Chapter 951: Go out and explore

"What does it mean? What does it mean? Liang Ashui, what is coming by vow, what is coming by karma?"

Xu Zishuai poked Liang Qu's back with his index finger again.

He didn't understand, but he wasn't stupid.

Anyone with eyes could see the expressions of the people around, even the great monks who recorded Buddhism became much more serious.

This question is definitely not simple.

Long Eying and Long Binglin approached, and the people from the sect also gathered around.

Liang Qu scratched his temples. He didn't expect that he, a half-baked person, would one day be able to solve Buddhist puzzles for others. He said in a low voice.

"Coming by vow means that the old monk was a master in his previous life, a Bodhisattva, an Luo Han. He was reincarnated to realize the wishes of all living beings, and he is re-cultivating in this life, so he is returning to his original position step by step. Like Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, he made a vow."

"Coming by karma means that the old monk was originally an ordinary person, appearing in the world because of the traction of various karmas, and because of various karmas, he finally awakened and became an Luo Han."

Simply put, Daoist Priest Ge is asking about the old monk's cultivation in this life, whether it is destined by fate, or a superposition of various coincidences."

Everyone's eyes lit up.

"Daoist Priest Ge is amazing, asking right into my heart." Xu Zishuai praised.

Coming to listen to scriptures, isn't it just to learn how to be as awesome as the old monk.

Will there be a day when tens of thousands of people sit below listening to me brag?

Daoist Priest Ge didn't stop talking.

"If it is coming by vow, why don't the physical body and the heart nature coexist, needing reincarnation to re-cultivate, isn't it a waste? Coming by karma, do Buddhist Arhats still have karma entangling their golden bodies?"

The great monks all stretched their necks.

The old monk turned the Buddhist beads: "Donor Ge, wonderful question."

"Waiting for the Bright King's wonderful solution."

All the monks straightened their backs.

"I also don't know if I came by vow or by karma." The old monk opened the door and saw the mountain, not waiting for the listeners to be stunned, "According to Buddhism, I came by vow, but I don't think so. Just as Donor Ge said, if I came by vow, why start everything from the beginning? In fact, only by starting from the beginning will it be accepted by people."

"How to solve it?"

"Like the Buddha, you need to have a father and a mother to get close to the people around you, to be able to transform the people around you. If a Buddha wants to transform a pig, he won't turn into a dog and talk to the pig. Therefore, to transform people, he manifests as a person, changing from a child to a youth, to a husband, so-called, I can, you can too..."

Liang Qu felt his back being poked again.

The people around looked at him again.

Didn't understand again.

Liang Qu thought about it: "It means 'All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, like dew and like lightning, should be viewed as such'. This is from the 'Jin Gang Jing', meaning that everything is an illusion, an appearance.

In order to transform people, the Buddha turned into a person, experiencing life and death reincarnation just like people. If he turned into a pig, and a pig talked to you about enlightenment, you would feel absurd and vigilant."

Daoist Priest Ge asked an irrelevant question, and the old monk used the content of the "Jin Gang Jing" just lectured to answer.

Very clever.

"Feels very powerful..." Cao Rang rubbed his chin.

"Naturally powerful."

Liang Qu saw the monks of the Hanging Temple all relax, obviously this answer is in line with "Buddhist correctness".

But the old monk is definitely not a person who is blindly correct.

Listing several examples to prove the correctness and rationality of coming by vow, the old monk changed the topic.

"The 'Avatamsaka Sutra' says: 'Forgetting the Bodhi mind and cultivating various good methods is called demonic karma'."

Zen Buddhism also says: 'Carrying water and chopping wood is nothing but the wonderful Dao'."

I personally think that I first came by karma, then developed the Bodhi mind, and turned to coming by vow."

"What does this mean?"

"All kinds of things in the world are coincidences. After the heart is firm, they are all destined by fate."

Inside Bodhi Island.

Everyone pondered.

The monks didn't look too nervous either, as long as the rationality of coming by vow was demonstrated from the Bright King's mouth.

Listening to the class and digesting silently.

The old monk pointed to Liang Qu again: "Great Shun Baron Xingyi, do you all know?"

Why did it pull to himself again?

Liang Qu was puzzled.

"Naturally, no one doesn't know."

Someone in the crowd answered boldly.

The old monk smiled: "Seven years ago, I walked to Pingyang County, which had not yet been renamed, and happened to see his dragon tendons and tiger bones. I got a bowl of vegetarian food and wanted to pass on his 'Dragon-Subduing Tiger-Subduing Jin Gang Jing'. Is this a vow or karma? Is it destined by fate? Is it a coincidence?"

Everyone looked at each other.

"Coincidence? Baron Xingyi had good luck and met a noble person?"

"Wrong." Someone retorted, "How many high monks are there in Buddhism? How many people practice this method? Pingyang County is a small place, too coincidental, it is destined by fate! There is a big hand!"

A burst of noise.

Liang Qu's sect didn't treat him as an outsider and asked the person involved directly.

"Liang Ashui, what do you think?"

"I don't know."

Liang Qu scratched his head.

"Great Master." Daoist Priest Ge sought the answer.

The old monk still didn't answer directly: "A fisherman in the countryside of Huainan, earning ten coins a day, running around for food and clothing, this person wants to see the Holy Emperor of the current dynasty, is it difficult?"

"Naturally impossible." Daoist Priest Ge smiled.

"Want to see the local county magistrate, is it difficult?"

"It's possible." Daoist Priest Ge thought about it, "Even if he is a corrupt official, a bad official, there is always a day to go out."

"The county magistrate reaches the heaven directly, is it difficult?"

