Chapter 1403 — The Prison Locks the Heart, the Dao Endures Forever
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 3
Enlightenment came to him: though he had leapt free of the Nine Prisons Platform, his dao heart was still within that prison, ceaselessly tempered.
"The world of men is one great cage; every person is in prison, pressing onward through the grind.
The spikes in the Nine Prisons Platform are the grind we must face in life, sharp spikes that pierce your flesh full of holes and pierce your dao heart full of holes.
" "The weak suffer and wail, but the strong strive forward and never retreat.
The weak curl up in the prison and advance no more; the strong try to leap free.
" All at once his Buddhist-Dao heavenly palace became complete; the Buddhist-Dao primordial spirit was solemn in its precious aspect, robed in white, barefoot, wearing the smile of one who has passed through countless sufferings.
The Buddha has no cultivation method; Great Brahma had transmitted no method to him, nor had Lord Huo taught him the Buddhist-Dao heavenly palace. Buddhahood is a learning of the mind; awaken to it, and the Buddhist-Dao heavenly palace is cultivated to completion of itself.
He looked at the Nine Prisons Platform: though he had leapt free, his heart remained in the prison.
And though he had leapt free of the Nine Prisons Platform, was the world of men not another Nine Prisons Platform?
He laughed a long laugh, his dao heart refined and penetrating, and in that state of enlightenment he involuntarily brought forth the twenty-fifth heaven of the Dao Realm that he himself had comprehended.
The Nine Prisons Lock the Heart, the Dao Endures Forever!
He trod upon the Nine Prisons, and the countless Qishan dao-spikes of the Nine Prisons Platform spun madly, spikes great and small alike, prison-locking the dao hearts of his enemies.