Longevity begins with refining blood essence

Chapter 25: Initial Meditation, Born a Buddhist Son

After a few more days, the two continued their journey together, destroying several bandit camps along the way.

It was basically Huiwen who took action, and Fang Chen just followed behind to plunder their essence and blood, and also to collect some gold, silver and treasures.

After several encounters, the two could barely be considered half friends.

That evening, Huiwen destroyed another mountain stronghold. Fang Chen accidentally got some fine wine from the treasure house of the stronghold, so he used local ingredients and caught some rabbits and pheasants to roast.

The firelight reflected on their faces. Huiwen sighed and clasped his hands together.

"Amitabha, good, good. Donor Fang killed people wantonly to satisfy his appetite, which is truly a sin."

Fang Chen smiled and said:

"As the saying goes, wine and meat pass through the intestines, but the Buddha remains in the heart. A person with a pious heart can have a clear conscience if he does good deeds. If he only cares about observing the rules and precepts, he may not be able to achieve arhathood."

"Although wine and meat pass through the intestines, the Buddha has left them in his heart. Donor Fang has profound Buddhist knowledge, and his casual words can always make people feel refreshed."

"Want some?"

Fang Chen handed over a roasted rabbit, but Huiwen shook his head.

"I don't have the enlightenment or concentration of Mr. Fang, so it's better not to eat."

Fang Chen did not force him, but took back the rabbit and asked curiously:

"You are going to Chuzhou to spread Buddhism. Why do you want to kill the bandits along the way?"

"Donor Fang, you don't know. A thousand years ago, this Daqian was still a shroud of mist, with humans, monsters, demons, and ghosts coexisting. Among them was a blood demon, which was extremely cunning and cruel. It fed on blood and brought disaster to countless human beings.

Later, several high monks of my Buddhist sect joined forces to fight against it, but they were only able to suppress it and failed to kill it.

Thousands of years later, the blood demon had already escaped from the sealed place and was endangering the world again.

The Blood Demon is best at manipulating people's hearts and minds, tempting them to become bloodthirsty and possessed. The more people possessed by the demon, the faster the Blood Demon's strength will recover.

In order to prevent the Blood Demon from regaining his peak strength, our temple sent many monks to various places in Daqian to preach, just to suppress the Blood Demon, find the Blood Demon, and seal him again.

I went to the Chuzhou Martial Arts Conference to spread Buddhism. I met bandits along the way and killed them all to prevent the Blood Demon from reviving again by taking advantage of their viciousness. "

"I see."

Fang Chen nodded, already vaguely guessing the other party's identity.

In all likelihood, it was one of the immortal sects that the county magistrate mentioned that had retired from the mortal world.

“What are the Buddhist teachings you want to promote?”

"The first is the Buddhist principles, which can help people get rid of ignorance and understand the truth; the second is the Buddhist martial arts, which can make people strong and healthy; the third is the Buddhist Zen, which is the spiritual method, which can make people strong and determined and not fall into the devil's way."

Hearing this, Fang Chen's heart moved.

"In that case, can you tell me?"

Huiwen nodded.

"If you want to learn, you can. The teachings of our Buddhist sect are the most masculine and sincere. If one more person practices, there will be one more source of righteousness in the world, which will be of great benefit in suppressing demons."

"I want to learn Buddhist Zen."

"Buddhist Zen." Upon hearing this, Huiwen frowned slightly.

Fang Chen asked doubtfully:
"Why? Is there any other condition for learning this Buddhist Zen?"

Huiwen shook his head.

"No, you can learn Buddhist principles and martial arts, but Buddhist Zen is only for those who are destined to learn it. People without Buddha nature will not be able to learn it even if they get it. It's just a waste of time."

"If you don't teach me, how do you know I can't learn it? It's just a presumptuous judgment and a false statement. It's not the words of a person who has attained the Tao."

"This"

Huiwen was speechless for a moment, thought for a moment, and then nodded in agreement.

