The infinite beast garden

Chapter 376 Is there a Buddha?
Chapter 390 Is there a Buddha?

"It's not good for you to say bad things about your master like that. It will be troublesome if it is heard." Li Xing said with a smile.

"It's okay." Neng Ren said nonchalantly: "My master is still chanting scriptures in the hall, even if he comes, it will take a while."

"is it?"

As soon as Neng Ren's words fell, a voice that was a bit old but full of spirit sounded behind him. Hearing these words, Ning Ren was like a mouse seeing a cat, trembling all over, with a sad expression on his face, and then Turning around and begging, he said, "Master, why are you here so fast!"

"Yes! Otherwise, how could I have heard your words!" Fa Hai gave Neng Ren a fierce look, then stepped forward and saluted Li Xing: "Amitabha, I have seen the benefactor."

Li Xing also returned the salute with a smile, "I have seen Zen Master Fa Hai."

"Blesser Merlin can come here, it's really radiant, please." Fa Hai invited with a flat expression.

Li Xing is also welcome. He came here to play. He walked towards the inside of Jinshan Temple with big strides. Jinshan Temple is very big. You must know that the whole mountain belongs to Jinshan Temple. Everything is available. The Buddha statues worshiped in Li Xing are complete in variety, but the main ones are Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, etc. Li Xing and Fahai led Li Xing and all the Buddha statues to burn incense. All major gods are enemies, but this does not hinder Li Xing's respect for Buddhism. You must know that Li Xing practiced Buddhism skills before he switched to "The Scripture of Ten Thousand Beasts". He can be regarded as half a Buddhist.

Looking at the many Buddha statues decorated with gold powder, Li Xing suddenly asked Fa Hai, "Chan Master Fa Hai, I have something unclear, please ask Zen Master to clarify."

Fa Hai took a look at Li Xing, and said the Buddha's name, saying, the meaning was obvious, that is, to speak quickly.

"Chan Master practiced Buddhism here in Jinshan Temple. He is an eminent monk. I wonder if Zen Master has ever seen the Buddha?" Li Xing asked, shaking his head.

This is what Li Xing wants to know the most at the moment. Although the illusion world is formed by the condensed body of many consciousnesses, they have different strengths. The fragile world may only be the mortal world, while the higher ones such as the illusion world here, Bai Suzhen and Fa Hai have reached the level of crossing the catastrophe, as long as they survive this catastrophe, they can ascend to immortality.

Therefore, Li Xing wanted to see if their world was real or illusory, because Li Xing had forgotten that he had heard a legend somewhere. It was said that the gods and spirits of the heavens were immeasurably powerful. Perhaps a thought was a world. Li Xing wanted to see this illusory Is the world formed by a thought of the legendary god?

"Buddha?" Fa Hai smiled slightly, he didn't feel any meaning to Li Xing's question to Fa Hai, even many mortals had asked him these questions.

"The Buddha is in my heart."

Li Xing sneered and said, "The Buddha is in the heart? Haha, are you satisfied with this answer, Zen Master, you should know that this answer is not what I want."

"Man is the future Buddha, and the Buddha is the former person. Why should the benefactor be obsessed with the issue of Buddha and human beings? Everyone has the Buddha nature in their hearts. Maybe the next Buddha will be the benefactor." Fa Hai still fought with Li Xing Said with a Zen machine.

"Hehe, I didn't expect Zen Master Fahai to practice Mahayana Buddhism. Then you know that if you are poor, you are alone. If you haven't lived through it yourself, how can you expect to save others?" Li Xing said with a sneer.

Li Xing wanted to say more about Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Buddhism, but Li Xing was a little angry when he saw that Fa Hai kept meditating with him and did not tell him anything.

Fa Hai glanced at Li Xing in surprise and continued: "To save others is to save oneself. Giving roses to others has a lingering fragrance in your hands. This is also a kind of practice."

"Zen Master Fahai, I don't want to play Zen with you. I just want to know if there are Buddhas in this world? And where are they? Why haven't I seen them?" Li Xing asked quickly.

"The Buddha is in the heart, if you believe in him, he has it, if you don't believe it, he doesn't have it." Fa Hai still said with a smile on his face.

At this time Li Xing was already in a bad mood, he glanced at Fa Hai coldly, Li Xing stopped talking, and walked forward, leaving Neng Ren in a daze.

"Master, what's wrong with Merlin's benefactor?" Neng Ren stroked his smooth head and asked.

Fa Hai shook his head as if smiling, and followed quickly, leaving behind Neng Ren who was even more confused.

Li Xing walked in the temple, watching the monks coming and going, the unconscious anger in his heart became stronger. Before he reached a large hall, there were two poems or two verses engraved on both sides of the tall door. language.

The one on the left is written by Shenxiu:

"The body is like a bodhi tree,"

"The heart is like a mirror."

"Wipe every now and then,"

"Don't stain yourself with dust."

The one on the right is by the Sixth Patriarch Huineng:

"There is no bodhi tree,"

"A bright mirror is not a stand."

"There was nothing there,"

"Where is the dust?"

I can't say much about which of the two gatha is good or bad, it mainly depends on the person, but if it is to say that the artistic conception is profound, the second one is the most.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Fifth Patriarch Hongren was getting old, and his disciples, Shenxiu as the most, was also the one who was most likely to form the mantle of Zen Buddhism. The old master Hongren wanted his disciples to take over his mantle, and then told all the disciples to let everyone do it. A Zen poem, Shenxiu wanted to inherit the mantle, but was worried that his purpose was too obvious and violated the meaning of Buddhism, so he got up in the middle of the night and wrote this famous verse on the courtyard wall, "Body Like a Bodhi Tree" , This gatha is very good, very good. The whole monastery knows that this is what Shenxiu did, and also knows what Shenxiu thinks, and admires Shenxiu very much.

However, Shenxiu's thoughts were not in line with the teachings of the Mahayana sect of Zen. Master Hongren saw that Shenxiu had not yet enlightened, and then did not make any comments.

While everyone was discussing this, Huineng, a fire monk in the kitchen, also heard this verse. Huineng was illiterate and illiterate, but after hearing this verse, he said that he had not comprehended the true meaning of Buddhism. Then I made a song myself, and begged others to engrave it next to Shenxiu's song, that is, "Bodhi has no tree".

After Master Hongren saw it, he asked who wrote it, and the people around him said that it was written by Huineng, so Master Hongren called Huineng, and said in front of everyone: "It is written in a mess, talking nonsense." Then he hit Huineng on the head three times and turned to leave.

Everyone was laughing at Huineng, but only Huineng understood Master Hongren's meaning, so he went to Master Hongren's meditation room at three o'clock in the evening, where Master Hongren explained to him the most classic Buddhist scripture, the "Diamond Sutra". , and passed the mantle to him, and then in order to prevent Shenxiu from harming Huineng, he let Huineng escape overnight to the south to live in seclusion. Ten years later, Huineng founded the Putian Shaolin Temple in the south.

(End of this chapter)