Tan Shuchang had cultivated for five years, ten months, and twenty-six days.
Today he encountered a high monk who had come from the Treasure Mountain Heavenly Soil Temple and engaged in a debate on Buddhist teachings with him. The high monk wanted to convert me, and I likewise wanted to convert the high monk, but the high monk did not believe, so I had no choice but to use magic.
All five aggregates are empty, liberating one from all suffering. The five aggregates—form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness—are the body, the senses, thoughts, actions, and ideas, respectively; these five elements comprise a person. When all of these are empty, the person ceases to exist.
And this suffering... if the person is gone, where does the suffering come from?
Therefore, my conversion of the high monk was very successful.
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