I am an immortal in heaven and earth

Chapter 317 Lingbao Jishi Banner

This picture of the heavenly palace is very large. Xu Jia was delighted when he saw it, but he felt it was a pity to burn it because it was all woven with silk.

Embroidered on it are the sun, the moon, the golden crow, the moon rabbit, the gourd, the crane, the dragon and the phoenix, the heavenly palace, and the ladder to heaven. The whole is in the shape of a T. From bottom to top, they are the underworld, the cloud sky, the heavenly gate, and the immortal palace.

The fairy palace is filled with auspicious clouds, but the underworld below is filled with fire and demons.

"Choose a big bamboo, set it up, and make it into a banner." Xu Jia said, "Let's call it the Lingbao Jishi Banner. I will use this ritual to refine it into a treasure for ghosts and immortals."

"Is this the Ten Thousand Souls Banner?" Ao Jin's face turned pale: "Why is the master refining this thing?"

"The Banner of Ten Thousand Souls?" Xu Jia glanced at him and said, "This is a treasure for ascending to immortality, and it is used to perform meritorious deeds for the salvation of the dead. How can you speak like this? It's as if I'm performing this ritual to trick millions of ghosts into entering my banner so that I can practice magic."

Xu Jia said: "When this banner is raised, you will know that I have the ability to save the world." Xu Jia said.

"But can these dead souls really ascend to immortality? If they just entered reincarnation early, isn't that deceiving them? We have practiced hard for many years, but we still can't ascend to immortality. Can we ascend to immortality after a ritual? Even if they are just ghost immortals, what position can they have in the underworld with millions of ghost immortals?"

Xu Jia opened his mouth and said, "Tong'er, do you want to go into my stomach?"

Ao Jin's face turned pale with cold sweat, thinking, has the master become an evil cultivator? Why is he so dark? Is he going to eat me?

Before he could figure it out, he was sucked into Xu Jia's mouth by a whirlwind. However, he did not see blood, flesh, or intestines. Instead, he saw jade buildings and high platforms in the fairy palace, where immortals sat quietly and preached leisurely. In the Water Palace, the Jiujiang Water Emperor was talking about water magic; in the Golden Palace, the Sword Immortal was talking about the art of flying swords and jumping pills; in the Fire Palace, the Star God was sitting on fire to refine elixirs; over there in Taiyin, the Jade Rabbit was slowly pounding osmanthus flowers.

"What a beautiful place, it's like a real heavenly palace."

"This is my inner vision. They can also be immersed in the light behind my head. If I become an immortal, they will also escape the cycle of reincarnation and enter the path of heaven and man."

The "celestial maiden" of Hu Agui is the attendant in the altar of the Great Joyful Vajra Arhat in the Western Paradise. In essence, she is just a little spiritual enlightenment. She followed the Great Joyful Vajra Arhat to practice.

"But, if everyone can become an immortal, wouldn't that be a mess? If everyone can become an immortal, who would work hard? Or if everyone can become an immortal, then immortals are just humans, just with a different name, and everyone is the same." Ao Jin frowned, "Will right and wrong, good and evil cause and effect, be brought from the Desire Realm to the Form Realm? Then wouldn't the Form Realm also become the Desire Realm?"

"If you can't understand great love, how can you be free and at ease? If your mind is not sublimated, it will be useless even if you force it to transcend. Instead, it will easily become chaotic and unable to distinguish between good and evil."

Xu Jia's voice came from inside. Yuanshen, as the only emperor of the Immortal Palace, led the boy to the outside of the Zifu Palace.

"When I made my vow, I said that everyone can become an immortal, just like Sakyamuni said that everyone can become a Buddha. I also said that if he has three parts of practice, I will be seven parts of response. I also said that I would relieve the suffering of all living beings. But who caused the suffering of all living beings? It is the living beings themselves. They do not understand delusion, and cannot be pure. Without purity, they are like a burning fire on their eyebrows, and they are extremely anxious. A few days ago, your father asked me if I was too anxious. I said that I was indeed very anxious, but what I was anxious about was that living beings could not hear it with their ears, and could not see it with their eyes. The true Dharma is a treasure that can be easily obtained, but they do not practice it, and instead go around in circles and use some evil ways."

