Beginning as a Tantric Academy Monk

Chapter 25 Blooming like a lotus

As a qualified monk of the sixth level, there is a complete set of changes. This kind of change, at the most preliminary stage, involves a change in appearance.

This is also what others can see at first glance.

If you take the precepts in the Tantric Dharma realm, you won’t get burnt scars.

But the clothes you wear, the magic weapon you hold, the followers around you, the manors, servants, slaves, etc. you can obtain.

privileges available.

There are obvious differences.

Monks who are at the sixth level and who can control the mind, recite mantras, and initiate initiations for others can be called great monks. Starting from this level, they can accept offerings.

This can save them from the embarrassing situation of dying of poverty because they are too poor.

There are also poor monks, but generally it is rare for them to die due to poverty.

The clothes of a sutra-study monk are a waistcoat and a light yellow monk's robe, and they only have one for many years. They are not allowed to wear red monk's clothes outside. You can add another coat, but the coat cannot be confused with the colors of other great monks. , so choose yellow more often.

However, all clothing except waistcoats and yellow monk robes cost extra.

Many poor Buddhist monks cannot afford this money.

You can only wash it while sleeping, hoping it will be dry in the morning, so you won't get "sweating sickness" when wearing it.

There's nothing you can do about it.

Free clothes are the greatest gift. Even if you make groceries in a temple or go out to work for nobles, you will get some money as alms, but these money will feel like a drop in the bucket when compared to some big expenses. .

There are many places where sutra-study monks need "donation" and "offerings". Especially when studying, sutra-study monks and teachers only talk about the most basic things and mostly follow the textbook. If you want to get better education, you must make "offerings". ", spending a lot of money to hire "teachers" to teach.

Not to mention other basic necessities, food, housing and transportation, many places cost money.

A Buddhist monk who was born in a small temple like Lu Feng.

Not even the most pitiful.

After all, there is still a small temple, which can still provide some help at all times - although halfway through the help, this help is gone. After the temple was occupied by Li Gui, Lu Feng and the Buddhist monks who were born as slaves It’s the same, I have no one to rely on and I can only rely on my own hands to work.

Therefore, many monks who study scriptures walk past people in attire that is raw, patched, or in various rags, or even without boots.

The rest of the people will know that this person must have been born badly, have no backing, and may not have much potential, so they will naturally look down on him and alienate him. What's worse, some old monks will deliberately bully these people.

These people have not recited the words of compassion and have not passed the sutra debate for more than ten or twenty years. They have long given up the idea of ​​obtaining "sixth-level good teachers" and have made plans long ago.

Lu Feng didn't like them, nor did he dislike them extremely, because he had seen them too much, and many of his emotions were suppressed in his heart, waiting to be resolved with great wisdom.

Even when Lu Feng was studying, he saw a Buddhist monk whose toes were so cold that he had no choice but to cut them off because he couldn't afford boots.

As a result, he got sick and died from the disease.

Because he was sick, the rest of his "students" did not even allow him to enter the monk's room. They stayed outside and huddled together. In the end, he did not know whether he was cold, hungry, or the wound was indeed inflamed, but he died anyway.At that time, Lu Feng had just arrived and recited the scriptures of the past life for him.

Duoduo Monk Soldier disliked Lu Feng being in the way and pushed him away.

Later, when he met more people, Lu Feng would also recite past lives for them, praying for them to have a better afterlife, but he would not care about being sad, because if he didn't work hard, he would be the one who might die on the road. Own.

Therefore, now, Lu Feng can walk on the road without being pushed away by the Duoduo monk soldiers.

He can wear red monk robes, hold magical instruments, have attendant monks as his constant companions, and can be a monk official. If you want to be a monk official, you must be a monk of the sixth level, and you can learn the Dharma of the deity and learn from the highest level. The little ant at the bottom has become a flying little ant that can fly.

It's just that this time, he was too anxious to receive ordination, registration, and enlightenment. Lu Feng was so anxious that he didn't even get new monk robes, magical instruments, boots, rosary beads, etc. from the management warehouse. To the extent that I got here.

What's more important is that he has to go through a "big donation", that is, give a bowl of porridge and some money to every master in the sutra hall and every monk outside, before he can understand The degree of indifference.

In other words, the normal rules should be the order of ending the sutra debate - making a "big donation" - going to receive ordination, arranging registration - mastering the unshakable mind, and choosing an initiation guru, but Lu Feng's order was obviously different.

It's all about completing all the processes in the shortest possible time.

Lu Feng thought of this, looked around the hall, and walked into the hall.

This hall is not big, but it has been there for a long time. There are traces of time everywhere, but judging from the dust here, it seems that someone is cleaning it all the time.

Everywhere is clean.

As for the murals here, they are the murals around them. There are murals on three walls and three sides. Lu Feng looked around for a long time and only after making sure that no one was around, he looked at the murals here.

It was getting a little dark now.

The great sun was gradually setting. It fell on the snow-capped mountains, but it showed a golden afterglow. Lu Feng took out the fire stick from his arms, blew it, and lit a candlestick next to him. This candlestick is more or less a treasure and an antique.

It was a strange beast with the body of a bird and the face of a human. Lu Feng didn't know what it was. He placed the object beside him, carefully covered it, and began to look at the murals around him.

The Great Sun Tathagata is sitting in the void, but it is not a mandala, a Dharmakaya of wisdom, or a Dharmakaya of reason. Under the void, there is a vast sea.

Just from this mural can we see "not being moved"?
Where is the mystery?
Lu Feng didn't know, but it wasn't until this moment that he had time to take out the ancient scroll he kept close to him and open it.

Inside that screen.

There seemed to be a hand in front of him, eager to reach out from the ancient scroll and catch the creatures outside to him!

Lu Feng saw the picture on this ancient scroll.

I really never expected that this thing would suddenly appear on the screen. He had never been to Back Mountain, but he knew this place - the Endless White Pagoda Temple was called the Endless White Pagoda Temple because of the burial place of this pagoda. It was painted white, so it is called the Endless White Tower.

but now.

The pagoda and burial platform of the Endless White Pagoda Temple is actually full of strange things?
Are you alive?

(End of this chapter)