Chapter 55: The Great Thunder Yin Discusses the Scriptures
Hearing this, Xuanzang's face was joyless and sad, his hands were gently folded, and he recited the Buddha's name lightly, "Amitabha!"
"If you have anything you want to ask, you can ask, if this Buddha really wants to reap the results of the scriptures, there will be no more Buddha of Chan Zen merit in the world, and there will be no Tang Xuanzang in the eastern land!" said compassionately.
Xuanzang smiled freely, earlier in the forest of scriptures, Guanyin had already said that he was the reincarnation of the second disciple Jin Chanzi X, and the matter of learning the scriptures was just a conspiracy, for the immortality of the Buddhas.
"The disciple dares to ask the Buddha, what is the matter of learning scriptures?" To this day, Xuanzang also wants to understand why he learned scriptures. "The disciple wants to hear the truth. At the end, Xuanzang added.
With a wave of his robe, a light curtain appeared in front of Xuanzang and him. Inside the light curtain is the depths of the Spirit Mountain, an ancient altar stands in the center, and an old tree is planted on the five-colored soil in the center of the altar. The five-colored earth emitted a little golden light, and the golden light flew into the old tree. The branches of the old trees are dry, and the dead leaves are piled up under the trees. Through the light curtain, Xuanzang could feel a desolate and dead breath coming to his face.
"This is?" Xuanzang couldn't help asking. Although this old tree has died, Rulai still places it in the depths of Lingshan Mountain, and does not hesitate to cultivate it with five-colored soil, which can only show that this dead old tree is very big.
"This is my Buddha Sect Holy Plant, Bodhi!" Rulai said.
"Bodhi Tree, why did it become like this?" Xuanzang said in surprise. Bodhi is a Buddhist spiritual plant, why did it become like this, look at this appearance, Bodhi has been dead for a long time, but the dead leaves are not rotten, enough to see the extraordinary of this holy plant.
"The Bodhi Tree is under the care of my heavens, and hundreds of thousands of years ago, my Western Heavenly Realm moved Bodhi to his free heavens. When the Buddha was alive, he attached great importance to the Bodhi tree, and specially found the five-color soil to cultivate and placed it in the interior of my Lingshan Mountain to cultivate. Rulai explained.
"But tens of thousands of years ago, that is, on the eve of the conclusion of the scriptures, the Bodhi tree died for no reason in my Western Heavenly Realm! The Bodhi seed born from the Bodhi tree is just like the peach in the heavenly court, the elixir refined by Laojun, and the ginseng fruit in the hands of Yuanzi of Wuzhuang Guanzhen, which has the effect of making people immortal!"
"When the Bodhi tree died in my western heavenly realm for no reason, the Buddha who lit the lamp in order to give an explanation to the heavens, he abdicated and passed on to the Buddha. Before the Bodhi tree died, there were the last eighteen Bodhi seeds, and after nearly a few thousand years, the Emperor Shakti and others asked for ten of them, and there are still eight in my Western Heavenly Realm. ”
"The death of the Bodhi tree has caused damage to the path of immortality of the Buddhas of my Buddhism, and the Buddha of the Burning Lamp and I have made up for the interruption of the path of immortality of my Buddhism. For tens of thousands of years, the Buddha of the Burning Lamp has been looking for a way to heal, searching all over the heavens and all the worlds but not being able to, this Buddha is tens of thousands of years ago to put forward the matter of learning scriptures and preaching to replace the way for my Buddha to die and the Buddha's path to immortality. "If you come to explain the cause of Xuanzang's scripture study in detail.
"After this matter was finalized, you took the initiative to enter the robbery, that is, the golden cicada 10,000 years ago, and finally you were determined to be the reincarnation of the scriptures. However, if the matter of learning from the scriptures is started so rashly, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction and backlash from the heavenly court. So the Buddha of the Burning Lamp entered the heavenly court to discuss the matter with the Jade Emperor, and finally under the leadership of Lao Jun, the Buddha of the Burning Lamp and Lao Jun and other saints made a contract between heaven and earth, restricting the saints from interfering in the matter of learning scriptures. ”
"Ninety-nine is one, so the reincarnation of your previous nine lives is a failure, and it is not a failure. It was this Buddha who intervened in this matter, and your first nine reincarnations were all preparations for your lifetime. Five hundred years ago, the spirit monkey of Huaguo Mountain was born, and the time was ripe for the discovery of the Buddha's calculus. So when the monkey brain was in the Heavenly Palace, the Buddha took action to suppress him at the foot of the Five Elements Mountain. ”
"But the monkey was too stubborn to discipline. The Buddha was worried that he would not be able to protect you from coming to Lingshan in the west, so the Buddha specially came forward for this matter again, and begged the heavenly court to help, and the heavenly court lowered the canopy and rolled the blinds for the two. Ao Lie of the Dragon Clan was convicted of violating the rules of heaven, and Guanyin Lux came forward to save his life, and Ao Lie was suppressed and suffered under the Eagle Sorrow Stream. Five hundred years later, Xuanzang was born, Guanyin went to the Tang Dynasty to persuade you to go west to learn scriptures, and instructed the three of them to protect you from the west. ”
After Xuanzang listened, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. It turns out that all this is false, and the so-called sutra learning is nothing more than for the Buddhas of Buddhism, not for the suffering sentient beings!
Although Guanyin had instructed him before, at that time, he still believed in his heart that Buddhism was learning scriptures for the sake of all sentient beings suffering in the world.
The Buddhas of the Western Heavens are compassionate and wish to save the suffering sentient beings in the world; Guanyin Bodhisattva saves suffering and saves suffering, with great compassion; and the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth has great righteousness and leaves a verse: "If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell." "Vow to finish the thousands of evil spirits in the underworld. Is all this a scam now? Xuanzang clenched his fists and had a look of pain on his face.
