Chapter 177: There Is a Great Temptation in the Secular World
Life is often an extremely difficult thing. How to live a simple life is often one of the most complex topics in the world.
When people live in the world, they will always have various desires due to the influence of the environment. These desires control human beings to perform some highly purposeful behaviors.
Every person's social activities have a purpose or reason, and these most fundamental things that drive humans to perform various behaviors often do not make humans feel happy.
Therefore, life is very tiring. When the desire is not satisfied, it is painful, and when it is satisfied, it is empty. Human beings can never really limit themselves to a suitable range and have no extravagant desires for everything they have.
Hunger and thirst are the source of continuous evolution and progress of human beings. From the distant billions of years ago, from the single-cell organisms that first gave birth to life, they gradually divided and developed to the entire human race today. The long evolution has
It is constantly moving forward in the instinctive hunger and thirst of biological cells.
While this hunger and thirst allow human beings to continuously evolve and develop, the process is always full of blood and cruelty.
The legendary Garden of Eden can never exist. No matter how longing for the so-called paradise in human minds, it cannot change the established facts.
Survival is always the first priority of biological instinct.
In order to survive, you must have the ability to plunder and attack.
For Ye Su, the process of experiencing the world of mortals is more like an in-depth analysis of himself from beginning to end. Whether it is body or soul, it must be baptized from the deepest and softest place.
Human beings are very hypocritical creatures. Not only do they use lies to cover up what they think they need when facing other people, but even when facing themselves, many times humans will also use lies to cover up what they think they need.
Self-deception.
How to truly recognize oneself, fully understand oneself, and see through oneself has always been a major problem in human society.
Ye Su is very clear about this, and also understands what is the most difficult point in his spiritual practice, so no matter who he faces, he tries his best to show himself as truly as possible without any unnecessary disguise.
Only in this way can you gradually and completely reveal everything.
It is very easy to do this, but there are basically no people who are really willing to do it. The distance between people is not just two bodies composed of carbohydrates. The spiritual barrier is sometimes thousands of miles away.
remote.
Sitting in the taxi heading to the mental hospital, Ye Su kept thinking aimlessly in his mind.
Taking the initiative to plunge himself into some kind of mental contemplation was something Ye Su would do whenever he had some free time after coming to Qingjiang.
There are great temptations in the secular world, and Ye Su cannot guarantee that he can really be in a detached state of mind at any time and face everything in this world.
Therefore, he must always remind himself to prevent himself from completely sinking into this earthly life.
Not every monastic sect has the concept of practicing in the secular world. In fact, as far as Ye Su knows, only about 30% of all monastic sects will encourage their disciples to enter the secular world and practice in the secular world.
Through the life here, you can understand the way of heaven by experiencing all kinds of things in the world.
The reason why such a situation occurs is naturally because there is another kind of inexplicable danger involved in spiritual practice.
Too many ascetics have been assimilated by the secular world in the process of practicing in the world. Ascetics are also human beings. Since they are human beings, they naturally have seven emotions and six desires. Whether it is an extremely familiar life circle or the so-called love, they may become
A concern that ascetics cannot let go.
And this kind of concern will naturally become an obstacle for the ascetics to be unable to go further and taste the great path.
Love is the most fascinating thing in the world. It is dirty and holy, passionate and cold. It can give people unforgettable hope and heart-breaking determination. Love is an angel, and love is also a devil...
Therefore, many monks are willing to be killed by the butcher knife of love.
This is a feeling that makes people even willing to give their lives for it under crazy circumstances. It is more pious than faith!
Under such circumstances, there are not many examples of ascetics who give up their identity and the idea of pursuing the great path, and are willing to taste the ups and downs just for a certain woman.
Ye Su didn't want to become like this in the future, so he had to remind himself all the time so that he could stay truly awake at all times.
The easiest way to do this is to always look down on all the sentient beings. However, if you really keep such a distance, you cannot guarantee the effect of practicing in the world. Once you cannot completely integrate into the world, you will be in the world.
Cultivation also loses its proper meaning.
Therefore, Ye Su must find a good balance point, and it is difficult to achieve this.
"Instructor... are you... worried about something?"
Wu Jiayao, who was sitting next to Ye Su, was secretly looking at Ye Su from the corner of her eyes along the way. When she noticed that Ye Su seemed to have fallen into some kind of self-conscious contemplation, she finally couldn't help but ask.
"It's nothing, I'm just in a trance. What's wrong?"
Ye Su was awakened from his deep thoughts, turned to look at Wu Jiayao beside him, and asked with a smile.
"It's nothing. I'm just worried about the way you frowned just now. Director, if you have anything on your mind, you can tell me. I will be a good listener."
Wu Jiayao plucked up the courage and said with a slightly red face, but there was still a rawness in her words that could not be concealed.
"What are you thinking about? What can you do to help me?"
Ye Su noticed Wu Jiayao's somewhat uncertain feelings, shook her head helplessly, and said with a smile: "Little girl, go to your school well, do your work, your family will need you to cheer up in the future, don't
Thinking of strange things."
"I'm already twenty, and you're not much older than me! Most of those so-called mature women don't have the same figure or appearance as me!"
Wu Jiayao pouted and muttered something in a very low voice, probably at a volume that only she could clearly understand.
"What did you say?" Ye Su asked, pretending not to understand clearly.
"It's nothing. He will be going to the hospital soon. I hope my father is living a relatively good life during this period."