Meet the Gentleman

Chapter 556: If you don’t know life, how can you know death?
On the east mountain.

Dongjun did not enter the secret realm and still stood in the sea of ​​clouds.

As the God of Dongshan, he can enter and exit the secret realm at any time. He has already understood what he should understand, and has already understood what he should understand.

But after more than two or three thousand years, nothing has been found.

"Yin and Yang are two parts of the sky, life and death are one line, and Tai Chi is one line..."

Dongjun walked in the sea of ​​clouds, muttering to himself, and his figure gradually disappeared.

Perhaps the secret of the secret realm lies between "life and death" and "Tai Chi".

"Tai Chi is a line" was what the saints said before them; "life and death are a line" was what the saints said after them, which was obviously changed by them.

But why did the saints change "Tai Chi" to "Life and Death"?
Could it be that the saints traced the origins on Mount Dongshan and really saw through the essence and truth of the world, so they changed "Tai Chi" to "Life and Death"?
"What is Tai Chi? Ancient philosophers have different explanations."

Dongjun's silhouette was still walking in the sea of ​​clouds, but gradually became blurred. He muttered to himself: "Some people say 'Taiji is Taiyi'; some people say 'Taiji is the nameless name'; some people say 'Taiji is Taiyi at the beginning'; some people say 'Taiji is the beginning of things'..."

And at this time.

All the scholars who entered the secret realm of Dongshan were shocked by the scene before them.

Because what is before my eyes is an endless place of purity and brightness, but there is no sky, no earth, and it seems that no material things exist.

But there seems to be "Qi".

This kind of "Qi" is hard to explain.

It seems to be between reality and illusion. It is pure and bright at first glance, but turbid and dark at second glance, making people wonder if it is an illusion.

and.

After they entered the secret realm, they had no bodies.

There is only a soul emitting a faint light, but it is difficult to describe the soul. It can only be said that it is a mushy body of light.

In a mysterious realm that is sometimes pure and bright, and sometimes turbid and dark.

Some spirits are not only very bright, but also very large, and look like stars hanging in the night sky from afar. However, some spirits are very dim, and look like sand, and have little spirit...

It seems that the higher the realm, the brighter the spirit.

In particular, the spirit of the great sage and the leader looked like a full moon from afar, shocking the scholars around them.

but.

When they saw the canonized spirit, they were shocked and could not believe it.

How can this be?

Even the great sages from other sects seemed to be stunned when they saw it, with horror in their eyes.

The great scholars, sages, and even the founder of Confucianism seemed to be somewhat shocked when they saw the canonized spirit.

at this time.

Maybe they finally understood.

Why can the saint step on the yin and yang line and open the secret realm that only the saint can open.

If the spirit of the leader is a full moon, then the spirit of the canonized one is a shining sun.

Under the scorching sun.

Where does the light of the full moon come from?

Which star dares to flash?
The scorching sun rises high, illuminating the sky and covering up all other light.

Therefore, when people were around the canonization ceremony, they could not see the spirits of others at all. There was only a scorching sun shining there.

When ordinary scholars and students saw the great sage and the spirit of the leader, a sentence came to their minds: How dare the light of a firefly compete with the bright moon?

but.

When the great sage saw the canonized spirit.

How could that sentence not appear in their minds?
They were indeed shocked.

"Tai Chi is a line, life and death are a line..."

Feng Qingyan also heard Dongjun's words and was thinking seriously at this time. After the saints traced the origin, they changed "Tai Chi" to "life and death", which must be related to tracing the origin, and even related to the entire secret realm.

Tai Chi...

life and death……

Feng Qingyan was observing the secret realm while thinking seriously.

It seemed that because of his previous life, he was familiar with the term "Tai Chi" and had some understanding of it.

Although in previous lives, different schools of thought had different interpretations of "Tai Chi", they all regarded "Tai Chi" as the inherent body of heaven, earth and all beings.

This round body contains infinite images and endless functions, and the image and function of the entity are inseparable.

While Feng Qingyan was thinking.

The scholars began to search in the secret realm, where were the footprints left by Emperor Xia when he ascended to heaven?
What about the holy images that the saints traced back to their origins?

What about the ancient miracles?
Why is the secret realm so empty?
Nothing.

This left many people dumbfounded.

Isn’t it said that entering the secret realm will bring great opportunities?

What about chance?
After a while, more and more people looked at each other, standing there not knowing what to do.

“If you don’t study the Book of Changes, you won’t understand its principles.”

At this time, Feng Qingyan's spirit body floated, thinking, and talking to himself, "I don't know that I originally have this body, and I don't know that all things are within me, so I lose sight of the essence and pursue the trivial, rushing to seek outside, causing all kinds of disasters for myself and the masses."

"Learning the Yi and understanding the principles will help you to seek good fortune and avoid disaster."

“The greatest disaster is the inability to resolve the issue of life and death; the greatest blessing is learning to become a sage.”

“If you want to learn to be a saint, you must first seek to resolve the issue of life and death.”

At this moment, Feng Qingyan was suddenly stunned, his mind was shaken. Does becoming a saint require solving the problem of life and death?
Is it to understand life and death?

His brows furrowed, and he seemed to remember something, and then he said, "The disciple of the Most Holy Saint once asked the Most Holy Saint about death, and the Most Holy Saint said: If you don't know life, how can you know death?"

“This means that there is death after life. If we want to know how to solve the problem of death, we must understand the source of life.”

"And the source of life..."

Feng Qingyan stopped, his soul trembling slightly.

In the eyes of others, his spirit body flickered, and each flicker emitted a dazzling and blinding light, making the scholars in the secret realm unable to help but look over.

"What is the situation with canonization?"

"Could it be that he has comprehended something?"

Many scholars became curious and specifically observed the spirits of the canonized saints, but they didn't know what to do anyway.

Moreover, such a weak spirit seems unable to do anything in the secret realm.

"It is Tai Chi!"

At this time, Feng Qingyan's mind was shocked again, and he said: "Taiji gave birth to two principles, two principles gave birth to four images, and four images gave birth to eight trigrams. The two principles are yin and yang, heaven and earth, odd and even, hard and soft, mysterious and yellow, Qiankun, spring and autumn, constant and change, which evolve all things in heaven and earth..."

"So, Tai Chi is the source of life?"

He looked at the secret realm carefully, and saw that it was pure and bright, without any image. He was shocked and said, "The Tai Chi gave birth to the two yin and yang. The Tai Chi is silent and motionless, and has no image. It is only a pure and bright body. This is the rationality of non-birth..."

"When it moves, it manifests itself and is used, and this is called life."

When he finished speaking, the secret realm suddenly turned into turbid darkness. This was movement and also a manifestation.

"The number of images produced is infinite, but when they begin to move, there are only two shapes and colors, one light and one dark. The light color is Yang, and the dark color is Yin, so it is called Yin and Yang..."

But the turbid darkness turned into pure light again.

The universe and all things did not evolve.

……

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(End of this chapter)