In the small courtyard, Hu Xiancao was fetching water and washing clothes by the well, and the monk was sitting under the tree and watching quietly.

"Little monk, what are you looking at?" Hu Xiancao beat the clothes in the basin, winter has gone, and the last wave of cold wave at the beginning of spring has receded a few days ago, and a pair of jade hands look very good.

"Looking at the Bodhisattva, the female donor is good-looking, and the master said that he would carve the female donor into a Bodhisattva statue. The little monk said.

Hu Xiancao covered her mouth and snickered, and the water beads stood between the hair strands and looked particularly enchanting and charming, "Your monk's mouth is smeared with honey, do you say the same to Xiao Xianzhi?" ”

"Hehe, the Bodhisattva is the Bodhisattva, all the things that the little monk thinks in his heart can't be hidden from the Bodhisattva's eyes, and the little fairy is also good-looking, but she is not a Bodhisattva, and she has no Buddha intention between the eyebrows of the female benefactor. With his hands folded, he suddenly looked up in the southeast direction, and slowly stood up and walked towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Hu Xiancao hurriedly asked.

I didn't get rid of the Buddhist clothes on my body, although he was very popular with the dignitaries and nobles in Kyoto these days, and he was also rewarded with a lot of gold and silver, but he was always unwilling to change the plain clothes on his body when he came out of the Lonely Heart Temple.

"The little monk is going to find my chance. ”

Hu Xiancao shook her head and chuckled, and continued to bow her head to wash the clothes in the basin, there was a sackcloth, which was the clothes Su Wen wore when they met for the first time, and in her eyes, it was more attractive than the gorgeous clothes of Jingyang Pavilion now.

"You men can't live in peace, is it really that good outside? I just want someone to live a dull life with me, laundry and cooking, even if it's harder, it's better than worrying all day long, this Kyoto city is really big, big people are afraid, for fear that after you go out, you will be lost. ”

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I didn't go out to worship, but I happened to meet the gentleman I met at the ruins of the ancient temple, and respectfully worshipped: "Where is the gentleman going?"

"Go where you want to go. Chen Changan chuckled, as if he was waiting for the other party here.

"That's just the same way. He suddenly thought of something, looked up at the other party for a while, and did not continue to speak, until the other party finally couldn't stand this pious gaze and took the initiative to say, "What do you want to ask?"

"Sir, you borrowed the copper coin from me in the ancient temple that day, saying that one day Su Wen would pay me back, can Sir really predict the future?"

"The future, do you believe that there is such a person?" Chen Changan asked curiously, few people ask what it means to predict the future, especially Buddhist disciples, the first cultivation cause will naturally have results, this is not the future but the will of heaven.

The little monk touched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "I didn't believe it before, but I believed it after seeing Mr." ”

Chen Changan shook his head and smiled bitterly, these words are too hilarious, even if what the other party says from the heart, it is also unreasonable, most people in the world are like this, because they choose to believe because they see it, but there are some people who can see it because they believe it, this kind of person will make most people feel scared, not in awe.

"Monk, do you believe in Buddhism?"

Asking a monk whether he believes in Buddha is really the most ridiculous joke in the world, but he didn't refute it, but thought for a long time before he said: "I don't believe it, because I have never seen it, even if it is a Buddha statue in the temple, the master is also carved according to the face of the pilgrim on the mountain, if this is the Buddha, then all living beings in the world are Buddhas, in this case, why believe in Buddha, worship Buddha, believe in yourself." ”

"No wonder I said that I would send you that ancient temple that day, but you didn't want it, you really wanted to see the real Buddha in person. Chen Chang'an's heart was comfortable, as if he hadn't been in a long time

There is such a joy with people, "Maybe the Buddha you see today will disappoint you, do you still want to go?"

"I didn't believe it, how can I be disappointed, I went to Huangquan for 80,000 miles, there is no one in the world who is a true Buddha, even if there was no before, there will always be in the future. "I don't want to bow to the west, and suddenly there seems to be a Buddha's light shining behind me.

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King Qin Guang, whose blue skin was pierced by Zhang Xinkui's sword, suddenly changed his face, and he shouted in his mouth: "He's coming out." ”

"Who?" Zhang Xinkui also sensed a strange aura gushing out from under the earth's veins.

"The only Buddha in this world, the Buddha who has come to transform you mortals. King Qin Guang's face was solemn, and he didn't even want to stay here, he pushed away the holy sword in front of him with one palm, and jumped to the northeast to escape.

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In the Wheel Hall, the monk walked forward, and Su Wen and Qigui's bodies seemed to be imprisoned in mid-air and couldn't move, "In this hall, you can see everything in the world, there is good and evil, and the more you look, the more you feel that you mortals are very ignorant and bad." ”

"So I want to go out and purify all beings, and you will stay here instead of me, and watch how this world goes from darkness to light. ”

In an instant, Su Wen finally discovered where the inexplicable familiarity came from, and when he looked closely, the monk's face was clearly himself, and the monk walked into Su Wen step by step, and the hook and lock on his shoulder pierced out of the flesh and blood, but did not take away the slightest trace of blood.

"It's been a long time since I've said so much, and since I'm leaving, can I tell you a story?"

