In ancient times, Buddhism and Taoism were in conflict. Buddhism and Taoism criticized each other. Buddha scolded Taoism as a ghost guarding corpses, while Taoism laughed at Buddha as a ghost spirit that would never be able to become a saint.

This was a pleasant scolding, but each family felt sad after hearing it.

Why are Taoists ghouls?

It's talking about Xie Yali's situation in his previous life. He spent his whole life guarding his own stupid practice, wanting to refine elixirs and become an immortal, but in the end he ended up with nothing.

Taoism pursues "immortality". Immortality makes it easy for people to be obsessed with "being". From the perspective of Buddhism, all dharma is empty. You can't even let go of a useless stinky bag that is destined to be discarded. What can you cultivate?

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Just like Xie Yali, he used his body to refine elixirs, but hundreds of years of life passed by. Not only did he fail to become an immortal, but he also worked in vain. Isn't he just a ghost guard?

Therefore, Buddhists say that life is like a sea of ​​suffering, and the body is a raft. The raft is just a tool to cross the sea of ​​suffering. It will be useless when you reach the other side. Therefore, only the soul is eternal.

Buddhists call the soul that has crossed over to the other side Buddha, Bodhisattva or Arhat.

Therefore, what Buddhism actually pursues is "non-birth", which is exactly the opposite of Taoism.

Life and death, life and death, life and death, everything is illusory, everything is empty. Compared with Taoism, which is obsessed with "being", Buddhism is too obsessed with "emptiness". They practice and practice again and again, and spend their whole lives doing reduction.

Practicing for emptiness and cultivating to the end will not give up your life. In the end, not only will you not become a Buddha, but you will also become a Yin spirit.

Therefore, Taoism laughs at Buddhism, saying that it is difficult for a ghost spirit to become a saint for all eternity.

Whether it's a ghoul guarding a ghost or an eternal ghost, it's all about poking at the opponent's heart.

However, the world is always moving forward, and contradictions are integrated with each other. Therefore, Taoism has "dead corpses" and Buddhism has "ascetics".

Taoism has absorbed Buddhist theory and admits that one can disintegrate a corpse and abandon the body to become a ghost or immortal, but it believes that this is the lowest form of immortality.

Buddhists have also absorbed Taoist theory and believe that one can become an Arhat by exercising the physical body. However, they still believe that the body is a stinker and a carrier of sin, so the ultimate goal of exercising the physical body is to obtain spiritual freedom and liberation of the soul. Let yourself achieve

The state of perfect enlightenment.

The fact is that now, the golden elixir is difficult to achieve, and Buddhahood is far away. The Dharma that holds the most hope for transcendence has become the "inferior Dharma" that each other despises the most.

Sister Xie Yali practiced the Golden elixir method all her life in her previous life. Finally, before her death, she changed her method and practiced the Five Hell Immortal Method, which was regarded by orthodox Taoists as a "side sect" or even evil method.

This is both a helpless compromise and a desperate struggle.

If the righteous Dharma is really like a mirror, but it is the "evil Dharma" that can lead to immortality?

So what is good and what is evil?

Maybe time will give the answer thousands of years later.

Su Yi now feels that this Five Hell Immortal Technique is really evil!

It's so evil that it's anti-human.

Serious illness, pain, and the desire to die, these three major factors are things that normal people would never pursue. However, if you want to cultivate the Five Hells Immortal, these three major factors have become the requirements.

Therefore, cultivating immortals really shouldn’t become the mainstream. If everyone practiced immortality like this, mankind would be finished long ago.

In fact, the ancient Theravada Buddhism was also so "anti-human". It required people to become a monk and practice Buddhism. They had to observe the precepts, destroy their body and wisdom, and seek nirvana in the end.

If everyone practiced Buddhism like this, mankind would be doomed long ago.

Therefore, in the early days of Buddhism and Taoism, it was believed that becoming a Buddha and becoming an immortal was something that could only be accomplished by a very small number of people who were gifted, had a predestined relationship with immortals or Buddhas, had great perseverance, and had great wisdom. Ordinary people should never even think about it. This matter has nothing to do with you.

It doesn't matter.

But any idea that involves interests will become specious or even a fantasy.

