Angkor Wat is located in the suburbs of Siem Reap. After all the representatives of the conference arrived at Angkor Wat, Luo Laide led everyone to visit Angkor Wat.
On the way to visit, Luo Laide introduced to everyone the cultural connotation and religious meaning of each relic.
Everyone was listening to the lecture and taking photos. Unknowingly, the sun set and the entire Angkor Wat was shrouded in the dim and bright afterglow of the sunset. As night fell, members of the delegation boarded their cars one after another and returned to their base in the city.
In the evening, after dinner, Luo Laide invited Hanlong to drink coffee in the hotel cafe.
Luo Laide asked for a private room in the hotel cafe, and the two of them drank coffee and talked in the private room.
Luo Laide looked at Han Long with a sad face and said, "Brother Han Long! Do you believe in the reincarnation of life and death?"
After Hanlon took a sip of coffee, he smiled and said: "I have never thought about this question seriously in the past! To answer this question, we must define life. Life is based on matter, it is a metabolic function A sophisticated and complex system, life has an autonomous operating system, a self-sustaining system, a self-repairing and improving system, as well as cognitive and thinking abilities such as perception of itself and the outside world, consciousness and thoughts, learning and growth, wisdom and strategy! Life forms Once dead, it will mean that matter changes from order to disorder, from form to intangibility. This is like a stone being crushed and crushed. We cannot restore the stone. Therefore, from a material level, the life process is A one-way journey, there is no return, there is no reincarnation of life and death! However, if the advanced form of life is the soul, since the soul does not rely on matter to exist, because a powerful soul should be able to manipulate DNA and material generation, copy a soul capable of carrying it. The material carrier is life. In this sense, life and death can reincarnate! But at present, we are still not sure of the objective existence of the soul, let alone what the nature and operating mechanism of the soul are? We also don’t know how the soul exists in the material world and the non-material world. Free travel between the two? Therefore, the reincarnation of life and death is still an unknown!"
As soon as Hanlong finished speaking, Luo Laide frowned and said: "Brother, what you said makes sense! Do you think that Buddhist practice can allow the soul to be purified, sublimated and immortal, get rid of reincarnation, and thus escape from the material world and enter non-material bliss? The world?"
"Buddhism has profound insights into the soul and is very reasonable! But from a scientific point of view, any current religious practice can only play a role in self-comfort, reduce pain and worries, and increase the joy of life, self-confidence and will! But we can't Through scientific means, what effect does religious practice have on the soul? Of course, religion and religious practice have many immediate effects on society! Luo Laide! As scientific workers, we should remain objective and calm and dare to face reality! If the soul It is real, and one day, we will definitely be able to discover it and understand it! By then, all human problems will be solved, and all human dreams will naturally become a reality!"
"Hanlong! Thank you for your answer! Maybe this is the only way for now! After all, most people come to this world to go through the motions! We know that we are pretty good at going through the motions! Alas! What a trick of creation! The Creator created this What are the world and humans doing? Does the Creator want to find happiness and value in this process?"
Hanlong looked at the unhappy Luo Laide and said: "Brother! Don't think too much! We should try our best to make our lives as easy and happy as possible! Sometimes we must be like sheep, and we should have no complaints about our fate that is about to be slaughtered. No regrets, the final result is death anyway! What is the difference between dying and struggling to death and sharpening your knife and having your heart and lungs ripped out? Sheep understand this truth, so they happily live under the whip of the shepherd every day Run, play, eat grass, drink water!”
After Luo Laide breathed a sigh of relief, he said with a smile: "Yes! Nothing in this world belongs to us, how can we lose them? How can we feel lost and melancholy for no reason? Hanlong! After I retire, I will convert to Buddhism, I feel that my soul is too messy!"
After the conversation, they went back to their rooms to rest.
The next morning, all representatives participating in the Angkor Culture Seminar held a seminar in a conference room of the hotel.
At the meeting, representatives from both sides talked the same old words, repeating the content and arguments from their past papers.
Since Hanlong was a visiting scholar, he did not have the task of speaking. He just listened and took notes.
At the end of the seminar, after lunch, Hanlong took the bus back to Bangkok with the representatives from Siam University.
In the morning after two days of rest in Bangkok, Hanlon took a flight to Jakarta at Bangkok International Airport.
Jakarta is located in the west of Java Island, nearly 500 kilometers away from Borobudur Village in Magireng, central Java Island. Hanlong is going to Borobudur Village to visit Borobudur Tower.
Therefore, after Hanlong arrived at Jakarta International Airport, he took the tourist bus for visiting Borobudur Tower at the airport bus station to go to Borobudur Village.
At around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Hanlong arrived at the Borobudur Pagoda to visit the site.
Borobudur Pagoda is built according to the multi-layered pyramid structure and is made of pure stone. The stone is sourced from andesite and basalt from nearby rivers. This kind of stone is very hard and difficult to process. The tower construction uses nearly 2.25 million rocks, and the bottom layer is paved with boulders each weighing about 1 ton, with a total volume of 55,000 cubic meters. The base of the tower is square, with a circumference of about 120 meters and a total area of nearly 1.5 hectares.
The buildings are built layer by layer with complex and luxurious forms, using a large number of complex and exquisite architectural shapes, exquisite sculptures, pointed gourd pagodas, and sculptures of seated meditating practitioners.
The whole building shows that the gods gather, the fairies are lingering, and they feel the heaven and reach the divine realm of bliss!
After visiting the Borobudur Tower, Hanlong went to Magireng Town to interview Dr. Saltai, the director of the Borobudur Tower Research Institute. He was a student of Professor Barbiluo and a man in his 40s.
Dr. Saltai received Hanlong in his office.
After Hanlong introduced himself and explained his purpose, Dr. Saltai smiled and said: "Welcome! Professor Hanlong! Since the Borobudur Tower was once buried in volcanic ash, when modern archaeologists discovered it, no one was interested. Know who built it and when! Buddhist scholars believe it is a pagoda, but its murals and sculptures contain cultural atmosphere that is very different from Buddhist culture! Prehistoric civilization researchers believe that the Borobudur Pagoda was built by prehistoric people based on what they saw at that time It is a totem-style monumental building built based on the appearance and behavior of astronauts. They believe that the Borobudur Tower is shaped like a rocket ship, and the spire of the gourd pagoda on the top adopts a streamlined structure, which is aerodynamic; The pointed gourd pagoda is hollow inside, with a humanoid god sitting upright, like a spaceship pilot. The Borobudur Tower is so exquisite in shape and so in line with the structure of modern aerospace tools. This phenomenon is by no means accidental. This shows that the construction of Borobudur Tower must have With help from the astronauts!”
Hanlong said with a smile: "Dr. Salatai! Thank you for your wonderful introduction! I also think that this great building cannot be completely made by human hands! I hope you can unlock all the secrets of Borobudur Tower as soon as possible!"
Dr. Saltai shook his head slightly and said: "Oh! We are just dawdling here! There are too many unsolved mysteries in this world! I have been to Easter Island in the Pacific and visited the giant stone statues on the island; I went to Peru in South America to visit there Giant pictures of Nazca. After seeing these historical sites, I am even more confused about the world! I feel that human beings are just a group of ignorant and reckless children! They don’t understand anything, but they want to know everything! They can’t do anything. , but they want to do anything! Oh! This world will only get worse and worse for humans! I’m really worried that if I’m not careful, they will blow up the earth!”
Hanlong and Saltai looked at each other, and suddenly, they laughed wildly!
