Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

In fact, most of the year, the sky is covered in frozen clouds, as if immersed in an endless night.

But once in a while, when the clouds are scattered and the light is shining, it is home to the most glorious of all ancient holy worlds, like a seven-colored rainbow.

On the last day before Li Yao left the ancient world, he saw such a glorious sunshine.

Rainbow waterfalls sprinkle across the ice sheets and rush into colorful bubbles from the ground, shaking between the heavens and the earth.

In the face of such a magnificent and exciting extreme iridescent, Li Yao saw Master Bitter Cicada sitting at the bow of a starship, holding a miniature crystalline brain, focused on reading the classics, unspeakable serenity, Bao Xiang solemnly, really like there are 10,000 lotus flowers blooming around the monk.

Li Yao originally had some uncertainty, upset, so he came out and walked around. This scene moved his mind. He had to fly behind the starship parked on the ice field and walked towards Master Bitter Cicada.

To reach Li Yao's height, his eyesight was very accessible. Before he reached behind the monk, he glanced at the classics the master was studying, which were -

"A Hundred Little Stories of Youth and Zen Master", "Soul Chicken Soup Journal", "Sheepskin Roll - Ancient Wisdom from Tree Sea", "Women Born Elegant"...

Li Yao: “Cough, cough, cough. ”

Master Bitter Cicada: “If Li Daoyou is here, why don't you stand still? Does it seem like your footsteps are heavy and messy? ”

“Nothing.”

Li Yao said, “I mainly wanted to thank the Master for his patronage of the day. Without the help of the Master and other Taoists, perhaps I would have lost my temper, and the robbery would have stopped!

“Besides, there are some minor troubles, I wanted to discuss one or two with the master, but... the master is so busy studying classics, forget it. ”

“These classics from the Federation of Stars and Glows do have some subtleties, and many of the reason monks have seen them open up in Masseton, so much to gain! ”

Master Bitter Cicada sighed, "If Li Daoyou doesn't dislike the monk's clumsiness, let's talk about your troubles. Monks also try to explain one or two with the Zen and Buddha methods in" Chicken Soup of the Heart ". Rest assured, this is monk cultivation, no charge. ”

“… okay. ”

Li Yao took the first two steps, sitting across from Master Bitter's tray leg, looking at the colorful, unpredictable sky, and said, "Has the master ever thought that everything in front of him is illusory, there is a world beyond the world, there is a problem with the universe above the universe? If there is really a universe above it, our universe is just a projection of a higher universe, or even a game of nothingness, how can we be sure that we are ‘real' or ‘illusory’, and what is the point of everything we do? ”

Master Bitter Cicada smiled, "Eat, sleep. ”

Li Yiu frowned: “Master, I sincerely asked you to teach me. You didn't use such an ancient paragraph to lay it on me? ”

This “eating, sleeping” is a small story, saying that a young man asks the Zen master what “troubles” are, the Zen master smiles “eating, sleeping”, the young man asks what “practice” is, the Zen master smiles and says “eating, sleeping”, the young man is confused, but the Zen master explains, “The troubles are sleeping when it's time to eat, and thinking about eating when it's time to sleep; the practice is to eat when it's time to eat, and sleep when it's time to sleep, so on."

This is a fairly ancient little tale of the mind. It stinks of the streets in the Federation of Xingyao. It is remembered by Li Yao's blog. Naturally it is clear.

Master Bitter coughed dry and cleared his throat: “The case is old, but the reason is new - what is‘ real ’and what is‘ illusory ’is really the most elusive and unnecessary thing in the world to distinguish.

“The story of the ‘brain in a cylinder' has spread in the Federation of Stars and Glows - today, when the cultivation of the Divine Master and the Virtual Treasure is so developed, it can create a lifelike state, almost 100% virtual and too illusory. Even if a person has only one brain left and is placed in a tank filled with nutrient fluids, connecting thousands of crystalline wires on his brain can make him mistakenly think that he is fully extremized and living in the real world.

“So how does this person know if he or she lives in a real ‘real world' or a 'brain in a cylinder' living in an artificially created illusion?

“And how can we tell that the so-called '3,000 Great Worlds’ is the ultimate truth, that there is no higher being above our world, creating and designing everything, that our entire world is a giant 'brain in a cylinder’? ”

Li Yaolin nodded, “Yes, that's the problem. How can we tell and prove it? ”

“It is neither discernible nor necessary to prove it. ”

Master Bitter Cicada said, "Of course you can doubt that the 3,000 great thousand worlds in which we live, the infinite three-dimensional universe, are all at a higher level, and, uh, for example, some kind of 'four-dimensional life' created a 'brain in a cylinder' in the laboratory, just a small projection of the four-dimensional world, is just an experimental subject of this' four-dimensional life ’.

