Chapter 946: Ancient Secrets: The Origin of All Daos (Part 2)
Jiang Lu kept talking about things from the ancient times.
Since the birth of the demon, the reopening of the universe has become a matter of course.
All living beings are in great pain, because the devil will easily destroy everything as nothingness, and then reshape a new world.
In addition, new third-grades began to appear. In addition to those born with third-grade and second-grade, mortals also began to touch the power of third-grade.
After reopening again and again, every existence with reality began to make its own choices.
The universe has become unimaginably complex. When a real being faces multiple choices, it will choose all options. As a result, there are many different time dimensions and different histories of the universe.
In the evolutionary process of this universe, there are many different creatures at every stage, and each creature faces many possible paths at every moment. Combined with this, every stage and every moment of this universe will produce countless small cosmic possibilities.
These realistic original intentions can perceive the entire physical universe from multiple space-time perspectives, or even from all possible space-time perspectives. Creatures that can perceive the universe from all possible spatial perspectives are consistent in the spatial extent of their perception, and their differences are reflected in their insights.
This insight depends on the individual's intellectual talents and abilities. These real beings not only have all-round perception, but also all-round decision-making.
They can exert their fists in various places in time and space, and of course, their strength and accuracy will vary according to the individual's different intellectual abilities.
In a sense, the existence of these three levels is non-material, metaphysical existence, just like chess players struggling in the material universe.
Although there is a physical aspect, there is no systematic physical world that we are familiar with. The physical feeling of beings depends entirely on their mutual influence. Each individual emits a flood of sensory "images," the nature and consequences of which are determined by the psychological laws of interaction between minds.
The complexity of the universe has increased to an unparalleled level.
Haotian's initial choices ultimately created such a being, and they even created a universe without any objective physical essence. As metaphysical beings, they cannot have any substantial influence on each other.
Under the influence of the demon, another system based on the mind emerged. There, those entities with reality conceived a physical world of their own. Although it was illusory, it was reliable and practical. The world was filled with various kinds of things of their own. Imagine that these subjective worlds are connected to each other through their extraordinary and precise calculations, forming a perfect system.
In this way, the spiritual path and the demonic path were stabilized, and the birth of the "heavens" also appeared.
However, someone has had enough.
Some people are fed up with being manipulated like this, being dragged into the web of all things, unable to escape, being constantly rewritten and pulled, like a puppet on strings.
Moreover, when the puppeteer controls the puppet, the puppet is also pulling on the puppeteer with its own meager strength. No one can escape, and everyone is pulling each other.
He felt extremely unfree, being bound and dragged by this net, rolling around in it, but still unable to get out of it. A mortal sinking into the mortal world would not be able to detect it, but he used his wisdom to , aware of the existence of this network, so it was particularly painful.
In order to escape from this net, he resolutely gave up everything.
So, this young man gave up his glory and wealth, and under the Bodhi tree, he began to think about where old age, suffering, illness, death, and all kinds of unsatisfactory things came from.
On the Bodhi tree, the moon rises and sets, the tide rises and falls.
Under the bodhi tree, sit in lotus position and meditate.
In the end, he realized the reality and mystery of the universe and life. Through this method, he can eliminate the complexity and emptiness of the current universe.
The demon felt threatened, because this was the way to eliminate the demonic thoughts, so the demon came to the door and wanted to prevent the other party from becoming enlightened. The demonic army surrounded him and the demonic thoughts invaded.
However, it failed in the end, and the first "Buddha" appeared. Buddha means the enlightened one. He was called "Buddha", which means the ancestor of all Buddhas, yes... all Buddhas.
There is more than one Buddha.
He claimed that all living beings are Buddhas, all things, and all beings with high wisdom can obtain his kind of liberation, forever free from upside-down dreams, forever free from old age, suffering, illness, and death, and never troubled by demonic thoughts and external wars.