"Not difficult..."

Three questions in a row, Daoist Priest Ge frowned.

The old monk continued: "In a certain year, the world was peaceful, the Holy Emperor took the opportunity to go south, passed through Lanzhou, saw the fisherman fishing, had a thought, and summoned him to see him. This is a coincidence. The fisherman was determined to see the Holy Emperor, killed the county magistrate and skinned him, shocking the world, a great crime, and was taken to the Imperial Capital, judged by the Holy Emperor. This is developing the Bodhi mind, and the coincidence turned into destiny."

"..."

This example.

It's worthy of being the Bright King.

Everyone's eyes twitched.

"When I saw Baron Xingyi at that time, it was a coincidence. If I hadn't seen him at that time, I would have gone to see him and pass on the Dharma after Baron Xingyi became famous later. This is developing the Bodhi mind, karma turning into vow."

"I heard someone say that meeting a noble person by chance, in fact, gold falls on the road, and the noble person who picks up the gold will eventually appear. The noble person will change, and the gold will change from a bracelet to a necklace, but the essence of it will not change."

Those who have a heart.

If you don't see it then, you will see it later.

Those who have no heart.

If you don't see it then, you won't see it later."

Subjective initiative.

Liang Qu pondered.

As long as you have a firm idea, you can reach the "other shore".

"People and people are really like six degrees of separation, if you want to see, you can always see..."

"What is six degrees of separation?" Xu Zishuai asked.

"It means that you and any stranger are separated by no more than six people."

"Six people, how can it be like this?" Hu Qi thought it was absurd.

"Not necessarily." Yang Xu touched his chin, "Like the fisherman and the emperor the Great Master said, the status is so different, but in fact, it is not completely unrelated."

"Committing a big case, that's a special case, right?"

"No need for special cases." Yang Xu answered, "The county magistrate came out of the imperial examination, at least he is a provincial graduate, there must be high officials of the imperial court in the same batch, who can reach the heaven directly. Between the fisherman and the county magistrate, there are still several position arrangements, actually putting a local clan elder is enough, it's just that there is no event connection, and people's face is also limited."

"Where there is a will, there is a way!" Xiang Zhangsong smashed his palm with his fist.

Solving a question.

Endless aftertaste.

The old monk signaled Daoist Priest Ge to continue.

Daoist Priest Ge thought and said: "Can keeping the precepts become a Buddha?"

"No, the poor monk heard that there are Luo Han precepts, lay precepts, Bhikkhu precepts, Bodhisattva precepts, I don't know that Buddha has precepts. If Buddha has no precepts, how to keep precepts to become a Buddha?"

"When I came to Datong Prefecture, the building boat passed through Lizhou, and heard that there were monks in the temple who raped wives and daughters, singing and dancing every night, calling it the Sending-Child Buddha. Is this a Buddha?"

The old monk smiled: "Is Daoist Priest Ge asking me, or asking yourself?"

Daoist Priest Ge also smiled: "Both."

"In today's world, those who become Buddhas and immortals have all flown away, leaving only those who cannot become Buddhas and those who cannot become immortals in the secular world, arguing endlessly in the temples... greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, doubt, all five poisons are complete..."

Monks and Daoists looked at each other.

How does it feel...

Scolded by their own patriarch?

The old monk restrained his expression: "Buddha says: The Dharma-Ending Sutra, demonic sons and grandsons will enter the temple, or avoid county officials, or be lazy or idle, or act as power and fortune... all those are demons wearing monk skins, Daoist Priest Ge, see them again, just kill them."

"If you see any Daoist sect like this, I also have to trouble the Great Master."

"Amitabha."

"Immeasurable Longevity Buddha."

Monks, Daoists: "..."

Noon.

The assembly paused.

Everyone dispersed to eat vegetarian food.

Didn't hear much during the scripture lecture, but the following questions were all beneficial, inspiring, and the exchanges were great.

In the big cafeteria.

Noisy and clamorous.

"Feel the Qi Sea in the body active by three points." Long Eying was happy.

Liang Qu was not happy but worried after hearing it.

"Bad thing! Don't go to become a nun, there will be no good results like this."

Long Eying rolled her eyes: "Even if I go, how do you know there won't be good results?"

"Women becoming nuns need to practice for five hundred years before they can be reincarnated as male monks, and only as male monks can they become Arhats. Although the Dragon people say they have long lives, if you don't enter the Dragon, the cultivation of this life is probably not enough."

"Five hundred years?" Long Eying was surprised.

"Is there such a thing?" Xu Zishuai and others heard it for the first time.

Five hundred years to become a monk, if it were an ordinary person, it would be more than one life of practice, at least seven or eight lives, if the luck is bad, ten lives!

"Why would I lie to you? The one with principles is the old monk, just learn the way of thinking. Buddhist martial arts and techniques are not bad, there are definitely many dregs inside, don't learn all of them..."

"Uncle Master Liang..."

Master Huai Kong didn't know when he stood behind.

"Yo! Master Huai Kong!" Liang Qu, who was speaking "bad words" about Buddhism behind his back, didn't feel embarrassed, and gave up the position beside him, "Sit! Still feel a bit short of breath today, turn back and ask the Pharmacist Buddha to treat me again."

"Amitabha, it should be so." Master Huai Kong naturally wouldn't be narrow-minded, sat down and ate with everyone.

During the period, Liang Qu chewed sour radish and cast glances from time to time.

Click.

Wooden chopsticks closed.

Master Huai Kong bowed.

"Donor Liang, just say what you have to say."

"Cough, nephew, do you want to go out and explore?"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 952 =====