Chapter 184: No Peeping, No Fishing
Soon, Huan Yin sat down cross-legged on the spot, right next to the sea of lava and fire, on the side of the Dharma Body that was speaking to him. However, he didn't immediately take out a fishing rod and began to learn to fish like all the Dharma Bodies here. He just slowly closed his eyes, and then he didn't move.
Huan Yin's movements were seen by all the Dharma Bodies, and everyone's eyes quickly showed appreciation. Especially the Dharma Body that had said a lot to Huan Yin, he nodded silently.
Huan Yin will not forget that in the story about the Eastern Emperor Taiyi told by the Dharma Body, the first action of the Eastern Emperor Taiyi after the retreat was not to ask questions, not to seek the Tao, but to give up all the previous achievements and forget everything he had learned. So, he did it. He understood what Donghuang Taiyi meant, only by emptying his mind and leaving no confusion can he fully accept a new way, a kind of avenue. If there is another way in the heart, then it is difficult for the new way to really enter the heart.
This sitting is a full three days. For three days, Huan Yin kept his eyes closed and motionless. However, in fact, the thoughts in his heart are tumbling all the time, his heart does not have a moment of real peace, and his heart cannot be empty.
Yes, it's not that there is not enough time to vacate it, but that it is not vacant at all. Because to be completely vacated is to forget everything you have learned in the past and to deny everything you have learned. This kind of negation is not only the way of Taoism, but also the cultivation of deeds. Once the negation is complete, then Huan Yin becomes a mortal.
Huan Yin is not afraid of becoming a mortal, but he is not afraid of cultivating to nothing. However, he has been cultivating for too long, and he has relied on what he has learned all the way to get to where he is now. If he hadn't learned everything, he would have died long ago. If he suddenly denied all of this now, it would be tantamount to asking him to directly destroy the stable Dao Heart that he had built up over the years, how could that be possible?
Three days later, sweat gradually appeared on Huan Yin's forehead. Sweating more and more, until his back was also covered with sweat, his body trembled, and then he opened his eyes.
"What's the matter, can't you put it down?" Huan Yin's side, the Dharma Body looked over and said with a smile.
The struggles and contradictions in Huan Yin's heart were still churning, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with some bitterness: "If you want me to deny everything I have learned before, and if you want me to destroy the firm Dao heart that I have built up with great difficulty, this ...... I can't do that at the moment......"
"On the contrary, the more I am asked to do this, the more contradictions in my heart will be, the more struggles I will have in my heart, and my mood will never be able to calm down. ”
The Dharma Body nodded and said, "Human nature, the Eastern Emperor Taiyi back then, he also faced such a contradiction at the beginning. But he was too determined by the mystery he had discovered, so in the end he did. It was also because he did it that he was able to succeed in the end. ”
"Young man, it seems that you want to do this, there is some difficulty. However, the Eastern Emperor Taiyi once said that if you want to comprehend the Great Dao, you don't have to completely empty your heart first. At the beginning of comprehension, the two paths can coexist in the mind, although there may be contradictions, and it will also bring great obstacles to the perception, but as long as we can gradually eliminate the other's strengths, we can still touch the true path in the end. ”
However, to comprehend the true path in that way will not only be too dull and difficult, but it may also lead astray, or even collapse the Dao mind and cannot be reshaped. The risks and difficulties are indescribable, do you dare to try?"
Without the slightest hesitation, Huan Yin bowed to the Dharma Body: "Old man, please give me advice!"
The Dharma Body nodded and said, "Then it's easy, let your mood calm down completely, don't deliberately forget anything, just start comprehending." But because you already have the Tao in your heart, you have to learn to discern and face contradictions and doubts all the time when you realize. ”
The meaning of the Dharma Body, Huan Yin fully understands. Because if there is no way in the heart, it is like a blank piece of paper, which can be portrayed at will when you perceive the Taiyi Avenue. But if there is already a Tao in his heart, and he is as firm as Huan Yin, then it is like a paper that has been painted, and if he wants to comprehend Taiyi Dao, every time Huan Yin wants to comprehend a trace, he must first erase the original trace before he can draw it again. In this way, he felt all the way, and he needed to wipe too much.
