Chapter 11 third quarter

"Qingming, what happened is roughly like this..." Boya said with emotion, "Isn't this a beautiful story? It turns out that even if you are a ghost or a monster, you will sometimes fall into this state of mind..." Boya raised his wine glass, wanting to drink the alcohol into his body in one gulp. "That is the sacrifice verse of the Snow Mountain boy, and it is a story in the "Nirvana Sutra." According to records, one day, when the Snow Mountain boy was practicing Bodhisattva practice in the mountains, he heard the sound of chanting from somewhere. "Everything is impermanent, it is the law of birth and death..."

The voice recited: Everything in this world moves and flows; everything that is born must die, this is the law of the world. The Xueshan boy took a closer look and found that it was the ghost Raksha who recited poems in the mountain. "Can you please continue to recite the second half of the verse?" the boy asked. "I'm hungry, so I can't recite the second half of the verse. If I'm allowed to drink human blood and eat human flesh, I can probably recite the second half of the verse." Ghost Raksha replied. "Then, you can eat my body," said the boy.

"Birth and death are gone, and extinction is joy." Ghost Raksha said the second half of the gatha. It means that if you can get rid of the impermanent pain of birth and death, and eliminate the selfishness that is confused by it, you can make people's minds quiet, and this is the real happiness. After hearing this, the boy was overjoyed, and immediately engraved this verse on the surrounding trees and stones, and then jumped into the bloody mouth of the ghost Raksha. In an instant, the ghost Rakshasa turned into Indra, and flew into the sky with the boy in his arms, reciting congratulations.

This is exactly the story of the snow mountain boy's sacrificial gatha. "That's right, it's also a ghost who recited this gatha to the Snow Mountain boy." "Is it Di Shitian who turned into a ghost rakshasa?" "That's right. So, the ghost that Lord Keihao saw might be the incarnation of Kamo or some other god." "yes?" "In other words, in a sense, ghosts and gods are actually the same kind." Boya said. "Oh!" Seimei exclaimed. "What's wrong?" "It's nothing, Boya, because you said something amazing."

"What's the meaning?" "Didn't you just say that ghosts and gods are of the same kind?" "Well, so what?" "That's why I say, it's amazing." "What is amazing?" "Because the facts are just as you say." "..." "Ghosts or gods, to sum up, only exist after they have a relationship with people." "Whether it is a god or a ghost, it is the human heart that makes them exist in this world." "You wouldn't say that they were ordered to exist in this world?" "It is the mantra ghosts and gods that exist in this world."

"..." "If all human beings in this world disappear, the gods and ghosts will also disappear." "Oh, Qingming, I think what you're saying is too profound, and I can't always understand it." "I didn't say this, you said it first, Boya." "I forgot what I said." "Being able to forget what you said is exactly where you are most powerful." "Don't play tricks on me." "I'm not kidding you." "real?" "I'm complimenting you, Boya." "Don't lie to me with such words..."

"real?" "real." "Ah, no, I feel like I've been cheated by you again." Boya spat, took a sip of wine, and continued, "Whether you're cheating me or not, I feel the intoxication that filled my heart just now , I don’t know where it flew to.” "I'm really sorry." Qingming scratched his forehead with his index finger, "That's good, I'll take you to a fun place." "interesting place?" "Are you free tomorrow night?" "If you're free, you're free, Qingming, what are you doing?"

"If I quote your words, it will take you to see the ghosts produced by the human heart." "ghost?" "right." "What's the meaning?" "The one who gave birth to the ghost was a man named Kamo Naohei..." So Seimei began to tell about the man.