Infinite true path

Soon, he came to the Dharmakaya with bait on the hook. Huan Yin bowed respectfully and asked, "Old senior, please teach me how to get the bait?" The Dharmakaya looked at Huan Yin and slowly said, "When the mind is empty, the Tao is empty. When the Tao is empty, the mind is empty. When the mind is empty, the empty Tao will appear." After saying this, the Dharmakaya turned his eyes away and never looked at Huan Yin again. Huan Yin stood there and pondered carefully. In fact, what the Dharmakaya said was not difficult to understand. Especially for someone with a high level of understanding like Huan Yin, it seemed even simpler. The so-called "empty mind" means to empty the mind. There is no thought in the brain, no thought in the heart, as if forgetting the whole world. In this way, the so-called "empty Tao" can be achieved. The empty Tao means that after forgetting everything, ignoring everything, or even denying everything, all the great ways that one has cultivated in this life are thrown behind. For Huan Yin, it means to completely forget the fundamental Taoism such as "The Infinite Sutra" or even directly deny it. After the Dao is empty, one can naturally reach the state of "empty heart". The so-called "empty heart" is the vast starry sky that Huanyin saw when he was introspecting before. The many stars in it, even the largest and most dazzling one in the middle, have disappeared. In this way, the entire starry sky can no longer be called a starry sky, but a vast expanse of emptiness.

Only when you reach such a completely empty state, with no trace of anything left in your heart, as if you have never been born in the Three Realms, and have not been affected by anything in the Three Realms, can you finally clear all the fog and truly distinguish the true Dao. In other words, the bait can be born on the fishhook.

However, although the words of the Dharmakaya are easy to understand, the last two words "empty Dao" still made Huanyin's heart move slightly.

Empty Dao should be the name of Donghuang Taiyi Dao, or perhaps this name was given by Donghuang Taiyi himself. Empty Dao, empty Dao, means no Dao. Who would have thought that Donghuang Taiyi's Dao is actually nothing?

Just these two words, Huan Yin not only felt that it was elusive, but also felt that it was too illusory and ethereal, as if if this Tao really existed, it would have long been out of the realm of reality and reached an unimaginable dimension.

However, Huan Yin was still very sure that the Dharmakaya's words were indeed correct. This was not only because the Dharmakaya had bait, but also because the word "empty" in every sentence of the Dharmakaya just happened to be completely consistent with Huan Yin's previous understanding of denying the entire world. It seems that Donghuang Taiyi's Tao is a denial of the three realms.

At this point, Huan Yin didn't dare to think about it any further. Because he felt that Donghuang Taiyi's Tao was too terrible and too incredible. In the final analysis, Huan Yin was not willing to deny everything.

Slowly, Huan Yin sat cross-legged with his eyes closed and began this round of perception.

Soon, two full months passed. Since this round of perception began, Huan Yin sat cross-legged and didn't move at all. There was no struggle on his body, and there was no abnormal sign. Huan Yin seemed to have entered a state of retreat, and he didn't intend to wake up for a long time.

The attention of the Dharma bodies was still on Huan Yin, but none of them said a word. They all knew that their words at this moment would affect Huan Yin's mind to some extent, and it would be more difficult for Huan Yin to achieve a heart-empty state.

However, the Dharma bodies were constantly guessing in their hearts.

In the past, Donghuang Taiyi spent a full 100,000 years to reach the state of "heart-empty". Although Donghuang Taiyi realized it on his own without any advice from others, and he did it very thoroughly, when his heart was empty, it was equivalent to completely abandoning his life-long cultivation. However, it is easy to see how difficult it is to reach such a state.

Huan Yin's understanding was amazing, and with the advice of his predecessors, he could take many shortcuts. Moreover, I'm afraid Huan Yin did not intend to achieve a true "heart-empty state", but only needed to be able to distinguish the true way in a moment. In this way, the time he would spend would inevitably be greatly reduced.

However, many Dharma bodies still believed that Huan Yin would definitely not be able to achieve the state of "heart-empty" if it were not for a hundred years. And even those who were most optimistic about Huan Yin set the time at more than ten years.

