Chapter 2139 No Thoughts and Love

There is a difference between awakening and awakening.

Awakening is to put the other person in an unbalanced state. Arousal is to let the truth slowly surface and let the other party gradually accept it.

Pei Mingcui was originally in a state of anxiety. In fact, it would be difficult for anyone in her situation to remain calm.

What would you do if you had thousands of times more memories?

In fact, people in the world can live peacefully not because they have many memories, but because they forget! Forgetting will prevent people from being impacted by too many different contradictory facts and maintain a peaceful state.

Even if this state is illusory, wrong, imaginary, and unreal.

If a person who understands all the truth about the world does not have a strong will, he will eventually fall into nihilistic ideas like too many philosophers and end up depressed.

Cultivation is different from the thinking of philosophers. Cultivation is not about holding on to emptiness. Those who open their mouths and say that all four elements are empty are either idiots or liars.

Cultivation is breaking all conventions, and then facing the true reality with unparalleled will!

Pei Mingcui is not a practitioner, she is more like falling into the thinking of a philosopher. When listening to Shen Yue's explanation, although she tried her best to think about it, she still didn't understand. She shook her head and said: "I don't understand, I really don't understand! Am I alive or dead? ?How can a person be in a state of neither life nor death?"

Shen Yue was as calm as before and said gently, "You know that tree roots produce trunks, and tree trunks produce leaves?"

Pei Mingcui couldn't help but nod. This truth was too simple, which made her feel slightly relaxed.

Shen Yue immediately asked, "Where does the root come from?"

Pei Mingcui was startled for a moment, then said, "Roots come from seeds."

Shen Yue asked again, "Where do the seeds come from?"

After all, Pei Mingcui was smart. She had already thought of the answer to the next question when Shen Yue first asked, "Seeds come from fruits."

Shen Yue smiled and said, "Very good. Before that seed lands, will it be life or death?"

Pei Mingcui knew that Shen Yue was talking about it with an analogy, so she pondered a little and said, "The seed is not alive before it sprouts buds, but it can still sprout buds but not die. So when it is inorganic, the seed is in a state of neither life nor death?"

Seeing Shen Yue nodding slightly, Pei Mingcui did not stop thinking, "You want to say that seeds are like this and so are people."

Shen Yue asked, "Since heaven and man can be one, why can't everything in heaven and earth be one? Seeds are like this, why not people?"

Pei Mingcui suddenly realized, "So people also have a state of neither life nor death?"

Shen Yue affirmed, "Practice often talks about the four meditations and eight concentration, but in fact there is a ninth concentration, the concentration of annihilation!"

"What is annihilation concentration?" Pei Mingcui asked immediately. When talking to Shen Yue, she felt indescribable calmness and naturalness.

There was no other reason. Shen Yue had no hostility or pressure. It only inspired her to think independently, making her originally chaotic thoughts gradually clear up.

Shen Yue said in a slow voice, "The samadhi of annihilation is actually a gap between the two realms of color and colorlessness that breaks through and temporarily escapes the three realms. You can think of it as a seed, neither born nor dead, but as soon as the opportunity comes, you will be liberated! "

Pei Mingcui frowned and said, "Then I am in annihilation concentration?" She had deep doubts about this because she was self-aware.

Sure enough, Shen Yue shook his head and said, "No. In the cycle of life and death, there is a concentration similar to the concentration of cessation, but it is completely different from the concentration of cessation."

"What kind of concentration is that?" Pei Mingcui wondered to herself whether she was in the kind of concentration that Shen Yue was talking about?

Shen Yue said in a deep voice, "I have no idea."

Pei Mingcui was slightly surprised, "As the name suggests, Wuxiang means not thinking?"

Shen Yue nodded in agreement, "That's right. People who practice Buddhism have different insights due to their limited understanding. There are people who have left home and left the world. They hate the ugliness of the world and are tired of the emotional involvement of the world, so they become a monk and abandon their loved ones..."

Pei Mingcui frowned and said, "What's the use of this kind of attainment?" She always believed in the eternity of love, so naturally she didn't approve of such heartless behavior.

Shen Yue was silent for a moment, "You are right, the foundation of spiritual practice lies in compassion. Without compassion, practice will be in vain. Once you enter the world of mortals, there must be a reason, and there will be causes and conditions, and liberation will be clear."

When he was narrating, he secretly thought that he was always the same. Because he traveled in different spaces and times, he understood the concept of opposition to unity even more thoroughly, but why could he never find the reason for joining the world?

There must be a key issue. He has not figured it out yet, but the doubt flashed and then dissipated. He did not insist on it. He knew that if he persisted, more problems would arise. He could only wait quietly for the truth to be revealed slowly.

This is just like practicing to understand one's mind and see one's nature. No matter how thorough your thoughts are, you will only gain something when you are not obsessed with thoughts.

Pei Mingcui, on the other hand, was delighted when she heard this, and praised, "Good advice."

Shen Yue looked at Pei Mingcui with some pity, "It's not easy to know others, but it's even harder to know yourself."

Pei Mingcui's expression turned solemn, and she heard the implication of Shen Yue's words, "Are you saying that I am the same as those peerless monks?" It was difficult for her to accept this conclusion.

Shen Yue did not answer directly, but just said, "This kind of monk hates emotional involvement, so he uses the method of annihilation to calm the disturbing thoughts."

Pei Mingcui's eyes twitched slightly.

Shen Yue said again, "But if you cut off the water with a knife, the water will flow again, and if you raise a cup to relieve sorrow, the sorrow will become even worse. Cutting off does not mean liberation. What is liberation? Only when you cut it off can you get rid of the burden. With one knife, you can cut off life, emotions, You even bury everything, but everything you cut off turned into seeds."

Pei Mingcui felt cold all over her body, "It's just a seed that can take root and sprout again and make a comeback?"

Shen Yue nodded lightly, "This is also the real reason why this world always comes back again and again. Cutting off does not mean breaking, and the threads of the lotus roots are still connected after being cut off."

"So what kind of samadhi did those monks who died heartlessly enter?" Pei Mingcui felt her heart tremble.

Shen Yue was silent for a moment, "They will enter a state of no thought and emotion."

"Wu Xiang has feelings?" Pei Mingcui murmured to herself, "As the name suggests, Wu Xiang means not thinking, and having feelings means having seeds. In this case, even though they don't want to, the seeds of feelings still haunt them?"

Shen Yue nodded slightly, "That's right."

Pei Mingcui stared at Shen Yue, "You have been talking about Buddhism to me for a long time, but in the end you just want to tell me that I am in the state of no thought and love. Although I think I have cut off my feelings for Li Xuanba, I still Staying in a state of being counterattacked by sentient beings?”

Shen Yue sighed, "Although this is not a good ending, it is a fact."

"I have been here for a long time."

Pei Mingcui's voice trembled slightly, "So the seeds of sentience kept sprouting and dying, and so many non-existent memories of mine were formed?"

Shen Yue nodded again, "In practice, there are three stages in the process of getting rid of confusion: entry, abiding, and annihilation. If someone enters without understanding and falls into chaos, he will remain there until he is truly annihilated."

Pei Mingcui stood up suddenly, "Are you saying that because I can't understand it, I must live in a world without thoughts and feelings?" Before Shen Yue could answer, Pei Mingcui said nervously, "Then how long have I lived?"

Shen Yue tried his best to stay awake, but still told the truth, "I'm afraid it will take you five hundred years to live here!"
Chapter completed!