"From a worldly point of view, of course, it exists. I like this girl, I like everything good about her, and I want to be with her forever."
Xu Lin shifted the topic, "But philosophically, from let's say Buddhism, I like this girl because she is pretty. What if she becomes ugly? Maybe I wouldn't like her because I'm attached to her physical appearance, and in Buddhism, all this is illusory. People age, no matter how pretty the girl is, she'll eventually become a wrinkled old woman, emitting the smell of old age. That's why Buddhism has the saying 'viewing a beautiful woman as a skeleton.'
"However."
Xu Lin continued, "I'm just an ordinary person. It's meaningless to discuss these matters. Any profound truth should be based on the unity of knowledge and action, otherwise, I'd at most be just a serious ordinary person."
"Yes, that's true." Shang Wanjun nodded.
The two of them talked quite a bit, and later, it almost got dark.