Huan Yin was immersed in his own world and was unaware of the speculations from the outside world. However, there was one thing that the Dharmakayas did not guess wrong. This time, Huan Yin was not prepared to comprehend the so-called "True Dao" of Donghuang Taiyi, so he planned to take shortcuts.

For Huan Yin, denying everything in this world was simply nonsense. Therefore, he did not dare to take Donghuang Taiyi's Dao too seriously, but just wanted to reach a level that was enough to catch fish.

And if you want to catch fish, you must first achieve "empty mind" to distinguish the true Dao. But Huan Yin knew that if his heart was empty, it would be equivalent to forgetting what he had learned throughout his life, and even forgetting his three lives and three lives, as if he had never set foot in the three realms. He would never dare to do such a practice of self-abandonment and severing everything. Therefore, he was only prepared to achieve a temporary emptiness of mind, that is, to be able to distinguish the true Dao for a while. In that way, as long as Huan Yin used bait to catch the fish during that period of time, he could get out of trouble.

As for after that time, since Huan Yin did not really achieve "empty mind", the many stars in his heart would reappear. Even though he was like an ordinary person when he was in the "empty heart", he was still the original Huan Yin afterwards. Huan Yin knew that this might cause problems. After all, no one knew if there would be any accidents when switching between the "empty heart" and the normal state repeatedly. But for Huan Yin now, this was the only way.

Huan Yin has been doing this for two whole months. According to his idea, as long as you can find the feeling, you can first "think of emptiness" for just one breath. If you think of emptiness, the Tao will be empty, and the Tao will be empty, and the heart will be empty. In this way, what seems to be three steps is actually completed in one go. Once completed, you can have a breath to see the so-called "empty way".

However, after such a long time, Huan Yin failed to achieve even this level. And not only did it fail, it was still far behind.

Huan Yin tried to forget the Tao he had practiced in his life, but it was extremely difficult for him to forget even those Tao methods that he had no longer used, or even the most basic Fire Snake Technique. Because forgetting here is a real denial, which means that this technique is fake. However, Huan Yin used the Fire Snake Technique to shine in the ring for the first time. How could he forget it?

Occasionally, with Huan Yin's efforts, he might actually be able to achieve a small part of it. For example, when a month and a half passed, he accidentally forgot about the Life-Destroying Palm that he had not used for a long time, and the star point representing the Life-Destroying Palm disappeared.

However, as he continued to work hard and finally forgot some of it, the star point representing the Life-Destroying Palm reappeared, instantly making Huan Yin feel like his head was getting bigger.

In this way, Huan Yin gradually discovered that what he thought was the simplest realization was actually the most difficult. Although there is no need to distinguish between points, it is directly correct and easy to understand. But it’s too difficult to do it.

Denying one's own way, even one, is harder than reaching heaven. And if he wants to deny everything, or at the same time, Huan Yin doesn't even know if he can really do it.

What's even more painful is that on this path of enlightenment, there are no contradictions or entanglements. In this way, the opportunity for rebuttal is lost, and the space for thinking and generating variables is lost.

The method has been determined and the goal fully demonstrated. However, you just can't reach it. It's like walking in the sea of ​​flowers on the other side. You clearly know that after walking through the sea of ​​flowers, you can reach the other side and escape the sea of ​​suffering. But no matter how you walk, you can't finish it.

Time passed by again, and when Huan Yin knew that this realization did not require cleverness, but outright hard work, he also knew that he could only use time and perseverance to resolve everything.

So Huan Yin simply forgot about time. Because time is not only his way, but also affects his current character.

This is obviously wise. When Huan Yin forgot time, he no longer had the concept of time. Without the concept of time, there is no need to worry about the sixty years of this trip to heaven, the blessing of reincarnation for only ten years, or the changes in the outside world.

In this way, everything began to become unburdensome to Huan Yin. As his mood relaxed, his efficiency increased.

However, although time is forgotten, it still exists. As soon as Huan Yin closed his eyes, a whole year passed...