Cognition Gu

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Cognition Gu is a Gu in The Legends of Ren Zu.

When Verdant Great Sun cannot find Wisdom Gu, Divine Travel tells him to seek cognition Gu, calling it the mother of Wisdom Gu. Verdant Great Sun finds cognition Gu and asks how to fly. ch. 371

Effect

Cognition Gu says cognition is the wings of freedom, and that the wings a person gains depend on that person’s own thoughts. It turns into a warm light and shines on Verdant Great Sun, and a pair of white feathered wings appears on his back. Cognition Gu names those wings “self”, says everyone has a self-cognition, and warns him not to bask too long in sunlight or that sense of self will expand or shrink. It adds that the higher he flies, the harder he falls. ch. 371

Advising Desolate Ancient Moon

Desolate Ancient Moon asks cognition Gu how to rescue Ren Zu. Cognition Gu gives two methods: enter space cave and open the space door to reach only his soul, or climb Cheng Bai mountain and find the one success Gu to wish for a true resurrection. ch. 435

After Cheng Bai collapse

After love Gu topples Cheng Bai mountain, Desolate Ancient Moon returns to cognition Gu for advice. Cognition Gu says she can only search the rocks one by one for success Gu, warns that failure Gu is the biggest threat, and tells her to keep affirming the belief of “me” so disastrous situations fade. It also asks her not to say it taught her, because in the face of fanatic love, wisdom and cognition can only run away. ch. 547

Enlightening Ren Zu

When Ren Zu thinks until a Gu jumps from his mind, narration names that Gu cognition Gu, an old friend. Cognition Gu says where there is cognition, there is it, then gives off a bright light that enlightens him. Narration states its ability is to enlighten all beings, and that any lifeform it enlightens gains wings. After the light fades, Ren Zu receives delicate wings at his heels that cognition Gu names independence, then cognition Gu vanishes. ch. 646

Freedom and responsibility

In the legend, fate Gu’s manipulation has separated Ren Zu from his children and he has lost wealth Gu, which forces him into madness; when he grasps freedom Gu, it tells him it flew over only because it was attracted by the cognition Gu on him. Cognition Gu then explains that his delirious wishes for eternal companionship, worry-free life, and immortality are the thoughts of a lunatic. As responsibility Gu presses down on him, cognition Gu tells him that freedom and responsibility coexist, and that to obtain freedom he must shoulder responsibility, at least for himself. ch. 1954

Wisdom Gu’s wandering nature

When Ren Zu asks cognition Gu how to find wisdom Gu, cognition Gu answers that it does not know, that wisdom Gu has been to many places and has no fixed location, and that Ren Zu must find it himself. ch. 2036

Refining knowledge on Book Mountain

Before the inkman elder finishes telling Ren Zu how to turn information into knowledge, cognition Gu appears and offers to help him refine knowledge, and the elder agrees that cognition can produce knowledge. Cognition Gu says they have always been good friends and that the arrangement benefits it as well, and narration adds that cognition which takes in no new information quickly grows outdated. With its help Ren Zu refines knowledge out of the bookworms he gathers on Book Mountain. ch. 2161

Warning against washing the heart, and self Gu’s smallness

When Ren Zu and his companions keep washing their hearts of emotion in the River of Time, cognition Gu warns them that time has never healed the wounds of the heart, only aged it, and that the worst thing is not the body growing old but the heart aging, telling them to stop. After the group finally finds self Gu and sees how small it is, cognition Gu says that in the eyes of heaven and earth, and of mankind, a single self Gu is very small and insignificant. ch. 2294

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