Die, die, die, die, die!

What is the meaning of living in such pain?

If you are hungry, you can make offal soup from your own internal organs, because at least it will not look like a human body, and you can barely satisfy your hunger.

If you are cold, then you will burn yourself, and your blood and flesh will be burned to ashes, and you will no longer feel the cold.

You have to learn to tolerate pain. Your feet are constantly undergoing wear and tear and rebirth. The body that has been punctured can also recover quickly. The pain will be cured as long as the affected area is cut off. The body is burning all the time. As time goes by, you will gradually get used to it.

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Lonely, lonely...lonely...

Die die die die die die!

After death, everything will be insignificant. Eternal sleep is eternal silence. The living will perish. All happiness will end and sorrow will come. Heaven and humans are just like the five days of decline.

From the perspective of the old monk, the firebird gradually withered, gradually revealing its burning human form, and the dim light swallowtail butterflies kept sinking into it, each one of which could easily lure mortals into the road to hell.

Everything that is indestructible is destroyed from within, and nothing can save a person who wants to die.

She seems to be dying. When the flame goes out, the girl in front of her will enjoy silence, escape from this ugly life, and enter a beautiful death, but...

"Those who cannot die. The souls of the dead who have forgotten to become Buddhas cannot give birth to new life. Human beings who cannot die cannot know the noisy underworld."

Chiyo murmured in a low voice, although he kept calling for eternal sleep, eternal sleep, but it was the other person who was always wandering in the world, never able to become a Buddha and reach the other shore and become a new life.

[Note: The Japanese concept of becoming a Buddha also means that the ghost has fulfilled its wish and gone to reincarnation with satisfaction.]

As for Chiyo himself? People who cannot die, even if they want to give up and sink themselves to the bottom of the sea, they will only fall endlessly, falling, never reaching the end, never being able to go to the underworld, announcing the end of their lives.

The living must perish. If death is the proof of living, would she who cannot die have ceased to be alive long ago?

Under the puzzled gaze of the old monk, Chiyo ignited the entire manor with flames, and the soaring firebird swept the old monk in.

"Life and death begin in darkness, and death and death end in darkness."

This was once a Chinese poem written by Kobo Daishi Kukai to express his confusion about the reincarnation of life and death. But now it comes from the mouth of an immortal man. I don’t know what kind of interpretation it has.

The firebird's song was gentle and long, and the entire manor was ignited in its tail feathers. The two people outside the manor stared at the scene in front of them in stunned silence. The firebird swayed into the air and scattered feathers of fire.

"It's you, the immortal boy of the Phoenix! It's you! I've seen you! I've seen you before! The immortal boy of the Temple of Sin Slayer! Fujiwara!"

In the flames, the old monk shouted loudly, ignoring the flames burning his soul and just asking questions.

"Are you really immortal? What is the end of life without death?"

Sato Yoshikiyo, who was wandering in the world, finally remembered when and when he started to be obsessed with death.

Before he died, when he was still the Saigon Master and the Singing Saint Sato Yoshikiyo who was praised by the world.

During one of his travels, he came to the Hokke Temple in Nara, which was once the residence of Fujiwara Fujiwara, the glorious founder of the Fujiwara clan and his ancestor.

Here he met the girl who was crying in the Hokke Temple, named Fujiwara Chiyo, the immortal child possessed by the Phoenix.

He recalled the conversation that day. The girl sought relief from him and asked him what the meaning of immortal life was. But he was troubled by the girl's posture of constant death and rebirth.

Sato Yoshikiyo is a monk. He believes that life is about constantly seeking enlightenment in reincarnation, and the desires brought by the physical body are all obstacles that cover the eyes.

And death, getting rid of the shackles of the physical body and getting rid of the troubles of desire, is the path to enlightenment they pursue.

But, how can an immortal being achieve enlightenment? If he cannot die, doesn’t it mean that he will be trapped in the body for the rest of his life, tormented by lust, without enlightenment or liberation?

What is the difference between the world and hell?

Sato Yoshikiyo, who was troubled by this question, did not answer the girl. After thinking all day long, he came up with his own answer: I wish to die under the spring flowers, looking at the sun like the moon.

If this life is suffering and torture, then death may be the silence of eternal sleep, as well as enlightenment and liberation. But after he fulfilled his wish and died under the cherry blossoms, he still wandered around the world and lived forever in the filthy soil of the underworld.<

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I am disgusted with the filthy land, and I am happy to seek the pure land.

But when he once again saw the soaring Phoenix bird that had remained in his memory, he finally understood that he was still troubled by the original problems and the girl's appearance back then.

"Where is the end of immortal life? And what is its meaning? It has been nearly a thousand years! What have you gained in these thousand years of pain? Answer me! Tell me the answer! Chiyo Fujiwara!"

Facing the monk's question, Chiyo just gave him a middle finger.

"Idiot, how could I know such a thing? I have to work hard to even fill my stomach."

In the flames, Sato Yoshikiyo looked at Chiyo in astonishment, as if he didn't understand what the meaning of filling his stomach was for an immortal life.

But his thinking did not last long. Under the flames of the Phoenix, his body shrank rapidly, and his soul that could not feel the pain was burned into a wisp of smoke in the flames.

"Look, your father is dead."

"My father has been dead for nearly a thousand years, okay?"

I don’t know when, Jingu stood behind Hanayama Inharu with a kimono girl tied up with a rope, silently complaining.

"Lord Jingu!"

Huashan Yuanharu has become accustomed to the shrine being mysterious sometimes, but what she is paying attention to now is not this, but other things.

"Master Jingu, if you are here, why don't you stop me! Everything is burned now!"

Unexpectedly, Hanayama Inharu, who was on guard against trouble in Jingu, did not cause trouble, but Chiyo, who felt reliable, caused a big problem.

However, Jingu was not in a hurry to talk to her. This small fire was dampened, but he continued to joke with the girl.

"Then I was wrong. Look, your father is gone."

The girl curled her lips. It was very uncomfortable to be tied up, especially the way the Jingu was tied was not sentimental, but it was protruding enough that it made her uncomfortable.

"It's just a normal reincarnation. I've been hesitating for so long and it's still just an empty talk."

The girl is neither sad nor happy. Perhaps she should have sent her father to reincarnation a long time ago. The body of the deceased will return to the earth and become nourishment. After the soul is assigned a place in hell, one day the soul will return to the earth and give birth to a new generation.

life.

Being burned to ashes by a thousand generations is just another way for the soul to return to the earth. All things are ultimately in a cycle of life and death, but this cycle is different from what ordinary people imagine.
Chapter completed!