"It is a pity that I am not wise enough to enlighten everyone one by one, so I vowed not to enlighten everyone at once. To transcend is too big and too difficult."

"Make a vow with one heart, never forget it, do one is one, do two is two, as long as I keep doing this, constantly, even in countless kalpas, there will always be sentient beings who can transcend the first day."

Ao Jin thought: Isn't this just drawing a pie to appease hunger? But then he thought again, drawing a pie to appease hunger also requires drawing a pie first, and this master is indeed doing something, passing on wisdom to future generations. At the beginning, it may be a very difficult way for one person to follow, but later people will yearn for it, and then there will be ten people, a hundred people, a thousand people, ten thousand people, ten million people, and even countless sentient beings, until a consensus is reached, embedded in the way of heaven, and engraved in the way of man. This is thought, so he worshipped: "Tong'er understands."

"I previously took in 3,600 hungry ghosts from my stomach. Now they have all obtained the talisman of Lingbao Daomin, and have realized their own practices. They have entered the Dharma Realm and saved countless people. This is based on the 3,600 hungry ghosts, and I am splitting them up to save them. They don't have my wisdom, and I can save those who can according to the scriptures. For those who cannot be saved, maybe the time has not come yet, and I can't force them. Or maybe they will see things more clearly in the future, or maybe I will have more wisdom in the future and be able to enlighten them."

"Master, what you said is very good. I have been practicing Water Virtue for hundreds of years, but it has not been very effective. I have worked hard and only managed to save one bead. Now, following the leader, I am practicing Water Virtue again, and the results are ten or even a hundred times better than before."

"This is called coming from the masses and going back to the masses. You cultivate the virtue of water. In the past, you only understood the virtue of water on the surface. That is why you spend the whole day in the water. You must cultivate the virtue of water and know how to use it. Desire water is also water. The desire water in the world is endless and turns into a sea of ​​sin. If you can understand the virtue of water in it and understand it thoroughly, then you will succeed."

Xu Jia's desire to be a teacher from his previous life came back again, and Ao Jin was a curious person.

That is the standard of a "good student", so Xu Jia couldn't help but read a few more sentences.

"I still lack wisdom. If I can save people, why do I need to save ghosts?"

"Ghosts are easier to fool than people!" Ao Jin teased, "This ghost is ignorant, with only a little obsession. If you get rid of the obsession, you will be free. This hungry ghost is the obsession of starving to death in life, and this plague ghost is the obsession of dying of plague in life. If there is food to eat, if there is medicine that can cure diseases, there will be no these two kinds of ghosts."

"Yes, so I feel sad and pitiful. Poor living beings will starve to death, freeze to death, and be killed by weapons... Buddhism believes that it is enough to persuade people to do good, Confucianism believes that the world will be morally unified, and the problem will be solved when a saint is born. Legalism uses strict laws and regulations to restrain people, but none of them can solve the problem."

"Master, you have to take action!" Ao Jin said.

"I?"

Xu Jia sighed, "I don't know. I can only do my best. Maybe in the future, there will be more food than we can eat and more clothes than we can wear, but there will still be people who starve to death, freeze to death, die of disease, or are killed..."

"How is that possible?"

"Human potential is infinite, and so are desires. I have transformed my great desires into great wishes, and solved this problem. There is still one more to go!"

The lack of material resources is one.

After the material is sufficient, the spiritual development is the second.

As the spirit develops, everyone becomes awakened. The more awakened they become, the more painful they become, and they begin to seek peace of mind. This is three.

Is it so easy to achieve inner peace? It is impossible without resolving the fundamental contradictions.

(End of this chapter)