Huan Yin closed his eyes again, he had no choice, so he began to calm his mind as much as possible. In this way, another half day passed, and when his whole person looked completely normal, he opened his eyes again.
"Try it. Beside Huan Yin, the voice of the Dharma Body came out again.
Huan Yin nodded, and then, an extremely ordinary bamboo pole gradually appeared in his hand, a bamboo pole that was exactly the same as that held by all the Dharma Bodies here.
Holding it with his hand, Huan Yin was a little satisfied with the bamboo pole he had changed, and then he carefully observed the movements of every Dharma Body here, and stretched the bamboo pole towards the lava in a similar way.
Everything, there is nothing wrong, so, Huan Yin once again slightly mobilized his spiritual power, wanting to change a fishing line, in this way, the fishing line went deep into the lava, and then turned into a fishing hook and bait, and everything was alive.
Changing a fishing line, this kind of trail that has reached the extreme of the foundation is easy for Huan Yin, as if he had just conjured a fishing rod. Soon, a thin line runs from the top end of the rod and hangs downward.
However, the line appeared less than an inch, and very suddenly, after a "bang", the line caught fire and burned. The fierce burning lasted less than a moment, and the entire line was reduced to ashes.
Huan Yin was stunned, thinking that he had not controlled it well. So, he repeated his old tricks and became cautious. However, even if Huan Yin tried more than ten times in a row, none of his fishing lines could exceed an inch, and he would be burned to ashes by the heat emitted by the lava. Even if he specifically used the Dao method to protect it, it would be meaningless.
After some trying, Huan Yin was a little confused. The most basic and ordinary methods are now being completed by him, which makes him a little overwhelmed. When he looked at the Dharma Body beside him, the Dharma Body said with a smile: "Little friend, have you ever heard a saying called 'Don't peep into the road, don't fish'?"
"Don't peep, don't fish?" Huan Yin repeated the words of the Dharma Body, chewing on the taste of it. Then, with a flash of realization in his eyes, he said, "You mean, if I don't know what I'm going to catch, I can't fish?"
The Dharma Body said appreciatively, "Yes, then do you know what you want to catch?"
The Dharma Body said that fishing is a fish, and it is also the Tao. Therefore, Huan Yin wants to fish naturally is the way. But what is the Word?
Huan Yin suddenly fell into confusion, he knew that he was going to comprehend the Tao that Donghuang Taiyi had felt back then, but what was the Dao? No one had ever mentioned this Tao to him, and he didn't know where to start.
"Go ahead, go ask the three old guys across there. I think the three of them have the best answer to your question. But you have to remember that all they have in their hearts are the remnants of Taiyi back then. There are right and wrong thoughts, and you can only rely on yourself to distinguish them. The voice of the Dharma Body rang out again.
Huan Yin nodded, and after a bow, he stood up and walked all the way to the west side of the entire sea of lava and fire. There, the three Dharma Bodies who were a little close to each other were all silently fishing, their eyes closed.
When Huan Yin approached the three Dharma Bodies, they all opened their eyes and looked at Huan Yin. Huan Yin bowed solemnly to these three Dharma Bodies, and said, "Three seniors, please give me advice, what is the Tao?"
Soon, the Dharma Body sitting on the far left spoke: "If you have attained the Dao, you can know the truth and the false." ”
After saying a word, the Dharma Body closed its eyes again and never moved again. Then, the Dharma body sitting in the middle spoke again: "If you have attained the Tao, you can distinguish between right and wrong." ”
With that, he closed his eyes as well. Finally, the Dharma Body sitting on the far right speaks: "Attaining the Dao, attaining nothing." Gain the way, lose something. ”
Finally, he finished speaking, and then, all three of them returned to their original state, never moving again.
Huan Yin knew that what they had to say was finished. He stood there, his mind constantly echoing the three sentences he had just spoken. After a long time, Huan Yin's thoughts had begun to churn. So, he simply sat cross-legged on the spot, right next to the three Dharma Bodies, as if he had become the fourth Dharma Body.
Then, Huan Yin took out the fishing rod again, stretched out the fishing rod like the three Dharma Bodies, and closed his eyes, as if fishing.