He even said that he should have left here because he had found a way to escape from everything, but he was unwilling to leave because he still had one last obsession.
This obsession is his 'compassion'.
He was not willing to let himself be liberated alone. He wanted all sentient beings to be liberated from suffering together with him, so he gave up the final step of transcendence and chose to stay, spread his wisdom, and save all suffering.
If self-nature is realized, all living beings are Buddhas.
At the same time, there was another wise man in the human race. He also found a similar answer. He found that... there are too many constraints in this world, and these constraints are all given by everyone.
If you want to achieve true freedom, you must give up your own constraints.
But some constraints exist naturally in heaven and earth.
The heaven and the earth move on their own without being pushed, the sun and the moon shine by themselves without being burned, the stars sequence themselves without being arranged, the animals and beasts emerge by themselves without being made by man, this is what nature does, so why bother?
The reason why people are born, why they are inanimate, why they are honored, and why they are disgraced are all based on natural principles and ways.
This 'nature', he discovered, is a more noble existence than 'Haotian'.
He found an existence beyond Haotian, beyond Taiyi, beyond demons, and beyond Buddha.
He thought about it and called it ‘Tao’.
And if you want to get close to the existence of "Tao", you need to practice "De" in yourself. In this way, Tao travels in heaven and earth, and virtue is connected with Tao. This is called "morality".
As a result, he was called the 'Tao Ancestor', and another existence appeared in the universe that could stand side by side with Haotian, but he was still not satisfied. Although he was much freer, he was still not free.
However, he no longer deliberately pursued unfreedom.
Because, when you look at the beginning of things, within the heaven and earth, outside the universe, the people in heaven and earth, the sun, the moon, mountains and rivers have different shapes and properties, but the same ones all arise and die according to nature, and they all move and stop according to nature.
Unfreedom seems to be a part of nature. Absolute freedom, just take your time and let nature take its course.
After that, all living beings seemed to have found the existence of "Tao", but some of these "Taos" were profound, some were superficial, some could really explain all things, and some were just nonsense and copied mechanically.
However, different ways seem to be somewhat incompatible with each other? Obviously everyone can interpret the same thing, but when put together it seems so disharmonious.
However, the emergence of 'Tao' began to accelerate the progress of spiritual practice.
With Tao, the advancement of law and technique began to explode on a large scale.
Cultivation methods, as well as various types of techniques that use them, have experienced a terrifying growth rate under the guidance of 'Tao'. In the past, I could only do everything, but now that I have guidance, it is like having a map. As long as you follow it Map, and then complete all the tasks that are shining on the map. The skills and magic will soon reach the peak. From the blind man on the dark continent, he starts to light up the lamp to find the way.
But...a problem arises.
That is, although Dharma and Technique are easy to explore, but... the exploration of 'Tao' is far more difficult than Dharma and Technique.
At this point, hybridization begins.
A wise man in the human realm found the Taoist ancestor, hoping to learn his wisdom, which later became an important branch of the human realm.
I don’t know why, but there was a lot of communication between Buddhas and demons, which resulted in a lot of transformations.
The first witches and Taoists learned from each other and developed the concept of "nature", which separated the witches from the position of "server of the gods".
The warriors learned how to beat various people, and they also began to think about "why they fight."
In the final analysis, the reason why the martial arts tradition was developed was to facilitate previous battles. It was a set of methods developed by warriors as they explored martial arts. Before this, no warrior would think about why.
Why do you think so much? They trained for fighting.
However, after this time, they discovered... were they here to fight, or for something else?
On the other side, the monsters found that they were too weak compared to the gods, humans, real dragons, various mythical beasts, and these gifted creatures. They had to find a better way to survive. .
So, the demon clan started their own big attempt.
Demons, demon gods, demon dragons, and demon ways appeared one after another, and the demon clan itself was divided internally. The last fatal demon clan leader even went crazy and chose to stir up the world. It was called "demon chaos" in history. In this catastrophe, demons, humans, gods, Taoists, Buddhas, demons, etc. all fought together.
