The Evernight Icefield lives up to its name.
Most of the time in the year, the sky is shrouded in frozen dark clouds, as if immersed in an endless dark night.
But occasionally when the clouds clear up and the fog shines brightly, this place has the most brilliant sunshine in the entire ancient holy world, like a colorful rainbow.
On the last day before leaving the ancient holy world, Li Yao saw such magnificent sunshine.
Rainbow-like waterfalls spread across the entire ice field, and countless colorful bubbles burst out from the ground, stirring between heaven and earth.
With such a magnificent and thrilling rainbow light as the curtain, Li Yao saw Master Kuchan sitting cross-legged on the bow of a starship, holding a micro-crystal brain and reciting the classics attentively, feeling indescribably quiet and calm. , the treasure is solemn, it really looks like ten thousand lotus flowers are blooming around the monk.
Li Yao was originally a little uneasy and upset, so he came out and walked around casually.
This scene made his heart move, and he couldn't help but fly behind the starship parked on the ice sheet, and tiptoed towards Master Kuchan.
His cultivation level has reached the level of Li Yao, and his eyesight is far beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Before he could reach behind the monk, he could clearly see the classic that the master was studying.
"One Hundred Short Stories of Young People and Zen Masters", "Chicken Soup for the Soul Collection", "The Parchment Scrolls Come from the Ancient Wisdom of the Sea of Trees", "Women Are Born to Be Elegant"...
Li Yao: "Cough, cough, cough, cough."
Master Kuchan: "Since Fellow Daoist Li is here, why do you stop moving forward?
Monk, I hear that your steps are heavy and chaotic, does it sound like you are worried?"
"nothing."
Li Yao said, "I mainly want to thank Master for protecting the Dharma that day.
Without the help of Master and other Taoist friends, I might have gone crazy long ago and been doomed!"
"Besides, the worries are just minor ones.
I originally wanted to discuss them with the master, but... the master is so busy studying classics, so let's forget it."
"These classics from the Starry Federation are indeed quite mysterious.
Many of the principles made the monk suddenly enlightened after reading them.
It is a great harvest!"
Master Kuchan exclaimed in praise and said, "If Daoyou Li doesn't dislike the monk's clumsy tongue, you might as well tell us about your troubles.
The monk is also trying to use these Zen principles and Buddhist teachings in "Chicken Soup for the Soul" to explain them.
Don't worry. , This is considered a monk’s practice, and there is no charge.”
"……All right."
Li Yao took two steps forward, sat down cross-legged opposite Master Kuchan, looked at the colorful and unfathomable sky, and muttered, "Master, have you ever thought that everything in front of you is an illusion, and there is a world outside the world?"
, what if there are problems with the universe above the universe?
There really is a universe above the universe.
Our universe is just a projection of a higher universe, or even just an illusory game.
So how do we determine whether we are 'real' or 'illusory'?
Everything we do, What’s the point?”
Master Kuchan smiled slightly and said, "Eat and sleep."
Li Yao frowned: "Master, I sincerely ask you for advice.
You are not using such an ancient joke to perfunctory me, are you?"
"Eat, sleep" is a short story.
It tells of a young man asking the Zen master what "troubles" are.
The Zen master smiled slightly and said, "Eat, sleep."
The young man asked again what "cultivation" was.
The Zen master still smiled and said, "Eat, sleep."
"Sleep", youth Puzzled, the Zen master explained, "The so-called worries are sleeping when it is time to eat, and thinking about eating when it is time to sleep; the so-called practice means concentrating on eating when it is time to eat, and sleeping without distractions when it is time to sleep.
That’s all."
This is a very old spiritual story, which is famous in the Star Federation.
With Li Yao's extensive knowledge, he can clearly remember it.
Master Kuchan coughed dryly, cleared his throat and said: "Although the public case is old, the truth is new.
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What is 'real' and what is 'illusion'?
This is really the most unclear thing in the world, and the most unnecessary to distinguish. things.
"In the Federation of Stars, there is even a story about a 'brain in a vat'.
Today, when the cultivation of magical powers and virtual magic weapons are so advanced, it can already create a lifelike and almost 100% realistic illusion.
Even if someone only has If a brain is placed in a water tank filled with nutrient solution, and thousands of crystal wires are connected to the brain, it can make him think that he is fully limbed and living in the real world.
"So, how can this person tell whether he is living in the real 'real world' or whether he is a 'brain in a vat' and living in an artificially created illusion?
"And how should we distinguish it?
The so-called 'Three Thousand Worlds' is the ultimate reality.
There is no higher-level existence above our world that created and designed everything.
Our entire world is one Where’s the huge ‘brain in a vat’?”
Li Yao nodded repeatedly: "Yes, that's the problem.
How to distinguish and prove it?"
"It's impossible to tell, and there's no need to prove it."
Master Kuchan said, "Of course you can suspect that the three thousand worlds we live in and the endless three-dimensional universe are all existences of a higher level.