“But even if this four-dimensional life really exists, and it is the legendary demon, is the four-dimensional world in which ‘it’ is located, the so-called 'real’? Could this four-dimensional world, which we don't understand, also be a projection of a five-dimensional world, a painter in a five-dimensional world, thriving, waving ink, painting a picture?

“And the five-dimensional painter in this five-dimensional world is the ultimate reality? Could the whole 5D world be, after all, a long poem sung by a disappointed poet in the 6D world? And this six-dimensional world, is that a crystal clear dew bead on a small petal in the 7th dimensional world? And the Seven-Dimensional World is a strange creature in the Eight-Dimensional World, a wonderful dream in a nap? ”

Li Yiumei stared: “Is this possible? ”

“If you think 'The Brain in the Cylinder' is possible, then a beautiful dream of a 4D lab, a 5D painting, a 6D poem, a 7D dew bead, and an 8D monster… that's all possible. ”

Master Bitter Cicada said, "Even if their odds are insignificant, even insignificant odds are doomed to occur over eternal time and space, endless dimensions.

“This is the logic of what we call a floating slaughterhouse: 'a world of sand, a tree, a Bodhi'. In transcending concepts of time, space and dimension, a world of dust and three thousand great worlds is the same, and no one is more 'real’ than no one, and no one is more 'illusory’ than no one.

“The world doesn't care if it's true or false. What distinguishes the true or false is your heart from your view of the world. If you hold the 'eat when you eat, sleep when you sleep' mentality, then every world is true; if you are eating but want to sleep, and you are in our three-dimensional universe, but your heart and heart are indeterminate, tangled in the so-called 'truth’, to think about the things of the four-dimensional world, then one day you reach a higher realm, so what? When you arrive in the 4D world, you will question whether everything in front of you is a scroll of the 5D world; when you reach the 5D world, you will be worried about the existence of the 6D poet… How can you find the ultimate truth when so many layers are broken and never satisfied? ”

Li Yao stunned for half a day, touched his nose and smiled bitterly: “When I was a kid, I was full of confusion about the world. I had 10,000 questions in my head. I thought that if I worked hard to become the world's most powerful practitioner, I could find the answer.

“Who knows, the strength is getting stronger, the world is getting higher, the 10,000 questions of the past have been answered, but 100,000, a million new questions have arisen, and they are getting more and more confused! ”

“It's nature, like little bubbles. ”

Master Bitter Cicada opened his hand and a shivering sparkling bubble appeared in his palm. As his spirit injected, the bigger the bubble became, “Lee Daoyu, you see, the bigger the bubble, the bigger the ‘answer’ inside it, but the ‘surface area' of its contact with the outside world was also bigger, and more ‘unknown’ and ‘confused’ were perceived. Every minute of the bubble, just unraveling a confusion, the ten new confusions were exposed. Where can it be large enough to devour the entire planet, the entire universe? So this‘ unknown ’,‘ confused ’and‘ troubled ’is endless! ”

Master Bitter Cicada's palms trembled gently and the bubbles swung toward the sky, revealing a glowing glow of purple red in the sun.

The monk closed his eyes and looked very attentively, muttering: “Though the confusion is that the more you fix, the more you never end up, the more you should practice, because... Look, how beautiful this bubble is! ”

Li Yao and Master Bitter Cicada watched the bubbles fly higher and higher, gradually flying into a colorful cloud. He thought seriously for half a day, "Master, I think you are so profound, so subtle, so sensible, but think carefully, and think... you seem to have said nothing. ”

“Bullshit. ”

Master Bitter Cicada said, "You take the unanswered question ‘The brain in the cylinder' to entertain the monk. The monk did not curse you, and kicked you off the ship, but instead refused to give you two sentences. It has been benevolent, how can you wait! ”

Li Yao was not angry, and said: "So, Master, in your opinion, the higher the bubble, where exactly will it go? ”

“How do I know? ”

Master Bitter Cicada seemed to have blended into the clouds, perhaps through the clouds, flying to the endless bubbles of stars, and a golden glow appeared on his face, faintly, "This question is going to ask Lee Daoyou yourself, after all, I am neither Buddha nor Bodhisattva, just a... ordinary bald head. ”