Upon exiting the inner palace, Yankong didn't sit in the carriage Bu Xiao had prepared for him. As the most outstanding disciple of the current generation at the Wuxiang Zen Temple and the prodigy who perfected the Sutra of No Suffering and Extinction, he demanded the highest standards and self-discipline from himself.
Zen always believed that to escape the cycle of reincarnation, one must first experience it, and to know what reincarnation is, is to understand the endless suffering of sinking in the sea of desires.
In Yankong's view, experiencing reincarnation meant self-control, self-proving, rejecting materialistic and emotional desires, and enduring unbearable extreme situations, only then could one cross to the other shore.
