From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

If the personalized light of the soul is the manifestation of one's own beliefs and convictions, then the power of faith is the spiritual light of all beings, formed from the similar beliefs and convictions of others.

Comparison with Mahayana Buddhist attainments:

Arhat - self-awareness is sufficient.

After a Bodhisattva awakens to enlightenment, he must then awaken others, that is, teach and guide sentient beings to enlightenment.

The Buddha – self-aware, enlightening others, and fully awakened.

Therefore, after some thought, Jiang Liu did not discard the pure seven-headed serpent composed of faith. Instead, he returned to the Golden Core, introspectively cultivated the Heart Sutra, and, relying on the profound and wondrous method of the integration of exoteric and esoteric teachings, circulated the primordial energy, and taught the seven-headed serpent to coil around his spine and the twenty-four layers of the Heavenly Pagoda of the Heart Sutra.

It is both self-aware and aware of others.

Once the seven-headed serpent had completely coiled around and adapted to the Twenty-Four Heavenly Towers, Jiang Liu's heart trembled. He realized that the Primordial Qi could merge with it, allowing his own spiritual light to collide with the spiritual light of others within it, thus shaping a true golden seed that was visible only to himself, reflecting the void, and different from the Golden Core and Holy Embryo.

With just one glance, Jiang Liu was enlightened and realized that the golden seed was himself! It was the foundation for cultivating the Dharma body!

What is the Dharmakaya?

Buddhism has the concept of the three bodies.

Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya, Nirmanakaya.

The so-called Dharmakaya is the self-nature Dharma body that realizes true reality. It is formless and without characteristics, and is not visible to the self. Ordinary people, even other Buddhas who have attained enlightenment, can only see their own Dharmakaya and cannot observe the Dharmakaya of other Buddhas.

If one can observe it, it is not the Dharmakaya, but the Sambhogakaya, which is the image of various gods and Buddhas in the temple.

The final manifestation is similar to an incarnation, hidden in the mundane world, either practicing cultivation or teaching sentient beings.

how to say?

The theory of manifesting oneself implies that the sages who attained enlightenment and reached the state of Buddhahood would inevitably continue their practice and educate the ignorant masses.

However, when applied to religion, it's highly likely that Buddhism is trying to glorify itself by incorporating ancient sages into the system of manifestations of the Buddha in order to strengthen Buddhism and attract followers.

However, the Dharmakaya is generally a real existence, formed by the fusion of one's own spiritual light and the spiritual light of all beings; it is the "Dharma"!

The Dharma of Buddhism is not simply Buddhist teachings, but rather the practice of upholding one's own nature and guiding sentient beings to enlightenment, which corresponds to the "Tao" of Taoism.

If we view Tao and Law dialectically, and then combine them with modern scientific thinking for modification, Jiang Liu's view on the two is only one:

The Tao is the natural law; follow the natural order.

Law, on the other hand, is the interpretation of rules, which originates from a perception of the world formed after the collision of consciousness between oneself and others.

The Dharmakaya is a unique "seed" formed from the collision of consciousness between oneself and others.

of course.

Without cultivation and awakening the light of the mind, even if one cultivates Qi to reach the heavens and achieves harmony with nature, one can never refine such a seed of Dharma body.

Therefore—

The Tao is formless.

The Dharma has no form.

The Tao is formless, existing in nature; cultivating Qi and practicing Taoism lies in following the laws of Heaven and Earth.

The Dharma has no form; in cognition, cultivating the mind and clarifying one's nature emphasizes the Dharma's form and the universe.

The former involves using one's human body to imitate, learn, and master the rules of heaven and earth, while the latter involves using one's own body to understand, perceive, and become an interpreter of the rules of heaven and earth.

Jiang Liu's various methods, when combined, can achieve the great supernatural power of manifesting the laws of heaven and earth. Now, he has also obtained the light of the hearts of all beings—faith—thus forging a seed of true gold, which is the foundation of his Dharma body. He has obtained the Dao of the Dharma body and the form of heaven and earth. He will cultivate the eight aspects, and the seventh aspect of transcendence has been somewhat solidified. However, because Jiang Liu has not married and had children, even if he understands the principles, he has not truly experienced them. How can he be worthy of being the true interpreter of the "Dao"?

But Jiang Liu was not in a hurry. With a calm mind, he slowly opened his eyes. In addition to the dazzling Milky Way, there seemed to be a golden radiance in his pupils, like fire and the sun, eternal and inextinguishable.

However, this extraordinary phenomenon of lotus blossoms and stars shining under the golden sun was fleeting, and neither Xiaoyu nor Duanmu Ying saw it. They only saw him awaken and asked, "Did it work?"

"It's done!"

Jiang Liu smiled confidently, "I have already stripped away the power of faith."

Upon hearing this, Xiaoyu slashed at the snake egg again, but as before, no matter how many marks she made, it could still recover completely.

"I only stripped away the power of faith within it; I didn't change the material of the snake egg," Jiang Liu explained to Xiao Yu's puzzled face.

However, without the power of faith, that is, without the blessing of the light of the soul, it would only take a moment to annihilate this snake egg.

Just as Jiang Liu was about to make a move, he heard a slight buzzing sound. His expression changed, and ignoring the snake eggs, he punched through the ceiling, smashed through a layer of soil several meters thick, and jumped to the top of the castle-like building of the Chang family manor. Looking out at the Ganges, he saw a whirlpool forming in the middle of the river, connected to the surrounding weather system. It was spinning at high speed, as if forming a bottomless pit, swallowing the water of the Ganges.

