"What is Master Buddha Yi here for this time?"

"Come for the benefactor. Buddha Yi smiled lightly.

"It's really an honor to let Master Buddha Yi come to the Heavenly Temple twice, I wonder if the choice of the 'left and right paths' proposed last time can the Master come up with the answer?"

Buddha Yi smiled, shook his head and said: "The poor monk has a meager way to answer this question, this time I came not to solve the problem, but to ask the donor to solve a problem." ”

"Oh?" Jiang Changan raised his hand and pointed to the stone bench in front of the desk to signal him to sit down, and the latter was not restrained, putting the bookcase aside and sitting across the stone table.

I have to say that this is the most interesting monk Jiang Changan has ever seen, although it is not as prodigal and uninhibited as the empty guy and has a special appearance, but it gives people a feeling that it is extremely eye-catching at a glance, mysterious and special, completely different from ordinary monks. I can't say whether it's temperament or something else, but it always stands out from the crowd.

"Why does the donor keep staring at the poor monk, is the poor monk looking and behaved? Or is the visit at this time disturbing the donor?"

"Don't disturb, don't disturb......" Jiang Changan waved his hand casually and said with a smile: "I just want to ask Venerable Buddha Yi a question - have we met somewhere?"

It is strange to say, the first time I met Jiang Chang'an with this monk, I had the illusion of being familiar at first sight, as if I had known this person a long, long time ago, but no matter how I recalled, I could only think of a cold palace, and I was alone in it, and the sound of Buddhism was full of suffocating depression and loneliness.

The Buddha's clothes moved for a moment, and then returned to normal: "The Buddha said that five hundred times in the past life were exchanged for a quick glimpse in this life, and all beings in the underworld, it seems unusual for you and me to rub shoulders, but in fact it is the normal state of the world, and the cycle is the same." ”

Jiang Changan said with a smile: "Don't you just want to say, 'I haven't seen it'? I really don't understand why you Buddhists always think about simple things as complicated, and do you want to say short words long and boring, so that the six roots are pure?"

Since the handsome monk did not answer, and Jiang Changan did not persecute him, the curtain gradually turned into the middle of the night. In addition to the tea that had been cold for a long time on the stone table, there was also a candle lamp, the light shone on the faces of the two people dimly, and the courtyard was noisy outside, but the courtyard was unusually quiet.

"What is the question that the mage wants to ask?" Jiang Changan asked.

The monk pondered for a long time, and first asked rhetorically: "Has the donor heard of the green lantern?"

Green lantern again. Why did the Buddha Yi suddenly mention this ethereal thing? Jiang Changan pondered deeply, he couldn't remember how many times he had heard someone mention the green lantern.

"I have heard many legends that the green lantern body is entangled in the fire of life, and it can eliminate the karmic fire before life and cross its reincarnation. The question the mage wants to ask has something to do with this green lantern?"

Buddha Yi did not rush to throw the puzzle, but slowly narrated: "Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the heavens and the earth were chaotic, there was no sun and moon, and there were celestial people holding divine axes to split the chaos and clear the dirty yin and yang qi. ”

Jiang Changan continued: "Heaven and earth were born, and the heavens and men were about to create people, but they found that there were nine demons in Shenzhou that coexisted with heaven and earth, and the heavens and men killed the nine demons to have red dust. ”

Buddha Yi glanced at him and continued: "Then the world saw people, but all living beings suffered in all kinds of diseases and could not be blessed. I don't know where it began, there was an ascetic monk who walked in the most painful place in the world, feeling the sorrow of all karma, tasting the suffering of sentient beings, eating tree bark, perching on cow dung, and for seven years, emaciated. One day, the ascetic monk walked under a Bodhi tree, enlightened for seven days, never sleeped, and finally attained the Great Way. This dervishe, who later became the Buddha, Shakyamuni. ”

"Shakyamuni!

Jiang Changan was shocked and said, there really is such a thing in the world! The records of the monks' asceticism recorded on the stone wall seen in the second secret realm are all true!

"And then?" he asked, impatiently.

Later, the Buddha felt the suffering of all sentient beings, and could not bear the suffering of the cycle of cause and effect in the world, so he crossed the soul of a fourteen-year-old boy into the green lotus under the seat, and then used the green lotus as the lamp, and the Tianyuan goblin as the lamp oil. The four noble truths and the six degrees of equality are all based on them. ”

Green light.

Jiang Changan frowned, this was the first time he knew the origin of the green lantern so clearly, but he was more concerned about a small detail mentioned by the Buddha Yi, a small detail that he had never heard of.

He asked, "Fourteen-year-old boy, didn't the Buddha turn the blue lotus under his seat into a lamp? How can he entangle a young man? This young man is voluntary?"

