Preaching begins with Tai Chi

Chapter 291 Incense and vow power, flower chant practice

Sensing the existence of the Taishang Dao Seal, Li Mi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the trial is very difficult, it is not impossible.

The key to breaking the game is naturally Monkey King.

But in addition, there is another point that is praised on the bright side, but turned a blind eye by others-Tang Sanzang.

If both Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong agree with the truth that "Buddha is the Tao", then Lingshan will have nothing to do, and all plans will be to make wedding clothes for Li Mi.

Tang Sanzang is the reincarnation of Jin Chanzi, an eminent monk of the tenth generation, and an important node in the great prosperity of Buddhism. It is extremely difficult to deceive the Buddhas in Lingshan and change Jin Chanzi.

On the contrary, Sun Wukong grasped the point of "Bodhi Patriarch"...

Who is Bodhi Patriarch?Does it really exist?
This is simply the biggest doubt in "Journey to the West". Countless people joined the discussion and argued endlessly.

Most people think that Patriarch Bodhi has another identity, which basically points to three possibilities.

One is the great power of Buddhism, or Zhunti Taoist, or Tathagata Buddha, or Guanyin Bodhisattva.

Anyway, it's all about the power of Buddhism, and it's planned in advance, so everything is under control.

In this trial now, there are no prehistoric and six sages in the world of Journey to the West, so naturally it is impossible to be a quasi-said Taoist, and how could the Buddha and Guanyin know the "Eight Nine Xuan Gong"?
Besides, if it is really Buddha or Avalokitesvara, you only need to hint at the right moment. Sun Wukong respects Patriarch Bodhi the most, so why bother to suppress and humiliate him, and then forcibly subdue him?

The second is Sun Wukong himself.

Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, slanting moon Samsung Cave.

Both are heart, which corresponds to the Taoist term "heart ape".

(Note: "Heart Ape" first came from the Daoist Canon Qi of the Han Dynasty: the heart ape is indeterminate, and the mind and horse are galloping. After Buddhism entered China, it also absorbed a lot of Chinese essence in the early stage, and only then gradually completed the transcendence of Taoism. This In the process, many Taoist terms became Buddhist, just like "God" and "angel" are used by Christianity now.)
Sun Wukong is originally a Lingming stone monkey, transformed from a fairy stone. On the road of seeking, he can see the true nature, change the Bodhi patriarch, and teach himself the way.

While "Journey to the West" is full of hints, it probably isn't much.

Immortal stones are extraordinary, but if they are pursued to the extreme, the best legend of their origin is just Nuwa’s Heaven-replenishing Stone. Moreover, the other four monkeys in the world do not have the ability to comprehend on their own. How could Sun Wukong suddenly realize it and forget it all afterwards?

The third is Taishang Laojun.

Anyway, in Journey to the West, the whole world is a playground for the Supreme Being, and it is not impossible to play Patriarch Bodhi.

But what is the purpose?
Why is Buddhism flourishing even though it is clearly a world created by the Supreme Being?
Why did the Taishang turn Hu into a Buddha?
Li Mi remembered the experience of a group of preaching incarnations preaching in thousands of worlds for thousands of years.

It has to be said that Buddhism corresponds to the Dao of Karma, the Dao of Merit, the Dao of Nirvana, and the Dao of Reincarnation, which are very attractive to the world, especially those who are struggling with pain and cannot escape.

Daoist monks are generally the ones who actively seek the Tao, so naturally there is also a relatively "negative" faction.

The Dao is impartial, since it exists, there must be a reason.

Therefore, Taishang turned Hu into a Buddha, but instead taught students in accordance with their aptitude, and spread the Dao more widely.

Therefore, the great prosperity of Buddhism or the great prosperity of Taoism has no influence on the Supreme Being, because both are the Taoism passed down by the Supreme Being.

Thanks to Li Mi's rich experience in preaching for many years, he was able to understand the Supreme Being.

Then just go to Xiniu Hezhou to explore near the coast of Nanfangbuzhou.

If there is a Bodhi Patriarch, there is a high probability that it is a great Buddhist power. If there is no Bodhi Patriarch, then the Bodhi Patriarch will be transformed naturally and Sun Wukong will be led into the Tao.

Of course, it is still necessary to wait until the last moment. It is too late for Monkey King to leave Huaguo Mountain to seek immortality, and it is also possible that the great power of Buddhism will finally change the Bodhi Patriarch.