"Then let's give it a try. My Buddhist sect has many supreme and wonderful methods. Because it is too difficult to comprehend, I have only learned the Tathagata Bodhi Dharma. I can cultivate the Tathagata Bodhi Dharma Body. The vast Buddha power can purify people's hearts at the lightest, and make the demons and monsters fly away on the spot at the worst.

I started practicing this method when I was three years old, and I have been practicing for seventeen years now, but I have only achieved a few shallow levels and have not understood the truth of Buddhism. That is why I have to save bandits and mountain robbers along the way. Otherwise, I can make them put down their butcher knives and enter the good fruit with just a few words of Dharma. "

Fang Chen nodded and listened carefully. He quickly engraved the Tathagata Bodhi Sutra on the light curtain, and then started to refine his essence and blood to improve the Tathagata Bodhi Dharma.

Huiwen is very capable and a righteous person, so he is just right to be his protector.

[In the first year, you began to learn Zen, and your restless heart gradually calmed down, and your mind became peaceful and tranquil.]

[In the tenth year, you have learned a little about Zen and have gained a lot of insights into Buddhist principles. During this process, you clearly feel that your soul power is increasing. The separation between your body and soul that you had previously clearly felt is beginning to show signs of repair.]

[In the 30th year, you are gradually getting better at learning Zen. When you enter a state of meditation, your mind is calm and you can enter a state of meditation in an instant.]

Huiwen, who was standing opposite the fire, was about to start practicing meditation after being taught the Zen method. But at this moment, he suddenly opened his eyes, frowned slightly, and stared at Fang Chen opposite him.

"Strange, is this a state of meditation? He only practiced for a short while and he was already in a state of meditation? What a strong Buddha nature!"

Fang Chen’s improvement continues.

[In the fiftieth year, your soul becomes stronger. When you close your eyes, your thoughts can spread out of thin air and sense the surroundings. This perception is several times stronger than the perception of the physical body, and is extremely delicate.]

[In the first hundred years, your Tathagata Bodhi Sutra has reached perfection, and your soul is as strong as that of a hundred-year-old monk.]

[In the second hundred years, your Tathagata Bodhi Sutra is completed, you comprehend the meaning of Bodhi Zen, and your Buddha nature is complete.]

[In the third hundred years, you understand the true meaning of Tathagata.]

Feeling the increasingly strong Buddha nature in Fang Chen, Hui Wen was shocked. He opened his eyes wide and looked at Fang Chen in disbelief as his Buddha nature became increasingly deep.

The next moment, a golden halo slowly appeared at the back of Fang Chen's head. This halo was invisible to ordinary people. Only those with extremely deep cultivation, or demons and monsters with relatively restrained attributes could feel it.

“Buddha’s Light Wheel! He has even developed the Buddha’s Light Wheel!”

Huiwen's heartbeat quickened until he saw golden Buddha power emanating from Fang Chen's body, surging into the air and forming a golden Buddha statue more than two meters high. Huiwen could no longer hold back.

"Forging the golden body of Tathagata? The peak of the Tathagata Bodhi Sutra!
He actually practiced the Tathagata Bodhi Sutra to the pinnacle of perfection in an instant? This is impossible, this is impossible, how is this possible?

Among all the sages in the history of the Bodhi Temple, the most spiritually advanced Buddha who made the fastest breakthrough also spent three years in seclusion before he comprehended the entire Tathagata Bodhi Sutra. The slowest Buddha who comprehended the entire Tathagata Bodhi Sutra also spent nearly a hundred years. How could he possibly understand all the mysteries of the Tathagata Bodhi Sutra in an instant! ? "

At this moment, Huiwen's mind collapsed. Fang Chen's talent, which was too shocking in his eyes, completely overturned his cognition.

He looked at the golden Buddha, his eyes filled with awe, envy, confusion, and a hint of jealousy.

(End of this chapter)