Uh, for example, some kind of 'four-dimensional life' was created in the laboratory.
The 'brain in a vat' that comes out is just a small projection of the four-dimensional world, and it is just an experimental subject of this 'four-dimensional life'.
"However, even if this four-dimensional life really exists and is the legendary god and demon, is the four-dimensional world in which 'it' lives the so-called 'real'?
Could this four-dimensional world that we cannot understand also be the same?
Is the projection of a certain five-dimensional world a painting created by a painter in the five-dimensional world who took a whim and splashed ink?
"And the five-dimensional painter in this five-dimensional world is the ultimate reality?
Could it be that the entire five-dimensional world is, in the final analysis, a long poem sung by a frustrated poet in the six-dimensional world?
And this six-dimensional world, Is it a crystal clear dewdrop on a small petal in the seven-dimensional world?
And the seventh-dimensional world is a strange creature in the eight-dimensional world, a beautiful dream while taking a nap?
" Li Yao was stunned: "Is this possible?"
“If you think ‘brains in a vat’ are possible, then dreams of four-dimensional laboratories, five-dimensional drawings, six-dimensional poetry, seven-dimensional dewdrops, and eight-dimensional monsters… that’s all possible.”
Master Kuchan said, "Even if their probabilities are very slim, in the eternal time and space, in the endless dimensions, no matter how small the probability is, it is bound to happen.
"Our Buddha Sect says, 'One grain of sand is one world, one tree is one Bodhi'.
This is the truth.
In terms of concepts that transcend time, space and dimensions, a speck of dust is the same as three thousand worlds.
No one can compare with the other.
More 'real', no one is more 'illusory' than anyone else.
"There is no such thing as true or false in the world.
What can distinguish true from false is your heart and the way you look at the world.
If you have the mentality of 'eat when you eat, sleep when you sleep', then every world is true; if you You are obviously eating, but you are thinking about sleeping.
You are obviously in our three-dimensional universe, but you are distracted and uncertain, and you are entangled in the so-called 'truth'.
If you want to think about things in the four-dimensional world, what if you reach a higher realm one day?
After arriving in the four-dimensional world, you will doubt whether everything in front of you is a picture of the five-dimensional world; after reaching the five-dimensional world, you will Worry about the existence of the Six-Dimensional Poets...
When you are broken layer by layer and never satisfied, where can you find the ultimate truth?
" Li Yao was stunned for a long time, touched his nose, and said with a wry smile: "When I was a child, I used to be full of confusion about the world.
I had ten thousand questions in my mind.
I thought that as long as I practiced hard and became the most powerful cultivator in the world, I could find the answers.
Answer.
"Who knows, as my strength becomes stronger and my realm becomes higher and higher, I have found answers to the past ten thousand questions, but a hundred thousand or a million new questions have appeared, and I have become more and more confused!
" "It's natural, like little bubbles."
Master Kuchan spread his palms, and a trembling flash bubble appeared in his palm.
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As he injected spiritual energy, the bubbles became bigger and bigger, "Fellow Daoist Li, look, the bubbles are getting bigger and bigger, and the 'answer' inside it is full of."
There are more and more, but the 'surface area' in contact with the outside world is also getting larger and larger, so it can be perceived There are more 'unknowns' and 'confusions'.
Every time the bubble gets bigger, as soon as one confusion is revealed, it is exposed to ten new confusions.
How can it be so big that it can swallow up the entire planet and the entire universe?
So?
, this ‘unknown’, ‘confused’ and ‘troubled’ are never-ending!”
Master Kuchan's palm trembled slightly, and the bubbles swayed and flew into the sky.
Under the sunlight, they bloomed with bright purple and red brilliance.
The monk squinted his eyes, looked at it very intently, and murmured: "Even so, even though the confusion is increasing and there will be no end, but we still need to keep practicing, because... look, how beautiful these bubbles are!
" Li Yao and Master Ku Chan silently watched the bubbles flying higher and higher, gradually flying into the colorful clouds.
They thought seriously for a long time and said: "Master, I think what you said is so profound, so mysterious, so good.
It makes sense, but when I think about it carefully, I feel like... you didn't say anything."
"nonsense."
Master Kuchan said, "You amuse the monk with unanswered questions like 'brain in a vat'.
The monk did not curse and kick you off the starship.
Instead, he was willing to give you a few perfunctory words.
You have already done your best to be kind and righteous.
Why?"
What to do!"
Li Yao was not annoyed and said again: "Master, in your opinion, where will the bubbles fly higher and higher?"
"How do I know?"
Master Kuchan looked at the bubbles that had merged into the clouds, perhaps passed through the clouds, and flew towards the endless starry sky.
A layer of golden brilliance appeared on his face, and he said lightly, "You have to ask fellow Daoist Li yourself about this question.
After all, I am neither Buddha is not a Bodhisattva, he is just an ordinary bald man."