This time, it was the first 'Taoist War' that swept the entire universe. In the end, humanity completely broke with Shinto. The shamans also broke away from the original shackles of the human race. The true 'Human Emperor' began to appear. At the same time, the gods' The third line of 'human ghosts' also began to appear, and it became a fact for mortals to become gods.
Since then, the pattern of gods, earth, humans and ghosts has been completely established.
The Arctic Monster Clan broke away from the Monster Clan. They gave up their physical bodies and became another kind of existence, which is called "spirit", or "ghost" or "soul".
Humanity also appeared in a real sense. The human race that worshiped the gods was wiped out, and humanity embarked on the road of self-reliance. Later, an ‘emperor’ appeared.
Not an emperor, not an emperor, but an existence beyond them all.
It's just that the emperor didn't make it to the end.
Of course, Haotian still did not interfere in all this.
It's hard to tell whether this is gentleness or cruelty. Haotian's non-interference has caused so many tragedies and tragedies, but if he interferes... what will happen?
All in all, the complexity of the history of the universe this time far exceeds previous creations, but every life here ends in tragedy sooner or later.
Although in essence, intelligence is a very powerful ability, if this power is too strong, it doesn't seem to be very good, at least in terms of the results.
Nowadays, these creatures have super intelligence beyond previous levels. Their magical powers are enough to control physical energy, and they also possess the acuity of intellectual activities.
In Jiang Lu's narrative, this caused a disaster. Life gained the ability to control physical energy and developed a certain fanatical nature. The acuity of intellectual activities went to extremes, that is, the fanaticism of analytical thinking and abstract thinking. Completely ignore what cannot be explained by intellectual activity. Emotions, without the criticism of intellectual activities and the constraints of daily life, will drown in daydreams, and eventually the ultimate daydreams will be born, namely the 'spiritual way' and the 'magic way'.
Li Qi was noncommittal. He didn't think the magic way or the spiritual way was a daydream, but he didn't stop Jiang Lu from continuing.
After that, the universe quickly ushered in an important 'reopening'.
Under the leadership of Buddhism, the universe ushered in "badness" and "emptiness", which they called "measurable calamity".
Buddhism tries to create something called the "other shore" to allow everyone to "survive" the reopening of the universe again and again, and avoid the unlimited refreshment of the devil's fun.
Wu Jin joined the attempt, and some of the gods were also interested.
As a result, the "underworld universe" corresponding to the real universe was born. Buddhism believes that in this way, all living beings will have enough time to think about what they are, instead of dying without thinking about anything.
The World-Honored One Tathagata wants to ‘enlighten all sentient beings’. This is his final goal before transcendence and the ultimate ‘great cause’.
The so-called 'karma', in Buddhism, refers to the behaviors of living beings, especially those behaviors that can lead to future results.
Original meaning: artificiality, behavior.
In Buddhism, "karma" is regarded as the driving force of everything, the "cause" of creation, and the "result" that can lead to happiness or pain.
There are three types of karma, the so-called physical karma, verbal karma, and mental karma, that is: the things you do, the words you say, and the thoughts you have are all considered "karma."
The Tathagata's great karma is his ultimate, and the greatest act in this world is also the 'last karma' he created.
Reincarnation is forged, and all living beings can no longer 'die'. For mortals, death is not disappearance now, but the beginning of a new journey. Although they themselves may be ignorant, this is the compassion of the Buddha.
The witches and wizards were curious about the consequences of this, and some gods thought that losing death might be a good thing. The three parties worked together to implement 'reincarnation'.
Humanity disdains reincarnation, but it does not interfere in any way, it is unnecessary.
Placing hope in the afterlife is just what mediocre people do.
Then, the world gradually got back on track.
The orthodox people fight against each other, fight among themselves, and... make progress with each other.
In the process of holding each other back, they became stronger and stronger.
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