At Jeta Grove, Yu sat cross-legged as the five blazing aggregates of wind, lightning, water, fire, and earth, born in response to the tribulation, converged upon him!
Even though Yu had prepared thoroughly beforehand, he now faced a baptism that could threaten his life at any moment.
Susanoo and Yamato Takeru were utterly useless beneath the five aggregates. The Diamond Body could still hold out, but only for so long.
Resist with all his strength? On Takamagahara, merely resisting the twenty or thirty tribulation manifestations Basara had summoned with his body had already left Yu mentally and physically exhausted. What kind of concept was an immeasurable number of tribulation manifestations?
He had to comprehend the mystery within!
"The first tribulation of the Deva Path Reincarnation Tribulation is called the Formless Tribulation. As the name implies, its purpose is to shatter all forms!"
What were forms? They were the various characteristics expressed outwardly and observed and described by the mind-consciousness.
To shatter forms was to return to "emptiness."
What was emptiness? It was supreme wisdom and enlightenment!
Shattering forms did not mean killing them. It meant no longer clinging to them...
Take the "self-form" as an example. Having no self-form did not mean killing oneself, but letting go of one's attachment and obsession with the self. The self-form was the "essence" of all forms. It was precisely because people were born with the concept and consciousness of "self" that distinctions between self and others arose, along with views of self and others, and thus the human form came into being. The distinctions between people were the distinctions among sentient beings, thus giving rise to the forms of sentient beings, lifespan, and even the three thousand great worlds.
Yu understood this chain of cause and effect perfectly well on a logical level,