Seeing Xuanzang like this, Rulai asked, "Xuanzang, do you feel unconvinced?"
"Buddha, my disciples are really not convinced! Why do I have compassion in my heart, and the Buddha Gate that purifies all sentient beings has become like this? Why are the Buddhas so selfish now? Isn't it for the sake of all sentient beings in the world? Why has it become only for the Buddhas to live forever?" Xuanzang asked through gritted teeth.
"This Buddha knows that you have resentment in your heart, and I don't blame you for this, this is the resentment of your reincarnation in the previous nine lives, not your own resentment! This Buddha believes that Xuanzang will still think about the Western Heavenly Realm, the Buddha's Heavens, and the Buddhas!"
"Hehe," Xuanzang sneered lightly, "The disciple is stupid and doesn't understand my Buddha's arrangement!
"Xuanzang!" Rulai reprimanded, "When Guanyin Lux and you talked about this matter in the Jingbei Forest that day, you didn't have the attitude you have now! 'Why are you facing this Buddha now, why is your attitude changing so much?'
Xuanzang stood up gently, looked up at Rulai, who was a little angry, and said, "What the disciple said is true, but the disciple is for the sake of all sentient beings in the world, not just for the sake of the Western Heaven Realm, and for the sake of the Buddhist heavens! For the sake of the suffering sentient beings in the world, what if the disciple is skinned and boneless, and cooked into minced meat! As long as the suffering sentient beings in the world can be saved from being trapped by greed, hatred, and ignorance, what if the disciple is reincarnated for thousands of lifetimes!"
"What is the doctrine of my Buddhism, the Buddha will not know! My Buddhism, the heavens and the ten thousand Buddhas, are not ignorant! Sacrifice oneself to cross others, and purify all sentient beings! Is it all empty talk now! Just for the sake of the immortality of the Buddhas, how can you let your disciples bow their heads!" Xuanzang asked loudly.
"In order to evolve the six realms of reincarnation, the Buddha did not hesitate to integrate his own Dao fruits, isn't everything that the Buddha did to crack the way of reincarnation? Let the world not suffer! Even the heavenly court knows that the matter of learning scriptures saves suffering, but why doesn't my Buddhism know this truth!"
"The matter of the evolution of the reincarnation of the Buddha of the Burning Lamp is actually to crack the power of cause and effect contaminated by your reincarnation of the ninth life, not to save the suffering! Everything that the Buddha of the Burning Lamp has done is actually to be able to truly let the Buddhas continue to live forever when they reap the fruits of the scriptures now!"
In fact, Xuanzang's attitude today is known as before. It is also expected that he is not convinced, and today he really wants to uncover the truth of learning the scriptures, and it is necessary to wake up the people who died in the reincarnation of the ninth generation of Xuanzang, they are not convinced, and they have grievances.
Everything I do is nothing more than a wedding dress made for others, and my so-called enlightenment to become a high-ranking monk is nothing more than accumulating blessings for the sake of learning scriptures, so it is impossible for anyone to be convinced.
"No! no way!" Xuanzang staggered back a few steps, his body a little unstable. Hearing Rulai's words, Xuanzang could barely stand. The Burning Lamp Buddha, who has always been enlightened, is bent on death, and does not hesitate to integrate the Dao Fruit into the six realms of reincarnation and externalized reincarnation, in order to solve the cause and effect power of the matter of learning scriptures!
"This Buddha knows that this matter may not be fair to you, but the matter has come to this point, you have to think about my Buddhas!"
"But who will think about Xuanzang? Who will think about the suffering beings in the world?" A voice came from outside the hall, and Guanyin Bodhisattva stepped into the main hall.
"Guanyin Lux, this Buddha has already explained this matter to you? The Buddha has also explained to you why you have to act like this. Xuanzang Buddha will naturally consider him, all living beings in the world, there are many monks in my Buddhism, and there are still few people who learn scriptures and spread them to the four continents, and there are still few people who preach the scriptures and explain the Tao?"
"The disciple didn't come to see the Buddha today, but to take Xuanzang away!" Guanyin expressed his intention and bluntly said that he would take Xuanzang with him today.
"Why? Listen to this meaning, Guanyin Lux wants to break with my Xitian, but it can't be done!" said Rulai angrily.
"The disciple didn't mean this, but he just obeyed the will of the Buddha to save Xuanzang's life!" Guanyin raised the Buddha bead in his hand and said.
"Why is the ancient Buddha's rosary in your hand?" Rulai was a little surprised, he thought that the holy Buddha beads in the hand of the burning lamp had disappeared with the sitting of the burning lamp, and he never expected it to be in the hands of Guanyin.
"The ancient Buddha has a saying to his disciples, Xuanzang is immortal, and my Buddhism can continue to be glorious for thousands of years!" Guanyin said.
"Now that the ancient Buddha has been seated, and you don't have the Dharma to do it, how can you prove that what you say is true?"
"This matter has been decided by the Buddha, and before the Buddha sits on the lamp, the power of the West Heaven will be taken over by the Buddha. Even if the Buddha is still there, it can't change the mind of this Buddha!"
"But ......," Guanyin finished speaking, and was interrupted by Rulai. "In the future, before this Buddha completely strips off the blessing of learning scriptures from Xuanzang, you will not be allowed to enter the spiritual mountain again without the summons of this Buddha!"
With a wave of the robe, a gust of wind swept up and blew Guanyin out of the hall!
On this day, the Lord of the West Heaven came to imprison Xuanzang in the Siguo Prison under the Lingshan Sutra Tablet Forest, the reason was to contradict the Buddha of the West Heaven! The three Great Sages all set off to the West Heaven when they heard this, and the master and apprentice gathered again in the West Heaven!