imperial psychologist

Chapter 216 Don't Believe in God

"It seems that Master Hui Shi is a very respected master." Bai Ling said softly.

"Yes." The monk couldn't help clasping his hands together, and said softly, "Amitabha."

"How many casualties did Guibaosha suffer in this fire?"

The monk said softly, "It's really a disaster that has never happened in Donglin Temple in a hundred years. In addition to Master Hui Shi, there are also two junior brothers who are usually responsible for sweeping the dust in the West Guesthouse. The fire is ruthless, and people disappeared in the blink of an eye... ..."

Bo Ling also felt a bit bitter when he heard it.

"What is the cause of the fire? Have the masters found out?"

The monk just shook his head, "There are various speculations, but we still have to wait for the government to send someone to look at it before we can reach a conclusion."

It wasn't until Bo Ling followed the guiding monk to the gate of Donglin Temple that she really realized how serious the fire was last night.

The fire destroyed nearly half of the temples of Donglin Temple; the formerly resplendent Daxiong Hall has been blackened by the fire last night, and many monks went to and from it, carrying materials that were burned down last night.

Bai Ling and Bai Yi walked through the courtyard in front of the hall that was covered in ashes, and the air still had a strong smell of scorched earth.

The two went up the stairs, and there were more than a dozen monks in cassocks chanting scriptures in the main hall.The ethereal and somewhat peaceful voice brought a sense of religious sanctity.

In the chaotic hall after the raging fire, the golden Buddha statue was not damaged at all - the nearly ten-meter-high golden Buddha overlooked all living beings, and the Buddha's face was neither sad nor happy, which made Bai Ling feel his heart trembling for a moment .

"A miracle, a miracle." The two eunuchs who came with Bai Ling couldn't help but knelt down and kowtowed reverently to the Buddha statue, "The Buddha has appeared!"

Apparition?
Bai Ling frowned slightly. She looked at the golden Buddha in front of her. The morning sunlight poured down through the sloping railing of the roof, illuminating the Buddha statue brilliantly golden.

This color contrasts with the scorched black palace, making it even more unstoppable.

The monk who had come to lead the way appeared again at this time, and behind him was a white-haired monk with a benevolent face. Judging from his age and appearance, he should be the abbot of Donglin Temple, Master Xuyun.

Several people bowed to each other and greeted each other, and Bo Ling sincerely said a few words of comfort, and brought a message from the imperial concubine that she hoped to do a little bit for the reconstruction of Donglin Temple. Xu Yun expressed his gratitude and invited Bo Ling and Bai Yi went to the tea room in the meditation room behind the main hall.

Xu Yun and the guiding monk walked in front, and Bai Ling and Bai Yi followed behind them with a distance of four or five steps.Bai Ling leaned slightly towards Bai Yi, "Hey"

Bai Yi looked sideways.

Bai Ling frowned, "Why is the Buddha statue fine?"

"Can't you figure it out?"

"I don't understand." Bai Ling replied, "Suddenly saw a golden Buddha in a pile of ruins... It's quite shocking."

Bai Yi shook his head and leaned over quietly, "There is an old saying that 'real gold is not afraid of fire', because the ignition point of wood is generally 200-290 degrees, and the melting point of gold is 1064 degrees. Between 400 degrees, it would be amazing to burn a Buddha statue."

Saying that, Bai Yi lowered his volume a little more, "Actually, this also shows from the side that the Buddha statues in Donglin Temple are not adulterated, and all of them are made of real gold...they are really rich and powerful."

Bai Ling was taken aback.

At this moment, the faint pious atmosphere just now disappeared.

"Do you feel less shocked now?" Bai Yi asked.

Bai Ling nodded, and then shook his head again—it was a bit surprising, after all, Bai Yi's words shattered all her sense of sacredness just now.

Bai Yi laughed in a low voice, "Entering the door of my science, all ghosts and snakes are paper tigers. Past lives, present lives, and reincarnation of the six realms don't exist."

Bo Ling glanced at him, "If these supernatural powers don't exist...how can we appear here?"

"Good question," Bai Yi looked forward and sighed in a low voice, "Actually, I've thought about this question countless times."

Berlin looked at him.

"To explain, there are actually many explanations. It's not impossible to work hard on science. Anyway, Quantum Mechanics is not enough to solve the problem. Is the brain not enough for parallel universes? And I admit that among all the possibilities, there is indeed such a loss The probability is that there really is a god in the world who sits in the sky and watches dramas in the world, and thinks that neither of us is miserable enough, so he fishes us out of that world and throws us into this place..."

Bai Yi imitated a salvage movement exaggeratedly, but that way he looked more like a clumsy gorilla, and Bai Ling couldn't help laughing when he saw it.

The two walked through the stone corridor that had been licked by the flames, and the cold wind blew, bringing a little ashes around their feet.

"But it doesn't matter. Whether I believe in God or not has nothing to do with whether there is a God in this world." Bai Yi said softly, he folded his hands behind his head and returned to normal, "Even if one day I find out that this world really exists Then a boring God, Buddha, the only true God...has nothing to do with me. A staunch atheist becomes himself because he chooses atheism, not because he cannot find God in this world, That's why I reluctantly turned to the embrace of atheism."

When Bai Yi said this, Bai Ling noticed that he raised his jaw slightly, with an undisguised sense of comfort and pride on his face.

"Who said that?" Bo Ling asked.

"Which one?"

"'A staunch atheist' blabla... the line."

"Aha." Bai Yi waved his hand, "I said it myself, doesn't it make sense?"

Bo Ling looked sideways, although he smiled a little, but did not answer.

In fact, it's quite a sophomore.

Several people entered the tea room together, and the two father-in-laws and the guards stood outside the door and waited.

Taking the tea room as the dividing point, the fire did not continue to spread eastward, and the layout here was hardly affected.The display of the tea room is very plain, but it also faintly reveals some kind of precious meaning.

As small as the Zen-like glazed cups on the table, as large as the carpet of Buddhist paintings covering the entire floor... Bo Ling can imagine what kind of guests the teahouse here receives on weekdays.

Master Xu Yun was about to take his seat when a young novice suddenly ran in and whispered a few words in Xu Yun's ear in a panic. After hearing this, Xu Yun frowned strangely and said to Bai Ling, "The two benefactors are here Wait for a while, something urgent happened in the temple, I need to go and have a look first."

"Master, please go." Bo Ling and Bai Yi said at the same time.

The tea room was empty again, and not long after, well-dressed monks came in to refill water for the two of them. In the steaming heat of the cups, the two of them heard a few sad birdsong from outside the window.

There was no one around, Bai Yi put down the cup in his hand, "What do you want me to go up the mountain with you this time?"

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