huang Tai Yi told by the Dharmakaya, Dong Huang Tai Yi's first action after retreating was not to ask for the Tao, not to seek the Tao, but to give up all his previous achievements and forget everything he had learned. So, he did the same. He understood what Dong Huang Tai Yi meant. Only by emptying the mind and leaving no impurities can one fully accept a new Tao, a great Tao. If there is already another Tao in the heart, it is difficult for the new Tao to truly enter the mind.
This sitting lasted for three whole days. During these three days, Huan Yin kept his eyes closed and did not move. However, in fact, his thoughts were rolling all the time, his heart was not truly calm for a moment, and his heart could not be vacant.
Yes, it was not that there was not enough time to vacate, but that he could not vacate at all. Because complete vacancy was equivalent to asking Huan Yin to forget everything he had learned in the past and to deny everything he had learned. Such a denial not only denied the way of Taoism, but also the cultivation. Once it was truly denied completely, Huan Yin would become a mortal.
Huan Yin was not afraid of becoming a mortal, nor was he afraid of losing his cultivation. However, he had been practicing Taoism for too long, relying on what he had learned all the way to where he is now. If he hadn't learned everything, he would have died without a burial place. To suddenly deny all of this now was equivalent to asking him to directly destroy the solid Tao heart that he had built up over the years. How could that be possible?
Three days later, sweat gradually appeared on Huan Yin's forehead. The sweat became more and more, until his back was covered with sweat, his body trembled, and then he opened his eyes.
"What, can't you let it go?" The Dharmakaya beside Huan Yin looked over and said with a smile.
Huan Yin's struggles and contradictions were still churning in his heart. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said bitterly: "You want me to deny everything I learned before, and you want me to destroy the firm heart of Tao that I have built up with great difficulty. This... I can't do this at all at the moment..."
"On the contrary, the more you ask me to do this, the more contradictions I will have in my heart, and the more struggles I will have in my heart. My mood will never be able to calm down."
The Dharmakaya nodded and said: "It's human nature. Donghuang Taiyi also faced such contradictions at the beginning. But he was too determined about the secret he discovered, so he really did it in the end. It was also because he did it that he finally succeeded."
"Young man, it seems that it is difficult for you to do this. But Donghuang Taiyi once said that if you want to comprehend the Tao, you don't have to first The mind is completely empty. At the beginning of understanding the Great Dao, two Daos can coexist in the mind. Although they may be contradictory and bring great obstacles to understanding, as long as you can gradually make one grow while the other grow, you can eventually touch the true Dao. "
"However, if you understand the true Dao in that way, not only will you be too slow and have too many difficulties, but you may also go astray, or even collapse your Dao heart and be unable to reshape it. The risks and difficulties are beyond words. Do you dare to try?"
Huan Yin bowed to the Dharmakaya without any hesitation: "Old man, please teach me!"
The Dharmakaya nodded and said: "That's easy. Let your mood calm down completely. Don't deliberately forget anything. Just start to understand. But because you already have the Dao in your heart, when you understand, you must learn to distinguish and face contradictions and doubts at all times. "
Huan Yin completely understood what the Dharmakaya meant. Because if there is no Dao in your heart, it is like a blank piece of paper. When you understand the Great Dao of Taiyi, you can draw on it at will. But if there is already a Dao in the heart, and if it is as firm as Huan Yin, it is like a piece of paper that has been painted. If Huan Yin wants to comprehend the Great Dao of Taiyi, he must first erase the original trace before he can draw again. In this way, he needs to erase too much along the way.
Huan Yin closed his eyes again. He had no choice. So, he began to calm his heart as much as possible. In this way, another half day passed. When he looked completely normal, he opened his eyes again.
"Try it." The voice of the Dharma body came out again beside Huan Yin.
Huan Yin nodded, and then, a very ordinary bamboo pole gradually appeared in his hand, a bamboo pole exactly the same as that held by all the Dharma bodies here.
After holding it with his hand, Huan Yin was somewhat satisfied with the bamboo pole he had transformed, and then he carefully observed the movements of each Dharma body here, and followed suit and stretched the bamboo pole towards the lava.
Everything was fine, so Huan Yin once again slightly mobilized his spiritual power, trying to transform into a fishing line. In this way, the fishing line would go deep into the lava, and then transform into a fish hook and bait, and everything would be ready.
Transforming a fishing line, this extremely basic trick was easy for Huan Yin, just like he had just transformed into a fishing rod. Soon, the thin line extended from the top end of the fishing rod and fell downwards.
However, the fishing line had just appeared less than an inch, and suddenly, with a "hiss", the fishing line suddenly caught fire and burned. This fierce burning lasted less than a moment, and the entire fishing line turned into ashes.
Huan Yin was stunned, thinking that he had not controlled it well. So, he used the same trick again and became cautious. However, even if Huan Yin tried more than ten times in a row, his fishing line could not exceed one inch, and it would be burned to ashes by the high temperature emitted by the lava. Even if he used Taoism to protect it, it would be meaningless.
After a series of attempts, Huan Yin was a little confused. The most basic and common method, but now he couldn't complete it, which made him a little at a loss. When looking at the Dharma body beside him, the Dharma body said with a smile: "My friend, have you heard a saying called 'Don't peek at the Tao, don't fish'?"
"Don't peek at the Tao, don't fish?" Huan Yin repeated the words of the Dharma body, chewing the taste of it carefully. Then, his eyes flashed with enlightenment, and he said: "You mean, if I don't know what I want to fish for, I can't fish?"
The Dharmakaya said in appreciation: "Yes, then do you know what you want to fish for?"
The Dharmakaya said that what you fish for is both fish and Tao. Therefore, what Huanyin wants to fish for is naturally Tao. But what is Tao?
Huanyin suddenly fell into confusion. He knew that he had to comprehend the Tao that Donghuang Taiyi had comprehended in the past, but what is Tao? No one had ever mentioned this Tao to him, and he had no idea where to start.
"Go, ask the three old guys across the street. I think they have the best answers to your questions. But you have to remember that what they have in their hearts are the regrets of Taiyi back then. There are right and wrong regrets, and you can only rely on yourself to distinguish them." The voice of the Dharmakaya rang again.
Huanyin nodded, bowed, stood up, and walked to the west side of the entire lava sea of fire. There, three Dharmakayas who were a little close to each other were fishing silently, with their eyes closed and motionless.
When Huan Yin approached the three Dharmakayas, they seemed to have sensed something, opened their eyes, and looked at Huan Yin. Huan Yin bowed to the three Dharmakayas very solemnly and said, "Three seniors, please teach me, what is Tao?"
Soon, the Dharmakaya sitting on the far left spoke: "If you get Tao, you can know what is true and false."
After saying this, the Dharmakaya closed his eyes again and did not move again. Then, the Dharmakaya sitting in the middle spoke again: "If you get Tao, you can distinguish right from wrong."
After saying this, he also closed his eyes. Finally, the Dharmakaya sitting on the far right spoke: "If you get Tao, you will gain nothing. If you get Tao, you will lose something."
Finally, he finished speaking, and then the three of them returned to their original state and did not move again.
Huan Yin knew that they had finished what they wanted to say. He stood there, and the three sentences just now kept echoing in his mind. After a long time, Huan Yin's thoughts began to churn. So, he simply sat cross-legged on the ground, right next to the three Dharmakayas, as if he had become the fourth Dharmakaya.
Then, Huan Yin took out the fishing rod again, and stretched it out like the three Dharma bodies, closing his eyes, as if he was fishing.