Later, Taoism said that you can get married and have children and practice at home, and you can still become an immortal; later Buddhism also said that everyone can become a Buddha. You are a Buddha, you don't need to become a monk, you can just recite Amitabha when you have nothing to do...

Will it be a good thing for the people to hear this?

What a fat ginkgo, so what are you waiting for?

As a result, Buddhism and Taoism prospered, and the Buddhas and Taoists became fat and fat and made a lot of money.

They made up more theories and principles to prove that everyone can become an immortal and everyone is a Buddha. These theories and principles are very rigorous and very reasonable.

After saying it for a long time, not only did the people believe it, but they themselves also believed it.

Instead, these principles and theories have become truth, culture, philosophy, and guidelines for teaching people how to behave well.

No one still remembers that Taoism and Buddhism first taught people not to behave...

Become an immortal or a Buddha?

It works, it works, I am happy and happy.

Anyway, this is a good thing that is good to you, me, and everyone, and it’s not wrong.

Therefore, we can draw the opposite conclusion here: Any practice that is not "anti-human" will not lead to immortality or Buddhahood.

In addition, people need to know themselves and understand that becoming an immortal or a Buddha is not something that normal people can do. If you are a normal person, then just be a good person and don't think about what you have and what you don't have.

Su Yi can no longer be a human being, and he seems to be very "anti-human" now, so there is nothing wrong with him cultivating immortality.

But he couldn't bear it.

Some people divide pain into ten levels, among which the highest level of pain is the pain suffered by women during childbirth and terminal cancer patients.

Su Yi is almost suffering from these two kinds of pain now.

all the time!

He clearly felt the pain Xie Yali was suffering.

The rotten area on the abdomen was still being refining elixirs, and Su Yi could clearly feel that the flesh and blood there were merging with so-called "worm-borne fungi" and turning into powdery elixirs.

This process is no less painful than childbirth!

The tumor in his brain was also painful. Su Yi felt like there was a crazy decoration team in his brain, chipping away at everything. This kind of pain made him even more miserable!

Ordinary people can't bear this kind of pain for just a moment, but Xie Yali has been in pain for eighteen years!

She was in this state of excruciating pain every second.

She locked herself in a closed, dark and narrow space, which is called retreat practice.

She allowed her body to rot and her illness to wreak havoc.

If you are hungry, a believer will give you a bowl of brown rice with salt every day.

When you are thirsty, get up by yourself. There is a faucet in this small small room.

If you want to go to the toilet, there is a urinal nearby, so you can defecate in it and pee in it. Someone will take it away at regular intervals every day.

If your body is dirty, you cannot take a bath, you can only simply wipe your body.

You will live like this for many years!

This is cultivating immortality!

Is this cultivation of immortality?

Can you really become an immortal in this way?

In extreme pain, loneliness and despair, people will doubt everything.

Su Yi is now full of doubts.

He had endured such pain for less than half an hour.

But in half an hour, Su Yi truly realized what it means to feel like a second is like a year!

He began to doubt himself and everything from the second second. The more he thought about it, the more doubtful he became, and the more doubtful he became, the more desperate he became.

If doing this is in vain, if this method is useless at all, then he feels that he is a scoundrel who is asking for trouble, a lunatic, and a lunatic!

Therefore, cultivating immortality really requires a lot of courage and self-confidence. You have to be sure that you can succeed without any doubt.

Once you have doubts, the doubts will be magnified infinitely, and then you will endure greater pain, both physical and mental torture.

In this case, how can you persist?

At this time, Su Yi thought of giving up again.

This is not how cultivating immortals should be.

Immortals should be free and elegant, they breathe wind and drink dew, and do not eat grains.

You shouldn't be eating, drinking, and hiding in this coffin-sized secret room. You shouldn't be lying here for years, living worse than a dog!

What kind of cultivation is this?

What kind of immortal is this cultivator?

Especially when Su Yi thought that he and Xie Yali were different.

There is no way he can become an immortal, he just wants to learn alchemy.

So is it necessary for him to endure such pain and despair?

It seems that there is no need at all...

Su Yi had ten thousand reasons to convince himself to give up.

But in the end he hesitated and did not say the word "give up".
To be continued...