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Chapter 759: Chapter Fifty Three: Paradox

The most important aspect of a school’s continued existence is a core theory that explains and supports itself. How could Zen, which ranks among the Heaven Sect, be stumped by a question from Tang Luo?

“Master Tang is correct. Not only the small monk, but even the wisest among the human race have not yet found immortality. But does it not exist just because we haven’t reached it?” Yankong replied lightly, “Eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind; color, sound, scent, taste, touch, and thought are all but empty phenomena. They blind you, just like a pitch-black room. If I say there’s a hammer, however much you widen your eyes in the dark, you won’t see your hand in front of you, and all you can say is that you can’t see. But what if I light a candle?”

“Although Zen has not reached immortality, it is the closest to immortality among the sacred Heaven Sect. What all our Zen predecessors have done is like lighting a faint glow in a vast field of immortality. If one day, immortality appears, which school would discover it first?”

“You’ve talked too much. Just say you haven’t achieved it. Why are you boastfully claiming that you can guide him to the other shore?”

Tang Luo furrowed his brows, questioning, “You’re too eager to guide others when you haven’t even found the way yourself. Aren’t you misleading them?”

“Though we haven’t arrived, we aren’t far off. Are you so certain, Master Tang, that this monk won’t reach it?”

“You’ve never even been there! How would you know how far off you are? Stop talking nonsense!”

Tang Luo, who has been a human being for two lives, knew perfectly well how life worked. Yankong’s inspiring nonsense could only deceive the young and inexperienced.

It’s like this: the beginning is difficult, the middle is difficult, and the end is difficult. Everything is difficult, and it only gets harder.

It only gets more complicated and profound. If you think it’s not far off, it is because you don’t know what you are

a hint of a smile: “I can’t be sure whether you will eventually achieve immortality, but I know this: if I kill you here and now, you’d only have your current life left. There’d be

know, Master Tang, that everything in this world –

left leg. Charged with wind and thunder, the sound of a roaring tiger came from the kick aimed at Yankong’s right face. The overlooked kick, abrupt and aggressive, left Yankong alarmed. He raised his right hand to block it. He thought he would be kicked away, but he didn’t expect the kick to

abruptly interrupted. He demanded, “What is the meaning of this, Master Tang? Why are you

say everything is empty.” Tang Luo withdrew his left leg and coldly

taken aback and didn’t know how to

Is this the master you choose?” Tang Luo turned to Tang Xing and asked, “Speaking empty words that you cannot practice, walking a path that

was shattered after seeing Yankong’s performance. Confusion clouded him once

to follow Yankong to attain immortality. Upon realizing Yankong couldn’t

Xing was seeking advice from him, Tang Luo was elated. But he maintained his guard, fearing that Tang

is no Buddha, your so-called Buddhist practice is nothing more than cultivating yourself. It doesn’t matter if you do it in the temple, in the mundane world, in the mountains, or in the noisy market. Life is a cultivation, the whole world is your cultivation ground. Every

by accepting them with determination, striving

if there is a Buddha?” asked

attained through Zen teaching. If you want to become a Buddha but follow Zen, isn’t it as absurd as wanting

for placing itself on a pedestal by claiming everything is empty despite living in the human world, relying on everything in nature. It constantly talks about

worrying about transcendence and immortality instead of living a good life now