American Celestial Master

Chapter 186, Strange Stories from New York (1)

In fact, before speaking to the substitute gods, Lin Qiusheng also gave a special lecture to his teammates, including Fidel.And in the lecture, the source of merit was specially analyzed.

"The concept of 'merit' is not only found in Taoism, but also in many other religions. Especially in Eastern polytheistic religions, this concept is at a very core position. Even in Abrahamic religions, this concept It still exists, but it is just under the guise of 'doing things that glorify God'. You also know that in these religions, there has even been a long-standing dispute between 'divine work alone' and 'human and divine cooperation'. And in the latter The active part of 'people' actually involves merit.

And for us, the most important thing is how to gain merit.Many Taoist predecessors left a large number of records and made a lot of conjectures about this.You should have seen a lot of these conjectures on various Taoist texts before.Based on our recent big data analysis and research, we also have our own conjectures.

According to some sayings in the Taoist Canon, merits are divided into the so-called "innate" and "acquired". According to legends, those who obtain the so-called innate merits almost all come from maintaining the world itself, such as Nuwa's patching up of the sky. some type of.Now that we review such legends, it is easier to understand them as massive geological disasters in the style of the movie 2012.But even a geological disaster on that scale wouldn't actually destroy the world itself.Even compared to our earth, any geological disaster that the earth has experienced in its history is not worth mentioning.

As for acquired merit, HX has the so-called "Three Immortals". Although the directions are different, in the final analysis, they all play a huge role in promoting the development of civilization.

So I tend to believe that there is actually no difference between innate merit and acquired merit, or that innate merit is just a pure assumption.In fact, among Tao Zang's records, the ones that are truly reliable all involve acquired merit.

Therefore, if we want to gain enough merit, we can also think in this direction, that is, what things we are doing now are most conducive to the progress of civilization. " Lin Qiusheng left such a question for everyone to think about.

It didn't take long for everyone to put forward their own opinions.Lin Qiusheng then made a summary:

"What everyone said is very reasonable. I think these things can be tried. Especially now that we happen to have a group of friends who need merit, and if they get merit, we can easily find it."

The "friends" Lin Qiusheng mentioned were of course Murphy and the others.The existence of such things as merit is difficult to observe directly, and its existence is often only revealed after its influence appears.So it is not easy to observe, and without effective observations, it is difficult to confirm the hypothesis.

Similar experiments have been conducted at HX. The participants in this series of experiments were mainly various "heroic spirits". However, the social structure of HX is different from that of the United States, so the problems they face are also different. What can be obtained in HX Meritorious actions may not have the same effect in the United States.

However, some things are definitely detrimental to civilization and social development.Therefore, we can let those "friends" try to intervene in these matters, and then if they really obtain merit, it will be directly reflected in their sanity.And this is much easier to observe.

Therefore, in the following Dharma meetings, everyone took turns to introduce to "friends" the various problems that exist in American society today, as well as those behaviors that may cause greater harm to society, and which practices may promote social progress.And let 'friends' speak freely about what things within their own area they can intervene in.So Murphy felt very depressed because compared to other "friends", his activity area was too desolate.For example, take the guy named Camby. His activity area is near the park. There are drug dealers selling various psychotropic drugs everywhere, or young people who are robbing people on the road and buying them for zero yuan when they have no money to spend. , and a policeman who is neurotic and likes to empty a magazine at others.There are so many things to intervene in, and there's plenty to do on any given night.But it was different here. Even during the day, there were far fewer people and things involved on the river than in the park, so there was naturally less he could do.

So in the next few days, when it was time to speak freely, Murphy felt very uncomfortable. Look at Canby. In the past few nights, he was intimidating drug dealers, and suddenly appeared, scaring away those who were following others and preparing to rob him. The spirited guy, and today, Murphy felt that when this guy spoke, he was obviously more organized than the previous few days. What does this mean?This shows that people have really gained vital merit!

Then another earthbound spirit
But nothing happened here. Even if he wanted to bravely rescue the children who fell into the water, some children would have to fall into the water first.He couldn't first make someone else's child fall into the water and then save him, right?Doesn't that violate the commandment of "Don't deceive the world" taught by Teacher Anne?

However, Murphy was not depressed for too long. On the second night after the entire ceremony, after class, he was patrolling his section of the river when he found a speedboat appearing on his section of the river, and then A woven bag with a shot put tied to it was thrown into the river.

Murphy immediately discovered that there was a living person inside the woven bag, which made him even couldn't help but feel a little joyful. Although he felt in his heart that such a bad thing had happened, he could not help himself because he might get something. Being happy about the benefits doesn't seem so good.

But no matter what he thought, he still caught the woven bag and at the same time set off a wave, overturning the speedboat completely and causing the two people on the speedboat to fall into the water.

Murphy dragged the woven bag to the shore first. At this time, Jenny, who was accompanying him, had not left yet.He stopped Jenny and asked her to look at the woven bag first.

"The guy inside is okay, but don't open the bag in a hurry. You call Sean and ask him to send someone to help. I'll go catch the other two guys who threw him into the water."

At this time, the two guys who had just fallen into the water still didn't understand what happened, why they suddenly capsized and fell into the water.

"Could it be that there are no more water monsters here?" They couldn't help but wonder. After all, monsters have become commonplace now.

Fortunately, they were not far from the shore, so the two of them swam to the shore one after the other. The one in front was about to land, but suddenly sank. The one behind was surprised and just wanted to shout. , but also felt another cold hand grabbing his ankle, and then pulled hard...

(End of this chapter)