Infinite true path

Soon, Huan Yin sat down cross-legged on the spot, next to the sea of ​​lava and fire, right next to the Dharma Body that spoke to him. However, he did not immediately take out a fishing rod and start learning to fish like all the Dharmakayas here. He just slowly closed his eyes and then became motionless.

Huan Yin's actions were noticed by all the dharma bodies, and everyone's eyes quickly showed appreciation. Especially the Dharmakaya who had said many things to Huan Yin nodded silently.

Huan Yin will never forget that in the story about Donghuang Taiyi told by Dharmakaya, Donghuang Taiyi’s first action after retreat was not to ask questions or to find the way, but to give up all previous achievements and forget what he had learned. everything. So, he did the same. He understood what Donghuang Taiyi meant. Only by emptying his mind and leaving no clutter could he fully accept a new way, a great way. If there is another way in the heart, it will be difficult for the new way to truly enter the soul.

Three whole days passed in this sitting. For three days, Huan Yin kept his eyes closed and remained motionless. However, in fact, the thoughts in his heart were tumbling all the time. His heart was never truly calm for a moment, and his heart could not be empty.

Yes, it’s not that there’s not enough time and there’s no time to get airborne, but it’s that there’s simply no way to get airborne. Because to completely vacate is to ask Huan Yin to forget everything he has learned in the past and to deny everything he has learned. This kind of negation negates not only the Taoist methods, but also the cultivation. Once the negation is truly complete, Huan Yin will become a mortal.

Huan Yin is not afraid of becoming a mortal, but he is not afraid of losing all his cultivation. However, he has been cultivating Taoism for a long time and relied solely on what he learned along the way to get to where he is now. Without everything he learned, he would have died long ago without a burial place. For him to suddenly deny all of this now is to directly destroy the solid Taoist heart he has built up over the years. How is that possible?

Three days later, sweat gradually appeared on Huan Yin's forehead. The sweat increased more and more, until his back was also covered with profuse sweat. His body trembled for a while, and then he opened his eyes.

"How about it, can't you let it go?" The dharma body next to Huan Yin looked over and said with a smile.

The struggles and contradictions in Huan Yin's heart were still raging. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with some bitterness: "You want me to deny everything I have learned before, and I want to destroy the firm Taoist heart I have finally built up." , this...I simply can't do this at the moment..."

"On the contrary, the more I am asked to do this, the more conflicts and struggles I will have in my heart, and it will never be possible for me to calm down."

Dharmakaya nodded and said: "It's human nature. Donghuang Taiyi also faced such a contradiction at the beginning. But he was too determined in the mystery he discovered, so in the end he really did it. . And because he did it, he was able to succeed in the end.”

"Young man, it seems that you have some difficulty in doing this. However, Donghuang Taiyi once said that if you want to understand the Dao, you do not have to completely empty your mind first. At the beginning of understanding the Dao, the two Dao can coexist. In the heart, although there may be contradictions and great obstacles to enlightenment, as long as one can gradually wax and wane, one can eventually touch the true way."

"However, to understand the true way in that way will not only be too slow and difficult, but it may also go astray, and even the heart of the Tao may collapse and cannot be reshaped. The risks and difficulties involved are beyond words. Do you dare to Try it?”

Huan Yin did not hesitate at all and bowed to the Dharma Body: "Old man, please enlighten me!"

Dharmakaya nodded and said: "That's easy. Let your mood calm down completely. You don't have to deliberately forget anything. Just start to understand. But because you already have the Tao in your heart, when you understand, You have to learn to distinguish and face contradictions and doubts all the time.”

Huan Yin fully understood the meaning of Dharmakaya. Because if you don’t have a Tao in your heart, it is like a blank piece of paper. When you realize the Great Way of Taiyi, you can write whatever you want. But if you already have the Tao in your heart, and you are as determined as Huan Yin, then it is like a paper that has been filled with drawings. If you want to understand the Taiyi Dao, every time Huan Yin wants to understand a trace, he must first erase the original trace. Draw again. In this way, along the way he realized that there was too much that he needed to erase.

