The boundless Star Sea held no trace of mortal life, nor any human voices...
Endless loneliness enveloped Su Mo, and the pitch-black Star Sea seemed to hold an inexhaustible cold.
"Where did I come from?"
Su Mo sank deep into bewilderment, billions of stars glittering and shifting before his eyes.
"If I do not know who 'I' am, then there is No-Self..."
"If there is No-Self... then why do I 'exist'? If 'I' exist... then where did I come from?"
Su Mo lowered his head in confusion, his eyes filled with bewilderment.
"Where did I come from... where did I come from..."
This "coming" did not mean emerging from somewhere, nor did it mean "birth."
This "coming" was the reason!
Without a "reason," why must "I" be "me"...
"If there is no 'coming,' how can there be an 'I'..."
Su Mo fell into contemplation, unaware of time passing...
The star Su Mo had become kept growing as he contemplated, gradually seeming unable to bear it any longer.
The star drifted through deep space, carrying Su Mo's bewilderment and confusion as it fell toward depths whose destination was unknown.
Deep space was infinitely vast, and so its paths were infinite.
From the beginning to eternity...
Another unknown stretch of time passed, as though he had crossed an infinitely distant River of Time...
The bewilderment in Su Mo's eyes remained, but his star gradually took on a withered hue, and Su Mo could smell death within it.
"Without life... where does death come from..."
Su Mo looked at the star he had become, seemingly utterly unable to understand...
"With No-Self, why must there be a 'coming'..."
An invisible force swept through deep space. Su Mo looked toward that silent yet vast and majestic invisible force without dread or fear, only bewilderment...
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