Looking at the hook and lock pointed directly at him, Su Wen didn't dare to move, so he had to delay as much as possible, and said in a deep voice: "Listen to me." ”

"Almost a thousand years ago, there was a Buddhist disciple who came here to preach, at that time there was no religion, no faith, only endless wars, and he saw those stupid mortals killing, fighting, and seeing that everyone had a hideous and greedy face, like an evil ghost in hell, but he was still willing to preach here, because Buddhism has no invincible people. ”

In the first year, when he was a missionary in a small village where only one family was very wealthy, and everyone else was so poor that they were struggling to even have enough to eat, a child who was dying of hunger asked him, "Can believing in Buddhism fill his stomach?" The monk was silent, so the monk found the rich man and hoped that the other party could give everyone food, but when the other party asked why he did this, the monk thought for a long time and replied, the Buddha will bless you, but only a meal of ridicule and scolding, and then the child was very hungry and wanted to go to the rich man's house to steal some food, the monk told him that this was not right, the Buddha would blame him, and when the child asked rhetorically, if he was starved to death, who would the Buddha blame, the monk was silent again. ”

"That's why your Buddhas are hypocritical and don't know how to do anything. Qigui said angrily, but the other party ignored him.

"It's a pity that the child was found when he was stealing food, the rich man in order to warn others, let the dog bite the child cruelly to death, even the body was gnawed away, and the monk could not do anything except recite a scripture, he was afraid that there would be people who would steal because of hunger, afraid that someone would continue to die, but hunger would really make people crazy, so there was a second, a third, and they died even more miserably, until finally someone starved to death and no longer had the idea of stealing, then the monk couldn't help but start to recall what the child had said, who should the Buddha blame at this moment。 ”

The monk paused, looked at Su and asked, at this moment, the appearance of the two is the same, if it weren't for the fact that one has no hair on the top of his head, I'm afraid that even the little servant can't tell who is the real Su

Ask.

From that night on, the monk suddenly understood that the person the Buddha blamed was not himself, because his preaching was useless, because he could not make these people really believe in Buddhism, but how to make others believe, just like the rich man asked him, why should I give alms, why should I believe in Buddhism, the monk thought for a long time, that day he sat next to a person who was about to starve to death, hoping to use Buddhist scriptures to relieve the other party's suffering, but unfortunately that person was still very painful. ”

Why don't you steal some food to eat, the monk couldn't help but ask, and quickly changed his words, silently reciting his sins, the dying man shook his head with difficulty, because he was afraid, those who stole things died too miserably, since it was the same death, why not choose a better one. ”

After those words, the monk had an epiphany again, it turned out that the root of the evil thoughts in people's hearts was fear, which was the true meaning of Buddhism, and finally the monk recited the Buddhist scriptures next to the person's body for a night, wishing the soul to go to the Pure Land of the West and ascend to Bliss as soon as possible. After that, he got up and went to the rich man's house, and from then on, the rich man devoted himself to the Buddha, not only giving porridge and grain, but also burning incense and worshiping the Buddha every day, and the people in the village also survived because of the rich man's alms, and they all sincerely believed in the Buddha. The monk said very proudly, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously showed a smile.

"What did the monk do?" Su asked rhetorically.

He just killed all the vicious dogs of the rich man's family, made it into broth and distributed it to the poor people, and told the rich man that this is the Buddha's punishment for you, and if you start believing in the Buddha from now on, the Buddha will bless you, so the rich man became a devout believer in Buddhism. ”

After hearing this, Su Wen smiled coldly and said, "I don't think that rich man believes in Buddhism, he just believes in you." ”

Su Wen had already heard that the monk in this story was none other than the Buddha in front of him, who was full of Buddha intent and killing aura alternately, "And you just made him afraid, not believed, if the Buddha is really useful, then when you kill someone, he should punish you first." ”

"Just use a few people's lives can be exchanged for more people's lives and deaths, the gap between merit and demerits, the Buddha will forgive me, not to mention that the Buddha said, I don't go to hell who goes to hell, even if I am punished, I am willing to accept it, at least those villagers understand what it means to believe in Buddhism, if everyone in the world can believe in Buddhism, there will be no tragic death, let alone injustice. ”

"So you're going to use this method to get everybody to believe in Buddhism. Su Wen said in a deep voice, thousands of years ago, there were many wars in Kyushu, but Buddhism did flourish from there.

However, the monk shook his head and said, "I originally thought so, but then I met a person, a perfect person, in whom I could not find any flaws, as sacred as the Buddha I believed in, and I explained my thoughts to him, but he angrily scolded bullshit, so he made a bet with me, and he said that what really leads people to goodness is not fear, and Buddha is not for belief, but for everyone in this world to become Buddhas." ”

"I don't agree with his words, but I still bet with him, I want to see if there are people in this world except my Buddha, there are people who can't be wrong, but I've been for a long, long, long time haven't seen him, and I still can't see the slightest bit of Buddha nature in this world, even if it's today's Buddhism, isn't it still warning the world about the cycle of cause and effect, not still relying on this hell to awaken the world, so my Buddha is not wrong, although a thousand years late, but I am still willing to save sentient beings, even if it is fearful, it is because under the sacredness of the Buddha, let them be willing to be good。 ”

"Da-da-da-da. ”

The sound of a wooden fish beating suddenly came from outside the hall, and at the same time, a childish voice followed.

"You don't make any sense of bullshit. ”

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