Xiaonanshan Temple is a temple dedicated to the Guanyin of the South China Sea on Xiaonan Mountain in Haizhou, and it is also a temple with the most incense in Haizhou City.

Every fifteenth day of the new year, every weekend, every various Buddhist festivals, Xiaonanshan Temple will always be crowded with good men and women from all over the surrounding areas to come to incense, and the whole Xiaonanshan Temple will be like a temple fair. Several passages leading to Xiaonanshan Temple are often blocked by the water jammed by the pilgrims' carts.

Of course, that's when it's busy, and on weekdays, it's not so sparsely populated, but it's sparse.

Today is Thursday, not a New Year's Day, nor a weekend holiday. Although there is an endless stream of pilgrims and tourists in Xiaonanshan Temple, it is generally clean.

In the tea garden operated by Xiaonanshan Temple, Li Jianzheng sat alone in a private room, drinking tea while boredly looking at his mobile phone and surfing the Internet.

The tea garden is located on the right side of the Guanyin Hall, and the box where Li Jian is located is on the second floor of the tea garden, and the window is facing the location of the Guanyin Hall. Through the open window, you can even clearly see the thousand-armed golden Buddha statue of Guanyin enshrined in the middle of the Guanyin Hall.

On the tea table in front of Li Jian, in addition to a pot of tea and a cup, there is also an inkstone, a brush, and a vertical rice paper.

Li Jian will appear here, naturally not to drink tea. As the orthodox descendant of Wumen, naturally he will not come here to burn incense and worship the Buddha. Even the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table were just a cover-up, just to prevent Xiao Shami, who was scouting for him and boiling water, from suspicion.

In fact, his real purpose is to be a thief.

Of course, although Xiaonanshan Temple is very rich, and even rich and oily, Li Jian, who has been promoted to Diwu, still can't look down on it. Although there are several valuable and ancient antique Buddha treasures in the Houjin Buddha Garden of Xiaonanshan Temple, Li Jian can't look down on them.

What Li Jian came to this small Nanshan Temple to steal was not money or things, but 'willingness'. Or 'faith', 'incense'!

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The practice method of Buddhism pays attention to the concentration of faith to become a Buddha.

That is, to use the power of faith offered by believers to strengthen themselves, shape their golden bodies, condense relics, and become supernatural powers.

There are pros and cons to this approach.

This 'profit'. That is, if you have enough faith, you can practice quickly. As the Buddhists say, you can even 'become a Buddha on the ground'.

And the 'disadvantage' is that this faith is not so good. Generally speaking, believers do not give their faith in vain. The most common case is Dan Bong. There must be something to ask for.

When I offer incense and kowtow to faith, I ask for rain, drought, peace, health, longevity, marriage, wealth, and officials......

If you want the power of people to give, then you have to fulfill their requests.

Just like a contract, if you want it, you have to fulfill the contract and meet the needs of others. If people seek health and healing, you have to let their family get better and their health better, so that they can accept the power of faith with confidence. If people want to get rich, you have to make money for them. can accept this wish without hindrance.

If you accept the power of faith from others but don't help them fulfill their wishes, then you will be tainted with karma. It's okay to have less karmic contamination, but at most it affects the mind, a little upset, a little impetuous, and a slower entry into cultivation. But if you get too much, something big will happen. It's a trivial matter to cultivate for not being able to advance an inch. If there is too much karma, then it is possible to go mad, lose your mind, and die a bad death.

It's like you're getting paid by someone. But if you don't fulfill the contract, you will be complained. If it's a small contract, it's normal for people to call you every once in a while to urge you and annoy you. If it's a big contract, you take too much and don't work all the time. Then it's not just complaining, it's a light thing that will make you lose your credit and end your career. It is not impossible to focus on taking you to court, putting you in prison, and then focusing on finding someone to kill you, or even kill your entire family to vent your anger.

Therefore, when such schools of practice as Xuanmen Taoism rely on self-cultivation by collecting qi. Because all the spiritual energy of the world is polluted by evil energy, and it gradually declines. Sects such as Christianity, Catholicism, and Buddhism, which rely on collecting the will of believers, have also declined, and to some extent, even decayed faster.