Today, on Huaguo Mountain, the fairy stones are still honestly bathed in the essence of the sun and the moon, while in the world, Dayu is consolidating the waters, and that day, the god of rivers and seas, the precious iron, is holding in Dayu's hands.

It's a coincidence that this Tianhe God's precious iron, on which the inscription "Ruyi Golden Cudgel" was made by the Taishang Laojun himself. It was originally used to fix the water of the Tianhe River, but now it happened to be begged by Dayu to control the water. .

The current Ruyi Golden Cudgel, on the surface, is just a special tool, its status is only a low-rank Xiantian Lingbao, it is not eye-catching at all, and no one regards it as a weapon.

However, in the hands of Monkey King, he got the name of Nuo Da.

From Dayu's flood control to Sun Wukong's birth, there are only more than 500 years left, and there is not much time left for Li Mi.

In the world of mountains and seas, no matter how many plans the five emperors had, they were eventually crushed by Li Mi with their strength. Therefore, in the layout of Journey to the West, apart from relying on the majesty of the fox and the power of the tiger, the most important thing is strength.

At least it is certain that, apart from the Supreme Master, there is no sage in Journey to the West.

So is there any quasi-sage?

What is the state of the top-level powers such as the Tathagata Buddha and the Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi?
There is a high probability that it is a quasi-sage.

If they were all in the realm of the Great Luo Jinxian, Li Mi could still fight with Pan Gu's dharma body, but if the opponent was a quasi-sage, the hope of victory would be somewhat slim.

But even the Jade Emperor is still in the realm of Daluo, so Li Mi can conclude that there are absolutely not many quasi-sages in Journey to the West, probably only single digits.

Moreover, the Tathagata Buddha may be the quasi-sage with the highest Taoism, but Buddhism has definitely not achieved an overwhelming advantage in terms of the number of powers compared to Taoism.

This also left Li Mi with plenty of room for layout.

Now that I have put on the status of "Tai Shang", it can be said to be a great convenience. Even if the Tathagata meets me, he will not dare to do it easily, so whoever wins in the end will most likely depend on the layout.

Before that, Li Mi still needs to visit the world of Journey to the West first. Before planning, it is natural to practice and investigate first, and not to slap his head with impressions, otherwise the difference may be a thousand miles away.

Thinking of this, Li Mi directly transformed into the tiniest particle, and flew directly out of Lihentian, and even the heavenly court.

The status of "Tai Shang" is too important, even if it is only an incarnation left in the heaven, it should not be moved lightly.

The level of inspiration in Journey to the West is comparable to that of the Conferred Gods World, even in the Great Thousand World, it is at the top.

Moreover, the flow of time in heaven and the world is different. One day in the sky is one year on earth.

This is naturally because Heaven has distorted the law of time, and its greatest use is to gather essence and cultivate immortal seeds.

For example, flat peach trees have three grades: 3000 years, 6000 years, and 9000 years. If there is no time acceleration, you have to multiply by 360.

But practicing in the heavenly court, with the unique essence of the sun, moon and stars in the whole world, the speed is not slower than that on the ground, and with the blessing of heaven and luck, it is even faster.

And in this way, it can also resist wear and tear, and it is extremely helpful to deal with the five declines of heaven and man.

It can be said that there are many benefits.

The only downside is that the reaction of the Heavenly Court has become very sluggish. After going through a process, seven or eight years may have passed on the ground.

Fortunately, in the face of Tianting's powerful strength, the problem is not too big.

After leaving the Heavenly Court, Li Mi went straight to Xiniu Hezhou.

With Li Mi's great achievements in "Eight Nine Xuan Gong", even if he is in front of a quasi-sage, as long as he doesn't leave a mark on the way of change, he may not be able to see through Li Mi's changes.

The world of Journey to the West is extremely vast, and it is much higher in personality than the Great Thousand World created by Li Mi with the mountains and seas as the core.

The world of mountains and seas is just a newly promoted Great Thousand World, and Journey to the West may also be counted as one of the heavens.

Compared with the illusory feeling of the world of Fengshen, the world of Journey to the West is much more real.

For a Golden Immortal, the former Mountain and Sea Realm is a medium-sized province in reality, and it can be toured around on a bicycle in ten days.

As for Journey to the West, it takes ten years for a golden fairy to fly in the sky even if it is just a fleeting glimpse.

Sun Wukong's one somersault is one hundred and eight thousand miles, and it is only a short journey in Journey to the West.

However, even ordinary people in the Journey to the West are still born in the Xiaoqian world. With a little practice, they can prove the status of a true king, and then become a fairy.

