Chapter 1031 Let Go of Obsession
Where is this? In fact, Huan Yin had already obtained the answer to this question.
The Dharmakaya said that this place was a world imagined by Dong Huang Tai Yi, so this place can be understood as Dong Huang Tai Yi's mind or his heart. In short, everything here is transformed by Dong Huang Tai Yi's thoughts.
The Tao is in the heart!
From the beginning of closing his eyes to comprehend until he got the answer, Huan Yin spent less than two days in total. Everything went quite smoothly, and Huan Yin encountered almost no obstacles in his comprehension.
It was at this time that a Dharmakāya that was sitting cross-legged and closed his eyes suddenly opened his eyes around the lava sea. After looking at Huanyin for a while, he said, "It took Donghuang Taiyi ten years to find the way back then. How long will this little guy take?"
Not far away, a Dharmakāya that had previously taught Huanyin and helped him understand that the way can distinguish true from false said, "This little guy has a good understanding, and with our advice, maybe he only needs three years to understand this."
A loud laugh came out, and the Dharmakāya that talked to Huanyin the most said, "No, no. In my opinion, he only needs half a year to understand everything."
After the Dharmakāya finished speaking, a Dharmakāya that was sitting next to Huanyin and had just taught him also spoke, "How can it be so easy to get the way? He seems to be calm now, but I think he may have taken the wrong path. If he can't correct it in time, even if he is given a hundred years, he won't get the answer."
Huanyin, who was completely immersed in his own world, naturally couldn't hear the speculations of the Dharmakāyas outside. He just felt that his thinking was correct, and perhaps this search for the Tao would go quite smoothly, and it would not take a few days. As for the unit of time measurement "year", he naturally did not even think about it.
Huan Yin began to try to find the Tao in his heart. However, he thought that everything would be as natural as water, but from this moment on, he really discovered that things were not simple.
Huan Yin practiced Taoism for three lives and three worlds. Everything he did was based on the model of perceiving the traceable external things, understanding them, and then absorbing the spiritual energy into the body, so that he could improve himself. No matter how the Taoism changes, this set of methods of attaining the Tao has never changed.
In other words, the whole process of the Taoism method known to Huan Yin can be implemented. Whether it is the various laws of the world or the spiritual energy absorbed into the body, they are real and are taken in from the outside world.
But how should we understand the search for the Tao from the heart? From the heart, it means that the cultivator should start from the inside, and naturally give up everything in the outside world. Once you give up absorbing from the outside world, where will the Tao come from? Could it be that you just let your imagination run wild?
When thinking to this point, Huan Yin actually hasn't started to really seek the Tao, but he finds that he has no way to start.
Once he enters a state of helplessness, Huan Yin quickly turns to confusion. He is immersed in his own world, without contradictions, without entanglements, only an increasingly empty mind. This state is more terrible than contradictions and entanglements, and more tragic than making Huan Yin tremble all over. Because if Huan Yin keeps going like this, he will not only be farther and farther away from the answer, but even if he loses his mind, he will sink from then on...
Time began to flow continuously. Especially when Huan Yin was in confusion, time passed surprisingly fast.
Soon, a whole month passed. From the outside, Huan Yin seemed to be immersed in his own world, thinking quietly. But only he knew that there were fewer and fewer things in his mind, and he couldn't grasp anything.
Huan Yin didn't want this, he would rather struggle and be full of contradictions. However, he could not struggle or contradict himself. The Tao is in the heart, so where does the Tao in the heart come from? Without a foothold for this question, Huan Yin's thinking will never have a fulcrum.
Fortunately, Huan Yin's character is not bad. After a few days, when he found that his condition was extremely bad, he decisively chose to throw away his thoughts.
No longer thinking about where the Tao is, Huan Yin suddenly thought of another question, that is, did he think wrong from the beginning? There was actually a problem with the understanding of those three sentences?
"If the starting point is wrong, then I naturally can't think of the result." Thinking of this, Huan Yin felt that he seemed to have some inspiration. So, he continued to think about it, and soon thought of the previous verification method.
"According to my previous understanding, the Great Dao of Taiyi is to deny everything in this world. If everything in this world is really false, then... then there is no Dao in this world. If I think this way, I really can't absorb any Dao from the outside world. My previous method of cultivation should be wrong."
"If I think this way, then the Dao is in my heart, and this understanding seems to have no problem. I think about what the second Dharma body said in reverse, and this idea is correct. If this sentence is not misunderstood, could it be that I misunderstood the other two sentences?" Thinking to this point, Huan Yin quickly thought of the other two sentences, which are contradictory in themselves. In this way, only one sentence can be right and one sentence can be wrong.
"Let go of attachment, one thought is the vast ocean. This sentence is ridiculous, how can it be right?" Huan Yin thought of this almost subconsciously. But soon, he was stunned, and there was a roar in his mind!
"One thought... one thought, there is a word "thought" here!" Huan Yin felt that he had grasped something.
Where does thought come from? Thoughts come from the heart!
According to Huanyin's understanding of the second sentence, the Tao is not in the universe, but in the heart. This point is perfectly consistent with some key points in the "One Thought in the Sea".
Just when I thought of this, a contradiction suddenly appeared. If the Tao is really kept in the heart and born in a thought, then why did Donghuang Taiyi stay in this world for nearly a million years and search for the Tao?
Even though Donghuang Taiyi's Tao is different from Huanyin's usual understanding of the Tao, doesn't the time he spent prove what the first Dharmakaya said, "Without the accumulation of merits and efforts over the years, the Tao cannot be achieved"? Donghuang Taiyi's actions are the best refutation of "One Thought in the Sea"!
The contradictions in his mind are getting bigger and bigger, and Huanyin can't figure out more and more things. Gradually, Huanyin's body began to tremble unconsciously again. And this time, he trembled more violently than the last time, and soon alarmed many Dharmakayas here.
"Hmm?" Many Dharma bodies looked at Huan Yin intently. It had been more than two months, and it was the first time that Huan Yin had a more intense reaction after entering the state of perception.
"Could it be that he is going to fail?" Many Dharma bodies thought so. However, when the Dharma body that said "One thought is the vast ocean" looked at Huan Yin, there was a deepness in his eyes that others could not understand.
Soon, another half a month passed. In the past half month, Huan Yin has been in an extremely unstable state all the time. His whole body has been soaked in sweat, and only he knows how hard it has been to persist for half a month.
"Donghuang Taiyi has stayed here for nearly a million years. What is he doing? It's nothing more than enlightenment. It took so long to perceive. How can he become a Buddha in one thought? It's really contradictory!" Huan Yin felt that he could not hold on any longer. The strong contradiction made him intend to withdraw from the perception and ask the many Dharma bodies around him.
At this moment, he recited the entire sentence said by the third Dharmakaya again: "Let go of attachment, one thought is the vast ocean."
Instantly, a huge wave rose in Huan Yin's mind: "Could it be that Donghuang Taiyi stayed here for nearly a million years, not to comprehend the Great Dao, but to let go of the so-called 'attachment'?"
"Boom boom boom!" Huan Yin's mind was like thunder exploding. At this moment, he felt that his mind, which had been in a chaotic state, suddenly became clear as if Pangu God had created the world for him!
"'Attachment', that's right. But what kind of 'attachment' can make Donghuang Taiyi so reluctant to let go that it takes so long to let go?"
"Yes, the 'attachment' Donghuang Taiyi said is the attachment to this world. According to his understanding of the Great Dao, everything in this world should be denied. However, people are born from this world. Letting go of the attachment to this world is to completely deny this world. This is too difficult, so Donghuang Taiyi needs nearly a million years!"