First of all, now is no more than ever. In the past, people believed in gods and ghosts, had no doubts about the existence of gods, and were almost fanatical about the gods who blessed them. It is okay to die for God and to die for God.

Now, however, the Church of Scientology is the dominant family in the world, and the believers of various denominations are far less religious than before, and their willingness to give is extremely limited.

Even if the current population base has multiplied many times compared to the past, it will still be a non-stard. Even if there are thousands, ten thousands, one hundred thousand, or one million believers who only talk about it, their dedication may not be as good as that of a fanatical believer in the past.

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Second, when believers today give their faith, what they ask is really disproportionate to the faith they give. The contract signed is too much of a bully clause, more ruthless than robbery.

How simple people used to be. Most believers wear incense three times in the morning and evening, bow three times and bow nine times, ask for the Buddha to recite scriptures, and believe sincerely, at most, to ask for the safety of the whole family.

This requirement, as long as it is not a war era, even if the Buddha does not bless it, there are very few accidents. Therefore, these denominations can take all these beliefs. As for the few contracts that could not be completed due to accidents, they could be offset by more faith.

If a thousand people ask for peace, at most ten people will have an accident, and then it will take twenty more people's faith to offset the karma of the ten people who have this accident. It is equivalent to making a net profit of 970 people's faith, which is simply a million profits!

Just like an insurance company, the ratio of the amount of compensation to the amount of insurance seems exaggerated. But because of the odds, you must make more than you lose!

Therefore, in ancient times, when we heard at every turn that this person had become a bodhisattva and that person had become an arhat, this was not just a rumor, many of which were true.

And now, the so-called believers worship once a year and half a year, take three incense sticks at a time, kowtow to two heads, and give away a little bit of faith, so that they can make a fortune, become a big official, seek to be cured of terminal illness, ask for their wives to be beautiful like flowers and blood, and ask for the enemy to go bankrupt and die of illness and the whole family......

Not to mention that the little bit of wish that the believer pays is not enough to fulfill his wish, even if it is barely enough, he will not be willing to get a little bit of faith if he tries hard to fulfill the wish of the believer. The gain is too disproportionate to the effort.

This is equivalent to the insurance company's policy, and the insurer is only willing to spend two cents on the insurance premium. However, it is required to put accident insurance, medical insurance, pension insurance, career insurance, and health insurance ...... All types of insurance are included and the payout amount is a minimum of nine figures. Not only that, but they also require at least eight-figure investment dividends every year......

This kind of insurance policy, no matter how rich and forced the insurance company is, will not do it. Whoever does it will die!

Therefore, with the development of the times, people's hearts have become more and more complex, the power of 'Scientology' has become more and more powerful, and many sects that take faith as the foundation of practice have also declined.

Because no one collects it, many sects, the idols and holy relics used to collect the power of faith, are filled with a large number of ownerless beliefs mixed with infinite karma. And today, not to mention those who dare to collect, even those who know how to collect and how to use it are rare.

Just like the golden-bodied Buddha statue of Guanyin Hall that Li Jian could see through the window, in the 'witch eye' that Li Jian cultivated after breaking through the earth, it was like a huge light bulb, scattering immeasurable brilliance like substance.

The golden brilliance that almost fills the heavens and the earth is the power of desire and faith. Mixed with the golden brilliance, entangled in every wisp of wishing power, the hazy brilliance like a red mist is karma.

Although Xiaonanshan Temple is not a famous temple or ancient temple, it has a history of more than 100 years. In addition, as the temple with the most incense in the entire Haizhou City, even if there are no fanatical believers, there are at least tens of millions of worshippers in more than a hundred years, and the collected beliefs are not used, which is enough to accumulate a huge amount of faith.

Li Jian estimated that if these beliefs could wash away the power of wishes, they would even be enough to create a Bodhisattva. The amount is huge, you can imagine.

However, these power of faith cannot be collected because these wine and meat monks in Xiaonanshan Temple do not know how to practice, because of the massive karma mixed with these power of faith, even the great virtuous monks who know how to collect do not dare to collect it, and now it is completely cheap Li Jian. (To be continued.) )