Chapter 189 - Brain in a Vat (2/2)
“Doctor Zhang once explained this to me,” Xiao Hong added, “you must have heard about the concept: the Chinese Civilization.”
“The Chinese Civilization?” Hao Ning did not catch it, “What does it mean?”
“The sear of the Chinese Civilization,” Xiao Hong thought for a while and said, “Brother Zhang think it does be the sear of civilization. I did not understand at that time but now I understand a little when you explain Vimalakirti today.
“Ah?” Zhou Yuan smiled, “Go on.”
“You mean the Manjusri Bodhisattva wanted to said WALK…” Zhou Yuan corrected after Xiao Hong said that, “It is Mr. Zhang that told me that it is what the Manjusri in the book wants to say. I cannot make sure if it is true.”
“Why are you so rigorous too…” Xiao Hong smiled, “Nothing. The last sentence is the key point. If the Manjusri is too easy to understand, people who read the scriptures will not understand the wisdom of the Bodhisattva. The scriptures are written by people and the aim of people’s writing is to make the readers understand the wisdom of the book instead of describing something. That is quite different from the ordinary communication among people.”
“You mean the real communication is from the conscience, while the story in books is to maintain wisdom?” Zhou Yuan understood immediately, “so that’s it! That’s it! The writer wants to maintain wisdom, which is what we call the Chinese Civilization.”
“Yes,” Xiao Hong seemed to understand more, and she smiled, “so I can understand now why the deity in the book must protect the Chinese civilization!”
“Because stories in the book do not matter, and what counts is the sear of the Chinese Civilization therein, which is the intuition and conscience of the figures in the book!” Hao Ning understood too. He patted Xiao Hong on her shoulder and sighed, “If there is no Chinese civilization and civilization sear lost, the deity inside cannot tell where the real world is and where from books is. What’s more, it may have an incorrect judgment to itself.”
“The judgment is incorrect,” Zhou Yuan nodded, “it would be likely that a fake Manjusri believes itself the real one. No matter who it is, human being or god, it has no idea who it is. Horrible!”
“Ah, that’s it!” Hao Ning now understood, “that is to say, it disturbs the intuition judgment of the Manjusri to the civilization sear, so the Manjusri couldn’t tell its real identity?”
“It should be some similar condition,” Zhou Yuan nodded, “but there is still a difference. There are so many scriptures mentioning about the Manjusri and the Manjusri incense is not the only one. The deity generated by that has many sears of books and further all kinds of sears from billions of incenses from believers. What we guessed just now is that if we want to disturb the judgment of the Manjusri, we could add something inside the Manjusri and disturb some kind of its root. And the root, we can call it as…”
“Conscience,” Hao Ning sighed, “You want to say this world?”
“You got it,” Zhou Yuan felt a little bit upset and looked out of the window, “the Manjusri became like this, and so did I.”
“You said I am the Monkey Under Boat who demands to gain the conscience, but I believe I am that Realistic Circle God who knows what others think. The original soul of mine just disappeared and the fake Manjusri and I both lost our consciences, didn’t we? But I’m so lucky that you guys did me many favors. However, that fake Manjusri is hurt by people around him. He believes that he has got incense faith from pure people, but finally he becomes the tool of others to do evil things…”
“Zhou Yuan…” It was the first time for Hao Ning hear the sigh of Zhou Yuan. He knew that Zhou Yuan sighed about the Manjusri but he actually sighed about what he himself had suffered, and Hao Ning did not know what to say about that.”
“Nothing!” Zhou Yuan waved his hands and said with a bitter smile, “I know that I have lost my conscience even if the golden cudgel does not find me. Just now I urged to order you to give the Soul Sun Stick back to me. I am stubborn about that. Something belongs to me, and it must be mine. There is no need to RETURN.”
Liu Shuai now got silent and he had to admit that Zhou Yuan understood the issues more deeply than him.
“But the Wit Sword of Bodhisattva also found you!” Xiao Hong said in a mood of comfort, “There is a heart inside wisdom. The wisdom finds you, which proves that you have a heart but permanently it is not the conscience. One who has a heart can find the conscience back, but for one who has no heart, how can he find the conscience back?”
“Hahaha,” Zhou Yuan laughed after he heard the words of Xiao Hong, “I accept your comfort. Thank you!”
“You are at ease now,” Hao Ning said with a bitter smile after he made sure that Zhou Yuan now was in a good mood, “How about the issue of Long Fei’s temple?