< Peony Pavilion >
Hidden in it is a remarkable chemistry that dares not tell you the half of the truth
What if I told you
There's a girl.
Had a dream
I met a man in my dream
After waking up
Her obsession with this dream
So strong that it killed itself
But that's not the end of the story.
Her mind directly penetrated life and death
Come out of the grave
I really found the man in my dream
Discovered that he actually existed
The last two people not only got married
The man also won the first place in the exam
A happy ending
After hearing this story
What was your first reaction?
Those who believe in obvious chemistry
It is estimated that he will slap the table and shout: Did you see it?
This is the ultimate proof
As long as your mind is strong enough
The universe will come to your aid
She proved with her life - believe
Can get
But if you follow along with this series
What's in your heart right now
Definitely not touching
It's a more dispassionate question: a person
To an empty dream
Persistent enough to penetrate life and death
This is what the world is singing about
Or in Buddhism?
The most extreme form of pervasiveness
Four hundred years ago
Tang Xianzu in the Ming Dynasty
Let's put this ultimate question
Written into a play
He doesn't directly tell you whether the answer is right or wrong
Just spend a girl's life
Put this obsession
From rooting to sprouting
To devour life
To the whole process of life and death
I'll show you the whole performance
answer
Do it yourself
This play
It's the Peony Pavilion.
Hello.
I am Wang Lijie
This is the fourth installment of the series "Deconstructing Classics with Buddhism"
The first three issues
We dismantled the seeds and seasons in < Mirror Flower Edge > respectively
The Heart Ape and I in "Journey to the West"
There are also the plans and awakenings in "A Dream of Red Mansions"
And today's < Peony Pavilion >
It's this series so far
The most extreme part
Because it clings to this thing
Pushed to the limits of human experience - the object of your attachment
It doesn't even exist.
It only comes from one of your dreams
Take two minutes
For friends who have never heard of it
Tell the story through
The Peony Pavilion was written by Tang Xianzu in 1598
The protagonist is named Du Liniang
She is the only daughter of the prefect of Nan'an
Sixteen
Locked in a boudoir courtyard since childhood
I read Confucian classics every day
Learn three from four virtues
There's nothing amicable in life.
Until one day
Mr. Private School told her the beginning of the < Book of Songs >
Guan Guan Jujiu
In the River Continent - This is one of the oldest love songs in Chinese literature
Just this sentence
Directly in Du Liniang's sealed heart
Pry open the first crack
Then spring came
The maid took her secretly to the back garden
For the first time in her life, she saw the spring in the garden
Flower Blossom Butterfly Dance
Willow pink
The life force of nature just bumped into her eyes
This is the second seam
After returning to the room
She had a dream
Dream
She met a young scholar with a willow branch
Two people are at the peony pavilion
Private life
Have a lingering affection
But dreams always wake up
After waking up
Du Liniang's World
Completely collapsed
She went crazy and searched the whole garden.
I will never find the person in my dream
Never have that dream again
from now on
She is day and night
Thinking of someone who doesn't exist in reality
Tea and rice
Withered away
In the fall of that year
She is dead.
But the most subversive part of the story
It's just getting started.
After Du Liniang died
The soul has arrived in the underworld
Judge check
I found out that she still has a human marriage gone
Gave her the freedom to wander
Let her go back to the world to find someone
In the end, she really found - the scholar in the dream, Liu Mengmei
It's actually real
Later
Liu Mengmei followed her instructions
Dig the grave
Du Liniang comes back to life
In the end, Liu Mengmei won the champion in the test
Du Liniang also recognized her father
Everyone thinks
This is a fulfilling love fairy tale
That's the end.
Now we're going to break down the inner core.
Ask the first question first
Du Liniang fell in love with someone she had never met in her dream
This Dream
Where did it come from?
From the framework of Buddhist consciousness-only
The answer is particularly clear
Deep within each of our subconscious
There is a seed bank called alaiyashi
Your longing for love, your longing to be seen, your longing for the wholeness of life
These thoughts
From the moment you were born
Hidden here like a seed
Usually it sleeps
As long as you meet the right opportunity
It will explode in an instant
The first 16 years of Du Liniang's life
It's a completely sealed iron box.
The boudoir and strict female moral education of the prefect's mansion
Take all the opportunities that can trigger these seeds
All blocked outside
Until the < Book of Songs > and the spring in the back garden
Give this iron box
Pry open two cracks
Guan Guan Jujiu
Even if it is packaged as a Confucian education textbook
It's in the bones.
It's still a sign that there is deep love in the world
This is Du Liniang's consciousness
Received information about love for the first time
And the garden is full of spring
It is the most straightforward vitality of nature
It silently told Du Liniang: Life is supposed to bloom
Why would you lock yourself up?