At the age of fourteen, what kind of suffering and kindness do you know? Even before the three views have been fully established, Jiang Changan does not believe that a 14-year-old boy will voluntarily turn into a lamp.

Perhaps sensing the aggressive tone, he added: "Forgive me for taking the liberty of asking." ”

Buddha Yi smiled and said: "The donor is kind, how can he be presumptuous? But the question asked by the donor is not recorded. ”

Jiang Chang'an was silent, and after a while, he asked: "Master Buddha Yi went around in a big circle, did he just ask to tell a story that didn't sound very true? What exactly do you want to say? ”

Buddha Yi said with a smile: "One of the questions asked by the poor monk is related to this green lantern, I am afraid that only the wisdom of the donor in this world can solve the doubts." ”

The monk's face suddenly became solemn: "The green lantern was placed in the Nine Heavens Away in the Hall of Rebirth, the immortal que was ruthless and desireless, it was originally peaceful and peaceful, and the green lantern fulfilled its mission day after day, burning and dispersing the karma of hundreds of millions of dead souls, wealth and barrenness, and then put it into the six sacred wells of the Rebirth Hall to turn the six reincarnations." In this way, tens of thousands of years passed, and everything happened peacefully, and one day, a moth appeared around the green lantern. ”

"Moths, since the green lantern is in the Nine Heavens Immortal Que, how can such a thing appear?" Jiang Changan asked.

The Buddha Yi did not answer, and continued: "All living beings are equal, if you see a moth fighting a fire, you will not save yourself from death, but if you save the moth, you will blow out the green lantern, and as soon as the green lantern is extinguished, the world will be in a great chaos of cause and effect, and the Buddha will be in a dilemma for a while." Donor, I don't know how you want to solve this problem?"

He flicked his fingers slightly, only to see a moth flap its wings from its fingertips, and a burst of glow powder scattered in the air, and after seeing the candlelight on the case, it rushed without hesitation, flying around the lamp and trying to get closer.

The moth fights the flames for a moment, and no one knows when it will plunge headlong into the flames.

This monk actually killed!

Even if it is a love to snatch treasures, it will not take people's lives, unless it endangers its own safety, it will be helpless to make a dead hand, this handsome monk can be good, not only killing, but also taking a life and death as an exam question.

Jiang Changan asked: "Didn't Venerable Buddha Yi say that all living beings are equal? Why is he now doing the dirty thing of seizing the power of life and death? Isn't the Buddha disdainful?"

His tone was mixed with contempt, there were really monks in Jiang Chang'an's heart, but there were pitiful, for example, Cangzhou Nituo Temple had no cause and no effect, and the sixth Buddha master who had not yet been buried in Buddhism, no matter how unorthodox he was, he also had the heart to help the world and educate him, just establishing Nituo Temple in Cangzhou, a sinister realm like Cangzhou where he was doing killing and making a living, it was not something that ordinary monks could do, not to mention how many wicked people had driven Nituo Temple crazy? When he really responded to the sentence that the wicked still need the wicked to grind, thinking of the old monk's continuous persuasion, Jiang Changan couldn't help but stir the spirit.

In comparison, no matter how you look at this handsome monk in front of you, one word comes to mind - demon monk!

Although this is mixed with some of his own subjective conjectures, such as this kid's appearance is indeed a little more handsome than himself, eh...... It's just a little handsome.

The Buddha replied: "The donor is wrong, although the Buddha holds that all beings are equal, equality is only a foundation, and what stands on equality is cause and effect, and reincarnation." ”

He patted his sleeve and stood up, and said with a smile: "At the beginning of a person, it doesn't matter whether his nature is good or evil, and people are born equal in life and death, but his blessings and misfortunes are generated by his every move, word and deed. Someone who saved someone yesterday will be blessed today, and someone who kills someone today will not die a good death tomorrow. The karmic fire of reincarnation is burning and cannot be extinguished, and everything is recorded in the book by the green lantern, and there will be a time when it will be profitable. ”

His fingers swept lightly over the flames and flicked them on the moth: "If I put out the fire with a moth today, I will be infected with karmic fire tomorrow." The last time the donor said the question of 'left and right paths' was made up out of thin air, so there is no source and no answer, and today the poor monk has made a real puzzle, how does the donor think he should choose?"

"After going around in a big circle, is it still a question of keeping the big or the small?" Jiang Changan said with a smile, this question is the same as the question of whether he can save the child or the elderly, no matter which one he chooses, it is a mistake.

Faced with such a difficult choice, Jiang Changan suddenly laughed.

"What is the donor laughing at?" said Buddha Yi with a frown.

"I laughed at Venerable Buddha Yi for making a mistake. ”