Huan Yin closed his eyes again. He had no choice, so he began to calm his heart as much as possible. Just like that, another half day passed. When he looked completely normal, he opened his eyes again.

"Try it." Next to Huan Yin, the voice of 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 Dharmakayas here.

After shaking it with his hand, Huan Yin was somewhat satisfied with the transformed bamboo pole. Then he carefully observed the movements of every Dharma Body here, and followed the example of extending the bamboo pole towards the lava.

There was nothing wrong with everything, so Huan Yin slightly adjusted his spiritual power again, trying to transform into a fishing line. In this way, the fishing line went deep into the lava, and then changed into fishhook and bait, and everything came alive.

Changing a fishing line, this extremely basic path, is as easy for Huan Yin as if he had just changed a fishing rod. Soon, the thin line extended from the top end of the fishing rod and hung downward.

However, the fishing line had just appeared less than an inch, and suddenly, with a "squeak" sound, the fishing line suddenly caught fire and burned. And this violent burning lasted less than a moment, and the entire fishing line turned into 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 or they would be burned to ashes by the high temperature emitted by the lava. Even if he specifically uses Taoism to protect him, it's meaningless.

After trying it for a while, Huan Yin was a little confused. Now he couldn't complete the most basic and common method, which made him a little at a loss. When looking at Dharmakaya beside him, Dharmakaya said with a smile: "My little friend, have you ever heard of the saying 'If you don't peep, you won't fish'?"

"If you don't peep at the Tao, you won't fish?" Huan Yin repeated Dharmakaya's words, chewing the taste of them carefully. Then, with a flash of understanding in his eyes, he said, "You mean I can't fish if I don't know what I'm fishing for?"

Dharmakaya said appreciatively: "Yes, then do you know what you want to catch?"

Dharmakaya once said that what you are fishing for is the fish, and it is also the Tao. Therefore, what Huan Yin wants to fish for is Tao. But what is Tao?

Huan Yin suddenly fell into confusion. He knew that he wanted to understand the Tao that Donghuang Taiyi had comprehended back then, but what was the Tao? No one had ever mentioned this to him, so he had no idea how to start.

"Go and ask the three old guys opposite. I think the three of them have the best answers to your questions. But you have to remember that what they have in their hearts are the remnants of Taiyi's past. The remnants are There may be mistakes, and you can only rely on yourself to distinguish them." Dharmakaya's voice sounded again.

Huan Yin nodded, bowed, stood up, and walked to the west side of the lava sea. There, the three Dharmakayas who were quite close to each other were fishing silently, with their eyes closed.

When Huan Yin approached the three dharma bodies, they all opened their eyes and looked at Huan Yin if they felt something. Huan Yin bowed solemnly to these three dharma bodies with clasped fists, and said: "Three seniors, please teach me, what is Tao?"

Soon, the Dharmakaya sitting on the far left spoke: "If you gain the Tao, you can know the truth and falsehood."

After saying this, the dharma body closed its eyes again and never moved again. Then, the Dharmakaya sitting in the middle spoke again: "When you gain the Tao, you can distinguish right from wrong."

After saying that, he also closed his eyes. Finally, the Dharmakaya sitting on the far right said: "To gain the Tao, you gain nothing. To gain the Tao, you lose something."

Finally, he finished speaking, and then the three of them returned to their original state and never moved again.

Huan Yin knew that what they wanted to say had been said. He stood there, the three sentences just echoed in his mind. After a long time, Huan Yin's thoughts began to swirl. So, he simply sat cross-legged on the ground, next to the three Dharmakayas, as if he had become the fourth Dharmakaya.

Then, Huan Yin took out the fishing rod again, stretched it out like the three dharma bodies, closed his eyes, and seemed to be fishing.