Why do many great sects know the answers to many questions, but want their disciples to pursue the answers themselves, even if many geniuses die in the process of pursuing them?
It's because, for some things, the answers you come up with by yourself are different from the answers you get from listening to others' explanations.
After listening to others, I had an understanding at that time, but that will always be someone else's understanding.
Always will be.
"Children, do you know that if you listen to me today, you will be able to overcome the siege of the demons. In the future, your journey to the third level will be a thousand times, ten thousand times more difficult."
"Li Qi understands, but... I have something I can't let go of." Demon Qi Li Qi knelt in front of the Buddha, clasped his hands, and said calmly.
Of course he knew what the consequences would be.
Information itself is polluting. People can only think based on their own level of cognition. This cognition is the sum of all experiences from birth to the present. People cannot understand things beyond their own cognition.
If you have to explain it, it's probably...if you understand it, you understand it. People who don't understand can't explain it clearly.
Forcing explanations and only half-understanding can easily lead to intellectual impairment.
What is a barrier to knowledge and vision?
You know, once a person's knowledge reaches a certain height and breadth, just to re-recognize even one's previous knowledge in a new way will require a lot of effort, or even impossible.
This situation of being bound by one's own knowledge is called intellectual disability.
No matter how strong you are and how broad your knowledge is, your knowledge and knowledge will be as broad as you are strong.
Countless powerful people have been restrained by it. In desperation, they chose to spread the Taoism and cultivate the younger generation, so that these young people with no intellectual barriers can go on the road with ease and break through the barriers that their predecessors could not break through.
"Things you can't let go...yes, your lover, friends, everything you once owned, you feel that it is yours, but those have never belonged to you." Amitabha said.
Demon Qi Li Qi let out a deep breath when he heard this.
Yes, Amitabha revealed in one word what the demonic spirit Li Qi could never let go of.
Whether it's Shen Shuibi, Zhu Fengdan, or even Sixth Uncle, Paibo Gang, Boyue, Liu Shenzhi... they are all clearly present in his memory.
He clearly remembered his past with them, their expressions when communicating, and their deep emotions.
But...those never belonged to 'him'.
He was only less than ten days old, and what he thought he had experienced never belonged to him.
From the perspective of the real 'self', he is just experiencing an illusion. He is another person, another 'cause', and at the same time the effect of other 'causes'.
There is no relationship between him and Li Qi. The two are just "destined". They are two different causes intertwined together. Both of them are unique and are not copies of one another.
From the perspective of time and causality, Demon Qi Li Qi... has never even met Shen Shuibi.
It's just that I'm not willing to accept it...
How could those memories be fake?
The Buddha told him to let go, let go of everything, and escape into Buddhism.
But... I can’t let it go.
How can it be so simple? Just let it go? Ask the 'real Li Qi' if he can let it go? …
What does the 'real Li Qi' feel like? That's how the demonic Li Qi feels at this moment.
Beneath his calm exterior was indescribable pain.
Such pain drove him to escape from the threat of the demon as soon as possible, and then do his own thing, even if his path was bound by barriers of knowledge and vision, and he might even end up on a dead end in the future.
"Chier, next step, you just want to leave here and fulfill your obsession in the world, right?" Amitabha said to the demon Li Qi.
"I don't dare to deceive the Buddha. You really have this intention." Demon Qi Li Qi clasped his hands together and replied respectfully.
"That's fine. You are just a baby who unexpectedly has memories. You are not even ten days old. You have never entered the mortal world, so how can you emerge from the mortal world? Go try it and talk to the real 'Li Qi' , do what you want to do." Amitabha said kindly.
The Buddha will not force anyone to do anything. Everything is done according to one's heart, and the Buddha nature is within it.
The Tathagata has a great cause, which is called "enlightening the world", so that all existences in the world can become Buddhas and become enlightened ones.
As a staunch supporter of Tathagata's great cause, Amitabha has always believed that all living beings need to experience everything they should experience in order to truly awaken.
The same is naturally true for the demonic Li Qi.
"Thank you Buddha, then... I'm going to set off. I just troubled Buddha and shaved my hair in vain." Li Qi said apologetically.
With that said, he stood up, and his original bald head grew back into thick black hair.
At the seventh level, it is common for a broken limb to regenerate, and it is natural and easy to grow hair.