However, the lifespan of monks in Journey to the West has been greatly compressed.

In the normal world, the immortal king can only live for 500 years in the world of Journey to the West. Even the gods can only live for thousands of years. If you don't prove the immortality of the golden immortal, you can't live forever.

Unless you work for the Heavenly Court, the Celestial Gods and Shouyuan are all normal.

Obviously, this is the key to the control of the four major continents in the heavens. No matter how amazing you are, even if you become a fairy, you can only live for a thousand years. Once it arrives, it will naturally turn into ashes.

This is the natural and invisible oppression of the later monks by the ruler represented by the Heavenly Court.

Before going to other worlds, monks themselves could not think of the problem of their own longevity, they would only think that everything in the world is like this.

And where did all these longevity go?

Naturally, it is the veil of the universe that has flocked to the heaven and the world, and it is also the key to the perpetuity of the distorted law of time, "one day in the sky, one year on the earth".

In this case, great powers will only appear in the top powers such as Heavenly Court, Taoism and Buddhism, and only a few amazing and talented people of the Yaozu can be qualified if they have practiced to the golden immortal realm in just a thousand years. Known as the great sage, he was looked at by all the gods and Buddhas in the sky.

But even so, he couldn't escape the tragic fate of being used as a mount by Da Neng and being used as a military exploit by the heavenly soldiers and generals.

It is also true that flat peaches and ginseng fruits that can prolong life are so precious.

It is also true that it is said that the meat of the monk Tang, who can live forever if eaten in the legend, attracts so many monsters.

Under the normal law of time, any fairy has a theoretically infinite lifespan until it encounters the five declines of heaven and man.

Then longevity would not be as precious as it is now.

Among the four major continents, Dongsheng Shenzhou is regarded as the reserve of Taoism, and almost all the immortals and gods gather here.

Beiju Luzhou is a place of bitter cold, and also a place where humans and monsters live together. The flames of war here are endless, but it hardly gets much attention. It seems to be a forgotten part of the continent.

Nanfangbuzhou is almost the territory of the human race. Since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, it has been continuously passed on, developed and expanded, and it is also a place for Buddhism and Taoism to preach.

And Journey to the West, Hezhou is basically the territory of Buddhism, but this place is not a pure land everywhere, on the contrary, it is a place where demons are most rampant.

Li Mi walked all the way, the demonic wind was pervasive, the demonic aura was overwhelming, the monsters frequently took over the mountain as king, and even directly wiped out the human race, and built their own kingdoms. Many people directly feed on the human race, and some are even not far from the foot of Lingshan. But the Buddha never came to cast down demons.

As for the people of Xiniu Hezhou, if they do not believe in Buddhism, they will be ravaged by demons. If they believe in Buddhism, they need to pray devoutly day and night, and they need to work diligently to offer incense and incense to provide the power of all beings for Buddhism.

Therefore, one Buddha and one demon, the former reaps the faith of the human race, and the latter reaps the flesh of the human race, always keeping the human race in painful and numb torment. Fang’s suffering in this life, each of them wants to practice the next life, and practice the Dharma in reincarnation, and finally achieve success. A day of Buddha.

This situation is definitely the result of long-term deliberate maintenance, and it is by no means a coincidence.

In the eyes of the Buddhas in Lingshan, it doesn't really matter whether it's a human or a demon, what matters is the incense and the power of vows.

As for the practice of Buddhism, the magic lies in a "major wish".

If Taoist monks accumulate one step at a time, and the results will naturally increase, which can be regarded as the "saving practice method", then Buddhism is the "huabei practice method."

If you want to improve your morality, you need to make a great wish first. The most famous great wish in Buddhism is the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's "hell is not empty, and you will not become a Buddha".

First borrow a meritorious loan from Tiandao Bank to improve your morality, and then spend the rest of your life to slowly repay your wish.

There are three advantages to doing this.

First, the demand for all kinds of natural treasures and miraculous medicines has been greatly reduced, and merits are almost omnipotent, so the cost of cultivating monks is much lower than that of Taoists of the same realm.

Second, even if the great wish you made is not completed for a while, at least the realm of Taoism has been raised first, and the ability to fulfill the wish has also been greatly improved, which is not a loss at all.

Third, practicing with the method of making great wishes lowers the requirements for aptitude and comprehension a lot. The realm that cannot be broken through in normal practice can be broken through with the method of making great wishes.

But with benefits, there must be a price.

