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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.

and profound. If you think it’s not far off, it is because

you will eventually achieve immortality, but I know this: if I kill you here and now, you’d only have

and ignorance are the three poisons of the human race. Do you know, Master Tang, that everything in this world – Heaven and Earth, all living beings – is but

Yankong could finish his sentence, an annoyed Tang Luo lifted his 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

being kicked away, Yankong was still angry about being abruptly interrupted. He demanded, “What is the meaning of

and coldly asked, “Then where does this temper

and

empty words that you cannot practice, walking a path that even you cannot see

Xing was silent. His perceived enlightenment was shattered after seeing Yankong’s

Zen, noticed his idea of immortality shatter at the same time Yankong was left tongue-tied. He initially thought he only needed to follow Yankong to attain immortality. Upon realizing Yankong couldn’t guide him, his pursuit for immortality remained the same. The directionless youth was

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

said to the bald youth, “If there 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

face situations you aren’t willing to accept. Only by accepting them with determination, striving to change them, can you sublimate your nature. This

vague. But what if there is

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

pedestal by claiming everything is empty despite living in the human world, relying on everything in nature.

sound impressive at first but on closer inspection, worrying about transcendence and immortality instead of living a good life now is unreasonable. Where can such a ridiculous cultivation