"What's the use of breaking the hair at the top if the hair in the heart is constant? Go ahead and cut off the worldly thoughts and the cause and effect of all lives. Only in this way can you escape from the sea of suffering." Amitabha Buddha issued a buzzing voice.
The demonic Li Qi saluted again.
He's leaving.
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Chang'an, Shangyuan.
Yu Zao watched Li Qi leave.
Everything has been negotiated, and both parties have reached an intention to cooperate.
Li Qi successfully sold the first batch of magic weapon silkworms, and they were directly from the seventh-grade assembly line. The price was very good, not low, and it was within the acceptable range of both parties.
The Zajia family has created two seventh-grade worlds, one of which has a unique specialty. It is called "Songer". It is a special individual of the local world race. It appears with probability. The average appearance period is about two hundred years for one person to be born.
The chanter has an excellent talent for music and is born with the ability to hear sounds in almost all bands. This special individual is a 'specialty' of this world.
Specialties do not necessarily have to be materials, exercises, special local social forms, or even the indigenous people themselves, can be called specialties.
The holy flames of the holy flame world are also the physical products of the indigenous people.
no way.
Chang'an will not give those worlds 'fairness'. Under the prosperity of humanity, it is very cruel.
After leaving Yuzao, Li Qi returned to the cultural gathering.
But before he arrived, just halfway through, Li Qi saw the sense of oppression emanating from inside.
"Huh? A fight started?" He raised his head and realized something was wrong.
At this moment, Liu Shenzhi was seen running out from inside and rushing directly in the direction of Li Qi. …
From the looks of it, he must have been looking for Li Qi, and now he found him, so he didn't even hesitate and ran towards him.
After all, he was still at the eighth level. Under acceleration, he was in front of Li Qi almost in an instant.
"Li Qi! Where did you go! Why didn't you see you nearby just now? Forget it, let's go in quickly, there's going to be chaos inside." Liu Shenzhi hurried over and pulled Li Qi. Kai wanted to go inside.
"Wait, don't rush to pull me in. What happened inside?" Li Qi grabbed Liu Shenzhi and didn't let him pull.
Don't dare to go in casually, you have to explore the truth first.
When Li Qi asked, Liu Shenzhi also realized that it was really useless to rush in like a headless fly.
So, he stopped and began to tell Li Qi what happened inside.
"The thing is like this, after the small test to select calligraphers just now-"
Liu Shenzhi began to tell, and Li Qize listened carefully.
It turns out that this is what happened.
Lingxiao Flower God did exactly what he said before.
Based on the results of the competition, she selected a calligrapher and asked him to copy alone.
Although I only copied a part of the divine intention, I still proved to everyone the existence of this magnificent article.
However, this made the Hanlin officials unhappy.
According to Liu Shenzhi's observations and speculations, the reason is that they originally thought that Lingxiao Flower God just accidentally obtained an authentic work, and the words in it were most beneficial to them, so they came out to be conspicuous. They were ready to refute Lingxiao Flower God.
However, when the article came out, everyone present was dumbfounded and speechless.
This turned out to be a "Lingxiao Flower Ode" written specifically for her!
The amount of praise and the beauty of the words far exceeded everyone's expectations.
Only then did everyone realize that Lingxiao Flower Goddess had not obtained the treasure and wanted to come back to find a place, but that she had really hooked up with Liu Donghe!
So, the scene exploded at that time.
Of course, everyone remained rational and did not make any noise. There was just a slight confusion of breath, and the crowd dispersed quickly.
Some of the officials wanted to retreat, while others rushed to Liu Shenzhi's side.
Liu Donghe personally expressed his position. If Liu Shenzhi was not involved, no one would believe it. After all, Liu Shenzhi had already appeared at the venue, which could explain a lot of things.
And all this was expected by Liu Shenzhi.
Liu Shenzhi said to Li Qi: "Lingxiao Flower God tricked me, and naturally I was not willing to let her do this. She seemed to be the only one who could scheme against others, so I also set a trap for her."
Liu Shenzhi began to explain what he had done.
It turned out that Liu Shenzhi had spread the news about the magic weapon silkworms around before the literary meeting began, intentionally or unintentionally, and when the Lingxiao Flower God was dancing, he also explained that he wanted to promote the magic weapon silkworms.
