The black goat raised its head and croaked twice, and the South Asian man also raised his head and croaked. The cry was exactly the same as that of the black goat.

Under the quiet street lights, the cry of sheep echoed, and one person and one sheep were eating grass by themselves. The scene was strange and penetrating.

When ordinary people see this scene, they will inevitably feel fear.

But Lu Zhen is no ordinary person.

He is a stranger, a stranger with a high level of cultivation.

So he knows that goats are ordinary goats, but people are not ordinary people.

From this South Asian man, in addition to being strange, he also felt the movement of Qi.

Lu Zhen remained calm and continued to move forward.

The South Asian man also continued to graze with the goat.

As the distance grew closer, Lu Zhen noticed that the South Asians were really eating grass, rather than simply pretending.

When Lu Zhen passed by the South Asians, he heard the first words spoken by the South Asians: "Do you know what 'knowledge' is?"

Lu Zhen looked at the South Asians.

"My name is Korana." The man raised his head and smiled at Lu Zhen, "They all call me Korana the Seeker."

His skin is pale, close to European and American white people, he has curly hair and a full beard. He is still chewing weeds in his mouth. There are grass stains everywhere on his light-colored clothes. He looks like the same species as the black goat, but not the same species.

The elephant is human.

"You may be curious why I speak your language." Korana patted the restless black goat, "Because I like cultures full of mystery and love to pursue knowledge, so I know the languages ​​​​of many countries in the world."<

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Lu Zhen frowned and said: "Are you a practitioner from South Asia? The purpose is to avenge Laxman?"

"I am a practitioner who came north from South Asia, partly because of Master Laxman." Korana casually tore off the rope around his neck, took a step forward with bare feet, and asked, "Orientals

, do you know what ‘knowledge’ is?”

Lu Zhen looked at Korana and said nothing.

The Qi of Dantian began to circulate, and a trace of dangerous aura emanated from his body.

The black goat was frightened and suddenly ran towards the grove next to the green belt, but was suddenly pulled back by the rope.

Korana lowered his head and ignored the struggling black goat: "I have had a lot of doubts in my heart since I was a child. No, it couldn't be called doubts at that time, it should be called curiosity."

"Since I was able to think, my little mind has been filled with all kinds of curiosity... I am curious about why the leaves are green, why the ocean is blue, and why goats eat grass..."
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"At that time, no one could answer my questions. They said I was a problem child and began to exclude me. Even adults did the same. They always said, don't think so much, or that now is not the time to think about these things.

Or, there’s no use thinking about it.”

"Later, after coming into contact with the divine grace of Lord Shiva, I finally realized that these are the gifts of Lord Shiva."

Lu Zhen reached out to Korana.

"Can you wait for me to finish?" Korana stood there without moving, "You are a very powerful practitioner...Master Laxman died in your hands. I knew you were very powerful before going north, but in real life

When I saw you for the first time, I realized how superficial I had been."

His eyes were extremely sincere: "You are stronger than any practitioner I have ever seen, so you are qualified to know where I come from and to have a look at my Dharma. This may also be a help to you."<

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Lu Zhen moved for a moment, then slowly put down his hand: "How did you know you could meet me in this direction?"

Korana said piously: "Shiva is omnipotent... Looking at your eyes, it seems that you don't believe what I say at all? It doesn't matter..."

"What did you say just now? Oh, I didn't realize the greatness of Lord Shiva until I came into contact with the grace of Lord Shiva."

"But do you know what God is?" he suddenly asked.

Lu Zhen is a little interested in this issue: "Most Eastern practitioners do not believe in a certain god. What they pursue is the sublimation of their own lives and their own freedom. We call it ascension."

"Ascension?" Korana laughed, "You Eastern practitioners are the most arrogant practitioners I have ever seen. From the Eurasian continent to the Americas and the African continent, I have never seen people like you who do not believe in gods.

, but I want to become a spiritual practitioner."

"Even those white people whose hearts have been corrupted by money still have a place for God in their hearts and will not put themselves above God."

"What makes me most surprised is that you also admit the existence of gods. As you mentioned, the emergence of gods, doesn't it mean that humans can become gods? But you don't have any worship for gods. It's really... strange."<

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He said with confusion on his face: "You don't have any respect for the gods you know. It's really..."

"If humans can also become gods, then why should we fear gods?" Lu Zhen said, "We only fear what makes humans gods, which we call Tao."

"Tao...we don't think there is anything higher than God. In other words, the Tao you call is the God we understand. There are just some subtle surprises."