Two cracks superimposed
The seed that has been asleep for sixteen years
Opportunity is instant
Just blow up
But here's the problem: the seeds explode
Surging desire
In reality, nothing can catch it at all
In her life
No real person
Can take on this sudden love
therefore
Her mind did the ultimate thing - it made one of its own
In a dream
Her alaya knowledge
Called all the parameters about the ideal lover
A perfect scholar is rendered out of thin air: holding a willow branch
Gentle and affectionate
Just appeared by the peony pavilion
Just met all her expectations
This is what Buddhism says about all kinds of things
The purest and most extreme form
What is universal planning?
To put it bluntly
It's when you think about something
The brain makes up a set of meanings that don't exist at all
And they're holding on to it.
Take it as the only truth
The last issue we talked about < Dream of Red Mansions >
Lin Daiyu's love obsession
At least there is a real Jia Baoyu standing in front of her
Her obsession
It's for real people.
Added a thick layer of filter
But what about Du Liniang?
She doesn't even have this real person
She is persistent
It's an illusion created 100 percent by your own mind.
If Lin Daiyu sees the world through tinted glasses
That Du Liniang
Just close your eyes
On the inside of the eyelids
Watch your own projected movie
Then I fell in love with the male lead in the movie
Here we go.
The most crucial turning point has arrived: the dream has awakened
normal person
Wake up when you wake up
You dreamt about winning five million last night
Wake up in the morning and laugh
Time to go to work
It's time to move bricks
Why is that?
Because of your consciousness
Can distinguish between dreams and reality
You have a baseline in your heart: the things in your dreams
Doesn't count
Can Du Liniang
There's no baseline.
Sixteen years of her life
Never experienced a real emotional shock
In her conscious system
There is no rule that dream love doesn't count
For her
That dream
It's her life
The most intense and authentic experience
The most complete life experience - more than the sixteen years she was awake
It's got to be real.
Her consciousness
Directly put the weight of this dream
Moved to a higher position than reality
From this moment on
The real world becomes irrelevant background sound
The scholar in the dream
Became the only sign in her life
She ran back to the garden again and again
I want to get that dream back
Can't find it.
She stared at her portrait in a daze
Because she thinks
Self in painting
Than yourself in the mirror
Closer to the way I was loved in my dream
Her entire sensory system
By this dream
Completely reprogrammed
And then...
She is dead.
She didn't die.
It is the persistent seed
In the absence of any external nourishment
Put all her life energy into it
Completely drained
Think about that image: a 16-year-old girl
There was no war.
He didn't get sick.
We didn't encounter any external disasters.
Just because of an illusion in my consciousness
They're killing themselves.
Hear here
Do you still think
Is this just a romantic love story?
But that's it.
It's not over yet.
Here's what comes next.
It is the most worthy part of < Peony Pavilion >
Du Liniang is dead
But her persistence
Straight through the border of life and death
Buddhism says
What power can transcend life and death?
Is karma
Let me put it more precisely.
It's Alaya Shiri
Those highly weighted and deeply persistent seed patterns
A person on his deathbed
The strongest thought in my heart
Will directly determine the direction of your next life journey
Du Liniang before her death
What is the strongest thought?
It's the scholar in the dream
Her love seeds
At the moment of death
Instead of dissipating
Instead, it became her only passport through life and death
This thing
Look at it from another angle
It's not romantic at all
Buddhism
What is the driving force behind reincarnation?
This is it.
The moment you die
The tightest thing in my heart
Will draw you directly into the next cycle
greedy person
Circulated by greed
Hatred person
Flowing with hatred
And Du Liniang
Due to the love in a dream
And circulation
Xian Chemistry shouts to you every day: Your beliefs
Create your reality
That's right.
Du Liniang's Faith
It did create her reality.
But the essence of this creation
It's not the Law of Attraction at all.
It's reincarnation.
Her obsession
Didn't bring her awakening
Instead, it drags her into a life-and-death cycle that she has to continue to pursue
This
It's Tang Xianzu hiding under the shell of romantic love
The hardest truth
You may say: But didn't she find Liu Mengmei in the end?
Isn't it resurrected?
Isn't it a big reunion?
Yes
So this happened.
But think carefully about a question: Du Liniang after the resurrection
Is there even a moment
Wake up.
Is there even a moment
And she realized, "The thing that I was holding on to so desperately."
It's an illusion of my own making.
Nope.
She just
Just got what she wanted
This is the Peony Pavilion and Dream of the Red Chamber.
The deepest difference
In a Dream of Red Mansions
After Jia Baoyu lost everything
The filter used by that layer
Broken
He woke up from his dream
In the Peony Pavilion
Du Liniang from start to finish
Didn't wake up
Her obsession
Strong enough to pierce life and death
Found that person
Put the original empty dream
Completely became a reality
But that just means
She's obsessed with everything.