When these things are connected, although Liu Shenzhi didn't say anything out of the ordinary, or even anything questionable, it can easily lead to one inference result——
It was Liu Shenzhi who wanted to instruct Lingxiao Flower God to promote it, so he asked Liu Donghe for this article.
In fact, this is also the truth. …
It is absolutely impossible for Liu Shenzhi himself to admit this. He was stupid and accidentally noticed by others.
As a result, the nature of the matter has changed.
The remaining Hanlin sneered twice, stopped talking, and went back to continue participating in the cultural meeting.
Wen Hui Wen Hui, the next step is to write an article. With Liu Donghe in front of us, everyone must catch up and write a good article to achieve their goals.
Some want to find a place to make a name for themselves, some want to show up in front of the Flower God, some want to work with the Hanlin officials to make connections, some just want to adapt to the occasion, and some want to suppress the Lingxiao Flower God, but no matter what, they must It falls on writing.
Lingxiao Flower God also said the lottery at this time.
She said that the person whose article was most loved by everyone could take Liu Donghe's original work as a prize for this literary event.
As a result, everyone was working hard, and only a few fifth-grade Hanlin seemed to be thinking about something.
It was also at this time that Liu Shenzhi understood why Lingxiao Flower God deliberately destroyed the paper. In addition to making it more valuable and evading her suspicion of collusion, it was also because she had planned to give it away from the beginning, so she didn't care at all.
The benefits of giving it away are also obvious.
There is only one criterion for judging the winner of the cultural fair, and that is Lingxiao Flower God's own opinion.
In other words, if other people who have nothing to do with those Hanlins want to get the authentic works of Liu Donghe, they naturally need to be hostile to those Hanlins who are causing trouble. Their articles are in conflict.
It has to be said that the Lingxiao Flower Goddess is indeed very scheming.
At this point, Liu Shenzhi added: "Things have been stable up to this point. The accident happened later."
Then he continued.
After that, the writing session begins.
Everyone started writing.
However, basically everyone had written it long ago and brought it over, and few of them wrote it on the spot, which could not guarantee the level of quality or careful consideration of the words.
After everyone has finished writing, the banquet can begin.
Lingxiao Flower God personally accompanied him, and many people drank wine, discussed literary works, discussed Taoism and practice, drank fine wine, and ate delicacies, creating a peaceful and lively atmosphere of the cultural gathering.
After three rounds of drinking, everyone began to take out their articles for everyone to appreciate——
It was okay at first. They were all crude works produced by young scholars. Although they had some talent, they were still young. Everyone commented a little, praised their talents, and occasionally made slight modifications, and then they passed.
For particularly powerful young scholars, the Lingxiao Flower God would personally serve them and serve them wine. There was even one who did not write essays, but instead described the beauty of Lingxiao Flowers with poems, because his poems were extremely beautiful. Although they were a bit flashy, they were still beautiful. The victory was due to the fact that the Lingxiao Flower Goddess performed a dance on the spot. The atmosphere was filled with joy and climaxes, and everyone was happy.
This is the rhythm and atmosphere of a normal cultural gathering.
But unfortunately, today's meeting is not a normal literary meeting.
As time went on, some articles began to appear that criticized and even insulted Lingxiao Flower God.
At first, Lingxiao Flower Goddess just smiled, but it soon passed. Although the atmosphere was a bit cold, she was good at dancing after all, and she became popular again after a while.
But...another round of drinking orders passed, and this time it was passed to a fifth-rank Confucian scholar from the Imperial Academy.
The title of the article he wrote is: "Although the snow-capped mountains are pure white, with many mountains and peaks, it is cold in summer, but there is no lush vegetation for people to pick."
The meaning is very simple.
Although the snow-capped mountains are white and beautiful, they appear to have many mountains and are very cool in summer, but there are no lush flowers and plants for people to enjoy, and there is no vitality.
The meaning of this is already very clear.
But Lingxiao Flower God still smiled and did not feel dissatisfied and continued reading.
Then, it was said below that there were many dead trees and flowers in the snow.
There are two kinds of flowers, Xuemei and Lingxiao. The Xuemei blooms in the snow, but the Lingxiao flower is nestled against the dead branches, not daring to look out.
At this point, Li Qi had already guessed what this article was about.