Korana shook his head: "In our understanding, omnipotent gods and humans are completely different existences. The distance between us and gods is infinite. You Easterners think you can cross this distance yourself, but

We South Asians don’t think so.”

He pointed to his chest: "With our limited strength, how can we approach the infinite God? The gap in between cannot be crossed."

"So I think we can only try our best to get closer to God, that is to say, we can use the potential contained in the bodies God has given us to get as close to God as possible."

Lu Zhen looked at Korana: "Since you think that the distance between God and you is infinite, how can you get close to God?"

"According to your understanding, gods and humans are completely different life forms. Then why do you think that you understand God and that what you do is getting closer to God and not being rejected by God?"

"Easterners, you are right." Korana agreed, "Anyone can make mistakes..."

"Our masters are human, so they may make mistakes. From this, it follows that the beliefs we pass down orally may also make mistakes, and even the classics left behind cannot be trusted because wrong ideas may be mixed into them."

"But there is one thing we cannot deny, that is, gods know everything. Even gods born after becoming immortals, as you say, know much more than ordinary people."

"So I think if we want to get closer to God, we have to know more ourselves, because the more we know, the closer we are to God's realm."

Lu Zhen raised his eyebrows: "Manpower is limited, and the God you said is omniscient, how can you get close to God?"

If you understand what Korana said about God as the concept of "Tao", you can turn his words into "If you want to get close to Tao, you must know more."

All things in the world are born according to the Tao. The more you know about all things and the laws of how things operate, the closer you will naturally be to the Tao.

The path of cultivation often leads to the same destination through different paths. Even if there are differences, there is still something to refer to in the general direction.

"God is omniscient and omnipotent, and it is inevitable that humans cannot reach the level of God." Korana looked at the sky and said slowly, "So we do not pursue the realm of omniscience.

Rather, we should try our best to get close to God, which requires us to try our best to understand what God knows."

"At this point, any life has inherent flaws. For example, we humans will only think about problems with ourselves as the center, and as separate individuals among human beings, we will think about problems from ourselves."
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Having said this, he suddenly asked: "As a practitioner, you can personally understand the thoughts of practitioners, but do you know the thoughts of ordinary people?"

"Many practitioners will say that they know, but you actually don't know, because you have never been an ordinary person for a day and have never experienced their sorrows and joys, so how can you know their feelings?"

"Some people would say that since we are all human beings and we all have the same humanity, we can naturally imagine the feelings of others. This is taken for granted."

"In your history, an emperor once said something like, Why don't you eat minced meat? Isn't it referring to the estrangement between us?"

"Between different classes and different identities, the cognitive gap between each other is so large that it is unimaginable, and we often like to expand our knowledge to the whole world, stubbornly and subconsciously thinking that we see

What is real...this is the cognitive difference between human beings."

"If there is such a big bias in cognition, it is naturally impossible to have correct cognition, and it is impossible to get close to God."

Lu Zhen glanced at the Black Goat thoughtfully: "There has been prejudice since an individual was born. How do you overcome it?"

"I have tried many methods, read a lot of books, and consulted many respected scholars, but in the end I was unable to overcome my own inherent bias." Corana had a faint smile on his face.

"After many failures, I know that if I want to see the whole picture instead of understanding the world based on my own prejudices, there is only one way to go, and that is to personally experience everything they have experienced.

There is no other way."

"So I once worked as a beggar, a dock porter, and a small street vendor... But I also found that although I had more experience in doing these things, I still couldn't get rid of the inherent prejudices I had formed."<

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"So I blocked my memory, went to work in various jobs, and experienced the joys and sorrows of all walks of life. After fifteen years, I woke up from the trance."

"At this time, my perspective is broader and is no longer limited to the narrow views of a certain class. I don't think I have overcome the prejudice formed among the crowd as an individual, but I think I have done enough.

Well, we have taken a big step towards getting closer to God.”

"After that, I began to try to experience the changes in feelings between different types of life. For example, bats fly at night and sense the world with sound waves. So what kind of world do they feel?"

"Another example is mice. They are afraid of humans, cats, and dogs. How do they feel when they come out to look for food driven by hunger?"

Lu Zhen said: "And there are black goats?"

"That's right." Korana said with a smile, "Every feeling of life is something I want to understand. This is the living thing I am pursuing, not the dead things recorded in books."

"What I see, feel, and experience is mine...and the more experiences I have and the more knowledge I gain, the closer I am to the realm of omniscience and the closer I am to God."

"One day we will reach the state of becoming one with Brahman and experience what the world perceived by God is like."

He knelt on his knees, untied the rope from the neck of the struggling black goat, and let the black goat run away.
To be continued...