In just a short while, the water level of the Ganges dropped by nearly ten meters, but there was no gold or silver treasure at the bottom of the river. Or rather, even if there were, they were covered by a lot of garbage, corpses, silt and so on, and could not possibly be seen by the public.

"Rikta Jha has fallen into the water?"

Xiaoyu leaped onto the building and saw the same whirlpool in the Ganges, exclaiming in surprise.

"So, can the scripture release the river water again?" Duanmu Ying posed a hypothetical question.

"Where there is absorption, there is also release; water cannot simply disappear into thin air."

Jiang Liu could clearly see that after the Riktajeba Sutra entered the water, it flowed with the current, opened up the energy field, and created an alternate dimension to store pure, clean water... Strictly speaking, the purpose of this sutra is not to drain the Ganges River, but to store clean water. However, without anyone controlling it, it will intensify until it drains all the water.

but.

Even if the Ganges were drained, it would only be storing the water in a space constructed based on the Qi (energy) system. If the right method is found, the absorbed water can be released back into the ocean.

So Jiang Liu led the two across in a single step, shrinking the distance to an inch, and using his magical abilities, they instantly arrived at a wastewater discharge pipe on the west bank of the Ganges.

Chen Long stood there, looking down at the Ganges River flowing into the whirlpool. Just as he was feeling annoyed, he saw Jiang Liu, Xiao Yu, and Duanmu Ying and scolded them, "The Riktajeba Sutra has already fallen into the Ganges. Instead of searching for the treasure, do you want to take down this unstable factor?"

"Uncle Long, what are you saying?" Xiaoyu was confused as to why Chen Long was acting this way.

Upon hearing this, Chen Long was taken aback and tentatively asked, "You're not the clone Xiaoyu? And neither are you the clones Jiang Liu and Duanmu Ying?"

"Of course not!"

Xiaoyu snorted and complained that Chen Long couldn't even recognize his real niece. Then she cursed, "I didn't expect that Basa Chang would also clone me. Instead of being at the base, he came to deceive Uncle Long and even threw the Rebirth Mantra into the Ganges. How despicable!"

"The Rebirth Mantra?" Chen Long asked, puzzled.

"It's the Ricktta Jeba Sutra."

"Well... speaking of which, the fact that the scriptures fell into the Ganges was actually my mistake."

Slightly embarrassed, Chen Long explained the whole story...

# Chapter 945 Wood born in Hai is paired with Pig

Upon hearing what had happened, Xiaoyu suddenly realized.

Looking down from the pipe opening—

The most important thing right now is to restore the Ganges to its original state!

She looked down and saw the riverbed filled with plastic bottles, weeds, and rotting animal bones. The wind blew a stench of decay over her nose, forcing her to cover it.

Duanmu Ying was the same.

"Jiang Liu, do you have a way to restore the Ganges?" Chen Long felt nauseous and gagged twice, then quickly covered his mouth and nose, afraid to breathe heavily, and asked Jiang Liu for a solution.

"We need to find the Narektajeba Sutra first."

Having said that, Jiang Liu no longer hesitated and pointed to the location of the scripture, "Uncle Long, why don't you go down and get it?"

"I?"

"I'm still young! I don't want to die!"

If it were just the smell of excrement and urine, Chen Long could tolerate it.

Isn't this sewer stinking to high heaven?

But how much garbage and filth is mixed in with the silt of the Ganges below?

The stench was so strong that even he couldn't help but gag twice when the wind blew.

Not to mention the germs and viruses contained in the rotting animal and plant carcasses, as well as the toxins contained in the industrial wastewater.

Even though he is no longer the same person he once was, he is still a mortal, not indestructible. If he were to be cut by a needle or a rusty blade, he wouldn't be afraid of tetanus, but what would be terrifying is the influx of bacteria, viruses, and toxins from the garbage and mud below into his body.

Wouldn't that be courting death?

"Excuse!"

Xiaoyu mimicked her father, put her hands on her hips, gave a soft "humph," and then asked Jiang Liu, "You have a way, right?"

"Have."

Jiang Liu didn't hesitate.

Let alone his current mastery of spatial techniques, even back when he only knew how to manipulate magnetism, he could retrieve the scripture as long as its location was determined.

Seeing the filth beneath the Ganges, he had a thought: to clean it up and see if the Ganges would become even more perfect if it returned to its former clean and tidy state.

"However, before that, the filth in the river needs to be cleaned up first, otherwise even if it is restored, it will still be a public septic tank for Indians."

"That's not easy."

Chen Long had a headache.

"It's simply impossible in the short term."

Cleaning up the river is not difficult.

The difficulty lies in how to mobilize Indians to voluntarily clean up the river channels, which is clearly not a problem that can be solved in a short period of time.

"Alright, I'll clean it up."

In an instant, Jiang Liu changed his tune, chuckled meaningfully, and led everyone out of the sewers to find Lu Jin and Mohaji, who had already procured strong acid but were watching from the bank due to the gradual drying up of the Ganges River.

"Buddha!"

Mohaji spoke recklessly, calling the Ganges River "Buddha," and though he found it difficult to kneel in worship, he still cried out, "Please save the Ganges!"

"I will save them myself, but only once."

After saying that, Jiang Liu reached out with one hand and, using his magic touch, grabbed the egg that was about ten meters tall.

"Should we destroy these snake eggs first?" Lu Jin took out a two-meter-tall iron can from the Ghost Craft Ball, opened the lid, and a pungent smell wafted out.

It contained sulfuric acid.

"Not urgent."