Chapter 140 Six Paths of Reincarnation
On a lonely cliff, two figures looked somewhat desolate. One looked up at the sky, watching the setting sun, the dusk was heavy, the evening wind was bleak, and the mood was full of desolation and sadness. The other figure seemed to be in deep thought, trying to comprehend something, but she could not grasp it, and her face was full of helplessness.
These two people were the Taoist Sansheng and the ancestor witch Hou Tu.
"Have you realized anything along the way?"
After a long time, the Taoist Sansheng looked at Hou Tu who was somewhat helpless and asked.
Hou Tu was slightly startled when she heard the words, her face was full of sadness, she sighed softly, and slowly responded:
"I came here following the heaven's secrets, and along the way, I seem to have some enlightenment. I have vaguely felt where my avenue is, but it is still not clear. Can you give me some guidance?"
For some reason, Hou Tu did not have any defense against the Taoist Sansheng who had just met her not long ago, and asked whatever she was thinking.
When the Taoist Sansheng heard this, he sighed softly and remained silent for a long time, not knowing what to say.
"Why, is there something you can't say? Is it inconvenient to say more?"
Hou Tu saw the Taoist Sansheng's silence and asked.
"Ah..."
The Taoist Sansheng sighed and said:
"Do you know that if I tell you, your Tao will also come to an end?"
Hou Tu was silent for a moment and said firmly:
"If you hear the Tao in the morning, you can die in the evening. For the sake of the world, what's wrong with sacrificing myself? Pangu Father God also sacrificed himself to create the world. If it can help the world, we, the younger generation, should follow Pangu Father God and sacrifice ourselves for others."
"Hey, do you know that what I usually despise the most is those who sacrifice themselves for others. The world is bustling, all for profit, and the world is bustling, all for profit! Looking at those who don't care about their own life and death to help others, I feel very unhappy.
You are willing to sacrifice yourself for others. Have you ever asked other people's opinions? Have you ever asked your own relatives and friends about their feelings? If you do this, you are also selfish.
But, at the same time, I respect such people the most, because they have strong courage and can sacrifice themselves for others. However, although I respect them, I will never like such people, because being friends with such people is too tiring! He always keeps the people of the world in his heart. Living like this is really inexplicable..."
Sansheng Taoist said a lot of nagging and scolded a lot. Hou Tu on the opposite side did not change her expression. On the contrary, she had a faint smile, which made her feel at peace.
"I know. But I still have to do it, just because I am me, and you are just you after all!"
After hearing this, Sansheng Taoist was silent. Yes, she is her. If she doesn't do this, will she still be the Hou Tu Niangniang who is admired for eternity in the future? And I can only be me after all, so I am selfish, and I can't be as great as her.
"Well, forget it. Since you said so, and the secret of heaven has been revealed, that scene will appear sooner or later. What difference does it make whether it is sooner or later?"
The Taoist of Sansheng sighed and said faintly.
"Pangu opened the sky, split the vastness, divided yin and yang, established the three talents, evolved the ten thousand ways, and created all things. But, in fact, this world is not perfect."
"Imperfect? Why?"
"Yes, it is not perfect. Pangu is powerful and can open up the world, evolve all things in the prehistoric world, and breed reincarnation. But the perfect world should be the three talents of heaven, earth, and man. When the prehistoric world was just opened up, there was only the way of heaven, and the way of man and the way of earth were not complete. Later, Nuwa created humans and became a saint, and the human race appeared, completing the human civilization. Therefore, now this world still lacks the way of earth."
"The way of earth? What is the way of earth?"
Hou Tu seemed to have realized something, and the enlightenment in her heart became deeper and deeper, and the aura became more and more intense.
"The so-called earthly way should be equal to the heavenly way. The heavenly way governs the rules of the operation of all things in the world, maintains the trajectory of the world's operation, and makes all things balanced, while the earthly way governs the creatures on earth, life and death, and endless reincarnation. The most important of these is the six reincarnations!"
The Taoist Sansheng spoke to Hou Tu with every word as if he was preaching.
"The six reincarnations are originally the place where the creatures' fortunes turn, but when creatures die and ghosts appear, they belong to these six ways. Like a six-hole arch bridge, it divides and combines in the six ways, and the reincarnation never stops, and the ghosts never cease!"
The Taoist Sansheng knew that Hou Tu had already understood something, so he also let it go and no longer hesitated. What's more, death also means another kind of rebirth. The so-called life and death, the earthly way and heavenly way, after he became the Three Lives Stone and cut out the body of three lives and three worlds, he had already understood it.
"What are the six paths?"
Hou Tu felt that the last fog in her heart was also cleared by the Taoist Sansheng. She felt a sense of seeing the blue sky after clearing the clouds. The aura on her body became stronger. She knew that she would achieve enlightenment right now.
The Taoist Sansheng raised his eyes and looked at the sea of blood not far away, and said slowly:
"The so-called six paths are divided into visible paths and invisible paths. The visible paths are the human path, the Asura path, and the animal and plant path, and the invisible paths are the heaven path, the hungry ghost path, and the hell path.
All tangible ways can obtain the Dao body, which is called the flesh body for humans, and the body for animals and plants. All creatures who reincarnate in this way, whether human or demon, can cultivate the art of the soul. After death, they will also have ghosts, following the heavenly secrets and entering the next way. Intangible ways, except for the heavenly way, are all only the soul ghost body. Although they can be transformed, they have no entity.
Those who reincarnate from the heavenly way are mostly rich and noble, or those with superior aptitude for practicing the Tao. The heaven and the earth are their parents, and they are born with innate qualities. The hell is the place where all ghosts suffer and are punished. Therefore, among the six ways, the heavenly way is the highest and the hell is the lowest. "
Hou Tu heard that there are so many ways to divide it, which is really strange, so she asked:
"How to distinguish the six ways? Is it like the flowing water, choosing the way to enter?"
"Choosing the way to enter? Wouldn't that be a chaos in the world. The so-called cause in the previous life, the result in this life, the result in the next life, and the cause in this life. If ghosts want to go to the six realms, they must rely on the karma of the previous life to enjoy the blessings of the next life.
Those with heavy karma must go to the hell, suffer all the punishments, and wash away their karma before they can reincarnate again; those with lighter karma must also go to the hungry ghost realm and the Asura realm to wash away their karma before they can reincarnate again; those with the lightest karma should be like the animal realm, reincarnate, wash away their karma, and re-enter the human realm.
All living beings have karma at birth. As long as they are not affected by karma, they can enter the human realm and reincarnate, so as to seek the heavenly realm to turn the wheel and get rid of the mortal body. If you have been doing good deeds for generations, you have done great good deeds in the world, or you have the remaining merits and blessings, you should enter the heavenly realm and enjoy all kinds of blessings, wealth and honor in the human world, or cultivate immortality. "
Hou Tu was stunned when he heard this, and then asked:
"May I ask fellow Taoist, is there a way to escape from the six realms?"
"A way to transcend the six realms?"