Chapter 504
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Chapter 504: Without God, Without Self!
Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, Diagonal Moon Three Stars Cave, in front of the cave.
It was early morning, the sky was still dark, and a young boy appeared with a small, round fruit with a thick bottom and a thin top outside the cave.
Ye Qiu had already woken up, he was staring at the starry sky. When he noticed the young boy coming out, he immediately jumped down.
"Young master, you didn’t make me wait long."
The young boy didn’t say much, he just handed a golden fruit to Ye Qiu, "This is what the master told me to give you."
Ye Qiu took the yellow fruit and looked puzzled, "What is this?"
The young boy glanced at him, "This is a pear."
A pear…
This makes me leave.
Ye Qiu sighed in frustration.
He had been to this place during his childhood, last time he ended up here by accident, then he fell asleep and woke up at the foot of the mountain.
What a pity.
Ye Qiu turned to leave, the young disciple watched him as suddenly rain poured down from the sky, accompanied by thunder and lightning, the weather changed drastically.
Ye Qiu looked up at the sky, feeling like something strange was happening between heaven and earth, everything came so suddenly.
It was at this moment when a voice suddenly came from the Taoist temple.
"When the mountain rain comes, the road is difficult to travel, come and rest in the temple for a day, it won’t hurt."
Hearing the old voice, Ye Qiu slowly turned his head to look at the temple, and saw that the temple’s gate was already open.
Ye Qiu walked in, only to find the room empty.
Ye Qiu turned around, and the young monk behind him had disappeared.
As he entered the main hall, he saw an old man with a duster sitting on a cushion, smiling at him.
"Why have you come here again?" the old man asked.
Ye Qiu quickly bowed and said, "I seek your wisdom, hoping for an answer to my doubts."
The old man looked into Ye Qiu’s eyes, "Your question is not for me to answer, but for you to ponder."
"Close your eyes and listen to this verse: The Bodhi tree is not real, nor is the mirror stand, Nothing is there to stir up dust, where could it land?"
Ye Qiu felt something stir within him, but he was still puzzled.
"Are you Patriarch Bodhidharma, sir?"
Patriarch Bodhidharma reached out a finger and pointed to where Ye Qiu’s spirit was, "Everything you want to know is already there. Only it can answer your doubts in your heart."
"Go ahead then."
Ye Qiu paused for a moment, "Didn’t the master ask me to rest here for a day?"
Patriarch Bodhidharma chuckled, "A day has passed."
Before Ye Qiu could say anything, everything went dark before his eyes.
When he opened his eyes, he found himself in a forest. The ground was muddy and damp, as if it had just rained.
Ye Qiu rubbed his head, feeling like he had just had a dream.
Similar to the encounter in the game.
He returned to the mountain, but this time everything was gone, even the woodcutter was nowhere to be seen.
"On Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, there is a cave under a slanting crescent moon and three stars…"
"Wait a moment…"
Ye Qiu seemed to understand something, he reached out to touch his Lingtai acupoint, where the mind resides.
Subconsciously, he activated the Power in Inches, which is another name for the mind.
Lingtai inch, refers to the heart and mind of the Lingtai acupoint.
And under the slanting crescent moon and three stars…
"So that’s how it is…"
"The slanting moon and three stars is a riddle, representing the character ‘heart’."
"The Bodhi tree has no roots, there is no Patriarch Bodhidharma, it’s all just an illusion of the mind."
Ye Qiu reached for his chest, feeling like his beating heart held countless versions of himself.
One by one, the voices and figures of those people, they were all me…
Maybe, these things don’t actually exist at all, maybe they are just my imagination…
Ye Qiu slowly closed his eyes, and for some reason, the voices around him suddenly quieted down.
The world was eerily quiet at this moment, the sound of cicadas in the woods never seemed so clear.
All the noise and chaos disappeared.
"Originally nothing existed, where could dust alight… "
In that moment, countless colors in Ye Qiu’s heart instantly converged, as if they were being drawn into a whirlpool.
After the whirlpool stopped, only one color remained, that was white or rather, colorless.
Ye Qiu opened his eyes, feeling a surge of power in his physical and spiritual body, reaching the peak of the Holy Realm directly.
Yes, he had never let those blended powers flow through him.
Like grains of sand, each power had its own will and didn’t want to merge with the others.
This was because Ye Qiu believed they were all independent, each power representing a person he knew.
The more he cared about these powers, the more they split apart, like his heart shattering into countless pieces.
All the suffering is my own doing.
So if it weren’t for me, there wouldn’t be these troubles.
This is known as egolessness.
Ye Qiu slowly waved his arm, feeling his body slowing down in that moment, very slowly, very slowly…
But soon!
"Perhaps, this is the ultimate secret of enlightenment."
"No god, no self."
The so-called gap between the heart refers to the gap in the mind.
This cultivation method named "Mind’s Gap" is a method that corresponds to the mind from the beginning.
The nine levels of "Mind’s Gap" mean that my mind surpasses all things, so with just one strike, whether extending a finger or a hair, the enemy cannot defend against it.
As for the ten levels of "Mind’s Gap," "No god, no self" means removing oneself.
Simply put, can I defeat him?
By removing myself, I can defeat him.
This meaning is simple, this meaning is deep.
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A few days later.
Ye Qiu returned to the group, but this time, he felt completely different to everyone.
This feeling was mysterious, and the others couldn’t describe it.
However, the most obvious feeling was that Ye Qiu no longer felt heavy but incredibly light, light as a feather.
"Did you meet a master this time?"
Fang Ze looked at Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu calmly replied, "I didn’t meet him, because that person is in my heart."
Fang Ze was puzzled, "Isn’t that man the monkey’s teacher? How come he’s in your heart?"
"He is also in the monkey’s heart. As for the one passing on his skills, there must be someone else behind the scenes manipulating things."
Hearing Ye Qiu’s reply, Fang Ze nodded, "So I understand now, it means that everything the monkey has experienced was arranged by someone."
"What you have gone through is just because you have learned about the monkey’s experiences, that’s why you can see them."
"So it’s like what you think in your mind, is what you see with your eyes?"
While the two were talking, Du Yuan suddenly shouted, "Oh no, can’t these people walk properly? They’ve barely gone a short distance and they’ve already failed completely?"
"And they still plan to travel to the West for scriptures?"
"Shouldn’t we go and help out? Let Monk Tang walk step by step while we go ahead and get rid of all those monsters blocking the way."
Fang Ze shrugged, "Isn’t that what we used to do during our gaming days?"
"Then, they beat him up, but it didn’t work. We might as well just go and catch Monk Tang 81 times, to give him 81 challenges directly."
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