The fulfillment of the ambition is inseparable from the power of incense and fire, so monks have to spend a lot of time dealing with ordinary people, which is far less carefree than Taoist priests.

Moreover, the merit owed to Heaven not only has to be repaid, but also has interest. If you become an old man for a long time, you will be targeted by Heaven.

Therefore, "it is not difficult to borrow and borrow again", the great monks grew up step by step in the infinite cycle of "making great wishes and fulfilling their wishes", and each and every one of Arhat Bodhisattva and Buddha emerged.

This point still has to be admired. Xiniu Hezhou is quite barren, which is similar to Beiju Luzhou, and far inferior to Nanfangbuzhou, let alone Dongshengshenzhou.

However, in the land of one continent, Buddhism has cultivated almost the same number of Daluo Jinxian and Jinxian as Daomen, which shows how powerful the "Huabei Cultivation Method" is.

However, after accumulating for a long time, "Huabei" must be repaid after all. As more and more merits are owed, the KPI assessment pressure of Buddhism is increasing, so we have to adopt the most utilitarian way to harvest incense and vows .

That is to let the monsters wantonly bully and slaughter the human race, and the human race has to seek the protection of Buddhism, worship and pray day and night, and turn it into the most efficient incense and wish machine.

But such an "inner circulation" also has a limit, and in the end, it must also be developed outward.

Beiju Luzhou is sparsely populated, and wars are constantly raging. The local aborigines, regardless of human monsters, are basically ruthless people who "look life and death, and do it if you don't accept it".

Dongsheng Shenzhou is the territory of the Taoist sect. I don't know how many immortals and gods are here. No matter how greedy the Buddhist sect is, they can't do it directly.

Therefore, the only new market that can be opened up is Nanfang Buzhou.

But in today's Nanfang Buzhou, the human race's power and Taoism are inextricably linked, and there is no living space for Buddhism at all.

Even Theravada Buddhism has not been spread in Nanfang Buzhou, let alone Mahayana Buddhism.

After an in-depth investigation of the Westward Journey to Hezhou, Li Mi shook his head.

It has to be said that the Buddhist "Huabei practice method" is quite excellent, and Lingshan can be used as a barren Xiniu Hezhou state, and it is also a great teaching in the entire Westward Journey world.

Moreover, the method of harvesting the power of incense and fire is much more powerful than killing pigs. It will eat the human race of Xiniu Hezhou to death, and the monster race is just a tool man, which can be sacrificed at any time, as the anger of the human race When it is about to be unstoppable, there will be a powerful Buddhist who will "use your head" to calm the grievances of the human race, and all the merits will be attributed to the Buddhism.

Li Mi can conclude that although there are still nearly 3000 years before the official start of Journey to the West at this time, the Tathagata Buddha should have already started planning the spread of Buddhism to the East, but the specific plan and executor should not be selected yet.

This gave Li Mi room to maneuver.

Jin Chanzi, the second disciple of Tathagata Buddha, has just attained the early stage of Golden Immortal, at least he can be granted the status of Bodhisattva.

But Jin Chanzi still practiced alongside the Tathagata, without any honor, and was hardly tainted with incense. His practice method was more similar to that of a Taoist priest, a pure Buddhist monk.

Tathagata still values ​​him as an apprentice. Although Buddhism's "Huabei Cultivation Method" is in full swing, not all Buddhist masters can do this, and there must be a group of people engaged in research and development.

And Jin Chanzi is undoubtedly the representative figure.

In terms of Taoism and deeds, there are only a few people who are higher than Jin Chanzi in Buddhism, but in terms of Buddhism, there are only a handful of people who can compare with Jin Chanzi.

However, Tathagata protected Jin Chanzi very well, and never let him touch the process of those "Huabei practice methods", and Jin Chanzi never experienced human suffering.

In other words, he is actually a monk who is enshrined on the tower without any worldly dust.

How valuable is the Buddhadharma comprehended by such an eminent monk who is completely out of touch with the human race to ordinary people who are struggling in the world?

If the KPI-oriented rules of "Incense and Vow" do not change, even if there is a Buddhist master who is fully enlightened, he will not be able to change the status quo at all.

Because almost [-]% of monks in Buddhism rely on the "Huabei practice method" and rely on the power of incense and fire to practice.

People like Jin Chanzi are outliers among monks.

So how to guide Jin Chanzi to initiate change?

Li Mi smiled slightly, and took out the "Dream Yellow Beam Pillow" which had not been used for a long time.

(End of this chapter)