Thoroughly verified
The seed of obsession
Far from being transformed
It's been permanently reinforced.
You might ask
Tang Xianzu himself
Do you know what he wrote?
He knows too well
Tang Xianzu and Daguan, one of the four eminent monks in the late Ming Dynasty
Also known as Zibai Zhenke
Best friend for life
Zi Baizhen is a true Buddhist practitioner
Tang Xianzu has been dating him for decades
His understanding of Buddhism
Not book fur at all
From the practitioner
Soaked little by little
He is in the inscription of < Peony Pavilion >
I wrote a saying that has been passed down through the ages: I don't know what happened
Go deeper
The living can die
Dead can live
Hereafter
I took this sentence as a golden sentence to sing about love
Printed on bookmarks
Written in a love letter
But if you know Tang Xianzu's Buddhist base color
Go back and read these 18 words
The taste completely changes
Unknown - The Seed
I don't know when it was planted in your alaya consciousness
Go deeper - once the opportunity comes
seed germination
It gets deeper and deeper.
Getting stronger
Can't stop it at all
The living can die - obsession is so strong
It can directly consume all your life energy
Death can be born - obsession is strong
Can directly penetrate the boundary between life and death
Pulling you on
You say
Is this praise?
Or diagnosis?
I am more inclined
This is a scholar who is well versed in Buddhism
The most intense obsession with humans
The most accurate description
He doesn't judge.
Didn't say it was good or bad
Just to tell you the truth: human feelings
It's that much power.
This power
Can give you birth
Can also make you die
It allows you to overcome all obstacles
But it
Never let you wake up
The power that allows you to travel through life and death
And the power to wake you up from your dreams
Never the same force
This
It's the half of the truth that Display Chemistry is the least afraid to face and the least afraid to tell you
It will only tell you
The power of belief
Can create your reality
That's right.
It does
But it will never ask you the next question
The thing that drives you to believe
What is its essence?
Is awakening
Or a deeper sleep
Du Liniang used her life to die
Gave us the answer: your mind
Can indeed create reality
But if the idea itself
It is a seed that is held by all means
The reality you created
More happy, more complete
It's just a more delicate and realistic dream
You didn't wake up
You are just in a dream
Got what you wanted
Speaking of which
I want to mention a phenomenon that is probably encountered by any of us today
today
How many people?
Virtual idols like Hatsune Miku
Or AI chatbots fall in love
In the virtual world
And found significant others
Did you notice
This thing
In a dream with Du Liniang 400 years ago
Fall in love with a scholar whose own consciousness is rendered
In essence
Exactly the same.
Is our consciousness
Generates a perfect object internally
And there was a real, intense reaction to it.
An obsession that can even change one's physical state
Four hundred years have passed
Technology has changed
The carrier has changed
The scene changed.
But we Alaya Shili
The way those seeds work
It never changes.
What is the Peony Pavilion trying to tell us?
It wants to tell us: human attachment
Is one of the most powerful forces in the universe
It allows flowers to bloom in winter
Let the dead come out of the grave
Let an empty dream
Become the reality of DingTalk on the board
But it also
It is also the most dangerous force
Because of its power
Just so you never need to wake up
You got everything you wanted.
So you'll never stop.
Ask yourself this: This is what I desperately want
What is it?
< Mirror Flower Edge > Tell us
Forcing flowers to bloom in the wrong season
Will pay the price
< Journey to the West > Tell us
The monkey that made a fuss in heaven
Must be suppressed first
It is possible to achieve enlightenment
"Dream of the Red Chamber" tells us
When everything is broken
You have a chance
Wake up from a dream
And < Peony Pavilion >
Told us a more disturbing possibility
If your obsession is strong enough
You never have to wake up
You will get everything you want.
And that
Perhaps the deepest sleep
So
Next time you feel like
When you are manifesting a desired outcome
Let's stop for a second
Ask yourself this: I am now
Are you awake?
Or is it a more delicate dream?
And finally.
Let me remind you of this.
The Peony Pavilion is a fictional novel
The dead haven't been raised from their graves yet.
A case of great success with lovers
That spring dream
After all, it was an illusion that consumed her precious life
For today's content
What do you think?
Do you think Du Liniang finally
Is it really loved?
Or by your own obsession
Completed a closed loop
And
The next installment of this series
What do you want to hear?
It's in < Liaozhai Stories >
Behind those fox stories
Hidden world persistence
Or do we jump west?
Look at the Roman emperors two thousand years ago
And the Buddha of the East
In their own meditations
Running into the same truth
Tell me in the comment area.
I am Wang Lijie
See you next time.