The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 548 Three thousand roads, all of which can be proved

"Everything has form, everything has form..."

"This is the foundation and origin of everything, and it is also the reason why we can stand here today and communicate with each other."

Standing in the middle of the secluded courtyard, Pei Wende seemed to have returned to the time when he was debating with Huiji in Weishan.

"But if that's all it is..."

"The world is just a chaotic unknown, not the order we can see today."

At that time, Pei Wende didn't have any too advanced debate skills, nor did he have the kind of brilliant and fascinating eloquence.

Therefore, in the face of Huiji's debates with tricky angles and even distorted facts, what Pei Wende can do is to strengthen his materialism in his previous life, believing that all mysteries in this world are knowable.

The reincarnation pursued by Buddhism and the detachment pursued by Taoism are just practicing certain known rules.

Even from an extreme point of view, the 21st century in which I live in the future, isn't it the heaven and the pure land that the ancients strived for?

Therefore, as long as human beings have mastered enough truth and technology, there is no need to pin their hopes on illusory gods and Buddhas. Sooner or later, they will create their own real Buddha kingdom on earth, heaven and pure land.

"There must be some necessary relationship between everything."

"These connections are good or bad, good or bad, whether we notice them, discover them or not, and they're always there."

"The Shurangama Sutra says that all sentient beings come from no beginning, all kinds of upside-down, karmic seeds are natural, like evil fork gathering."

"The Tao Te Ching says that there are things that are mixed, born from the heavens and the earth, lonely and lonely, independent and unchanging, traveling around without perishing, and can be the mother of the world. I don't know its name, but the word is Tao."

"That is to say, Buddhism calls this connection between all things 'cause and effect', while Taoism calls it 'Dao'!"

As Pei Wende calmly narrated his own ideas, he once again had a deeper understanding of the "dragon slaying technique" he had learned in his previous life.

"There are three thousand Taos, ranging from the rotation of the stars day and night, to the encounter between you and me today, all of which can be regarded as a manifestation of the 'Tao'."

"Then the next question comes..."

"Since we can't change the 'Tao' that has existed since the dawn of chaos, can we use these 'Tao'?"

There was a slight pause in his tone, and Pei Wende nodded involuntarily as he looked at Ping Yi and Shu Er who were gradually falling into deep thought.

"The answer is of course yes."

"Since the 'Tao' exists objectively, we can naturally use these 'Tao' to change ourselves and the world."

"Opening nine orifices, learning Taoism, and allowing yourself to evolve towards a higher species level, you use the way of evolution and learning."

"Smelting tools, forging spirit treasures, extracting the steel and pill stones you need from minerals, using the most basic way of smelting and good fortune."

"However, is the 'Tao' you have learned and mastered the real Dao?"

"Today you can think that the nine orifices are the innate body, but it is unknown whether there will be ten or eleven or even more perfect innate ways in the future?"

"Just like you think today that steel is extracted from ore, and food is grown from the ground, how do you know whether it will be possible to extract steel directly from the air and grow food in the future?"

"No one knows this, and it's impossible for anyone to know."

"So in order to prevent ourselves from going astray, we must use dialectical methods to understand everything in this world."

"Although everything in the world is generally connected, the world itself is developing forever. We can never explain everything in the world with only one constant cognition..."

"It's like the interweaving of cause and effect will give rise to new cause and effect, or for example, although there are three thousand people, there are eight hundred people from other schools..."

"Theoretically speaking, as long as we are still alive, as long as the world has not returned to dead silence, we will never be able to touch the real 'way of truth'."

"Because knowledge can never be learned, and thousands of avenues can never be explored..."

"What we can do is to allow ourselves to change with the changes of everything, and step by step to the 'road' that can be infinitely approached but never reached!"

At this moment, Ping Yi, who was extremely savvy, suddenly raised her hand to interrupt Pei Wende's narration, signaling that she had a question to ask.

"Say!"

Regardless of Shu Er's dissatisfied expression beside her, Ping Yi raised her own question in an excited and confused tone.

"If everything is in perpetual development, how do we define the boundaries of this development?"

"In other words, how can we be sure that we are approaching the 'road' instead of standing still or even departing from it?"

Speaking of this, Ping Yi thought of the "future" she saw, which seemed to be the turning point in the development of her own destiny.

"It's a good question. It involves the relationship between quantitative change and qualitative change."

"Because there is no absolutely 'correct' statement about the development of things, all three thousand ways can be proved."

"And their development process is not achieved overnight, but a gradual process..."

"Just like the futures you see, they are actually a process of quantitative change."

"Only when these quantitative changes accumulate enough to form a general trend, will there be a qualitative change that is almost reborn."

"Although qualitative changes cannot be stopped, those quantitative changes are not static..."

"In other words, it is precisely because of the cumulative quantitative changes that lead to the emergence of new qualitative changes one by one."

"It's like you and your younger brother have the same body, but different experiences lead to completely different personalities, and this difference will become bigger and bigger as you grow older."

"The same is true of the 'futures' you saw..."

"Those accumulated quantitative changes subtly affect your thoughts, and finally lead to your decision to 'split with Bi Xing'."

"Even if this 'split' requires your own death as the price."

Looking at Ping Yi, who was gradually showing a sudden look, Pei Wende couldn't help but admire the other party's high level of understanding, which was simply the highest among all the people he had seen.

"You mean, the 'futures' I see can actually be changed?"

She murmured half-believingly, and the expression on Pingyi's face gradually turned into disbelief, because she thought of what Pei Wende said earlier that someone was deliberately arranging her future.

"At least from the point of view of fate, I don't believe in that predestined 'future'."

"Because if there is really a predestined 'fate', then what you see now may not be me today, but a tyrannical monster who kills innocent people."

"Even I, who was born with a cruel nature, can change the 'future' where I became a devil..."

"How can you be bound by the 'future' you see?"

"The reason why you feel that those 'futures' cannot be changed is because you haven't really made up your mind and used the right method."

He didn't directly express his guess, Pei Wende just guided Ping Yi to continue thinking.

"As long as you have that idea and awareness, it's never too late to change."

"As for the way to change the future?"

"If you are interested, I can start with the basic life skills and explain to you little by little later."

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