First, Xu Guangling only saw the scene after his death.
The second person, Xu Guangling, witnessed the process from birth to death, and saw the aura of his life, from dim to shattered, and then, at the moment of shattered, "returning to the light", just like the sun before it sets.
On the horizon, the rosy clouds spread all over the Western Mountains.
However, this last touch of splendor will eventually dissipate, leaving only darkness.
Pure darkness.
Is this also the final destination of all life?
Thousands of years ago, believers built "Mani piles", and this tradition continues to this day. There are many in the wild, abandoned, and decayed, but more are rising in inhabited areas.
The people carved stones, one for you and one for me, and then tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of stones were piled together to form a pile of stones that brought together many beliefs or beliefs.
If you don't consider the solemnity, purely in terms of nature, it is similar to the "Wishing Tree", "Wishing Pool", "Wishing Peak" and so on in many tourist attractions.
Many young men and women go out to travel, and then write their names together and hang them on trees, or make a concentric lock or something and lock them on the mountain peak.
Many tourists do this, so if there are such facilities in hot spots, the scenery is generally quite spectacular.
They are not just young men and women, unmarried men and women, there are also married people in their thirties and forties, and some with children.
In the past, Xu Guangling had not set foot on this road. When he was wandering around various places, he once saw an elderly couple with silver hair. They looked very cultured and cultivated.
Similarly, they hung their names on the tree like the young lovers around them, and then looked at each other and smiled.
The old man smiled like a child.
The old woman smiled a little shyly.
It was as if decades of turning around, decades of stumbling, decades of experience and sophistication, decades of aging, were all erased at that moment. Back to where they were originally, they were probably the first
The first time we met, the first time we held hands?
Therefore, from this perspective, whether it is a wishing tree or a mani pile, it is not superstitious, and it does not rise to the level of belief for many people.
It is a real “sustenance”.
Place some wishes, yearnings, or simple thoughts in your heart on trees or stones.
Whether it is trees, rocks, or other things, the carrier is not important. These can all be attributed to "nature" or "God".
The world is too complicated, but sustenance can be simple.
Many people live in ignorance, or live day after day like daily necessities, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, or they live a life that is not noble by working hard and intrigues.
And so on.
However, this does not prevent them from making a wish at some point in their lifetime.
Even if it's just for recreation and fun.
But when you make a wish, your heart and thoughts must be different from usual.
Pick out the simple from the complex, bring out the beautiful from the ordinary, and pick out the things that are not dirty from the mean.
That moment.
Nothing earth-shattering, nothing upsetting.
But as far as life itself is concerned, it is indeed worth remembering.
Perhaps, when their lives truly "come back to the light", they may think of that scene in their lives emphatically.
Xu Guangling stood beside the collapsed pile of Manis for a long time and pondered for a long time.
Perhaps he had just witnessed life and death. At this moment, after becoming a Grand Master, Xu Guangling thought systematically about the issue of life and death for the first time.
Look at life from Xu Guangling’s current height.
The birth of every new life is like a wooden block being thrown into the boundless sea, and then being corroded by the sea water all the time, until it finally disintegrates completely - and this is inevitable.
This piece of wood may also have received an unexpected impact and disintegrated before it was corroded and disintegrated.
Everything that has life must have consciousness.
But the consciousness of the vast majority of people in the world is in "life". They are busy with food, the burden of life, and fame or fortune. They do not have much spare time or thoughts to think about issues about life itself.
Of course, it's also possible that it's because it's useless to think about it. It's better to think about real things than to think about these things.
But what if, for some reason, consciousness is freed from the cares of life?
Then this question will inevitably enter the consciousness.
Then out of the instinct of life, you will probably think, how can this piece of wood not be corroded?
Is there a mountain on the sea?
If the wooden block could reach the mountain from the boundless sea, it might not be corroded. Although there might be other corrosion, the situation would definitely be much better, ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, thousands of times better.
And that, for ordinary life, is undoubtedly "immortality".
Therefore, "it is said that there are fairy mountains on the sea, and the mountains are in the void." Qin Shihuang, who had no worries about food, drink or fame, sent people to find the fairy mountains.
There is a way to find mountains on the sea.
Another way is to look for mountains and refine elixirs at the same time. Even if the same thing is soaked in the sea and corroded by seawater, if the texture is different, the degree and speed of corrosion by seawater must be different, right?
This is the "Tao".
Since ancient times, Shintoism and Taoism have been developed simultaneously.
Where there is the Word, there must be God.
Qin Shihuang looked for mountains, and Ge Heng made elixirs. However, many people who neither had the conditions to find mountains nor made elixirs, or who did not know the concept of mountain elixirs but thought about or feared life and death, hoped that someone might come to save them.
Or redemption.
The most fundamental foothold of all religions and gods lies in this.
It can also be said to be based on life itself.
Therefore, no matter how advanced the so-called "science" is, as long as it cannot break and solve the problems of life, life and death, religions and gods will stand tall and unbreakable, or even if they are broken, time will change and the situation will change, they will be established again.
The grass on the Lili plain dries up and flourishes every year. The wild fire cannot burn it out, but it grows again when the spring breeze blows.
Because they have "roots".
The more prosperous science becomes and the more advanced society becomes, the less space there will be for religion and theology to survive?
Not so.
Not only is that not the case, it is quite the opposite!
The more science becomes more prosperous and the society progresses, the higher the degree of human exploration and utilization of natural resources will be. The pressure required for survival and life will be smaller, and many, many people may have free consciousness and time.
Then study.
Then work and career.
Then fall in love.
Then just have fun.
In addition to these and so on, many, many people will "have no choice" to think about and come into contact with issues about life and life and death because of their free consciousness and time.
So at that time...
Religion flourishes.
The religion flourished.
The life activities and hot spots of concern of the entire society should also be completely different from today.
Of course, by then, the so-called religions and theocracies will probably have evolved and changed, and will probably look different from what they are today.
"In that life, I walked around mountains, rivers, and pagodas, not to cultivate the next life, but to meet you on the way."
At this moment, Xu Guangling remembered such a sentence in a poem.
I really want to live for ten thousand years.
Not for immortality.
I just want to see what the real "prosperity" looks like.
(This should be what I wrote about the third world that the protagonist experienced. Let me advertise it in advance, so everyone can look forward to it, haha.)
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